| Geert Lovink on Sat, 26 Oct 2019 12:17:20 +0200 (CEST) |
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| <nettime> Link list on bitcoin & blockchain, libra and other MoneyLab issues (part 7) |
Dear nettime, maybe you’ve seen the hearing with Marc Zuckerberg this week? In preparation of MoneyLab #7 in Amsterdam on November 14-15 I made the following link list. Many of the topics will be discussed there. No coincidence much of it is related to the Libra developments. Best, Geert MakerDAO decentralized stablecoin, collateral loans, and community governance "The desire to travel far away and start a new currency will become a powerful driver of human expansion into space” (via Inte) Olaf Scholz vs. Facebook's Libra Zuckerberg at Washington hearing on Libra Solution for Deepfake Problems…? American conservaties, Libra and Europe https://www.aier.org/article/sound-money-project/does-libra-threaten-monetary-sovereigntyStolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation by Grace Blakely Anti-globalization blog Ethereum: Scam or Iteration? A gallery selling work of cryptoartists A London-based crypto artist Libra coalition is falling apart as eBay, Visa, Mastercard and Stripe jump ship More on OneCoin crypto pyramid scheme court case The Radical’s Survival Guide to Adventures in Cryptoland: Can Cryptocurrencies Save Us All? (via Inte) Tank Magazine’s Libra link list Bitcoin will be how we transact with aliens A different look at the history of money, apparently more grounded what actually has happened (via Eduard) <https://michael-hudson.com/2018/04/palatial-credit-origins-of-money-and-interest/> EU-Funded Projects in Blockchain Technology Rhythm in Economic Space by Stamatia Portanova Proposal for voluntary degrowth by redesigning money for sustainability, justice, and resilience (via Patrice) France to block Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency in Europe Fund to launch alternative business models for online content Money is the Oxygen (via Patricia) Laura Lotti: Blockchain Affordances (via Luca Recano) Gavin Mueller: Digital Proudhonism (via Luca Recano) Coinbase: The 2019 Leaders in Crypto Education Proposal making in DAOs: the limitations of “Anyone Proposes Anything” ECB’s Mersch Warns Over ‘Treacherous Promises’ of Facebook Libra French pry-trance festival that promotes local currencies Bitcoin Rap Battle Debate: Hamilton vs. Satoshi (via Maisa) RIP Decentralization--Sorry, Bitcoin, it’s Libra’s turn now (via Eduard) Libra: The social media company’s move into cryptocurrency takes advantage of regulatory oopholes What’s wrong with Ethereum? Of Art Tokenization, Blockchain, and Provenance with A Sprinkling of Non-Fungible Tokens MEMRI (connected to Israeli intelligence): The Coming Storm – Terrorists Using Cryptocurrency (via Donatella) Libra, a Cyberpunk Nightmare in the Midst of Crypto Spring Facebook admits Libra cryptocurrency may not happen after all https://mur.at/ is hosting a one week worklab "block that chain” in October. Here is the open call: https://mur.at/post/call-for-participation/ Conner Brown: Bitcoin Has No Intrinsic Value — and That’s Great Libra untangled: what lies behind facebook's digital currency project - PART I by Andrea Bianconi Ten reasons why Facebook’s Libra is a bad idea – and we should stop it now ETHBerlinZwei is a hackathon, a culture festival, an educational event, a platform for hacktivism, and a community initiative to push the decentralized ecosystem forward Remember, blockchain replacing everything... From Jaya Klara Brekke’s newsletter: Breaking the ZuckBuck overview of claims by the good crew at Alphaville The need for global payment system as a public good by Rohan Grey Tank Magazine's shortlist Good New Models podcast discussion of ZuckBuck Facebook’s plan for a cryptocurrency is right to set alarm bells ringing Strengthening Hyperledger Indy and Self-Sovereign Identity Alt-C is an installation by Michal Sedbon that uses electricity produced by plants to power a single board computer mining a cryptocurrency (via Tatjana Seitz) Massimo Ragnedda and Giuseppe Destefanis (eds) *Blockchain and Web 3.0. Social, Economic, and Technological Challenges*. Routledge, 2019 Facebook Libra: on the 4 steps road for World Presidency Offshore Finance: How Capital Rules the World by Reijer Hendrikse and Rodrigo Fernandez http://longreads.tni.org/state-of-power-2019/offshore-finance/ (via Francesca Bria) Jack Ma’s $290 billion loan machine is changing Chinese banking (via Patricia de Vries) The Invention of Money (via Eduard de Jong) Pragues Crypto-Anarchists are Spreading the Gospel Duniter, a fully decentralized libre currency based on the relative theory of money (via Michel Bauwens) Radix: a fast, scalable, easy-to-use ledger, ready-made for 7 billion people I was wrong about spreadsheets YAIR | Your Art is Reality: Unleash Digital Art Glen Brook: In Zuck We Trust? https://pv.glenbrook.com/in-zuck-we-trust/ (via Eduard de Jong) New Models podcast on Libre A massive facility that opened last spring located near Buffalo (via Stephanie Rothenberg) With cryptocurrency launch, Facebook sets its path toward becoming an independent nation Nate Tkacz on Facebook’s Libra, Or, The End of Silicon Valley Innovation Is Libra the West’s response to China's payments empire? Libra geen open cryptomunt, maar databank van Facebook (in Dutch) Introducing the Decentralized Autonomous Kunstverein (DAK) Even Joseph Stieglitz is against Libra (via Patrice Riemens) Kaspersky reports that only 1 in 10 people ‘get’ crypto Blockchain: Technology alone cannot protect freedom of _expression_ NYT: Libra is a bad move for Facebook (via Eduard) Jameson Lob on Libra Stating the obvious: Bitcoin is not ready for the world Andrew Keen on Libra Evgeny Morozov on Libra Final nail in the coffin for physical money (via Inte) https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2019/jun/25/cashless-monopoly-is-this-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-for-physical-money Facebook, Libra, and the Long Game Libra, a Cyberpunk Nightmare in the Midst of Crypto Spring, by Daniel Jeffries (via Patrice) Why ICOs were doomed from the start Review “DARK HAVENS: Confronting Hidden Money and Power” Disruption Network Lab Berlin/April 5-6 2019 GNUcash, a personal and small-business financial-accounting software Stablecoins are booming WeChat is Watching Recap (Part I): Blockchain, Open Education & Digital Identity Conference in Lille, France Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future Facebook announces cryptocurrency with the release of Libra Whitepaper Flash Boys 2.0:Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, andConsensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.05234.pdf Things got weird for stablecoin Tether George Gilder’s Life after Google—The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy is disappointing American (fin.) conservatives Erik Bordeleau talks fabulation, finance and cryptophilosophy at Economic Space Agency – Transit Lounge Radio Interview with Max Haiven on Art after Money, Money after Art (for Romanian Bienale catalogue) Social Good & Blockchain Banning stores that do not accept cash (via Patrice) Just in case you did not notice: the unsuable bitcoin https://www.newsbtc.com/2019/04/03/is-fake-bitcoin-volume-a-roadblock-for-full-fledged-crypto-rally/ Welcome to the RaveEnabler Unlock your Cryptorave #10 entry by donating your CPU. Support your local Cryptorave network mine Monero (XMR) and embody another identity https://0b673cce.xyz/ -Out in June-Finn Brunton: Digital Cash, The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency https://press.princeton.edu/titles/13537.html Quinn Dupont speaks to Finn Brunton about his book Digital Cash Bitcoin and Friends | Episode 1 (via Inte) Interview with Gina Pieters by Quin DuPont on why crypto reamains marginal amongst economists Dark Crystal: Back up your secrets using the trust in your social fabric |
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