Newsletter #7 (march)
Hi friends, Max here.
The spring feels really good! Hope the new cycle will bring a lot of inspiration and enlightenments for all of us. Btw check out how ecosystem matures.
Once more we've tried to gather the updates within our range of vision. If we haven't covered your project or initiative – please get in touch and we'll resolve this.
Thanks to Thom Ivy from Edgeware that organized an indie #dgov event during RadicalxChange conference in Detroit with ~35 people on board. Next meetup is planned in Amsterdam on Apr 16.
Previously we mentioned interesting #dgov articles published during the month. But then Jack Laing's Org.tech review launched, which is more elaborate and frequent (weekly). Check out a couple of highlights and definitely subscribe.
MeshHub: At 1:01:00, get a glimpse of the DAO experiment going on inside ConsenSys, with a Slack tipbot, 3Box identities, and an interface for Gitcoin's "Kudos" non-fungible tokens. https://consensys.zoom.us/recording/play/u5XC_Qa1rFnfZkPHslhDX4TcEyVsQgeGzj-1y_DOk8zxfOyVk-VzxJ3pIJ251J0h?continueMode=true
P2P Models: P2P Models, a research project based out of Universidad Complutense Madrid, have put together a proof-of-concept decentralised wiki managed by an Aragon DAO. https://twitter.com/p2pmod/status/1103371929707114496?s=21
A Cooperative Manifesto: There is no more important social change work you can do than cooperative development, because fundamental change is needed to solve capitalism's failures, solving these failures is more important than convincing people the failures exist, and people need concrete (not theoretical) solutions they can rally around. True democracy does not exist if we spend our working lives in autocratic organisations, because this means we are more likely to submit to autocratic leaders elsewhere (e.g. in politics). Therefore, the worker cooperative is perhaps the most important modern experiment in the historical democratisation of society. http://www.geo.coop/archives/huetman604.htm
Past, Present, Future: From Co-ops to Cryptonetworks: Cryptonetworks represent a shift towards cooperative capitalism, with participatory ownership models that would prevent platforms from adopting extractive practices once they reach maturity. Cryptonetworks make cooperative governance more efficient, but we should still be mindful of the lessons we can learn from the history of cooperatives. https://a16z.com/2019/03/02/cooperatives-cryptonetworks/
Markets Are Eating The World: An in-depth history of how various innovations have reduced transaction costs and increased coordination scalability, arguing that blockchains realise the next evolution in "the death of the firm". https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2019/02/28/markets-are-eating-the-world/