Eight years ago, in December 2014, I published my first blog post on Medium, to give an account of Smart Contracts and their meaning from a legal perspective. …

In this post I argue why public policy-making is broken and propose a new model of how it could be fixed. To test these ideas in practice, I’ve started poli.cy. What is public policy? According to Wikipedia “public policy is the process by which governments translate their political vision into programmes and actions to…

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While my mind is still trying to grasp the magnitude of the last three days, I feel compelled to share a first glimpse into what happened…

Tokens were one of the first applications based on a blockchain infrastructure that pushed the technology beyond its original use as an accounting ledger for a public blockchain network’s base currency. …

About the Author — Florian Glatz is a lawyer and software developer based in Berlin. At SatoshiPay he develops both software and legal solutions based on Blockchain technology. You can find out more about him at blockchain.lawyer. Introduction Much has been talked about Smart Contracts, the curious idea of machine-readable, auto-enforceable agreements between two or…

Why decentralized infrastructure has still a long way to go Ripple Labs Inc, steward of the Ripple Protocol and manager of the second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization after Bitcoin, has quietly shelved the open source project Codius, which it had founded about a year ago and actively maintained ever since. Although the code was eventually versioned to a symbolic…

Taken from Moderat — Bad Kingdom Abstract Crypto Economics as a mixed human-machine system that is fueled by economic incentivisation mechanisms displays an interesting approach to an organizational problem, that is currently solved through a monolithic platform approach. The new model carries its own governance problems, when it comes to establishing…

Taking technological change seriously in the social sciences. Ada Lovelace, who invented the first programming language. F.G. This article makes no specific claim about what the social sciences are and which disciplines do or do not fall under its name. The perspective I take is situated at the “intersection between information theory, cryptography, sociology, epistemology, politics and economics”[1].