Gerrie Smits (https://gerriesmits.com) kicked off the event explaining
(a) the basics of blockchain (a.o. immutability, "if... then...", value transfer, tokenisation and token transfer, decentralisation, game theory and aligned incentives) and
(b) looking at it from a business perspective ("Is This Something For Us?")
>> with practical examples of (actual) use cases like a local blockchain to follow the support money granted to refugees, fractional ownership of real estate, incentives to cycle to school, "selling your eyeballs" (advertising),...
>> through the value mapping framework, which brings innovation (value) theory and design thinking in the picture
To conclude he launched a specific point of interest, namely ORGANISATIONAL DESIGN. Starting from the question whether the "tragedy of the commons" can be overcome (looking at theories of a.o. Elinor Ostrom - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom), he looks at initiatives that may address this by using blockchain technology: Colony (https://colony.io/index.html), Aragon https://aragon.org/), OrgTech (https://orgtech.substack.com/),...
This is material for a hack(athlon).
The title of his keynote refers to the title of the book he wrote (in Dutch) which is packed with use cases: https://gerriesmits.com/blockchain-is-wtf-boek/
The context was the second (2019) edition of the Computational Law and Blockchain Festival (#CLBFest), Brussels' node.
5. Words I use
(too) often:
#1: User
“If everyone has their face
toward the CEO, they have
their ass toward the
customer.”
-
Jack Welch
ex-CEO General Electric
22. And then came Vitalik Buterinβ
While the Bitcoin protocol is
more than adequate for
currency (…)
there are fundamental
limitations that make it non-
viable for anything beyond a
certain very limited scope of
features.
“
“
35. >>
Blockchain = also…
A network of consensus-computers
set up by a few parties
that trust each other ‘enough’
to manage + govern the rules.
Trust with a lower case ’t'
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37. Toch gewoon een veilige database?
ja
maar
Distributed netwerk of computers
Cryptographic blocks + chains
58. How can we use
blockchain
components to fix the
trust issues,
friction points,
user needs?
ex
Design Thinking +
Blockchain
Smart Contracts Tokenisation
Immutability
Oracle
Immutability
Public/Permissioned
Incentives
Opportunity
Spotting
66. New definitions of ‘business’wtf
Business
=
creating value (through work),
selling or trading it to customers
capturing some of that value as
profit.
Decentralised tokenised network
=
foster the creation ofvalue (through
distributed work)
let it be used, sold or traded
allocate the value that would
otherwise be captured (via issuance,
rewards, penalties and whatsoever).
72. coin What if a token =
The right to ask for help. To vote. To challenge.
Reputation. Proof that you did a certain task
The right to claim a share of a pot of money