Posts By: Geert Lovink

Link list on bitcoin & blockchain, libra and other MoneyLab issues (part 7)

By Geert Lovink, October 24, 2019

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 [...]

Common Intelligence by Emanuele Braga

By Geert Lovink, October 16, 2019

When the world’s on fire, it will not be an artificial intelligence that puts it out. What is needed is a common intelligence,​ a use of technology that can build a non-oppressed social body. What’s beyond the apocalyptic singularity daughter of the anthropocene? What’s beyond the technological drift that destroys energy resources? Social cooperation must [...]

links special on the bestmixer.io takedown and other tumblers

By Geert Lovink, October 12, 2019

Dutch Police Seize Bitcoin Tumbler “Bestmixer.io” https://darknetlive.com/post/dutch-police-seize-bitcoin-tumbler-bestmixer-io/ Cryptocurrency Anonymizing Service Shut Down by Europol https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2019/05/147669-mixer-down-cryptocurrency-anonymizing-service-shut-down-by-europol/ On May 22, 2019 police in the Netherlands and Luxembourg have seized six servers hosting best mixer.io. “one of the three largest mixing services for cryptocurrencies.” The seizures, cooperatively executed by the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD), Europol [...]

Link list on bitcoin & blockchain, demonitization and other MoneyLab issues (part 6)

By Geert Lovink, April 7, 2019

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 [...]

Oliver Leistert: Object-oriented scarcity as a technology of governmentality

By Geert Lovink, March 18, 2019

Lecture at MoneyLab #6, Siegen (Germany), March 7/8, 2019. Blockchains are technologies of control. Control is the capacity to govern events as structured items. Blockchains are interesting because of the sovereign chronological regime that they establish. This has the capacities to proof and modulate the existence, identity and administration of data, assets, goods and services [...]

Blog Report MoneyLab #6: Engineering New Economic Spaces

By Geert Lovink, March 12, 2019

The feel of the Infrastructure: Engineering New Economic Spaces Report by Lisa Gerzen The workshop ‘The feel of the Infrastructure. Engineering New Economic Spaces’ was hosted by around half of the Economic Space Agency (ECSA) team: Jonathan Beller, Erik Bordeleau, Fabian Bruder, James Foley, Pekko Koskinen, Joel Mason, Akseli Virtanen and Jackie Vu. ESCA stands [...]

Sneak preview of ECSA White Paper PROGRAMMABLE ECONOMY

By Geert Lovink, March 7, 2019

Introduction to ECSA White Paper PROGRAMMABLE ECONOMY The crypto-political economy of the Economic Space Agency Maybe the most difficult thing to understand about cryptoeconomy is that it has a potentiality to cause an irreversible change in the nature of economy itself: to make the economy and how it functions​ itself ​a design space. The Economic [...]

On Julia Janssen–The Attention Fair–Installation at MoneyLab#6

By Geert Lovink, March 4, 2019

You are the Product of your own Information By Julia Janssen About my installation The Attention Fair at MoneyLab #6 in Siegen (March 7/8 2019). The Internet has enriched our lives. More and more devices are being connected with us and each other, designed to make our lives comfortable and efficient. But because this online [...]

Program of Open Office Economic Space Agency in Berlin (March 10-12 2019)

By Geert Lovink, March 3, 2019

HOW TO SHORT CAPITALISM:  THE CRYPTO-POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ECONOMIC SPACE AGENCY OPEN OFFICE, BERLIN, MARCH 10-12 2019 ECSA OPEN OFFICE – 3 days of discussions and collective exploration around the next generation network infrastructure for programmable economies Economic Space Agency (ECSA) is building the next generation network infrastructure for programmable economies. Most blockchain and distributed [...]

Link list on bitcoin & blockchain, demonitization and other MoneyLab issues (part 5)

By Geert Lovink, December 24, 2018

Phi: a platform that connects people in remote off-grid communities to clean, low-cost energy http://futurearchitectureplatform.org/projects/73faa23f-564b-4df1-92f9-595fd2e63465/ Facebook is developing a cryptocurrency for WhatsApp https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-21/facebook-is-said-to-develop-stablecoin-for-whatsapp-transfers Pump-and-Dump Groups Become ‘Widespread’ as Market Remains Largely Unregulated https://cointelegraph.com/news/pump-and-dump-groups-become-widespread-as-market-remains-largely-unregulated Fraud with ‘blockchain journalism’ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/civil-unrest-how-a-blockchain-based-journalism-startup-bumbled-its-launch/ Cryptocurrencies are like lottery tickets that might pay off in future by Kenneth Rogoff https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/10/cryptocurrencies-bitcoin-kenneth-rogoff Ken Rogoff: [...]