<div dir="ltr">ok, good to know</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 9:06 PM, 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"><span class="">On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 1:41 PM, Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> there are conflicts about fairness and fair rewards, which I would not call<br>
> capitalist infighting, since it based on feelings of justice , reciprocity<br>
> etc..<br>
><br>
> and then there are conflicts where people want more than the other, and use<br>
> market dynamics to get it,<br>
><br>
> is that the case in the faircoin community ?<br>
<br>
</span>Both cases, I think. This is not true of all or even a majority of the<br>
people. But enuf to make a difference in the atmosphere.<br>
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> Michel<br>
><br>
> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 8:38 PM, Bob Haugen <<a href="mailto:bob.haugen@gmail.com">bob.haugen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I agree that crypto currencies are taking off, and we know people who<br>
>> have made some money and are now trying to do things with it.<br>
>><br>
>> We also see for example Fair.coop that is able to pay people because<br>
>> of their successful crypto currency, but it has also engendered a lot<br>
>> of infighting along totally capitalist principles. So I agree at least<br>
>> partly with Michael. Not everybody descended into competition, but<br>
>> enough to make the atmosphere smell of sulfur and brimstone now and<br>
>> then...<br>
>><br>
>> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 12:26 PM, Michel Bauwens<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > there is a paradox though,<br>
>> ><br>
>> > * sovereign money is still going strong<br>
>> ><br>
>> > * complementary curriencies exist in spades, but are everywhere really<br>
>> > marginal<br>
>> ><br>
>> > * Crypto currencies have many problematic aspects, but they are<br>
>> > generating<br>
>> > massive investments in new infrastructures<br>
>> ><br>
>> > * we have theories of what money should be, but they are not implemented<br>
>> > ...<br>
>> ><br>
>> > in that context, taking something that seems to take root, but<br>
>> > transforming<br>
>> > it to broader egaliterian interests, seems a good strategy<br>
>> ><br>
>> > On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 6:17 PM, Michael Linton<br>
>> > <<a href="mailto:michael.linton@gmail.com">michael.linton@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> > wrote:<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> There's much good thinking here, but thinking still inside the old<br>
>> >> familiar box of asset, control, property, distribution ....<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> So their ideas are still firmly embedded in systems of rivalrous<br>
>> >> competition.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> The ends they project can be much more easily achieved by other means.<br>
>> >> A<br>
>> >> few days ago on a thread about "weaponized" currencies, I wrote<br>
>> >><br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> The Rivalrous and the Anti-Rivalrous | Deep Code Experiment: Episode 2<br>
>> >>> -<br>
>> >>> Jordan Greenhall on a roll<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> STIR (2013) - the key distinction is this. Some moneys are supposed<br>
>> >>> to<br>
>> >>> be material in nature - and so are scarce, tokens of property. There<br>
>> >>> are<br>
>> >>> other moneys that measure, and are not scarce at all. Currencies<br>
>> >>> that are<br>
>> >>> based on scarcity are de facto competitive - pointed sticks at the<br>
>> >>> core.<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> So the new crypto-currencies are most generally weaponized, and that's<br>
>> >>> no<br>
>> >>> country for old men like me. My interest is in the dmz of money.<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> From where they look, this is all they are going to see. But it's not<br>
>> >> all<br>
>> >> there is.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 3:51 AM, Bob Haugen <<a href="mailto:bob.haugen@gmail.com">bob.haugen@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> >> wrote:<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> 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>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 4:01 AM, Michel Bauwens<br>
>> >>> <<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> >>> wrote:<br>
>> >>> > This article from Dick Bryan is the first one bringing it all<br>
>> >>> > together,<br>
>> >>> > giving clear criterial for p2p/commons oriented crypto developments,<br>
>> >>> > I<br>
>> >>> > had<br>
>> >>> > intuited some of them, but was not able to bring it all together yet<br>
>> >>> > as<br>
>> >>> > 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/<wbr>what-is-a-crypto-economy-<wbr>155bdbc4ab1d</a><br>
>> >>> ><br>
>> >>> ><br>
>> >>> > Some criteria to look for (via Dick Bryan):<br>
>> >>> ><br>
>> >>> > 1. "Programmable organizations enable production to be organized in<br>
>> >>> > a<br>
>> >>> > way<br>
>> >>> > that makes social criteria the rationale for production; not a<br>
>> >>> > constraint on<br>
>> >>> > it."<br>
>> >>> ><br>
>> >>> > [1]<br>
>> >>> ><br>
>> >>> > 2. "The rise of ‘networks’ as modes of corporate organization breaks<br>
>> >>> > down<br>
>> >>> > the conventional means that differentiate one corporation from<br>
>> >>> > another<br>
>> >>> > and<br>
>> >>> > challenges the principle of ‘competition’ as the driver of corporate<br>
>> >>> > rationale. These are both issues that feature prominently in<br>
>> >>> > decentralized<br>
>> >>> > applications."<br>
>> >>> ><br>
>> >>> > [2]<br>
>> >>> ><br>
>> >>> ><br>
>> >>> > * 3. Mechanisms, like tokens, that allow surplus value to be<br>
>> >>> > retained<br>
>> >>> > 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<br>
>> >>> > greater<br>
>> >>> > risks and break down the attachment of work and living standards to<br>
>> >>> > employment. There is growing interest in alternative ways of<br>
>> >>> > organizing<br>
>> >>> > work." [3]<br>
>> >>> ><br>
>> >>> > 4. "the real potential is cryptocurrencies as units of account: as<br>
>> >>> > modes of<br>
>> >>> > measuring economic activity that are conceived differently from<br>
>> >>> > those<br>
>> >>> > intrinsic to fiat money. Fiat money has become tied to conventional<br>
>> >>> > framings<br>
>> >>> > of profit and loss, income and expenditure, and a market-centred<br>
>> >>> > calculus.<br>
>> >>> > Non-fiat monies have the potential for developing new ways to<br>
>> >>> > calculate<br>
>> >>> > economic activity; ways that represent different social and economic<br>
>> >>> > values,<br>
>> >>> > and measure performance by criteria other than profit. Think about<br>
>> >>> > it<br>
>> >>> > for a<br>
>> >>> > moment. The unit of account potential signals the importance of the<br>
>> >>> > crypto<br>
>> >>> > economy developing ways (not a singular way, but coin-specific ways)<br>
>> >>> > of<br>
>> >>> > accounting and measuring the activities supported by each token. We<br>
>> >>> > see<br>
>> >>> > this<br>
>> >>> > as central to giving tokens a material basis in the crypto economy;<br>
>> >>> > not<br>
>> >>> > just<br>
>> >>> > leaving them as speculative stores of value. .... "Exchange is often<br>
>> >>> > between<br>
>> >>> > parties of unequal power, so mutual gain cannot be presumed. An<br>
>> >>> > important<br>
>> >>> > issue of the crypto economy is how blockchain can and cannot<br>
>> >>> > countermand<br>
>> >>> > asymmetrical power in trade. We see blockchain not facilitating<br>
>> >>> > frictionless<br>
>> >>> > markets but rather frictionless capital: distributed capital." [4]<br>
>> >>> ><br>
>> >>> ><br>
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