The Crypto Enlightenment: Social Theory of Blockchains

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

October 18, 2015
Crypto Enlightenment 1
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

October 18, 2015
Crypto Enlightenment
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

October 18, 2015
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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October 18, 2015
Definition
What is Blockchain Technology?
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 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

October 18, 2015
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:

October 18, 2015
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

October 18, 2015
 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

October 18, 2015
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.

October 18, 2015
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?

October 18, 2015
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

October 18, 2015
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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October 18, 2015
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

October 18, 2015
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

October 18, 2015
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
 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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Crypto Enlightenment 16
Baseline
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

October 18, 2015
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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October 18, 2015
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.

October 18, 2015
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

October 18, 2015
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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October 18, 2015
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

October 18, 2015
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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October 18, 2015
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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October 18, 2015
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

October 18, 2015
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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October 18, 2015
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

October 18, 2015
Where can I use Bitcoin?
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http://bitcoinmaps.info/, http://coinmap.org/, https://airbitz.co/

October 18, 2015
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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October 18, 2015
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

October 18, 2015
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/

October 18, 2015
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,

October 18, 2015
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

October 18, 2015
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

October 18, 2015
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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October 18, 2015
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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October 18, 2015
Blockchains help Singularity-class Problems
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 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)

October 18, 2015
Spacechains: Blockchains in Space
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 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))

October 18, 2015
Blockchain IOT
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http://www.zdnet.com/article/internet-of-things-market-to-hit-7-1-trillion-by-2020-idc/,
 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

October 18, 2015
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

October 18, 2015
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

October 18, 2015
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/

October 18, 2015
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/

October 18, 2015
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/

October 18, 2015
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

October 18, 2015
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

October 18, 2015
Blockchain Art
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http://cryptoart.com/
 Fine art paper wallets

October 18, 2015
Blockchain Art
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=98392.0
 Cryptographic art

October 18, 2015
Blockchain Art
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Rio, Tel Aviv, Hamburg, Barcelona, Seoul, Tokyo, New York
http://bitfilm.com/festival.html

October 18, 2015
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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October 18, 2015
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
 Abundance theory of Flourishing
 Practicalities and extensive blockchain applications
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October 18, 2015
Conclusions
 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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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
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