<div dir="ltr">there is a paradox though,<div><br></div><div>* sovereign money is still going strong</div><div><br></div><div>* complementary curriencies exist in spades, but are everywhere really marginal</div><div><br></div><div>* Crypto currencies have many problematic aspects, but they are generating massive investments in new infrastructures</div><div><br></div><div>* we have theories of what money should be, but they are not implemented ...</div><div><br></div><div>in that context, taking something that seems to take root, but transforming it to broader egaliterian interests, seems a good strategy</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 6:17 PM, Michael Linton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael.linton@gmail.com" target="_blank">michael.linton@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>There's much good thinking here, but thinking still inside the old familiar box of asset, control, property, distribution ....<br></div><div><br></div>So their ideas are still firmly embedded in systems of rivalrous competition. <br><br>The ends they project can be much more easily achieved by other means. A few days ago on a thread about "weaponized" currencies, I wrote<br><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="margin-left:40px"><br><a href="https://youtu.be/cEEV6gJIb7g?t=615" target="_blank">The Rivalrous and the Anti-Rivalrous | Deep Code Experiment: Episode 2</a> - Jordan <span class="m_-902805393012131876gmail-m_638032377166378022gmail-il">Greenhall</span> on a roll<br> <br><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_PhKi--LpujOSAxOVBRUrGo4SY29FOxQoS5HcQ0l1XU" target="_blank">STIR (2013)</a>
- the key distinction is this. Some moneys are supposed to be material
in nature - and so are scarce, tokens of property. There are other
moneys that measure, and are not scarce at all. Currencies that are
based on scarcity are de facto competitive - pointed sticks at the core.<br><br>So the new crypto-currencies are most generally weaponized, and that's no country for old men like me. My interest is in the dmz of money.<br><br></div></blockquote><div><br><div>From where they look, this is all they are going to see. But it's not all there is.<br><br></div><div><div></div></div><br></div><br></div><div><div class="h5"><div><div><br><br></div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 3:51 AM, Bob Haugen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bob.haugen@gmail.com" target="_blank">bob.haugen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'd like to see a real life somewhat-populated with real people<br>
example of how this is supposed to work and what this is supposed to<br>
enable.<br>
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On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 4:01 AM, Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com" target="_blank">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> This article from Dick Bryan is the first one bringing it all together,<br>
> giving clear criterial for p2p/commons oriented crypto developments, I had<br>
> intuited some of them, but was not able to bring it all together yet as this<br>
> author has:<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://medium.com/econaut/what-is-a-crypto-economy-155bdbc4ab1d" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://medium.com/econaut/wha<wbr>t-is-a-crypto-economy-155bdbc4<wbr>ab1d</a><br>
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> Some criteria to look for (via Dick Bryan):<br>
><br>
> 1. "Programmable organizations enable production to be organized in a way<br>
> that makes social criteria the rationale for production; not a constraint on<br>
> it."<br>
><br>
> [1]<br>
><br>
> 2. "The rise of ‘networks’ as modes of corporate organization breaks down<br>
> the conventional means that differentiate one corporation from another and<br>
> challenges the principle of ‘competition’ as the driver of corporate<br>
> rationale. These are both issues that feature prominently in decentralized<br>
> applications."<br>
><br>
> [2]<br>
><br>
><br>
> * 3. Mechanisms, like tokens, that allow surplus value to be retained by the<br>
> workers, not capital.<br>
><br>
> " Changes in the nature of work (precarization, casualization,<br>
> subcontracting, the rise of the gig economy) see workers carrying greater<br>
> risks and break down the attachment of work and living standards to<br>
> employment. There is growing interest in alternative ways of organizing<br>
> work." [3]<br>
><br>
> 4. "the real potential is cryptocurrencies as units of account: as modes of<br>
> measuring economic activity that are conceived differently from those<br>
> intrinsic to fiat money. Fiat money has become tied to conventional framings<br>
> of profit and loss, income and expenditure, and a market-centred calculus.<br>
> Non-fiat monies have the potential for developing new ways to calculate<br>
> economic activity; ways that represent different social and economic values,<br>
> and measure performance by criteria other than profit. Think about it for a<br>
> moment. The unit of account potential signals the importance of the crypto<br>
> economy developing ways (not a singular way, but coin-specific ways) of<br>
> accounting and measuring the activities supported by each token. We see this<br>
> as central to giving tokens a material basis in the crypto economy; not just<br>
> leaving them as speculative stores of value. .... "Exchange is often between<br>
> parties of unequal power, so mutual gain cannot be presumed. An important<br>
> issue of the crypto economy is how blockchain can and cannot countermand<br>
> asymmetrical power in trade. We see blockchain not facilitating frictionless<br>
> markets but rather frictionless capital: distributed capital." [4]<br>
><br>
><br>
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