My journey to understand blockchain political systems continues.
Blockchain Governance: Programming Our Future
This post describes why blockchain governance design is one of the most important problems out there, its critical components, current…
Notes on Blockchain Governance | HackerNoon
In which I argue that “tightly coupled” on-chain voting is overrated, the status quo of “informal governance” as practiced by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Zcash and similar systems is much less bad than commonly thought, that people who think that the purpose of blockchains is to completely expunge soft mushy human intuitions and feelings in favor of completely algorithmic governance (emphasis on “completely”) are absolutely crazy, and loosely coupled voting as done by Carbonvotes and similar systems is underrated, as well as describe what framework should be used when thinking about blockchain governance in the first place.See also: https://medium.com/@Vlad_Zamfir/against-on-chain-governance-a4ceacd040ca
Liquid democracy uses blockchain to fix politics, and now you can vote for it | TechCrunch
Abraham Lincoln famously said that “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth,” but looking around these
The problem with voting
I read, with great interest, Fred Ehrsam’s post on blockchain governance, as well as Vlad Zamfir and Vitalik Buterin’s responses.
Money, blockchains, and social scalability
Introduction Blockchains are all the rage. The oldest and biggest blockchain of them all is Bitcoin , which over its eight-year hist...
Money, blockchains, and social scalability
Introduction Blockchains are all the rage. The oldest and biggest blockchain of them all is Bitcoin , which over its eight-year hist...
Digital Democracy in Decentralised Autonomous Organisations
Decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) are institutional technologies that enable democratic governance innovation. They inherit key democratic principles such as procedural transparency and immutable records from being based on blockchain technology. This paper conducts a systematic literature review to examine governance mechanisms and challenges of digital democracy in DAOs. While issues like power concentration and coordination failures exist in current implementations, we argue that the concept of DAOs offers new opportunities for transparent governance and participatory decision-making. As testbeds for governance experiments, we find that DAOs have the potential to reshape democratic processes and foster innovative governance models in the digital era. Calling for interdisciplinary collaboration, further research is needed around Sybil-resistant voting mechanisms, ideological path dependencies and deliberation mechanisms.
Funding the Evolution of Blockchains
Blockchains are digital organisms. As organisms evolve through changes in their DNA, blockchain protocols evolve through changes in their…
Turing-Complete Governance — The Collective Intelligence Project
It is fiendishly difficult to get lots of people to make decisions and work together both non-hierarchically and effectively. Because blockchain technology enables decentralized consensus at scale, the implications for human decision-making and coordination are immensely promising; if we can use it
I'm very sorry, but you're going to have to learn to love the blockchain | TechCrunch
I apologize. I get it. You hear "blockchain" and you immediately think "shady get-rich-quick schemes" or "bubble of magical fake Internet money" or
Trust: the inside story of the rise and fall of Ethereum | Aeon Essays
Blockchain enthusiasts crave a world without bankers, lawyers or fat-cat executives. There’s just one problem: trust
Cryptoeconomics: Paving the Future of Blockchain Technology | HackerNoon
Page through the articles on <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/blockchain" target="_blank">blockchain</a> today and you will see healthy discussions over its applications and endless debates over the future price action of someone’s favorite cryptocurrency. Yet rarely among all these topics is any mention of the most fascinating notion at the heart of the movement — blockchain as a novel means<strong> to incentivize desired human behavior</strong>.
The Future Is Forked - kwokchain
Author’s note: I originally wrote this essay a number of months ago. Since then there’s been a bunch of discussion around governance thanks to essays from Fred Erhsam, Vlad Zamfir, Will Warren, and others. As well as debates within the Ethereum community. While I haven’t addressed any of these recent events in this piece—or how … Continue reading The Future Is Forked →
Opinion | Mark Zuckerberg: The Internet needs new rules. Let’s start in these four areas.
We need a more active role for governments and regulators.
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