Hi Max,
Thanks very much for this excellent review. It sets out very clearly
some of the current debates about the limits and potentials of
emancipatory developments in blockchain technology.
Super useful!
Cheers
Ruth
On 25/03/16 11:35, Max Dovey wrote:
Hi Netbehaviours, long review on (some) of the problems surrounding
Blockchain speculation hype -
Long review of 'MICHEL BAUWENS & THE PROMISE OF THE BLOCKCHAIN' event
organised by Fiber as part of their Coded Matters Series.
The desire to uproot the dichotomies of power with a distributed
public ledger should be met with greater consideration and questioning
of what would actually benefit from becoming de-centralized,
distributed and autonomous.If you want to frame the expansion of
Blockchain as a political revolution than I would go one step further
to ask what are you fighting for? Social justice and inequality won’t
be solved by any technical application so if your building
applications from the frequently termed ‘bottom-up’, take greater
consideration to ask who it is for and who would it benefit?
http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/2016/03/21/promise-of-the-blockchain/
Mx
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