Crypto’s three body problem: New scholarship on limitations of blockchain institutions
A terrific new article just dropped from Toby Shorin, Sam Hart, and Laura Lotti: https://otherinter.net/research/three-body-problem/ The article considers how institutions built on blockchain compare to informal institutions (eg social norms) and formal institutions (eg the law itself), which are the pillars the legacy order is built upon. Since scholars know and understand norms and laws…
Humanity 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 Revisited
Yes, I agree with those three categories, and to add a bit more texture from a perspective grounded in institutional theory: Big changes ahead! :-)
Cosmos Better Future Prize: 2022 Winners
There were 9 contributions to the the Cosmos Better Future Prize 2022. I felt like every one of the submissions was a genuine attempt to move the ball forward. When I rank the essays in terms of relative level of contribution, I come out as follows: FIRST PRIZE WINNERS Andromeda Macro Theses Cosmosis: Holonic Community…
The micro-foundations of the superiority of blockchain protocol institutions
After a few more days of deep thinking, and also feedback from partners at Perkins Coie, @Gadkian, and @thomasdylanan2 on Twitter, I have a new level of understanding to share in my quest to fully unriddle the secrets of our new platypus — i.e. not mammal & not bird, but a unique hybrid form of…
Are “protocol institutions” on a blockchain formal or informal? How should we classify them?
A platypus is a mammal right (it has fur)? No wait, it is a bird (it has webbed feet, a beak, and lays eggs)? As it happens a platypus is neither a mammal nor a bird — it is the sole living representative of its family and genus in the biologist’s taxonomy of the species.…
Does a digital sovereign need physical lands?
Food for thought: could Ukraine or Taiwan continue to exist as a concept of identity, culture, and public service delivery for their constituents, even if they lost all of their physical lands? If there is a large enough community of Ukrainians or Taiwanese around the world, who continue to self-organize on the Internet to administer…
We all need a place to call home: or do we?
People need to be physically located somewhere. People need to have a home. People need to have a physical mailing address to receive mail. Just ask a person who has fled Ukraine, or who has lost their home in Palestine, and they will tell you how devastating it is to lose one’s home. It’s great…
The Digital Sovereign Blockchain Project – Whitepaper Draft
I have spent several months thinking about the path forward for American, Russian, and Chinese citizens who are fed up with the lies and conspiracy theories from their governments designed to create wedge issues and divisive politics all with the intention by politicians of gaining and maintaining power; the destruction of wealth via inflation of…
Incrementalism
In my adult life I have been part of several innovative organizations that push frontiers of science, technology, and human organization. It is truly an amazing experience to be part of a team and movement that pushes the frontier of progress in humanity! However, the biggest advances in humanity typically have not happened within a…
The genesis (and value) of a blockchain community
While I am old enough to have grown up in a world that was dominated by centralized organizational models (e.g. corporations, governments, and Universities), I am also young enough to have witnessed and participated in the rise of the first wave of global, decentralized, community-driven cryptocurrency protocols. As I’ve watched the early successes unfold, I’ve…
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