Re: [NetBehaviour] Blockchain & Bureaucracy

2016-07-24 Thread Rob Myers
On 23/07/16 07:21 AM, ruth catlow wrote: > On 22/07/16 23:26, Rob Myers wrote: >> >> Yes there's a gulf between the world-changing rhetoric and the >> money-grubbing behaviour that is sadly familiar from past developments >> in tech. > WOW that's a thought! > When I remember the utopian verve

Re: [NetBehaviour] Blockchain & Bureaucracy

2016-07-23 Thread ruth catlow
On 22/07/16 23:26, Rob Myers wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2016, at 08:28 AM, ruth catlow wrote: Another informative blog here from Max. http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/2016/07/12/%C2%ADblockchain-bureaucracy/ It certainly reflects many of my encounters with blockchain-engaged types in London so

Re: [NetBehaviour] Blockchain & Bureaucracy

2016-07-22 Thread Rob Myers
On Fri, 22 Jul 2016, at 08:28 AM, ruth catlow wrote: > Another informative blog here from Max. > http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/2016/07/12/%C2%ADblockchain-bureaucracy/ > > It certainly reflects many of my encounters with blockchain-engaged > types in London so far. > It's hard to

Re: [NetBehaviour] Blockchain & Bureaucracy

2016-07-22 Thread ruth catlow
Another informative blog here from Max. http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/2016/07/12/%C2%ADblockchain-bureaucracy/ It certainly reflects many of my encounters with blockchain-engaged types in London so far. It's hard to overstate the extremities and contradictions that we've encountered

[NetBehaviour] Blockchain & Bureaucracy

2016-07-13 Thread Max Dovey
*The inability to imagine alternative use cases for p2p distributed networks to enable greater financial inclusion, citizen empowerment or civil organization will lead to the inevitable commercialization and privatization of blockchain and bankers will fondly remember Bitcoin as the greatest gift