Link list on bitcoin & blockchain, demonitization and other MoneyLab issues (part 4)

How to Run a Blockchain on a Deserted Island with Pen and Paper
https://hackernoon.com/how-to-run-a-blockchain-on-a-deserted-island-with-pen-and-paper-899949ec555b

Better Living through Bitcoin
https://www.eurozine.com/better-living-bitcoins/

Elsden, C., Manohar, A., Briggs, J., Harding, M., Speed, C., & Vines, J. (2018). Making Sense of Blockchain Applications: A Typology for HCI. https://chriselsden.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/elsden-making-sense-of-blockchain-applications.pdf

How Noise Matters to Finance (both via Patricia de Vries)
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/how-noise-matters-to-finance/

Narrating the Global Financial Crisis – Urban Imaginaries and the Politics of Myth by Miriam Meissner
https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319454108

The Bitcoin probe unravelling in Surat is a Pandora’s Box (via Tripta Chandola)
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/the-bitcoin-probe-unravelling-in-surat-is-a-pandoras-box/article24002070.ece/amp/

Frauenbank: a cooperative space for women and a new kind of property (via Patricia de Vries)
http://kavigupta.com/exhibition/servers-for-yu-and-frauenbank-at-whitney-biennial-2017/

Nathaniel Popper on Envion ICO and what went wrong
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/technology/envion-initial-coin-offering.html

Dutch Fintech Navigator
https://hollandfintech.com/fintechnavigator/

How I became Leonardo da Vinci on the Blockchain
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/06/how-i-became-leonardo-da-vinci-on-the-blockchain/

Bitcoin Price Artificially Inflated
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/technology/bitcoin-price-manipulation.html

Bitcoin is a Cult
https://adamcaudill.com/2018/06/21/bitcoin-is-a-cult/

“The Bitcoin community has changed greatly over the years; from technophiles that could explain a Merkle tree in their sleep, to speculators driven by the desire for a quick profit & blockchain startups seeking billion dollar valuations led by people who don’t even know what a Merkle tree is.”

BIS Blasts Cryptos in Special Report: “Beyond the Hype”
https://www.themaven.net/mishtalk/economics/bis-blasts-cryptos-in-special-report-beyond-the-hype-eE7kGAQSwUKrmeD1OSDSTQ/

Building Responsible Cryptocurrencies
https://medium.com/h-o-l-o/building-responsible-cryptocurrencies-d45d7d2173ed

Overgrowth of the Digital Economy (and what to do about it)
https://medium.com/h-o-l-o/overgrowth-of-the-digital-economy-and-what-to-do-about-it-b58b0ffb578

“What about an Internet that serves us all?
Have you ever wondered why centralized servers sit in the middle of our online conversations? Seems ridiculous, doesn’t it? Why would we let a corporation moderate how we communicate with each other? Do we really want an Internet that treats us as the product rather than the participant?

Any application can be designed to be ‘distributed’ and be their own purpose-driven data commons. Without proprietary software directing the free contributions of users, distributed apps can be an ecology of online spaces that together operate as a true commons – Emaline Friedman

Read more: http://bit.ly/mediumholochain

Learn more about decentralization, cryptocurrencies and distributed architectures and how Holochain can help us grow the commons in an upcoming free webinar with renowned technologist Arthur Brock on December 1st 1-3pm PST: http://bit.ly/holochainwebinar

The Holo team says: “Instead of running everything through big data centers, applications in Holo are run by people like you, me, and our friends.””

Anthology: Economic Science Fictions (via Patricia de Vries)
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/economic-science-fictions

War on Cash (via Patrice Riemens)
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jun/24/cash-is-just-grief-why-shops-and-bars-want-to-make-you-pay-by-card

The Economic Limits of Bitcoin and the Blockchain
https://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/eric.budish/research/Economic-Limits-Bitcoin-Blockchain.pdf

Materiality of the Debit Card
https://www.fastcodesign.com/90177255/this-debit-card-looks-and-acts-like-nothing-else-in-your-wallet

Cash is fighting back (via Eduard de Jong)
http://www.cashmatters.org
which is a front for
https://www.currencyassociation.org

Over 1,000 Cryptocurrencies are “Dead Projects”
https://www.ccn.com/research-over-1000-cryptocurrencies-are-dead-projects/

Poor Bitcoin
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-12/three-horsemen-bitcoin-apocalypse

Following the crypto money
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/22/opinion/russia-hacking-indictments-bitcoin.html

The DAO as attack dog: A deadly blow to all identity based applications of blockchain/DLT:
http://hackingdistributed.com/2018/07/02/on-chain-vote-buying/

Brett Scott on Cashless Society
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/19/cashless-society-con-big-finance-banks-closing-atms

Zachery Lipton: The Blockchain Bubble will Pop, What Next?
http://approximatelycorrect.com/2018/06/22/the-blockchain-bubble-will-pop-what-next/

Cryptos solidify their appeal for the rogue side of society.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/29/technology/cryptocurrency-bermuda-malta-gibraltar.html

Podcast by Jamie King with Primavera de Filippi
https://stealthisshow.com/s04e02/?utm_campaign=crypto-the-beyond-with-primavera-de-filippi

Responsible disclosure in the era of cryptocurrencies (via Joi Ito)
https://medium.com/@coryfields/http-coryfields-com-cash-48a99b85aad4

Cryptocurrencies are dead (from September 2016)
https://medium.com/metacurrency-project/cryptocurrencies-are-dead-d4223154d783

The Tezos crypto rip-off story, for those who have not yet seen Wired
https://www.wired.com/story/tezos-blockchain-love-story-horror-story/

“How Blockchain Can Promote Financial Inclusion” (Berlin event)
https://www.meetup.com/blockchain-and-identity/events/254141277/

Visions of bitcoin-how major bitcoin narratives changed over time
https://medium.com/@nic__carter/visions-of-bitcoin-4b7b7cbcd24c

Acht Missverständnisse über Blockchain (in German)
https://netzpolitik.org/2018/acht-missverstaendnisse-ueber-blockchain/

Why Bitcoin is Stupid
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2018/01/02/why-bitcoin-is-stupid/

INC research of intern Tim Brouwer: a longfrom on crypto design
http://networkcultures.org/longform/2018/08/25/proof-of-transaction-the-materiality-of-cryptocurrency/

Bitcoin’s Use in Commerce Keeps Falling Even as Volatility Eases
https://www.bloomberg.com/crypto

Modi’s Cash Crackdown Failed, Indian Bank Data Shows
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/world/asia/modi-india-rupee-cash.html

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