Re: John Perry Barlow R.I.P.

2018-02-14 Thread Douglas Rushkoff
, particularly for the early libertarians of the net, who thought small and local business would be favored in such a seemingly a bottom-up, decentralized environment. -- Douglas Rushkoff http://rushkoff.com <http://rushkoff.com/> •Founder, Laboratory for Digital Humanism •Pro

Re: John Perry Barlow R.I.P.

2018-02-14 Thread Douglas Rushkoff
that coming, particularly for the early libertarians of the net, who thought small and local business would be favored in such a seemingly a bottom-up, decentralized environment. -- Douglas Rushkoff http://rushkoff.com <http://rushkoff.com/> •Founder, Laboratory for Digital Huma

Re: The Face Value of Bitcoin: Proof of Work and the Labour

2018-02-07 Thread Douglas Rushkoff
This is a fine analysis, Dymitri. Of course, where the blockchain could work would be to authenticate value exchange against some other unit of measurement. The whole thing becomes a ledger for Time dollars or some other metric. Without that, cryptocurrency is just retrieving the scarce currency