Ledgerback Podcast

On 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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On 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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In 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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On 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://1worker1vote.org/

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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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On 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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On 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 structures, how can we build a more human-centered open science?

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On 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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On 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 cooperativism (or cooperatives) in cyberspace, noting the connection between Platform Cooperativism and Web3 as both movements intend to upend the current platform economy and through the works of Jesse Walden's The Ownership Economy and Nathan Schneider's Exit to community, how DAOs and Cooperatives can learn from each other, how DAOs compare to gaming guilds from older massive multiplayer online (MMO) games such as EVE Online and where DAOs can learn from gaming guilds (contribution-tracking, dispute resolution, social currencies), why DAOs and gaming guilds may act under shadow economics, how DAOs can scale beyond the modern firm through cooperation based on Ronald Coase's The Nature of the Firm, why tools for DAOs (OrgTech) do not automatically create culture based onJaya Klara Brekke, Kate Beecroft, and Francesca Pick's The Dissensus Protocol: Governing Differences in Online Peer Communities, how DAOs will form multi-organizational heterarchical networks (similar to Meta-organizational form) of DAO-2-DAO interactions similar to the MONDRAGON Corporation based on Patrick Rawson's Ownership in Cryptonetworks, why DAOs should be recognized as an "emergent organizational form with legitimate political relevance," and lastly defining decentralized avatar organizations as DAOs that manage avatars (i.e., virtual people) that advocate for political platforms.

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On 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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On 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:

1. Topography over Timelines,
2. Continuous Growth,
3. Imperfection & Learning in Public,
4. Playful, Personal, and Experimental,
5. Intercropping & Content Diversity, and
6. Independent Ownership.

Links:

• https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history
• https://maggieappleton.com/

On 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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On 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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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 connections between artists and buyers helps explain the value of NFTs.

Links:

• https://theconversation.com/why-would-anyone-buy-crypto-art-let-alone-spend-millions-on-whats-essentially-a-link-to-a-jpeg-file-157115
• https://theconversation.com/profiles/aaron-hertzmann-694016

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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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On 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 other networked software, tools for thought want to be owned. I don't want to store my second brain on someone else's computer. What if we instead had a small tool that was personal, multiplayer, distributed, evolvable? Maybe this is just a niche category, or maybe it could be the basis for a new open-ended ecosystem?"

Links:

• https://subconscious.substack.com/p/aggregators-arent-open-ended
• https://subconscious.substack.com/people/1245173-gordon-brander
  

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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On 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

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

On this episode of 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

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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Some 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.