this looks very interesting: http://p2pfoundation.net/Decontaminating_the_Economy_Through_a_Monetary_Revo... (french book only, via http://www.democratieevolutive.fr/index.php/fr/) I recognize a p2p thinker here, which focuses on civic institutions this, which I originally thought was a anarcho-capitalist project, is becoming interesting, see https://medium.com/@resilience_me/resilience-a-fully-voluntary-wealth-sharin... . ‘Resilience’ is a fully voluntary wealth sharing network. It’s a continuation of the co-operative model laid down by the Rochdale society back in 1844 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochdale_Principles>. (1) It allows a network of people to divide resources between one another, through a trustless algorithm that ensures participation. These resources are distributed semi-equally, adjusted for degree of participation, and serve to ensure that all participants receive a basic income that free them of the limitations imposed by poverty. The Resilience network is a new breed of co-operative, that brings peer-to-peer communities into the internet age. To understand Resilience, it’s useful to look at the history of co-operatives. Co-ops operate within the market system, independently of the state, as a form of mutual aid, oriented toward service rather than pecuniary profit. (2) They have always been an alternative to the state, and might have prospered if not for the self-righteous tyranny of the state. Even though they’ve been forced to share territory with the violent and monopolist state, they have been very successful, especially in less totalitarian states like Sweden, where co-ops made up 25% of the market back in the 60s. (3) My system extends the co-operative model with a form of inter-coop contract. Co-operatives can sign contracts with one another, and team up to form a kind of web of cooperatives. The idea of multi-coop communities is not new, it was part of Rochdale’s original manifesto, in which their sixth principle read <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochdale_Principles#Cooperation_among_cooperatives> *“Co-operatives serve their members most effectively and strengthen the co-operative movement by working together through local, national, regional and international structures.”. (4) *The execution that Resilience uses is on the other hand new, and unprecedented, making use of new book-keeping technologies in the form of blockchains, and using smart-contracts to manage the organization in a decentralized and autonomous fashion. Resilience adds yet another component: a distributed welfare system. On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Orsan Senalp <[email protected]> wrote:
http://commonstransition.org/blockchained-a-conversation-with-vinay-gupta/
The P2P Foundation’s James Burke chats with Vinay Gupta about homelessness, Ethereum, blockchain speed and scaling and whether the Republicans were right or not. Scroll down to see the timecodes for the whole conversation. - See more at: http://commonstransition.org/blockchained-a-conversation-with-vinay-gupta/#s...
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