MakerDAO decentralized stablecoin, collateral loans, and community governance
https://makerdao.com/en/
“The desire to travel far away and start a new currency will become a powerful driver of human expansion into space” (via Inte)
https://www.unchained-capital.com/blog/law-of-hash-horizons/
On the use of cryptocurrencies for sextortion
https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2019/10/14/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-sextortion-masturbation-blackmail-monero-save-yourself- malware/
Olaf Scholz vs. Facebook’s Libra
https://hackernoon.com/germany-says-nien-to-facebook-exfederal-prosecutor-blocking-libra-will-bring-national-problems-frdm32e9
Zuckerberg at Washington hearing on Libra
https://www.coindesk.com/zuckerberg-facebook-would-quit-libra-if-association-launched-prematurely
Solution for Deepfake Problems…?
https://www.wired.com/story/the-blockchain-solution-to-our-deepfake-problems/
American conservaties, Libra and Europe
https://www.aier.org/article/sound-money-project/does-libra-threaten-monetary-sovereignty
Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation by Grace Blakely
https://repeaterbooks.com/product/stolen-how-to-save-the-world-from-financialisation/
Anti-globalization blog
http://www.ourworldisnotforsale.net
Ethereum: Scam or Iteration?
https://www.coindesk.com/scam-or-iteration-at-devcon-ethereum-diehards-still-believe-in-2-0
A gallery selling work of cryptoartists
https://knownorigin.io/artists
A London-based crypto artist
https://xcopyart.com/
Libra coalition is falling apart as eBay, Visa, Mastercard and Stripe jump ship
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/11/ebay-drops-out-of-facebook-libra-cryptocurrency-one-week-after-paypal.html
More on OneCoin crypto pyramid scheme court case
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bank-of-ireland-execs-back-out-of-testifying-in-onecoin-scam-hearings
Survival Guide to Adventures in Cryptoland: Can Cryptocurrencies Save Us All? (via Inte)
https://freerads.org/2019/09/05/the-radicals-survival-guide-to-adventures-in-cryptoland-can-cryptocurrencies-save-us-all/
Tank Magazine’s Libra link list
https://tankmagazine.com/tank/2019/07/libra-reading-list/
“Degrowth is about redistribution by design, not by collapse”
https://failedarchitecture.com/degrowth-is-about-redistribution-by-design-not-by-collapse/
Bitcoin will be how we transact with aliens
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/op-ed-hear-me-out-in-a-post-area-51-world-bitcoin-could-be-our-best-hope-for-alien-interaction
A different look at the history of money (via Eduard)
https://michael-hudson.com/2018/04/palatial-credit-origins-of-money-and-interest/
EU-Funded Projects in Blockchain Technology
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/eu-funded-projects-blockchain-technology
Rhythm in Economic Space by Stamatia Portanova
https://transversal.at/transversal/0318/portanova/en
Voluntary degrowth by redesigning money for sustainability, justice & resilience (via Patrice)
https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/JPE/article/view/20900
France to block Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency in Europe
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/12/france-block-development-facebook-libra-cryptocurrency
Fund to launch alternative business models for online content
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/100-million-investment-reshape-economics-web/
Money is the Oxygen (via Patricia)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/money-is-the-oxygen-on-which-the-fire-of-global-warming-burns
Laura Lotti: Blockchain Affordances (via Luca Recano)
http://mediatheoryjournal.org/laura-lotti-blockchain-affordances/
Gavin Mueller: Digital Proudhonism (via Luca Recano)
https://www.boundary2.org/2018/07/mueller/
Coinbase: The 2019 Leaders in Crypto Education
https://blog.coinbase.com/highereducation-c4fb40ecbc0e
Proposal making in DAOs: the limitations of “Anyone Proposes Anything”
https://hackernoon.com/proposal-making-in-daos-the-limitations-of-anyone-can-propose-anything-gn3lh35w1
ECB’s Mersch Warns Over ‘Treacherous Promises’ of Facebook Libra
https://www.coindesk.com/ecbs-mersch-warns-over-treacherous-promises-of-facebook-libra
French psy-trance festival that promotes local currencies
https://www.hadra.net/HTF2019/village.php?lang=fr&&page=village&&subpage=conferences
Bitcoin Rap Battle Debate: Hamilton vs. Satoshi (via Maisa)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaMJi1_1tkA&
RIP Decentralization–Sorry, Bitcoin, it’s Libra’s turn now (via Eduard)
https://medium.com/futuresin/rip-decentralization-ae2d13417da7
Libra: Facebook’s move into cryptocurrency takes advantage of regulatory loopholes
https://onezero.medium.com/the-libra-masterplan-dc9560e41c87
What’s wrong with Ethereum?
https://hackernoon.com/everything-wrong-with-ethereum-in-2019-r63gl3wr8
Of Art Tokenization, Blockchain, and Provenance with A Sprinkling of Non-Fungible Tokens
https://hackernoon.com/revolutionizing-the-art-industry-with-blockchain-d836m34vb
MEMRI (connected to Israeli intelligence): The Coming Storm – Terrorists Using Cryptocurrency (via Donatella)
https://www.memri.org/reports/coming-storm-%E2%80%93-terrorists-using-cryptocurrency
Libra, a Cyberpunk Nightmare in the Midst of Crypto Spring
https://hackernoon.com/libra-a-cyberpunk-nightmare-in-the-midst-of-crypto-spring-5543b6f6e34b
Facebook admits Libra cryptocurrency may not happen after all
https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/facebook-libra-delay-cancel-sec/
https://mur.at/ is hosting a one week worklab “block that chain”
https://mur.at/post/call-for-participation
Conner Brown: Bitcoin Has No Intrinsic Value — and That’s Great
https://medium.com/coinmonks/bitcoin-has-no-intrinsic-value-and-thats-great-e6994adbfe0f
Libra untangled: what lies behind Facebook’s project – PART I by Andrea Bianconi
https://hackernoon.com/libra-untangled-what-lies-behind-facebooks-digital-currency-project-part-i-wq6e22hwk
Ten reasons why Facebook’s Libra is a bad idea – and we should stop it now
https://mailchi.mp/finance-watch/ten-reasons-why-facebooks-libra-is-a-bad-idea-and-we-should-stop-it-now
ETHBerlinZwei is a hackathon, a culture festival, an educational event, a platform for hacktivism, and a community initiative to push the decentralized ecosystem forward
https://ethberlinzwei.com/about.html
Remember, blockchain replacing everything…
https://medium.com/@matteozago/why-the-net-giants-are-worried-about-the-web-3-0-44b2d3620da5
(some of the links below are from Jaya Klara Brekke’s newsletter, thanks!)
Breaking the ZuckBuck overview of claims by the good crew at Alphaville
https://ftalphaville.ft.com/series/Breaking%20the%20Zuck%20Buck
The need for global payment system as a public good by Rohan Grey
https://www.thenation.com/article/facebook-libra-currency-digital/
Tank Magazine’s shortlist
https://tankmagazine.com/tank/2019/07/libra-reading-list/
Good New Models podcast discussion of ZuckBuck
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-16-e-pluribus-zuck-mat-dryhurst-kei-kreutler/id1399619562?i=1000444495944
Facebook’s plan for a cryptocurrency is right to set alarm bells ringing
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/21/facebook-plan-for-cryptocurrency-right-to-set-alarm-bells-ringing
Strengthening Hyperledger Indy and Self-Sovereign Identity
https://www.hyperledger.org/blog/2019/07/18/strengthening-hyperledger-indy-and-self-sovereign-identity
Alt-C is an installation by Michal Sedbon that uses electricity produced by plants to power a single board computer mining a cryptocurrency (via Tatjana Seitz)
https://michaelsedbon.com/Alt-C
Massimo Ragnedda and Giuseppe Destefanis (eds) *Blockchain and Web 3.0. Social, Economic, and Technological Challenges*. Routledge, 2019
https://www.routledge.com/Blockchain-and-Web-30-Social-Economic-and-Technological-Challenges/Ragnedda-Destefanis/p/book/9780367139841
Facebook Libra: on the 4 steps road for World Presidency
https://hackernoon.com/facebook-libra-on-the-4-steps-road-for-world-presidency-s92sx34ji
Offshore Finance: How Capital Rules the World by Reijer Hendrikse and Rodrigo Fernandez
http://longreads.tni.org/state-of-power-2019/offshore-finance/ (via Francesca Bria)
Jack Ma’s $290 billion loan machine is changing Chinese banking (via Patricia de Vries)
http://www.ecoti.in/kZmtUa55
The Invention of Money (via Eduard de Jong)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/05/the-invention-of-money
Crypto-Anarchists are Spreading the Gospel in Prague
https://breakermag.com/pragues-crypto-anarchists-are-spreading-the-gospel/
Duniter: a dentralized libre currency based on the relative theory of money (via Michel Bauwens)
https://duniter.org/en/
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Duniter
Radix: a fast, scalable, easy-to-use ledger, ready-made for 7 billion people
https://www.radixdlt.com/
I was wrong about spreadsheets
https://www.reifyworks.com/writing/2017-01-25-i-was-wrong-about-spreadsheets-and-im-sorry
YAIR | Your Art is Reality: Unleash Digital Art
https://yair.art/
Glen Brook: In Zuck We Trust?
https://pv.glenbrook.com/in-zuck-we-trust/ (via Eduard de Jong)
New Models podcast on Libre
https://soundcloud.com/newmodels/episode-16-e-pluribus-zuck-mat-dryhurst-kei-kreutler-busta-keller-lilinternet
A massive facility that opened last spring located near Buffalo (via Stephanie Rothenberg)
https://www.coinmint.io/data-centers/
With cryptocurrency launch, Facebook sets its path toward becoming an independent nation
https://theconversation.com/with-cryptocurrency-launch-facebook-sets-its-path-toward-becoming-an-independent-nation-118987
Nate Tkacz on Facebook’s Libra, Or, The End of Silicon Valley Innovation
https://medium.com/@nathanieltkacz/facebooks-libra-or-the-end-of-silicon-valley-innovation-9cb2d1539bcd
Is Libra the West’s response to China’s payments empire?
https://threebody.capital/blog/2019/6/29/is-libra-the-wests-best-response-to-chinas-payments-empire
Libra geen open cryptomunt, maar databank van Facebook (in Dutch)
https://www.netkwesties.nl/1365/libra-geen-open-cryptomunt-maar-databank.htm?utm_source=mailing%2030-jun-2019&utm_medium=e-mail&utm_term=libra-geen-open-cryptomunt-maar-databank
Introducing the Decentralized Autonomous Kunstverein (DAK)
https://dak.international/
Even Joseph Stieglitz is against Libra (via Patrice Riemens)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/02/why-facebook-libra-currency-gets-the-thumbs-down
Kaspersky reports that only 1 in 10 people ‘get’ crypto
https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/kaspersky-reports-that-only-1-in-10-people-‘get’-crypto
Blockchain: Technology alone cannot protect freedom of expression
https://www.article19.org/resources/blockchain-technology-alone-cannot-protect-freedom-of-expression
NYT: Libra is a bad move for Facebook (via Eduard de Jong)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/opinion/facebook-currency-libra.html
Jameson Lob on Libra
https://onezero.medium.com/thoughts-on-libra-blockchain-49b8f6c26372
Stating the obvious: Bitcoin is not ready for the world
https://hackernoon.com/why-people-are-not-ready-for-bitcoin-d3adef2b2907
Andrew Keen on Libra
http://www.ajkeen.com/blog/2019/6/23/another-facebook-fk-up
Evgeny Morozov on Libra
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/21/facebooks-plan-to-break-the-global-financial-system
Final nail in the coffin for physical money (via Inte)
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2019/jun/25/cashless-monopoly-is-this-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-for-physical-money
Facebook, Libra, and the Long Game
https://stratechery.com/2019/facebook-libra-and-the-long-game/
Libra, a Cyberpunk Nightmare in the Midst of Crypto Spring, by Daniel Jeffries (via Patrice)
https://hackernoon.com/libra-a-cyberpunk-nightmare-in-the-midst-of-crypto-spring-5543b6f6e34b
Why ICOs were doomed from the start
https://hackernoon.com/why-icos-were-doomed-to-fail-from-the-start-fe623aca1d2c
Review “DARK HAVENS: Confronting Hidden Money and Power” Disruption Network Lab Berlin/April 5-6 2019
https://www.furtherfield.org/review-of-dark-havens-confronting-hidden-money-power-disruption-network-lab-berlin-april-5-6-2019/
GNUcash, a personal and small-business financial-accounting software
https://www.gnucash.org/
Stablecoins are booming
https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/the-stablecoin-market-is-booming
WeChat is Watching
http://nautil.us/issue/73/play/wechat-is-watching
Recap (Part I): Blockchain, Open Education & Digital Identity Conference in Lille, France
Blockchain, Open Education & Digital Identity Conference, Lille France – Summary
Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future
https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustless-crypto-paradise-is-actually-a-medieval-hellhole-c1ca122efdec
Facebook announces cryptocurrency with the release of Libra Whitepaper
https://hackernoon.com/facebook-announces-libra-cryptocurrency-cb0f496102e7
Flash Boys 2.0:Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, andConsensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.05234.pdf
Things got weird for stablecoin Tether
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-26/things-got-weird-for-stablecoin-tether
George Gilder’s Life after Google—The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy is disappointing American (fin.) conservatives
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2018/09/07/book_reviews_george_gilders_life_after_google_disappoints_103403.html
Erik Bordeleau talks fabulation, finance and cryptophilosophy at
Economic Space Agency – Transit Lounge Radio
https://transitloungeradio.net/erik-bordeleau-ecsa/
Interview with Max Haiven by Geert Lovink on Art after Money, Money after Art
http://networkcultures.org/geert/2019/05/11/interview-with-max-haiven-art-after-money-money-after-art/
Social Good & Blockchain
https://breakermag.com/73-blockchain-social-good-organizations-that-are-actually-doing-something/
Banning stores that do not accept cash (via Patrice)
https://www.technocracy.news/backlash-cities-and-states-are-banning-stores-that-dont-accept-cash/
Just in case you did not notice: the unsuable bitcoin
https://hackernoon.com/bitcoin-is-about-to-become-unusable-again-a3dc48a8082d
Is Fake Bitcoin Volume a Roadblock For Full-Fledged Crypto Rally?
https://www.newsbtc.com/2019/04/03/is-fake-bitcoin-volume-a-roadblock-for-full-fledged-crypto-rally/
Welcome to the RaveEnabler Unlock your Cryptorave #10 entry by donating your CPU. Support your local Cryptorave network mine Monero (XMR) and embody another identity https://0b673cce.xyz/
Finn Brunton: Digital Cash, The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency https://press.princeton.edu/titles/13537.html
Quinn Dupont speaks to Finn Brunton about his book Digital Cash
https://breakermag.com/new-book-reveals-cryptos-radical-origins/
Bitcoin and Friends | Episode 1 (via Inte)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCi3X3AbgT4&feature=youtu.be
Interview with Gina Pieters by Quin DuPont on why crypto reamains marginal amongst economists
https://breakermag.com/economists-are-missing-a-trick-with-crypto/
Dark Crystal: Back up your secrets using the trust in your social fabric
https://darkcrystal.pw/
A ‘Blockchain Bandit’ Is Guessing Private Keys and Scoring
https://www.wired.com/story/blockchain-bandit-ethereum-weak-private-keys/