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Introduction
What is Bitcoin, blockchain, decentralization?
Stakes: Transition from labor economy to actualization economy
Crypto Enlightenment
Rethinking Authority (Self, Society)
Philosophy of Immanence (open-ended upside)
Theory of Crypto Flourishing
Scarcity as a social pathology
Abundance theory of Flourishing
Practicalities and extensive blockchain applications
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The Crypto Enlightenment: Social Theory of Blockchains
1. Stanford, Palo Alto CA, October 18, 2015
Slides: http://slideshare.net/LaBlogga
Crypto Enlightenment:
A Social Theory of Blockchains
An Abundance Rethinking of Authority, Knowledge, and Organization
Melanie Swan
Philosophy & Economic Theory
New School, New York NY
melanie@BlockchainStudies.org
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Melanie Swan
Philosophy and Economic Theory, New School,
New York
Founder, Institute for Blockchain Studies
Instructor, Singularity University; Affiliate Scholar, Institute
for Ethics and Emerging Technology (IEET); Contributor,
EDGE
Traditional Markets Background Economic Theory Leadership
http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
Book: Blockchain:
Blueprint for a New
Economy
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Thesis re: Cybercurrency Social Implications
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Cybercurrencies (Bitcoin, blockchains, and
decentralization) are not just about…
1) Digitizing and modernizing money, payments,
economics, assets, legal contracts, and governance,
2) Accelerating the transition to the automation and
actualization economy from the labor economy, but…
3) Re-exploring our reality, and specifying it as more
internally-determined than externally-determined
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Agenda
Bitcoin and the Age of Cryptocurrencies
Introduction
What is Bitcoin, blockchain, decentralization?
Stakes: Transition from labor economy to actualization economy
Crypto Enlightenment
Rethinking Authority (Self, Society)
Philosophy of Immanence (open-ended upside)
Theory of Crypto Flourishing
Scarcity as a social pathology
Abundance theory of Flourishing
Practicalities and extensive blockchain applications
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Definition
What is Blockchain Technology?
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http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
A cryptographic information technology
A software protocol; email (SMTP) runs on TCP/IP, Bitcoin
runs on underlying blockchain software
The software protocol is decentralized: each network node
keeps the ledger (giant ‘Google doc spreadsheet’ of
transactions); blocks (batches) of transactions posted
sequentially to a ledger or chain
The software system confirms the transactions,
independently confirming transactions as unique and
valid without an intermediary (bank, government)
Bitcoin: digital money
No double-spend
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Evaluating Blockchain Ecosystem Risk
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Network Infrastructure
Organizational
Paradigm
Bitcoin and blockchain consensus mechanisms are the
initial, but perhaps not final positions in the build-out of
the decentralized value-transfer infrastructure
Decentralization
Consensus
Mechanism
Blockchain-based
Distributed Ledgers
Cryptocurrency
Value-exchange Token
Bitcoin
Platform Level: Current Leader:
http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
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Getting to Scale in Human Endeavor
Moments in Artificial Intelligence & Computing
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1. Biology becomes
a math problem
2. Simple ML
algorithms over
large data corpora
3. Deep-learning algorithms: real-time
image & video processing, lip-reading
transcription
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Blockchain-class problems
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Million-genome repositories (largest is
3700 currently)
Peter Turchin (U Conn), complexity,
cliometrics, measure liberty available in
a political system over time
Brain as a DAC; neural modeling of
utility functions
Oculus Rift – connectome integration:
experience sharing
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Blockchain technology (distributed ledgers) allows a
serious move into the Automation Economy, via secure
value transfer previously unavailable with the Internet
Fair and orderly transition from the Labor Economy to
the Automation and Actualization Economy
Bigger Picture: Automation Economy
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Information &
Entertainment
Manufacturing Health
Economics &
Finance
Government &
Legal
Internet: Transfer of Information
Internet: Secure
Transfer of Value
Sectors
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Enlightenment Theme:
Rethinking Authority
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“One ought to think
autonomously, free of the
dictates of external authority”
- Immanuel Kant
Kant, I. "Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?" (German: Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?). 1784.
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Traditional Definitions (philosophy)
Immanence: from within
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Immanence: where
everything comes from within
a system, world, person;
emergent; structure itself is
not pre-specified
Transcendence: where
everything comes from
outside a system, world,
person; externally pre-
determined specifications
Rethinking Authority is a matter of the Inner and the
Outer; which prompts a consideration of what is inner
and what is outer
Individual: to myself as a person, as the immanent
cryptocitizen sensibility
Society: cryptosustainability communities: what is important
to us as a community, right size for self-sustainability?
http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
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Open-ended stance of novel construction up and out
from baseline into new territory; yes-and improvisation
energy, collaboration, the new, creativity, out-of-the
box, greenfield, emergent, dynamic, serendipitous,
flow, complex, multi-dimensional
Rooted in capacity: growth capability determines
possibility; oriented towards affirmation of the positive
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Baseline
(Impossible) attempt to recoup a baseline ideal
that is pre-specified and externally imposed
Rooted in fixity: morphology (form) pre-
determines possibility; oriented towards
critique of the negative
Philosophy of Immanence
Contexts: Ethics (perfect ideal), Subjectivation,
Emotion, Abundance, Flourishing
Immanence
Models
Baseline
Models
Sources: Spinoza, Deleuze, Simondon
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Philosophy of Immanence
Cryptocitizen Sensibility
Getting into a stance of immanence with
ourselves, trusting our internal self more
Self-responsibility-taking; questioning and
self-designing which economic systems,
political systems, communities, structures
of productive work effort we’d like to
participate
Governance services vs. being governed
Previous: news media, entertainment, stock-
trading, health services
Current: money, economics, governance and
legal services
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http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
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Decentralization, what is it really?
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1. Centralized
Reddit, Inc.
2. Decentralized
Datt.co
3. Hybrid Economic
Models
(multiplicity)
http://futurememes.blogspot.com/search?q=datt.co, https://medium.com/@ryanxcharles/fix-reddit-with-bitcoin-7da3f85fb9ba
P2P direct payment model:
content producers and
consumers exist in a flat
network: consumer
micropayments support
content providers and the
cost of content-hosting
Peer willingness (social good)
Familiar indirect payment model:
content is free to consume,
supported by advertising;
personalized data sold in the
backend in undisclosed ways;
used by radio, TV, and Internet
content; Content and data owned
by central host
P2P network supporting content production (ownership), hosting, serving, and consuming
Icons identify available
economic systems:
Both centralized and
decentralized pricing
models co-exist within
one web property; user
selects free or
micropay content
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Example: Positive Emotion is Immanent
Negative emotions (Fredrickson)
Trigger specific physical action-tendencies
For example: anger -> attack; fear -> flee
Narrowed range of time-tested action tendencies available
Positive emotions
Trigger general, non-directional cognitive activation
Widened unspecified range of novel, creative, and unscripted
courses of thought and action
Positive Emotion Theory of Flourishing (Keyes)
Wider array of cognitive, physical, and social possibilities
Only 18.1% of Americans are flourishing; the majority are
mentally unhealthy (depressed) or not mentally flourishing
(moderately mentally healthy/languishing)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flourishing
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Abundance Theory of Flourishing
Traditional Theories of Flourishing (Parfit)
Hedonism: greatest balance of pleasure over pain
Socrates and Protagoras in the Platonic dialogue, Protagoras
(Plato 1976 [C4 BCE], 351b–c)
Conative (desire-based): desire fulfillment
Objective list theory: list of other ‘goods’ constituting well-being
beyond pleasure and desire fulfillment
New: Abundance Theory of Flourishing
Scarcity as a social pathology
To count as flourishing, not just alleviating suffering, there would
need to be something in the register of emergence, immanence;
which is abundance, an immanent flourishing of abundance
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/well-being/
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Baseline
Philosophy of Immanence
Abundance Theory of Flourishing
Immanence
Models
Baseline
Models
Sources: Spinoza, Deleuze, Simondon
Focus:
Conception of Abundance as its own thing,
as a mode of facilitating actualization
Open-ended possibility, novelty, creativity, out-of-
the box, greenfield, emergent, dynamic,
serendipitous, flow, complex, multi-dimensional
Attempt to recoup a pre-defined baseline ideal
Conception/definition of Abundance as an
alleviation of scarcity; post-scarcity
economy; material goods needs met
Actualization
Focus:
Sustenance
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(Immanent) Abundance Mindset
Principles of Abundance
Argument:
1. It is not just that material needs are
met (baseline sustenance frame), it is
that the conceptualization of life itself
becomes different as a result of this
post-scarcity (immanence
actualization frame)
2. Not just that material goods reach
post-scarcity, but new social goods
created by abundance lead to an
immanence mindset of abundance
New social goods as the justification for
immanent abundance theory of flourishing
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Social Goods, Social Pathology: Rousseau, Descartes, Augustin, Honneth, Neuhauser, Jaeggi
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Social Goods created by Abundance
Certainty, availability, contingency reduction, peer
willingness, cognitive easing/cognitive surplus
Psychology of Certainty and Availability: A reliable ongoing feeling
of certainty that material survival needs will be met
Much current cognitive and physical effort is tied up in anti-
scarcity measures: hoarding, manipulation, and other anti-
scarcity measures; ascertaining future availability of resources
Relief – of having a whole class of cognitively-exertional
activities drop off the reality of what has to be considered for
basic living
This would be unprecedented in human history, a trustable
source of having basic needs met such that we do not even
have to think about this
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http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
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Final moment:
Abundance as Background
Backgrounding enabler
Trust developed as a social good when certain classes of things,
like ownership, credit, transfer, service payments, are offloaded
and handled in a background system
High cost of non-trust, deception
Implication: spend more energy on higher uses of our
capacity; actualization, rather than sustenance
Blockchains are the background facilitator, trust-enabling
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Our attunement to technology as an enabling
background helps us see the possibilities for the true
meaningfulness of our being - Heidegger
Source: Heidegger, M. The Question Concerning Technology, 1954.
http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
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Cryptocitizen Sensibility; Cryptosustainability
The Cryptocitizen in Society
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The sense of duty of
the citizen to serve
the republic
Civic Duty Civic Collaboration
Ancient Greek Statesman Self-directed Cryptocitizen
The sense of meaning and
purpose in participating in
community sustainability
http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
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Vision
New Polis is the Self-sustaining Micropolis
How we remake society is into autonomous
self-sufficient units, with tracking and
remuneration backgrounded and outsourced to
the blockchain so we can trustably participate
and contribute and actualize and federate in
community
Physical DACs for geographically-local
(Like for Uber drivers) blockchain-based reputations
travel to other cities, permaculture DAS’s,
couchsurfing, seasteading, airsteading, distributed
autonomous space steading (Blackbird Bus)
Virtual DACs for professional engagements,
work, intellectual collaborations
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Crypto Self-sustainability Communities
Peergrid Resources - 1
Civic infrastructure providers; peer-provided community smartgrids
ICT and community computing: SETI@home, BitTorrent, host
blockchaind nodes
Peer Power Grid: solar, wind, alternative power; neighborhood
mesh network smartgrid power managed by blockchain DACs;
Community energy; smartgrid community
Sharable neighborhood mesh network of Tesla powerwalls
operated by blockchain DACs
Food: Urban farms, pop-up food grids (food as distributed
commons)
Infrastructure: Solar Roadways
Empathy Circles (all persons needs matter); permaculture as
social technology
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http://www.slideshare.net/fuguegame/food-as-distributed-commons-cryptocurrencies-as-slow-money
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Peergrid Cryptosustaining Micropolises
On-demand drone cloud services; swarm of cell tower
connectivity, Internet connectivity, wireless power in
advent of storms or service disruptions; mobile drone
swarm distributed-autonomous space
Decentralized distributed mobile infrastructure
‘National guard’ drones
Service disruption rescue
Ownership of community infrastructure – blockchains as
means of owning (financing, transferring, operating,
drawing assessments) community-based infrastructure
Smartcity becomes federation of local autonomous self-
sustained communities
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Blockchain Society Example:
Neighbor.ly Self-directed Community Bonds
The Community Investment Marketplace; p2p
municipal bonds
Self-directed investment in civic projects of affinity:
parks, schools, and public transportation
Invest in personalized affinity causes, civic projects
Previous model argument: Low accountability - the
large amount of money required for community
project funding (school, road, bridge) allowed multiple
parties to take a transaction fee for unmonitored lack
of value add
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Blockchain Society Example:
Civic Community Project Management
Community Claims (Blockchain University team project)
Any community member enters project: details phrased as
algorithmic claims managed by blockchain smart contracts
E.g.; claims created for project voting and management, vendor
RFP coordination, community member assessment
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Community Claims, Evelyn Rodriguez and colleagues, Blockchain University student project
Prototype Concept
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Crypto-Enlightenment Governance
Recasting governance processes as support
(immanence) as opposed to extraction (baseline erosion)
Actualization economy focuses on (1) sustainable
material survival and (2) the social goods of liberation:
Self-respect, self-esteem, self-realization
Prescriptive destabilization of non-value-added elites,
implementing the original esprit of Rousseau, Rawls
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How does Bitcoin work?
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1. Download software wallet app
Blockchain.info, Mycelium, etc.
2. Transfer Bitcoin via QR Code / public key address
3. See your transaction confirm, post to the blockchain
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Where can I use Bitcoin?
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http://bitcoinmaps.info/, http://coinmap.org/, https://airbitz.co/
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Smart Property and Smart Contracts
Implications: a future of cryptographically-
activated assets and actions…
…physical and intellectual property might
be registered and transacted via
blockchains as smart property, and
…agreements, contractual relationships,
societal record-keeping, and governance
might be enacted through code-based
smart contracts
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What is Smart Property?
Register assets to blockchain via unique key
Real-time GPS ‘LoJack’ tracking for any asset
Blockchain becomes an inventory, tracking,
and exchange mechanism for hard assets
Smart Property example projects
Blocktrace ledger tracks diamonds
Provenance.org tracks supply chain authenticity
OpenBazaar decentralized Craigslist exchange
Factom-HealthNautica medical billing and claims
Drug and equipment inventory, including origin
and servicing records
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https://openbazaar.org/, http://www.edgelogic.net/blocktrace, Provenance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqIUBn80pg4
http://cointelegraph.com/news/114053/factoms-latest-partnership-takes-on-us-healthcare
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Smart Property - Intangible
Notary Service, Attestation
Register contracts, agreements, wills (Proof of Existence, Factom)
Register, protect, and transact IP (Monegraph, Ascribe)
How it works
Hash + timestamp + blockchain record
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http://www.proofofexistence.com/
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What are Smart Contracts?
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Agreements between parties posted to the
blockchain for automated execution
Human-human interaction
Technological-entity operation
Patterns of interaction in society
Software models most world systems now
Software services can encode these patterns
(smart contracts as decentralized SaaS) to
facilitate the patterns of human interaction
Example: Starbucks facilitates the pattern of
coffee for tokens exchange
Code Projects: Ethereum, Etherparty, Eris
Woods, G.; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2CNayXbRKI, http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001555.html,
https://eng.erisindustries.com/smart%20contracts/2014/12/17/dennys-smart-contracting/ ,
http://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/1402/how-to-get-started-your-first-dapp-under-one-hour,
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Theme: Human-Technology Entity
Collaboration
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http://www.robotandhwang.com/attorneys/
“Law is something to be
radically reshaped by
the emergence of
technology, it is about
the management and
manipulation of data on
an entirely new scale”
- Richard Susskind
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Technologically-binding vs. Legally-binding
Different frameworks
Technologically-binding: Inexorably
executing code contracts (Lessig: "code
is law") that cannot be breached, and
will proceed unstoppably even if
conditions have changed
Legally-binding: Discretionary
compliance, semantic flexibility of
human-partied contracts
Key shift: Auto-executing code
could become prevalent not
anecdotal (mortgage industry)
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Primavera De Filippi on Ethereum: Freenet or Skynet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slhuidzccpI
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Cryptolaw
Intersection of technological (inexorable,
uninfringeable) and legal frameworks (flexible)
Separate legal system needed for smart
contracts?
Smart contract regulation: impossible to enforce smart
contracts with current law
Example: a decentralized program already launched
and running is difficult to control, regulate, or sue for
damages
Smart contracts impact not just contract law, but
more broadly social contracts within society
What kind of social contracts do we humans want with
technological entities?
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Cryptolaw and Societal Design Implications
Emerging that we need new ways of building societal
shared trust through:
1. Transparency
2. Legal frameworks that are still relevant, but perhaps
enacted at the level of the contract (not federal/state)
Not lawlessness, legal framework as a selectable parameter
like jurisdiction (like Creative Commons license drop-downs)
3. More becomes ‘legal’ since monitoring is impossible
More tolerance of existing patterns of interaction in society
Result: Less deception; more truth, transparency, disclosure,
acknowledgment
Everyone in the system is taking part consensually
Result: more self-determination of societal participants
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http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
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Blockchains help Singularity-class Problems
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http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
Blockchain functionality principles
Very-large scale automated system of checks and balances;
all ‘transactions’ must confirm via reputation confirmation,
algorithmic trust and smartnetwork consensus mechanisms
Friendly AI
Autonomous lab robots: On-chain DAC IP discovery
tracking
Blockchain nano-compilers (worry: Grey Goo unchecked
nanotech proliferation): signed like synbio
As physical-world engineers sign the bridges they build
(literally, pride and responsibility), synbio engineers ‘sign’
DNA designs and building blocks (‘signing’ is unavoidable),
and so too propositional nanotech constructions would be 1)
signed by bona fide engineers, and 2) not be able to avoid
having a traceable signature by befouled players (malicious
or otherwise)
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Spacechains: Blockchains in Space
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http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
Blockchains: not just Earth-class technology, an
extra-terrestrial-class technology for space projects
Blockchains – not just to coordinate very-large Earth-class
terrestrial projects like billion-member DNA databanks and
EMRs, space-class problems too
Space Applications: Space settlement, terraforming,
asteroid mining, fuel generation, bombardment
monitoring, basic science observation; colored-coin
ledgers for energy, settlement, transport, supplies
Terrestrial Applications: fragility alleviation
Data center back-up, geomagnetic solar protection,
existential risk reduction, Bitcoin in space (BitSats (like
CubeSats))
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Blockchain IOT
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http://www.zdnet.com/article/internet-of-things-market-to-hit-7-1-trillion-by-2020-idc/,
http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491
M2M/IOT Bitcoin payment network to
enable the machine economy
IOT 2020: 26 bn devices in a $7 tn market
The economic layer the web never had
Smarthome IOT networks
Self-mining ecologies
Privacy orchestration: devices, robotics, digital
personal health assistants
Blockchains: economic principle-driven
large-scale resource allocation and
coordination mechanisms
Smartcity Connected
Car Coordination
Smarthome IOT and
Personal Robotics
Coordination
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Blockchains: Global and Liberty-enhancing
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Global governance for transnational organizations
WikiLeaks, ICANN, Wikipedia
Benefits of blockchain administration
Uplift to cloud from local jurisdictional regulations
Universal administration mechanism for global organizations
Structure promotes transparency, accountability, freedom
Namecoin: decentralized DNS
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/12/07/visa-mastercard-move-to-choke-wikileaks/
Snowden Affair
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Blockchain Government
Opt-in Personalized Government
Composting vs education
Reputation-based ID system, voting,
dispute resolution, national income
distribution, public documents
registration and repository
Precedentcoin
Crowdsourced legal services, justice
entrepreneurs, blockchain arbitration
Sidekik
On-demand tele-attorney, private police
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http://www.bitnation.co/, https://bitcoinmagazine.com/17066/first-blockchain-wedding-2/,
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/19813/sidekik-decentralized-video-streaming-storage/
World’s First Blockchain Marriage:
David Mondrus and Joyce Bayo, October
5, 2014, Disney World FL, Coins in the
Kingdom Bitcoin Conference, Jeffrey
Tucker (Liberty.me) presiding
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Blockchain Representation and Voting
Futarchy, two-step program
1. Traditional vote on outcomes (ex: GDP)
2. Prediction markets to determine specific
proposals for achieving the outcome
Delegative democracy (Liquid Democracy)
Voting power temporarily vested in
delegates not long-term representatives
Group proposition development
Random Sample Elections
Randomly selected individuals vote on a
single issue, blockchain orchestration
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https://bitcoinmagazine.com/17066/first-blockchain-wedding-2/,
http://www.bitnation-blog.com/latest-update-dec-22nd-2014/
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Blockchain Legal
Notary Service, Attestation
Register contracts, agreements, wills (Proof of Existence, Factom)
Register, protect, and transact IP (Monegraph, Ascribe)
How it works
Hash + timestamp + blockchain record
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http://www.proofofexistence.com/
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Blockchain Science and What is Mining?
Mining is the process of adding
transaction records to the public
ledger by performing a computing
task that is costly to execute but
easy to verify
Issue: mining is purposefully
wasteful to deter malicious players
‘Green’ mining projects
Primecoin
Foldingcoin
Gridcoin
Zennet
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http://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoin-mining-hard-way-algorithms.html,
http://codinginmysleep.com/bitcoin-mining-in-plain-english/
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Blockchain Health
Blockchain technology in health-related applications
1. EMRs: Personal Health Record Storage and Access
Personal health records stored and administered via blockchain
Users key-permission doctors and other parties into records
2. Health Research Commons
Aggregated personal medical records, quantified self data
commons (DNA.bits), genome and connectome files
3. Health Document Notary Services
Proof-of-insurance, test results, prescriptions, status, condition,
treatment, physician referrals
4. Doctor Vendor RFP Services
(Like Uber drivers) doctors and health practices bid to supply
medical services; automated bidding via tradenets
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http://futurememes.blogspot.fr/2014/09/blockchain-health-remunerative-health.html
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Blockchain Genomics
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Jurisdictional regulation prevents
individuals from having access to
their own genetic data
http://genomesunzipped.org/2011/03/people-have-a-right-to-access-their-own-genetic-information.php
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Blockchain Art
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http://cryptoart.com/
Fine art paper wallets
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Blockchain Art
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=98392.0
Cryptographic art
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Blockchain Art
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Rio, Tel Aviv, Hamburg, Barcelona, Seoul, Tokyo, New York
http://bitfilm.com/festival.html
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Blockchain Literacy
‘Bitcoin MOOCs,’ ‘Kiva for literacy’
Peer-to-peer learning contracts
Literacy beyond reading
Technical, Agricultural, Vocational Literacy
Blockchain-based personal development
contracts
QS-biometric utility function imputation and tracking
Maslow chains, subjectivation and actualization chains
Development Economics 2.0
Literacy contracts, remittances, blockchain-tracked aid,
microcredit, decentralized credit bureaus
Open-source FICO scores
Peer-vouched reputation
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Agenda
Bitcoin and the Age of Cryptocurrencies
Introduction
What is Bitcoin, blockchain, decentralization?
Stakes: Transition from labor economy to actualization economy
Crypto-Enlightenment
Rethinking Authority (Self, Society)
Philosophy of Immanence (open-ended upside)
Theory of Crypto Flourishing
Scarcity as a social pathology
Abundance theory of Flourishing
Practicalities and extensive blockchain applications
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Conclusions
Abundance Theory of Flourishing
Individuals and communities taking more self-authority
for economic and political system determination
Calling out immanence as open-ended upside shifts
locus of focus to actualization and not sustenance
Abundance is immanent flourishing not just scarcity-as-
a-social pathology resolution and post-scarcity economy
Individual
Cryptocitizen internally-specified reality and authority-taking
Self-determined economic and political systems
Society
Self-sustaining community peergrids, infrastructure hosting
The new polis is the micropolis
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54. Stanford, Palo Alto CA, October 18, 2015
Slides: http://slideshare.net/LaBlogga
Bitcoin and the Age of Cybercurrencies:
The Crypto Enlightenment
An Abundance Rethinking of Authority, Knowledge, and Organization
Melanie Swan
Philosophy & Economic Theory
New School, New York NY
melanie@BlockchainStudies.org
Thank You! Questions?