Stanford, Palo Alto CA, October 18, 2015Slides: http://slideshare.net/LaBlogga
Crypto Enlightenment: A Social Theory of Blockchains
An Abundance Rethinking of Authority, Knowledge, and Organization
Melanie SwanPhilosophy & Economic Theory
New School, New York [email protected]
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Melanie Swan Philosophy and Economic Theory, New School,
New York Founder, Institute for Blockchain Studies Instructor, Singularity University; Affiliate Scholar, Institute
for Ethics and Emerging Technology (IEET); Contributor, EDGE
Traditional Markets Background Economic Theory Leadership
http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
Book: Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy
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Thesis re: Cybercurrency Social Implications
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Cybercurrencies (Bitcoin, blockchains, and decentralization) are not just about…
1) Digitizing and modernizing money, payments, economics, assets, legal contracts, and governance,
2) Accelerating the transition to the automation and actualization economy from the labor economy, but…
3) Re-exploring our reality, and specifying it as more internally-determined than externally-determined
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AgendaBitcoin and the Age of Cryptocurrencies
Introduction What is Bitcoin, blockchain, decentralization? Stakes: Transition from labor economy to actualization economy
Crypto Enlightenment Rethinking Authority (Self, Society)
Philosophy of Immanence (open-ended upside) Theory of Crypto Flourishing
Scarcity as a social pathology Abundance theory of Flourishing
Practicalities and extensive blockchain applications
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DefinitionWhat is Blockchain Technology?
5http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
A cryptographic information technology A software protocol; email (SMTP) runs on TCP/IP, Bitcoin
runs on underlying blockchain software The software protocol is decentralized: each network node
keeps the ledger (giant ‘Google doc spreadsheet’ of transactions); blocks (batches) of transactions posted sequentially to a ledger or chain
The software system confirms the transactions, independently confirming transactions as unique and valid without an intermediary (bank, government)
Bitcoin: digital money No double-spend
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Evaluating Blockchain Ecosystem Risk
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Network Infrastructure Organizational
Paradigm
Bitcoin and blockchain consensus mechanisms are the initial, but perhaps not final positions in the build-out of the decentralized value-transfer infrastructure
Decentralization
Consensus Mechanism
Blockchain-based Distributed Ledgers
Cryptocurrency Value-exchange Token Bitcoin
Platform Level: Current Leader:
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Getting to Scale in Human EndeavorMoments in Artificial Intelligence & Computing
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1. Biology becomes a math problem
2. Simple ML algorithms over
large data corpora
3. Deep-learning algorithms: real-time image & video processing, lip-reading
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Blockchain-class problems
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Million-genome repositories (largest is 3700 currently)
Peter Turchin (U Conn), complexity, cliometrics, measure liberty available in a political system over time
Brain as a DAC; neural modeling of utility functions Oculus Rift – connectome integration:
experience sharing
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Blockchain technology (distributed ledgers) allows a serious move into the Automation Economy, via secure value transfer previously unavailable with the Internet
Fair and orderly transition from the Labor Economy to the Automation and Actualization Economy
Bigger Picture: Automation Economy
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Information & Entertainment Manufacturing Health Economics &
FinanceGovernment &
Legal
Internet: Transfer of Information Internet: Secure Transfer of Value
Sectors
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Enlightenment Theme: Rethinking Authority
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“One ought to think autonomously, free of the
dictates of external authority”
- Immanuel Kant
Kant, I. "Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?" (German: Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?). 1784.
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Traditional Definitions (philosophy)Immanence: from within
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Immanence: where everything comes from within
a system, world, person; emergent; structure itself is
not pre-specified
Transcendence: where everything comes from
outside a system, world, person; externally pre-
determined specifications
Rethinking Authority is a matter of the Inner and the Outer; which prompts a consideration of what is inner and what is outer Individual: to myself as a person, as the immanent
cryptocitizen sensibility Society: cryptosustainability communities: what is important
to us as a community, right size for self-sustainability?
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Open-ended stance of novel construction up and out from baseline into new territory; yes-and improvisation
energy, collaboration, the new, creativity, out-of-the box, greenfield, emergent, dynamic, serendipitous,
flow, complex, multi-dimensional
Rooted in capacity: growth capability determines possibility; oriented towards affirmation of the positive
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Baseline(Impossible) attempt to recoup a baseline ideal
that is pre-specified and externally imposed Rooted in fixity: morphology (form) pre-determines possibility; oriented towards
critique of the negative
Philosophy of Immanence
Contexts: Ethics (perfect ideal), Subjectivation, Emotion, Abundance, Flourishing
Immanence Models
Baseline Models
Sources: Spinoza, Deleuze, Simondon
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Philosophy of ImmanenceCryptocitizen Sensibility Getting into a stance of immanence with
ourselves, trusting our internal self more Self-responsibility-taking; questioning and
self-designing which economic systems, political systems, communities, structures of productive work effort we’d like to participate Governance services vs. being governed Previous: news media, entertainment, stock-
trading, health services Current: money, economics, governance and
legal services
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Decentralization, what is it really?
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1. CentralizedReddit, Inc.
2. DecentralizedDatt.co
3. Hybrid Economic Models
(multiplicity)
http://futurememes.blogspot.com/search?q=datt.co, https://medium.com/@ryanxcharles/fix-reddit-with-bitcoin-7da3f85fb9ba
P2P direct payment model: content producers and
consumers exist in a flat network: consumer
micropayments support content providers and the
cost of content-hostingPeer willingness (social good)
Familiar indirect payment model: content is free to consume, supported by advertising;
personalized data sold in the backend in undisclosed ways; used by radio, TV, and Internet
content; Content and data owned by central host
P2P network supporting content production (ownership), hosting, serving, and consuming
Icons identify available economic systems:
Both centralized and decentralized pricing
models co-exist within one web property; user
selects free or micropay content
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Example: Positive Emotion is Immanent Negative emotions (Fredrickson)
Trigger specific physical action-tendencies For example: anger -> attack; fear -> flee
Narrowed range of time-tested action tendencies available Positive emotions
Trigger general, non-directional cognitive activation Widened unspecified range of novel, creative, and unscripted
courses of thought and action Positive Emotion Theory of Flourishing (Keyes)
Wider array of cognitive, physical, and social possibilities Only 18.1% of Americans are flourishing; the majority are
mentally unhealthy (depressed) or not mentally flourishing (moderately mentally healthy/languishing)
15https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flourishing
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Abundance Theory of Flourishing Traditional Theories of Flourishing (Parfit)
Hedonism: greatest balance of pleasure over pain Socrates and Protagoras in the Platonic dialogue, Protagoras
(Plato 1976 [C4 BCE], 351b–c) Conative (desire-based): desire fulfillment Objective list theory: list of other ‘goods’ constituting well-being
beyond pleasure and desire fulfillment
New: Abundance Theory of Flourishing Scarcity as a social pathology To count as flourishing, not just alleviating suffering, there would
need to be something in the register of emergence, immanence; which is abundance, an immanent flourishing of abundance
16http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/well-being/
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Baseline
Philosophy of ImmanenceAbundance Theory of FlourishingImmanence
Models
Baseline Models
Sources: Spinoza, Deleuze, Simondon
Focus:
Conception of Abundance as its own thing, as a mode of facilitating actualization
Open-ended possibility, novelty, creativity, out-of-the box, greenfield, emergent, dynamic,
serendipitous, flow, complex, multi-dimensional
Attempt to recoup a pre-defined baseline ideal
Conception/definition of Abundance as an alleviation of scarcity; post-scarcity
economy; material goods needs met
Actualization
Focus:Sustenance
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(Immanent) Abundance MindsetPrinciples of Abundance Argument: 1. It is not just that material needs are
met (baseline sustenance frame), it is that the conceptualization of life itself becomes different as a result of this post-scarcity (immanence actualization frame)
2. Not just that material goods reach post-scarcity, but new social goods created by abundance lead to an immanence mindset of abundance New social goods as the justification for
immanent abundance theory of flourishing
18Social Goods, Social Pathology: Rousseau, Descartes, Augustin, Honneth, Neuhauser, Jaeggi
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Social Goods created by Abundance Certainty, availability, contingency reduction, peer
willingness, cognitive easing/cognitive surplus Psychology of Certainty and Availability: A reliable ongoing feeling
of certainty that material survival needs will be met Much current cognitive and physical effort is tied up in anti-
scarcity measures: hoarding, manipulation, and other anti-scarcity measures; ascertaining future availability of resources
Relief – of having a whole class of cognitively-exertional activities drop off the reality of what has to be considered for basic living
This would be unprecedented in human history, a trustable source of having basic needs met such that we do not even have to think about this
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Final moment: Abundance as Background Backgrounding enabler
Trust developed as a social good when certain classes of things, like ownership, credit, transfer, service payments, are offloaded and handled in a background system
High cost of non-trust, deception Implication: spend more energy on higher uses of our
capacity; actualization, rather than sustenance Blockchains are the background facilitator, trust-enabling
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Our attunement to technology as an enabling background helps us see the possibilities for the true
meaningfulness of our being - HeideggerSource: Heidegger, M. The Question Concerning Technology, 1954.
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Cryptocitizen Sensibility; CryptosustainabilityThe Cryptocitizen in Society
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The sense of duty of the citizen to serve
the republic
Civic Duty Civic CollaborationAncient Greek Statesman Self-directed Cryptocitizen
The sense of meaning and purpose in participating in community sustainability
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Vision New Polis is the Self-sustaining Micropolis How we remake society is into autonomous
self-sufficient units, with tracking and remuneration backgrounded and outsourced to the blockchain so we can trustably participate and contribute and actualize and federate in community
Physical DACs for geographically-local (Like for Uber drivers) blockchain-based reputations
travel to other cities, permaculture DAS’s, couchsurfing, seasteading, airsteading, distributed autonomous space steading (Blackbird Bus)
Virtual DACs for professional engagements, work, intellectual collaborations
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Crypto Self-sustainability CommunitiesPeergrid Resources - 1 Civic infrastructure providers; peer-provided community smartgrids
ICT and community computing: SETI@home, BitTorrent, host blockchaind nodes
Peer Power Grid: solar, wind, alternative power; neighborhood mesh network smartgrid power managed by blockchain DACs; Community energy; smartgrid community
Sharable neighborhood mesh network of Tesla powerwalls operated by blockchain DACs
Food: Urban farms, pop-up food grids (food as distributed commons)
Infrastructure: Solar Roadways Empathy Circles (all persons needs matter); permaculture as
social technology
23http://www.slideshare.net/fuguegame/food-as-distributed-commons-cryptocurrencies-as-slow-money
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Peergrid Cryptosustaining Micropolises On-demand drone cloud services; swarm of cell tower
connectivity, Internet connectivity, wireless power in advent of storms or service disruptions; mobile drone swarm distributed-autonomous space
Decentralized distributed mobile infrastructure ‘National guard’ drones Service disruption rescue
Ownership of community infrastructure – blockchains as means of owning (financing, transferring, operating, drawing assessments) community-based infrastructure
Smartcity becomes federation of local autonomous self-sustained communities
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Blockchain Society Example: Neighbor.ly Self-directed Community Bonds The Community Investment Marketplace; p2p
municipal bonds Self-directed investment in civic projects of affinity:
parks, schools, and public transportation Invest in personalized affinity causes, civic projects Previous model argument: Low accountability - the
large amount of money required for community project funding (school, road, bridge) allowed multiple parties to take a transaction fee for unmonitored lack of value add
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Blockchain Society Example: Civic Community Project Management Community Claims (Blockchain University team project)
Any community member enters project: details phrased as algorithmic claims managed by blockchain smart contracts
E.g.; claims created for project voting and management, vendor RFP coordination, community member assessment
26Community Claims, Evelyn Rodriguez and colleagues, Blockchain University student project
Prototype Concept
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Crypto-Enlightenment Governance Recasting governance processes as support
(immanence) as opposed to extraction (baseline erosion) Actualization economy focuses on (1) sustainable
material survival and (2) the social goods of liberation: Self-respect, self-esteem, self-realization
Prescriptive destabilization of non-value-added elites, implementing the original esprit of Rousseau, Rawls
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How does Bitcoin work?
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1. Download software wallet app Blockchain.info, Mycelium, etc.
2. Transfer Bitcoin via QR Code / public key address 3. See your transaction confirm, post to the blockchain
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Where can I use Bitcoin?
29http://bitcoinmaps.info/, http://coinmap.org/, https://airbitz.co/
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Smart Property and Smart Contracts Implications: a future of cryptographically-
activated assets and actions…
…physical and intellectual property might be registered and transacted via blockchains as smart property, and
…agreements, contractual relationships, societal record-keeping, and governance might be enacted through code-based smart contracts
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What is Smart Property? Register assets to blockchain via unique key
Real-time GPS ‘LoJack’ tracking for any asset Blockchain becomes an inventory, tracking,
and exchange mechanism for hard assets Smart Property example projects
Blocktrace ledger tracks diamonds Provenance.org tracks supply chain authenticity OpenBazaar decentralized Craigslist exchange Factom-HealthNautica medical billing and claims Drug and equipment inventory, including origin
and servicing records
31https://openbazaar.org/, http://www.edgelogic.net/blocktrace, Provenance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqIUBn80pg4http://cointelegraph.com/news/114053/factoms-latest-partnership-takes-on-us-healthcare
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Smart Property - Intangible Notary Service, Attestation
Register contracts, agreements, wills (Proof of Existence, Factom)
Register, protect, and transact IP (Monegraph, Ascribe) How it works
Hash + timestamp + blockchain record
32http://www.proofofexistence.com/
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What are Smart Contracts?
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Agreements between parties posted to the blockchain for automated execution Human-human interaction Technological-entity operation
Patterns of interaction in society Software models most world systems now Software services can encode these patterns
(smart contracts as decentralized SaaS) to facilitate the patterns of human interaction
Example: Starbucks facilitates the pattern of coffee for tokens exchange
Code Projects: Ethereum, Etherparty, Eris
Woods, G.; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2CNayXbRKI, http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001555.html,https://eng.erisindustries.com/smart%20contracts/2014/12/17/dennys-smart-contracting/ ,http://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/1402/how-to-get-started-your-first-dapp-under-one-hour,
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Theme: Human-Technology Entity Collaboration
34http://www.robotandhwang.com/attorneys/
“Law is something to be radically reshaped by the emergence of technology, it is about the management and manipulation of data on an entirely new scale” - Richard Susskind
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Technologically-binding vs. Legally-binding Different frameworks
Technologically-binding: Inexorably executing code contracts (Lessig: "code is law") that cannot be breached, and will proceed unstoppably even if conditions have changed
Legally-binding: Discretionary compliance, semantic flexibility of human-partied contracts
Key shift: Auto-executing code could become prevalent not anecdotal (mortgage industry)
35Primavera De Filippi on Ethereum: Freenet or Skynet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slhuidzccpI
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Cryptolaw Intersection of technological (inexorable,
uninfringeable) and legal frameworks (flexible) Separate legal system needed for smart
contracts? Smart contract regulation: impossible to enforce smart
contracts with current law Example: a decentralized program already launched
and running is difficult to control, regulate, or sue for damages
Smart contracts impact not just contract law, but more broadly social contracts within society What kind of social contracts do we humans want with
technological entities?
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Cryptolaw and Societal Design Implications Emerging that we need new ways of building societal
shared trust through:1. Transparency2. Legal frameworks that are still relevant, but perhaps
enacted at the level of the contract (not federal/state) Not lawlessness, legal framework as a selectable parameter
like jurisdiction (like Creative Commons license drop-downs)
3. More becomes ‘legal’ since monitoring is impossible More tolerance of existing patterns of interaction in society
Result: Less deception; more truth, transparency, disclosure, acknowledgment
Everyone in the system is taking part consensually Result: more self-determination of societal participants
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Blockchains help Singularity-class Problems
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Blockchain functionality principles Very-large scale automated system of checks and balances;
all ‘transactions’ must confirm via reputation confirmation, algorithmic trust and smartnetwork consensus mechanisms
Friendly AI Autonomous lab robots: On-chain DAC IP discovery
tracking Blockchain nano-compilers (worry: Grey Goo unchecked
nanotech proliferation): signed like synbio As physical-world engineers sign the bridges they build
(literally, pride and responsibility), synbio engineers ‘sign’ DNA designs and building blocks (‘signing’ is unavoidable), and so too propositional nanotech constructions would be 1) signed by bona fide engineers, and 2) not be able to avoid having a traceable signature by befouled players (malicious or otherwise)
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Spacechains: Blockchains in Space
39http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
Blockchains: not just Earth-class technology, an extra-terrestrial-class technology for space projects Blockchains – not just to coordinate very-large Earth-class
terrestrial projects like billion-member DNA databanks and EMRs, space-class problems too
Space Applications: Space settlement, terraforming, asteroid mining, fuel generation, bombardment monitoring, basic science observation; colored-coin ledgers for energy, settlement, transport, supplies
Terrestrial Applications: fragility alleviation Data center back-up, geomagnetic solar protection,
existential risk reduction, Bitcoin in space (BitSats (like CubeSats))
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Blockchain IOT
40http://www.zdnet.com/article/internet-of-things-market-to-hit-7-1-trillion-by-2020-idc/, http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
M2M/IOT Bitcoin payment network to enable the machine economy
IOT 2020: 26 bn devices in a $7 tn market The economic layer the web never had Smarthome IOT networks
Self-mining ecologies Privacy orchestration: devices, robotics, digital
personal health assistants Blockchains: economic principle-driven
large-scale resource allocation and coordination mechanisms
Smartcity Connected Car Coordination
Smarthome IOT and Personal Robotics
Coordination
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Blockchains: Global and Liberty-enhancing
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Global governance for transnational organizations WikiLeaks, ICANN, Wikipedia
Benefits of blockchain administration Uplift to cloud from local jurisdictional regulations Universal administration mechanism for global organizations Structure promotes transparency, accountability, freedom Namecoin: decentralized DNS
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/12/07/visa-mastercard-move-to-choke-wikileaks/
Snowden Affair
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Blockchain Government Opt-in Personalized Government
Composting vs education Reputation-based ID system, voting,
dispute resolution, national income distribution, public documents registration and repository
Precedentcoin Crowdsourced legal services, justice
entrepreneurs, blockchain arbitration Sidekik
On-demand tele-attorney, private police
42http://www.bitnation.co/, https://bitcoinmagazine.com/17066/first-blockchain-wedding-2/,https://bitcoinmagazine.com/19813/sidekik-decentralized-video-streaming-storage/
World’s First Blockchain Marriage: David Mondrus and Joyce Bayo, October
5, 2014, Disney World FL, Coins in the Kingdom Bitcoin Conference, Jeffrey
Tucker (Liberty.me) presiding
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Blockchain Representation and Voting Futarchy, two-step program
1. Traditional vote on outcomes (ex: GDP)2. Prediction markets to determine specific
proposals for achieving the outcome Delegative democracy (Liquid Democracy)
Voting power temporarily vested in delegates not long-term representatives
Group proposition development Random Sample Elections
Randomly selected individuals vote on a single issue, blockchain orchestration
43https://bitcoinmagazine.com/17066/first-blockchain-wedding-2/, http://www.bitnation-blog.com/latest-update-dec-22nd-2014/
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Blockchain Legal Notary Service, Attestation
Register contracts, agreements, wills (Proof of Existence, Factom)
Register, protect, and transact IP (Monegraph, Ascribe) How it works
Hash + timestamp + blockchain record
44http://www.proofofexistence.com/
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Blockchain Science and What is Mining? Mining is the process of adding
transaction records to the public ledger by performing a computing task that is costly to execute but easy to verify
Issue: mining is purposefully wasteful to deter malicious players
‘Green’ mining projects Primecoin Foldingcoin Gridcoin Zennet
45http://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoin-mining-hard-way-algorithms.html, http://codinginmysleep.com/bitcoin-mining-in-plain-english/
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Blockchain Health Blockchain technology in health-related applications1. EMRs: Personal Health Record Storage and Access
Personal health records stored and administered via blockchain Users key-permission doctors and other parties into records
2. Health Research Commons Aggregated personal medical records, quantified self data
commons (DNA.bits), genome and connectome files
3. Health Document Notary Services Proof-of-insurance, test results, prescriptions, status, condition,
treatment, physician referrals
4. Doctor Vendor RFP Services (Like Uber drivers) doctors and health practices bid to supply
medical services; automated bidding via tradenets
46http://futurememes.blogspot.fr/2014/09/blockchain-health-remunerative-health.html
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Blockchain Genomics
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Jurisdictional regulation prevents individuals from having access to their own genetic data
http://genomesunzipped.org/2011/03/people-have-a-right-to-access-their-own-genetic-information.php
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Blockchain Art
48http://cryptoart.com/
Fine art paper wallets
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Blockchain Art
49https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=98392.0
Cryptographic art
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Blockchain Art
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Rio, Tel Aviv, Hamburg, Barcelona, Seoul, Tokyo, New York
http://bitfilm.com/festival.html
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Blockchain Literacy ‘Bitcoin MOOCs,’ ‘Kiva for literacy’
Peer-to-peer learning contracts Literacy beyond reading
Technical, Agricultural, Vocational Literacy Blockchain-based personal development
contracts QS-biometric utility function imputation and tracking Maslow chains, subjectivation and actualization chains
Development Economics 2.0 Literacy contracts, remittances, blockchain-tracked aid,
microcredit, decentralized credit bureaus Open-source FICO scores Peer-vouched reputation
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AgendaBitcoin and the Age of Cryptocurrencies
Introduction What is Bitcoin, blockchain, decentralization? Stakes: Transition from labor economy to actualization economy
Crypto-Enlightenment Rethinking Authority (Self, Society)
Philosophy of Immanence (open-ended upside) Theory of Crypto Flourishing
Scarcity as a social pathology Abundance theory of Flourishing
Practicalities and extensive blockchain applications
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ConclusionsAbundance Theory of Flourishing Individuals and communities taking more self-authority
for economic and political system determination Calling out immanence as open-ended upside shifts
locus of focus to actualization and not sustenance Abundance is immanent flourishing not just scarcity-as-
a-social pathology resolution and post-scarcity economy Individual
Cryptocitizen internally-specified reality and authority-taking Self-determined economic and political systems
Society Self-sustaining community peergrids, infrastructure hosting The new polis is the micropolis
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Stanford, Palo Alto CA, October 18, 2015Slides: http://slideshare.net/LaBlogga
Bitcoin and the Age of Cybercurrencies:The Crypto Enlightenment
An Abundance Rethinking of Authority, Knowledge, and Organization
Melanie SwanPhilosophy & Economic Theory
New School, New York [email protected]
Thank You! Questions?