dear friends, as I prepare with Alex Pazaites, our new report on biophysical accountability in open and shared supply chains, I am having several epiphanies which is substantially changing my views on the blockchain space. Think of it this way, we may not like netarchical platforms, but we use them daily, or we try to build distributed alternatives (mastodon), or we try to build platform coops, and maybe one day, their users will take them over. But for billions, they are a huge part of our daily reality. think of the blockchain enabled distributed capitalism in the same way, we may not all like it, but is very very real and it is already creating, very fast, a new distributed ecnomy based on competency networks, token design for more distribued value distribution, the post-corporate dynamics you find there, the fact that it essentially relies on commons and open source even as it commodifies and marketizes, that it involves large corporate, finance and governmental players but also substantlally rebalances the power between labour and capital, all this is absolutely fundamental and profoundlly world-changing. We have to have the same position to it as with netarchical capitalism, i.e. what are the strategies to make it work for commoners and the great majority of the world population, and we probably need to have more extensive dialog with the contributory and cognitive working class that is making it all happening, even if under the cover of mostly market-driven ideologies. what they are achieving and thinking about is no longer science fiction, but daily life for tens of thousands of people, and here in Chiang Mai, a few hundreds but perhaps a few thousands, who are making a living from the token economy and within crypto networks it will also substantially affect our relationship with the natural world; remember how new zealand gave rights to a river, now imagine the second step, that this river is enabled to exercise these rights through a DAO ... of course, such a vision elicits many worries and questions, but there is no doubt about it, this reality is on the horizon, and it competes with the 3 other quadrants of our future's scenario (which is not about the future, but for worlds-to-be being enacted simultaneously today); netarchical capitalism, distributed capitalism, global commons and their entredonneurial coalitions, and the SLOC urban commons, they are all there now, asking for our engagement and critique. But there is no doubt, the inevitable cosmo-local re-arrangement of our productive systems, sine qua non for human survival, will draw on all four quadrants ... I'll end with listing 3 remarkable initiatives I found in just the last week, i.e. the ecological state protocols of Regen network, which allows for the token-based rewarding of regenerative improvements; the ostrom contracts of david dao at ETH Zurich which allows for putting ostrom governance rules in smart contracts, and last but not least, the terra0 initiative for augmented forests etc .. which gives autonomous rights and possibilties for natural entities to defend themselves and defend their integrity. Terence McKenna's 'archaic revolution' is coming to pass in that one! - see the Reverse Mining <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Reverse_Mining> project at regen.network: Regenerating a Carbon Drawdown Economy Through Reverse Mining and the Blockchain <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Regenerating_a_Carbon_Drawdown_Economy_Through_Reverse_Mining_and_the_Blockchain> - the Ostrom Contracts <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Ostrom_Contracts> as proposed by David Dao. - Terra0 <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Terra0> "is a scalable framework built on the Ethereum network that provides automated resilience systems for ecosystems. Via instantiating a Decentralised Autonomous Organisation atop areas of land to manage them, terra0 aims to create technologically-augmented ecosystems that are more resilient." -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens