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Open Collective, Steward Ownership & Exit to Community with Pia Mancini
As part of our Making Sense of Web3 series, Rufus Pollock speaks with Pia Mancini on Open Collective, steward ownership and exit to community.
KlimaDAO & Life Itself in Conversation: Part One
In a previous episode, Collective Action Problems & Climate Change, Steven Diehl and Rufus Pollock discussed the utility ...
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Shri T Rabi Sankar. Cryptocurrencies – An Assessment
Keynote address delivered by Shri T Rabi Sankar, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India - February 14th, 2022 - at the Indian Banks Association 17th Annual Banking Technology Conference and Awards. ...
Walch, Angela. Deconstructing 'Decentralization'; Exploring the Core Claim of Crypto Systems
A summary of Angela Walch's 2019 paper 'Deconstructing 'Decentralization': Exploring the Core Claim of Crypto Systems'. Walch demonstrates how pervasive the belief that blockchains are ‘decentralized’ ...
Allen, Hilary J. ‘DeFi; Shadow Banking 2.0?’
A summary of Hilary Allen's 2022 paper 'DeFi; Shadow Banking 2.0?'. In this paper Allen explores the concept of decentralized finance, or DeFi, as 'Shadow Banking' - services which provide functional ...
Bindseil, Ulrich. et al. The encrypted threat; Bitcoin’s social cost and regulatory responses
This paper, authored by By Ulrich Bindseil, Patrick Papsdorf and Jurgen Schaaf of the European Central Bank, digs into the social impact of Bitcoin and the regulatory decisions that are being made by ...
A Macroeconomics Perspective on Cryptocurrencies
In this episode of our Making Sense of crypto and web3 series, Stephen Diehl is joined by economist and data scientist, ...
Bitcoin as an Anti-Authoritarian Force
Episode #7 of our ongoing deep dive into web3 and crypto with Rufus Pollock and Stephen Diehl. This week we’re exploring ...
Cory Doctorow on Blockchain, Crypto & Web3
In this episode of our Making Sense of Crypto and Web3 series, Rufus Pollock is joined by activist, journalist and autho ...
In this episode with Pia Mancini about her work to make community finance transparent and sustainable with Open Collecti ...
Fintech Incrementalism and Responsible Innovation
In episode #5 of our ongoing deep dive into web3 and crypto, Rufus Pollock and Stephen Diehl explore the claim that bloc ...
Market Fundamentalism
In episode #2 of the series, Rufus Pollock and Stephen Diehl explore a common incentive for investing in crypto: the bel ...
Collective Action Problems & Climate Change
In this episode we use the example of KlimaDAO to explore the interaction between climate change and the public goods problem.
On the Potential of DAOs & Web3 with Jordan Hall & Rufus Pollock
In this episode with Jordan Hall we discuss the potential of DAOs for social change.
Are Crypto Tokens Securities?
In episode #3 of our ongoing deep dive into web3 and crypto, we explore the nature of financial products known as 'secur ...
Web3, Bitcoin and Neo-metallism
In this episode we examine Bitcoin and the Neo-Metallist thesis, i.e. that a gold-standard was a good idea and a Bitcoin ...
Web3 and Post-State Technocracy
In this episode we explore the aspirational transition from the existing US-led international order to a world in which ...
Richard D. Bartlett, Stephen Reid & Rufus Pollock on Critical Exploration of Web3
Just what is Web3, why are people so excited about it, and how likely is it to really change the world? In this episode, ...
