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This article by Francesca Pick is republished from OuiShare Magazine  This is the second of an article series documenting the OuiShare Fest decentralization experiment.  Decentralizing a project is easier said than done. But no matter what, it will teach you a lot about your psyche, group dynamics and the value system of your team. When we met with …

Backfeed develops resilient technology and new economic models to support free, large-scale, systematic collaboration. Based on a distributed governance model, Backfeed protocols make it possible for people to easily deploy and maintain decentralized applications and organizations that rely on the spontaneous and voluntary contribution of hundreds, thousands or millions of people.

Primavera de Filippi (Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Ethereum) on Decentralized blockchain technologies: “In this new era of technological transition, decentralized technologies are gaining more and more adoption. Often regarded as a means to promote individual autonomy and civil liberties, the same technologies could (and already have been) used by centralized entities, in order …

MegaUpload creator Kim Dotcom is looking to reinvent the future if the Internet with the help of your smartphone, or 100 million smartphones that is.

The block-size limit debate has dominated Bitcoin blogs, forums, chat rooms and meet-ups for months on end, while many of Bitcoin’s brightest minds are gathering in Montreal to discuss the issue face-to-face at the Scaling Bitcoin Workshop this weekend.

The urge to decentralize and autonomize has informed social movements since the 1970s. The language of “decentralized autonomous organization” (DAOs) appeared among the swarms of activists in the late-1990s counter-globalization movement. But the trust-replacing mechanisms of a blockchain offer less an ideology than a method, one which may make it far easier for us to hand our relationships over to code.

No one can argue the fact that many blockchain advocates claim that the civil society could organize itself and protect its own interests more effectively, by replacing the traditional functions of Federal State with decentralized blockchain based services and decentralized, open source platforms such as Ethereum, Omni Layer, Eris).

We are entering an era of radical abundance. Over the next 10–20 years economics as we have known it is likely coming to…

IoT + Blockchain used to incentivize the application of precision agriculture to control natural resources by tokenization of data collection and disintermediation of analysis to futures markets, food producers, and governmental institutions. 

Blockchain has been a popular buzzword in the tech community in 2015. But what would it mean to decentralize OuiShare with blockchain?

Smart contracts, a feature of “Bitcoin 2.0” technologies such as Ethereum, could soon operate on the Internet of Things (Io...

The engineering of large-scale decentralised systems requires sound methodologies to guarantee the attainment of the desired macroscopic system-level behaviour given the microscopic individual-level implementation. While a general-purpose methodology is currently out of reach, specific solutions can be given to broad classes of problems by means of well-conceived design patterns . We propose a design pattern for collective decision making grounded on experimental/theoretical studies of the nes

“The urge to decentralize and autonomize has informed social movements since the 1970s. The language of “decentralized autonomous organization” (DAOs) appeared among the swarms of activists in the late-1990s counter-globalization movement. But the trust-replacing mechanisms of a blockchain offer less an ideology than a method, one which may make it far easier for us to …