Michel Bauwens
@mbauwens
updates on p2p and commons developments; peer, commoner, husband, father, son; see our http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net
🚨BREAKING: The House has passed a bill to prevent the creation of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) 219-210.
No ICANN. No accounts. Just sovereignty. Welcome to the Atomic Economy. ⚛️
Bitcoin people rightly focus on the free movement of your digital assets, for instance in the face of persecution or tyranny. Another great transferable asset that can't be confiscated is your skill.
Watch “TATIANA BILBAO: OPEN SOURCE DESIGN” on #Vimeo vimeo.com/13403197?fe=sh…
Please let me react to your feedback, to make it more clear that what we're not proposing Holochain instead of Blockchain, but a hybrid. We've exposed the rationale here, with more granularity soushi888.github.io/alternef-digit…
This first short blog will be followed by two others: Nondominium- infrastructure for the sharing economy github.com/Sensorica/nond… TrueCommons- infrastructure for peer production github.com/Sensorica/true… One builds on the other. Both under rapid development...
My hashrate may be small but it keeps running. It's not just about chasing profit — it's about what I believe in. A strong decentralized network is built by participation of many miners. This is how I help keep #MicroBitcoin truly decentralized: by the community, for the…
Still blockchain has other problems besides technical ones. It's based in artificial scarcity which leads to competition, greed, toxicity and centralization of ownership. This in time will make it exact copy of our old economic system and it will also collapse similar way. Main…
* Plumia Fellowship : what it means to build a country on the internet borderless.substack.com/p/the-internet… "The Plumia Fellowship is designed to support visionary writers, artists, researchers, and musicians seeking to explore the future of digital civilisation, network societies, and…
There are two ways to interpret 'Cosmo-Local', i.e. from the cosmo to the local, and from the local to the cosmic. < The future of ecological restoration lies not in imposing external models, but in amplifying and resourcing the traditions that have sustained communities and…
The web3 community is aware of the limitations of blockchain. Some people are enthusiastic when they discover what we're building. Narrow-minded maximalists are disregarding our work. These are the people who think Bitcoin can do everything or DAOs can replace corporations.