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If we act now, we can make sure that democratic values—freedom of speech, individual economic privacy, free enterprise, and free capital markets—are encoded in the digital future of money.
J. Christopher Giancarlo, Cameron Winklevoss, • CryptoDad: The Fight for the Future of Money
Thus reassured of its generic quality,
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
It does not bow to authority nor look to convince with aesthetics. It appeals to reason, or Logos, and it grants knowledge in the form of what James C. Scott calls mētis, in his magisterial Seeing Like a State, which we reference repeatedly.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
Elinor Ostrom,
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Web3 and the future of data portability: Rethinking user experiences and incentives on the internet - Help Net Security
Reed McGinley-Stempelhelpnetsecurity.com
Perhaps most interestingly, there are some potential new opportunities by which protocols might actually be much more sustainable. In the last few years, with the development of cryptocurrencies and tokens, it has become theoretically possible to build a protocol that uses a cryptocurrency or a token that has some value attached to it, with the val... See more
Mike Masnick • Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech
Running a geographically distributed organization between five countries is hard. That’s likely the big one. And I’ll say that, having both founded Ethereum and co-founded Bitcoin Magazine, which works similarly, even if we have awesome cryptocurrencies and communication protocols, there’s still quite a bit of sociology that needs to catch up.
Nathan Schneider • Meet Vitalik Buterin, the 20-Year-Old Who Is Decentralizing Everything
If professional editors serve as gatekeepers, determining the importance of various stories before publication, the Internet opens the gates, deciding on the significance of content after it’s published. Hence, it’s not just a collective editor—it’s what I call the Viral Editor. Anyone can post anything, including rubbish. But people then vote with... See more