Jean Lievens: YouTube (1:10:08) Decentralized Autonomous Society Meetup #1 in Palo Alto, 10 January 2014

Live video broadcast of the very first Decentralized Autonomous Society Meetup in Palo Alto, California. Presenting: “The Philosophy of Autonomy” by Joel Dietz, co-founder DAS, SWARM – Texture, co-founder DAS, Ethereum – Vitalik, founder Ethereum – Eric Smalls, founder MANNA – Paige Peterson, Maidsafe. In Palo Alto in the early 1990s were born the first …

Worth a Look: Fair Coop (Earth Cooperative for a Fair Economy) Includes FairCoin

Fair.coop is an open global cooperative, self-organized via the Internet and remaining outside nation-state control. Its aim is to make the transition to a new world by reducing the economic and social inequalities among human beings as much as possible, and at the same time gradually contribute to a new global wealth, accessible to all …

SchwartzReport: Surveillance State — Good, Bad, Ugly

Here is what the American Surveillance State looks like (publicly) to Europe. This is a German assessment published in one of Europe’s leading publications. I confess I don’t like my country being thought of in this way. Prying Eyes: Inside the NSA’s War on Internet Security EXTRACTS

Michel Bauwens: Top Ten P2P Trends of 2014

Top Ten P2P Trends of 2014 1. Reaching of the tipping point for (distributed) renewable energy 2. The rise of open cooperatives and ethical enterpreneurial coalitions 3. The emergence of cryptoledger applications and a crypto-currency for the commons 4. Cities and Countries of the Commons

Jean Lievens: Want to Hurt Wall Street? Displace the Lending Industry with BitCoin and P2P Lending!

This bitcoin alternative is a threat to Wall Street Peer-to-peer loans imperil banks, and cryptocurrencies may finish the job EXTRACT Digital currencies circumvent the fees and roadblocks to access that come with traditional financial services. The possibilities, especially in the underdeveloped world, are enormous. As much as $9.6 trillion in assets locked out of the …