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After reading about the broader economic view of currency as not just money but also time, skills, and effort, he decided to start VEN, the first global peer-to-peer social currency to move from an online network into the real world.
Rachel Botsman • What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
Many decided it was better to trust this inviolable-algorithm-based system than the error- and fraud-prone human beings that run the large institutions at the center of the old monetary system.
Paul Vigna , Michael J. Casey • The Age of Cryptocurrency
The rise of centralized social platforms like X and Facebook that keep and own our social data has left many people longing for smaller, quieter, intimate third spaces that offer a reprieve from saturated algorithms.
Tim Ferriss • #506: Balaji Srinivasan on The Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum, How to Become Noncancelable, the Path to Personal Freedom and Wealth in a New World, the Changing Landscape of Warfare, and More
Scott Belsky • The Rise of Open-Sourced R&D, How Communal Resourcefulness Will Protect Us, & Wild Data Provocations
There are four big forces that have played a critical role in manipulating and feeding hyper-consumption: the power of persuasion; the buy now, pay later culture; the law of life cycles; and the “just one more” factor.
Rachel Botsman • What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
RelayRides and BlockChalk are examples of Manzini’s “fluidity of use,” the idea of removing barriers to use so that the solution is attractive and seamless to take up. Fluidity of use could be applied more widely to Collaborative Consumption. The postage system on SwapTree that automatically calculates the United States Postal Service shipping cost
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technologies (e.g., social media, cryptography, and some other financial technology) are seen to be breaking down the social fabric, heightening polarization, eroding norms, undermining law enforcement, and accelerating the speed and expanding the reach of financial markets to the point where they are unaccountable to democratic polities. We shall
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