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Ledgerback PodcastCharles Adjovu on Legal Issues with Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) and the Cooperative structure for DAOsOn this episode of the Philomath Series on Musings, Charles Adjovu discusses the legal issues with Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), a review of the Wyoming DAO law, and a discussion on how the Cooperative structure may aid in resolving securities issues for Web3 projects.
Links:
https://twitter.com/CAdjovu
https://variant.fund/writing/leadership-in-the-ownership-economyscaling-decision
https://lexdao.substack.com/p/wyoming-built-a-home-for-daos-but
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2021-10-3051 minLedgerback PodcastCharles Adjovu on Legal Issues with using Copyrightable NFTsOn this episode of the Philomath Series on Musings, Charles Adjovu discusses the legal issues with using copyrightable non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as collateral for loans (especially for automated Decentralized Finance (DeFi) loans) and securities concerns that can arise from NFT projects providing royalties/dividends to token holders.
Links:
https://twitter.com/CAdjovu
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/120022/opensea-delists-dao-turtles-project-citing-financialization-concerns
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/120016/why-ftxs-upcoming-marketplace-is-avoiding-nfts-that-offer-royalties
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2021-10-1646 minLedgerback PodcastCharles Adjovu on Communal Digital Gardens and Networked-JournalsIn this episode of the Philomath Series on Musings, Charles discusses the Oscillations journal, a communal digital garden experimenting with networked-thought tools, and how communal digital gardens can be enhanced with AI/analytical tools.
Links:
https://oscillations.one/Oscillations
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2021-09-1109 minLedgerback PodcastCharles Adjovu on Union-Cooperative ModelOn this episode of the Philomath Series on Musings, Charles Adjovu discusses the Union-Cooperative ("Union-Coop") model, an emerging organizational model that combines a union with a worker cooperative. Charles describes the origin and elements of the union co-op model, with a short background on unions and cooperatives, The Liberatory Potential of Union Co-ops by Carmen Huertas-Noble, Missy Risser-Lovings and Christopher Adams, and lastly providing examples of union cooperatives.
Links:
https://twitter.com/CAdjovu
https://community-wealth.org/content/union-co-op-model
https://coopcincy.org/
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/the-liberatory-potential-of-union-co-ops/
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2770136
http://1...
2021-09-1130 minLedgerback PodcastCharles Adjovu on Trademark Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)On this episode of the Philomath Series on Musings, Charles Adjovu conceptualizes a Trademark Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), an online collective that owns and manages trademarks (i.e., a brand) via Web3 technologies (e.g., Organizational Technology (OrgTech)). Specifically, how a DAO can collectively-own and -manage trademarks in a global context, and novel tools and incentives via Web3 (e.g., automated market makers (AMM)) to encourage investment and protection of the brand.
Links:
https://twitter.com/CAdjovu
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2021-09-1134 minLedgerback PodcastCharles Adjovu on Bikestream-based Data Cooperative services based on Platoon Co-opsOn this episode of the Philomath Series on Musings, Charles discusses the services a Bikestream-based Mobility Data Cooperative can offer based on features from Platoon Co-ops by Beth McCarthy and Daniel Shavit.
Links:
https://github.com/Ledgerback/Bikestream
https://speakerdeck.com/ledgerback/bikestream-litedeck
https://trust.support/feed/platoon-coops
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2021-09-0418 min
Ledgerback PodcastCharles Adjovu on Re-thinking Academic Publishing: The Promise of Platform CooperativismOn this episode of the Philomath Series on Musings, Charles gives his thoughts and takeaways on From Student Loans to Student Currencies, written by Evgeniya Lupova-Henry and Ámbar Tenorio-Fornés, an article discussing the why and how (with a hypothetical labor-exchange platform) of applying platform cooperativism to address issues ("inequality, unfair profit distribution and the ever-growing centralisation of control over the publishing process in the hands of large commercial players") in academic publishing system to create a more scholar-centric system.
Links:
Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?
Given frustrations with academic st...
2021-08-3037 minLedgerback PodcastCharles Adjovu on From Student Loans to Student CurrenciesOn this episode of the Philomath Series on Musings, Charles gives his thoughts and takeaways on From Student Loans to Student Currencies, written by Will Ruddick, an article discussing the creation of a Community Inclusion Currency to support a student's education and training as an alternative to student loans.
Links:
https://www.grassrootseconomics.org/post/from-student-loans-to-student-currencies
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2021-08-3010 minLedgerback PodcastCharles Adjovu on Innovative Economic Models for Writing and Scholarly Work.
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2021-08-2910 minLedgerback PodcastCharles Adjovu on A Prehistory of DAOsOn this episode of the Philomath Series on Musings, Charles gives his thoughts and takeaways on A Prehistory of DAOs by Kei Kreutler, an article tracing the history of a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), a conceptualized Web3 organizational form, from the political dialogue of the early web by John Barlow in Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace and David Ronfeldt in Tribes, Institutions, Markets, Networks (TIMN) in the 1990s, to the term's ever-changing meaning in Web3 since Vitalik Buterin's DAOs, DACs, DAs and More: An Incomplete Terminology Guide in 2014, to how the term may be a neologism for digital...
2021-08-221h 51Ledgerback PodcastCharles Adjovu on implementing Access Control in Bikestream with Token Gates (TGs) via Unlock ProtocolOn this episode of the Philomath Series on Musings, Charles discusses how Bikestream and Token-locked Gates (TLGs) or Token Gates (TGs) via the Unlock Protocol or Mintgate can be implemented for securing access to, and sharing, databikes, based on Austin Robey's Token-gated physical spaces (an experimental recipe)
Links:
https://github.com/Ledgerback/Bikestream
https://speakerdeck.com/ledgerback/bikestream-litedeck
https://club.mirror.xyz/Iutxpw3iidtxPs1drAq3pkb0Kn5MU_KLri0r0nNCsNA
https://www.mintgate.io/
https://twitter.com/austinrobey_
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2021-08-2007 minLedgerback PodcastCharles Adjovu on A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital GardenOn this episode of the Philomath Series on Musings, Charles gives his thoughts and takeaways on A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden, written by Maggie Appleton, an article discussing the brief history of digital gardens and its ever-changing meaning from the 1990s to the present, the growth of no-code (i.e., low code) tools for digital gardens, and defining 6 design principles for digital gardens:
Topography over Timelines,
Continuous Growth,
Imperfection & Learning in Public,
Playful, Personal, and Experimental,
Intercropping & Content Diversity, and
Independent Ownership.
Links:
https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history
https://maggieappleton.com/
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2021-08-1951 minLedgerback PodcastCharles Adjovu on implementing Bikestream based on A Novel Crowdsourcing Model for Micro-Mobility Ride-Sharing SystemsOn this episode of the Philomath Series on Musings, Charles discusses how Bikestream and a Mobility Data Cooperative can be implemented for a Crowdsourced Bike Sharing System (BSS), based on Mohammed Elhenawy et al.'s A Novel Crowdsourcing Model for Micro-Mobility Ride-Sharing Systems, and responding to Nicolas Saravia's issues with the model.
Links:
https://github.com/Ledgerback/Bikestream
https://speakerdeck.com/ledgerback/bikestream-litedeck
https://www.researchhub.com/paper/1265930/a-novel-crowdsourcing-model-for-micromobility-ridesharing-systems#paper%20pdf
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/14/4636
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2021-08-1945 minLedgerback PodcastCharles Adjovu on Coase's Penguin is learning to flyOn this episode of the Philomath Series on Musings, Charles gives his thoughts and takeaways on Coase's Penguin is learning to fly, written by Joey DeBruin, an article discussing how a new form of peer production (with background), community owned peer production, can support (enhance and increase) knowledge production by academic-scientists and citizen-scientists through mechanisms powered by Web3 technologies.
Links:
https://creativekitchen.so/contributors/joey-debruin
https://creativekitchen.so/penguins/Coases-Penguin-is-learning-to-fly-MNWpI
https://stratechery.com/2021/non-fungible-taylor-swift/
https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/03/23/legitimacy.html
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2021-08-1242 minLedgerback PodcastCharles Adjovu on Why would anyone buy crypto art – let alone spend millions on what’s essentially a link to a JPEG file?On this episode of the Philomath Series on Musings, Charles gives his thoughts and takeaways on Why would anyone buy crypto art – let alone spend millions on what’s essentially a link to a JPEG file?, written by Aaron Hertzmann, an article questioning the hype and sales prices around the NFT (i.e., CryptoArt) boom in early 2021.
Aaron looks into the supposed benefits of NFTs for artists and how it is different from traditional art, how art is social, and how a NFT's ability to separate an artwork's artistic form from it's commodity form, creating scarcity and...
2021-08-1230 minLedgerback PodcastCharles Adjovu on $GENERALIST: An experiment in value, collaboration, and creativity.On this episode of the Philomath Series on Musings, Charles gives his thoughts and takeaways on $GENERALIST: An experiment in value, collaboration, and creativity, written by The Generalist and Jack Butcher of Visualize Value, a summary of the Generalist's experiment in using Mirror to crowdfund the production of a S-1 analysis (article) on Coinbase and split future earnings with crowdfunders through a Non-fungible Token (NFT).
Links:
https://www.readthegeneralist.com/briefing/generalist-token
https://www.readthegeneralist.com/
http://visualizevalue.com/
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2021-08-1032 minLedgerback PodcastCharles Adjovu on Aggregators aren't open-endedOn this episode of the Philomath Series on Musings, Charles gives his thoughts and takeaways on Aggregators aren't open-ended, an article by Gordon Brander discussing how aggregators (i.e., platform owners) in the platform ecosystem stifle innovation on top of their platforms by limiting requisite variety in their ecosystems, and that instead we need to have an open-ended ecosystem (i.e., open-source) for innovation to flourish and build new transformative tools for thought. Additionally, Charles looks at the relationship between tools for thought and local-first software.
Impressive quote:
"My sense is that, more than...
2021-08-1023 minLedgerback PodcastCharles Adjovu on Building Monocle, a universal personal search engine for life.On this episode of the Philomath Series on Musings, Charles gives his thoughts and takeaways on Building Monocle, a personal search engine developed by Linus AKA The Sephist as a tool for thought and local-first software.
Links:
https://thesephist.com/posts/monocle/
https://twitter.com/thesephist/status/1282795369512960001
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2021-08-1018 minLedgerback PodcastCharles Adjovu on NFTs, Generative Art, and Sol LeWittOn this episode of Musings, Charles gives his thoughts and takeaways on NFTs, Generative Art, and Sol LeWitt, an article by Mitchell Chan discussing the connection between Sol LeWitt's conceptual artwork of the 1960's and '70s and generative art (code that produces artwork) NFTs on the blockchain, and how NFTs "separate of an artwork’s expressive, or artistic form, from its commodity form."
Links:
https://medium.com/@mitchellfchan?source=post_page-----e99a5fa2b0cb--------------------------------
https://medium.com/@mitchellfchan/nfts-generative-art-and-sol-lewitt-e99a5fa2b0cb
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2021-08-0516 minLedgerback PodcastCharles Adjovu on AI + NFTs: What is an iNFT?On this episode of Musings, Charles gives his thoughts and takeaways on AI + NFTs: What is an iNFT?, a guest post by Arif Khan on Intelligent Non-Fungible Tokens (iNFTs) and his project, Alethea AI.
Links:
https://andrewsteinwold.substack.com/p/ai-nfts-what-is-an-inft-
https://twitter.com/real_alethea
https://twitter.com/ArKhan
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2021-08-0514 minLedgerback PodcastSocial Digital Research Cooperative V0.9Update to the Social Digital Research Cooperative model (now up to version 0.9).
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2021-06-0952 minLedgerback PodcastNonfungible Tokens (NFTs)Nonfungible tokens (NFTs) are cryptographically unique digital assets created on a blockchain (and often linked to a digital file stored off-chain such as the IPFS).
NFTs have exploded into mainstream popularity with major celebrities and public figures such as Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and Lindsey Lohan, and Beeple selling art, tweets, and a variety of other digital creative works as NFTs on platforms like Foundation and Rarible.
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2021-05-2222 minLedgerback PodcastSocial Digital Research CooperativeA conceptualization of a social digital cooperative institute (or research cooperative).
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2021-05-2129 min
Ledgerback PodcastArtificial Swarm Intelligence: Amplifying human intelligence to improve problem-solvingHi there! Welcome to another episode of the Philomath Series on Musings. In this episode, Charles discusses collective intelligence (CI) and swarm intelligence (SI), and how artificial swarm intelligence (ASI), a means to artificially simulate a swarm for humans and robots, can be applied in two contexts.
References:
Can Humans Use Artificial Swarm Intelligence to Make Smarter, Faster Decisions?
Swarm intelligence
Swarm Intelligence Applications
How 'artificial swarm intelligence' uses people to make better predictions than experts
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2020-12-2636 minLedgerback PodcastBeyond Money: Alternative Currencies for Redefining ValueHi there! Welcome to another episode of the Philomath Series on Musings! In this episode, Charles provides an overview of alternative currencies and monetary systems with real-world examples such as WIR Bank and Helsinski Timebank, and then mentions how Web 3 can help grow community currencies via bonding curves (i.e., automated market makers).
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2020-12-2634 minLedgerback PodcastPlasticBank: Incentivizing Plastic RecyclingHi there! Welcome to another episode of the Philomath Series on Musings. In this episode, Charles discusses PlasticBank, a blockchain project focused on incentivizing plastic recycling with tokens and redeemable services.
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2020-12-2615 minLedgerback PodcastAbout LedgerbackHi There! This short episode is on the background of Ledgerback, going over the name and logo and how it pwoers us to work towards a global technological commonwealth.
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2020-12-1823 minLedgerback PodcastDecentralized Validation Mechanism for Citizen Science Micro-workHi everyone and welcome to another episode of the Philomath Series on Musings!
In this episode, Charles discusses a possible protocol for validating micro-work in citizen science projects.
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2020-12-1609 minLedgerback PodcastPeer Accounting License (PAL)Hi there and welcome to another episode of the Philomath Series on Musings!
In this episode, Charles discusses the Peer Accounting License (PAL), an update to the Peer Production License (PPL) and its possible improvements to the PPL regarding a transvestment strategy, adding ethical values and restrictions, and supporting creators with stewardship organizations.
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2020-12-1631 minLedgerback PodcastExpanding Gridcoin with a Platform CooperativeHi there! Welcome to another episode o the Philomath Series on Musings. For this episode, Charles discusses Gridcoin and how it can be expanded with a platform cooperative to provide redeemable services.
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2020-12-1607 minLedgerback PodcastCrowdsourcing and Micro-work through a Cooperative lensHi there! Here is another episode of the Philomath Series on Musings covering cooperatives and crowdsourcing.
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2020-12-1527 minLedgerback PodcastOpenstreetmaps: Distributed Communities and Stakeholder TensionsHi there! Here is another episode of the Philomath Series on Musings on Openstreetmaps's potential stakeholder issues and a cooperative as a possible remedy.
References
OpenStreetMap is Having a Moment
Support our work by donating on Opencollective.
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2020-12-1524 minLedgerback PodcastPlatform Cooperativism for CivicTech: The case of Parti and the rise of citizen engagementAnother day, another episode!
In this episode, Charles goes over participative democracy, deliberative democracy and civic tech, and how these models that promote more citizen participation in political and governmental processes can be supported by platform cooperatives, with a short discussion on one particularly interesting use-case in Parti Cooperative, a platform cooperative that has developed an open source citizen participation platform (and a suite of tools) based in Seoul, South Korea.
Relevant Articles and Links:
Emerging Designs for Collective Governance: Part 2
Parti.coop
Parti Townhall
Internet, democracy, public goods and patti.
Democratic...
2020-12-0330 minLedgerback PodcastThe Age of Digital Diplomas: What can we learn from Central New Mexico Community CollegeSome old work on creating an audio version of our The Age of Digital Diploma article we published on Medium in our Greyscail Blockchain Review publication.
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2020-10-1516 minLedgerback PodcastCommunity Broadband NetworksOn this issue of the Philomath Series on Musings, Charles Adjovu dives in on community broadband networks and how they are a viable and necessary alternative to for-profit, market-driven broadband networks.
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2020-08-1432 min
Ledgerback PodcastPeer Prediction Mechanism*This is a test episode for the Philomath Series on XYZ*
In this episode of the Philomath Series on Musings, Charles Adjovu dives in on the Peer Prediction mechanism, a novel mechanism for eliciting honest (or truthful) feedback from participants on tasks.
Charles goes over the basics of the PP mechanism and its applications for open science, blockchain and data oracles.
Lastly, this episode should serve as a call to action for more research from academia and industry into PP mechanism applications.
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2020-08-0857 min
Ledgerback PodcastCooperative Update March 27, 2019Quick update on Ledgerback!
Sorry for the long hiatus regarding Trinary, we have been uber busy with other Ledgerback projects.
This episode provides an update on Ledgerback's successful release of the Greenback Exchange, an in-person cryptoexchange where people can convert Bitcoin and Ethereum for USD (Cash or Card).
We discuss why we made the Greenback Exchange, the void it fills, and why we believe it can help grow Ledgerback and the local blockchain/cryptocurrency community in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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2019-03-2816 min