The Trust Web *and blockchain

SwarmJoel Dietz

Magic?

Look closer

Math

Scarce resources

cows (violence) money (banks) land (titles/registry) stock (shares/lawyers) property (law) public goods (social convention)

Traditional solutions

(1) religion / ethics historical arc ( 632 Torah -> 10 commandments -> self-regulation )

(2) competition / markets “survival of the fittest” institutions which compete well survive better importance of culture

(3) trusted third parties governments banks / entities regulated by governamnts

(4) “Go Local” highly robust high trust networks

Commonsprisoner's dilemma v commons dilemma/ assurance / stag hunt / language problem tragedy of commons hardin's view south park on tragedy of commons Donald shoup <> tragedy of commons <> parking trash/recycling <> governing the commons, sustainability and environment, earth population growth <> malthusian trap housing in sf traffic roads + parking radio <>titanic drones net neutrality language problem

governing the commons

elinor ostrom <> tragedy of mismanaged commons tft <> forgiveness, axelrod law as commons’ trust <> social capital commons fukuyama legal property <> hence de soto tragedy commons 1bn hernando de soto, the mystery of capital social contract as commons

examples

atoms i got 5 on it burning man <> reinvention period mad max to utopia leland stanford on coops and structures

info tcp/ip wikipedia as commons <> smallest federated wiki prices as info commons <> hayek bitcoin <> money

All you need to know about Blockchain on one slide

Jan 27, 2014

Why is this such a big deal?

Evolution in network topologies

Acme Corp

Twitter

Facebook

It pays to be open

More people More data

More value

Emergence

Key factors

high connectivity high trust simplicity stigmergy (“cryptoequity”)

Trust Web

Acme Insurance vs DBrain

What if…

I want to create a just sustainable project and no

one will fund me?

One year later:

8 launched projects~200 DCOs

Waiting on crowdfunding clarity Ethereum integration

www.swarmbot.io