Adam Hayes: The Socio-Technological Lives of Bitcoin
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0263276419826218?journalCode=tcsa
Bitwise: “As part of 226 slides presented to the SEC on our ETF filing, we did a first-of-its-kind analysis of *order book data* from all 81 exchanges reporting >$1M in BTC volume on CMC. TLDR: 95% of reported volume is fake but LOTS of good new
Apple Redesigned the Credit Card
https://www.fastcompany.com/90324794/apple-redesigned-the-credit-card-can-it-redesign-debt
From Frederick Noronha: Risk Group discusses India’s Aadhar Payment System and the Universal Payment Interface with Prof. Anupam Saraph, a Systems Thinker and Thought Leader at Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research based in India. https://youtu.be/AlbrjnC0yF8
PS: Anyone understanding banking pls check out the above. Dr Anupam Saraph has been prominent in Goa circles for quite a while, though he is now based in Pune. FN
Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612974/once-hailed-as-unhackable-blockchains-are-now-getting-hacked/
The rise of crypto in higher education (trigger warning: lots of hype here)
https://blog.coinbase.com/the-rise-of-crypto-in-higher-education-81b648c2466f
A Decade Later, the Internet Governance Project Wakes Up
https://www.internetgovernance.org/2019/01/31/cryptocurrency-a-disruptive-technology-in-need-of-innovative-governance/
Listen to Queer Money Fear$ from Nancy (podcast, via Inte)
https://itunes.apple.com/nl/podcast/queer-money-fear%24/id1222041050?i=1000430556704&l=en&mt=2
“I see no practical use for cryptocurrency”: Paul R Brody
http://www.forbesindia.com/article/special/i-see-no-practical-use-for-cryptocurrency-paul-r-brody/52765/1
Decentralized community for making profits of your creative works (via Inte) https://creaproject.io/creary/
UBI in the arts context
https://www.instagram.com/p/BvE0AK_Hbp9/
Protocols: Duty, Despair and Decentralisation transcript by Mat Dryhurst
https://medium.com/@matdryhurst/protocols-duty-despair-and-decentralisation-transcript-69acac62c8ea
Stephan P. Williams — Blockchain: The Next Everything
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Blockchain-The-Next-Everything/Stephen-P-Williams/9781982116828
You Do Not Need Blockchain: Eight Popular Use Cases And Why They Do Not Work
https://blog.smartdec.net/you-do-not-need-blockchain-eight-popular-use-cases-and-why-they-do-not-work-f2ecc6cc2129
RIP Bernard Lietaer, author
https://medium.com/@expathos/dr-bernard-lietaer-monetary-visionary-rip-3d4af109c978
Experimentations in Alternative Economies – CommonCoin, FairCoin, and Bank of the Commons
https://www.volksbuehne.berlin/en/programm/7434/school-of-disobedience-experimentations-in-alternative-economies-commoncoin-faircoin-and-bank-of-the-commons
Duniter, a free money system (or monnaie libre) that emerged in the south of France (via Marie Lechner)
https://monnaielibreoccitanie.org/
https://duniter.org/
https://monnaie-libre.fr/
Laura Lotti on blockchain as sci-fi
http://reflektor-m.de/kuenstler/text/kolumne-permeable-bodies-and-laura-lotti-on-blockchain-as-science-fiction
The Chiang Mai crypto-currency subculture
https://www.chiangmaicitylife.com/citylife-articles/crypto-fervour-chiang-mai-crypto-currency-subculture/
Rethinking Decentralization
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/op-ed-defining-decentralization-how-ambiguity-continues-divide-crypto/
The Shutdown Problem: How Does a Blockchain System End?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07254
Snowdrift: Crowdmatching for Public Goods
https://snowdrift.coop/
RADMIN -A festival of Administration (via Inte)
https://cubecinema.com/pages/radmin/
Making Money from Open Source Software
https://ayende.com/blog/186147-A/making-money-from-open-source-software-how-we-do-it
Bruce Schneier on Cryptocurrencies
https://www.ccn.com/cryptocurrency-is-honestly-useless-harvard-cryptographer
Steve Wilson: What is Blockchain Consensus all About?
https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/what-blockchain-consensus-all-about
“Cryptocurrency is about as safe as keeping your money in a sock under someone else’s bed.”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/02/13/forget-bitcoin-try-your-mattress/
Zcash Shielded Addresses are GDPR Compliant by Default
https://z.cash/blog/zcash-shielded-addresses-are-gdpr-compliant-by-default/
Beat Coin (via Cecile Landman)
https://www.instagram.com/beatcoin_beat/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqOnSY3XqN4
Hostile takeovers of cryptocurrencies
https://www.axios.com/token-takeover-battle-brews-for-ripple-1547570363-8f4b4b10-6df2-49b8-8863-ce5fb2edddd2.html
Blockchain security report (from NL, in English)
https://dutchblockchaincoalition.org/uploads/pdf/DBC-Cyber-Security-Framework-final.pdf
Cryptocommons
https://blog.usejournal.com/crypto-commons-da602fb98138
Dark Markets, from Silk Road to Dropsgangs
https://opaque.link/post/dropgang/
Brett Scott on gentrification of payments
http://longreads.tni.org/state-of-power-2019/digital-payment-gentrification/
State of Power 2019: Finance Infographics
http://longreads.tni.org/state-of-power-2019/big-finance-key-players/
Blockchain: Utopia or U-Turn? An event with numerous ML members
https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/blockchain-utopia-or-u-turn
Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Revolt
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/technology/patreon-hate-speech-bans.html
10 years bitcoin
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/03/10th-birthday-bitcoin-cryptocurrency
More and more 2018 bitcoin stats
https://medium.com/@lopp/bitcoin-by-the-numbers-2018-recap-68a91789d804
Future Cryptoeconomics is a quarterly publication that examines the global cryptoeconomic condition and its effects on culture and society: https://riat.at/future-cryptoeconomics/
Money as Money: Suzanne de Brunhoff’s Marxist Monetary Theory by Rebecca Carson
https://non.copyriot.com/money-as-money-suzanne-de-brunhoffs-marxist-monetary-theory/
BUILDING ORGANIZATIONS & GOVERNANCE OF THE FUTURE 29-30 Jan. 2019 Berlin
https://aracon.one/
Amir Taaki”s Nym Technologies
https://www.coindesk.com/this-binance-backed-crypto-startup-wants-to-anonymize-everything
Hacking the most popular cryptocurrency hardware wallets
https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/events/9563.html
CryptoParty @ 35C3
https://www.cryptoparty.in/35c3#sessions
A Blockchain Picture Book
https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/events/9573.html
Wallet Scurity: How (Not) Secure Private Keys
https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/events/9492.html
Web-based Cryptojacking in the Wild–When your browser is mining coins for other people
https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/events/9483.html
Every Bitcoin Obituary plotted on a Bitcoin Price Chart https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/a7ettd/every_bitcoin_obituary_plotted_on_a_bitcoin_price/