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fractastical / distributed_trust_systems_and_kensian_beauty_problem.md
Last active October 29, 2015 17:54
How distributed trust systems can solve the Kenysian beauty problem and create a more efficient startup ecosystem

##How distributed trust systems can solve the Kenysian beauty problem and create a more efficient startup ecosystem

One of the most persistent in modern market systems is the Kenysian beauty contest. In short, when asked to pick the most beautiful person, the most profitable and efficient strategy is to predict what other people will predict, not attempt to converge on what is actually the most beautiful. Modern market systems inevitably follow this trajectory.

A distributed trust ledger may follow a different logic than a market and create other tracks complementary to it. Numerous "social web" systems in which karma or other points are accumulated show divergent logics. Example services are Amazon reviews, Wikipedia articles, Facebook likes, Facebook friends, Twitter followers, Instagram likes, and aggregation services like Klout. In many cases, there is a very significant divergence between people who have some sort of accumulated social capital via their contributions and financial capital.

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fractastical / gist:5952eb178c191c4dc7ee
Created October 27, 2015 17:47
neotribal_chat.md
09:37:55 From Michel Bachmann : everyone: go to gallery view (top right corner)
09:38:44 From pedrojardim : Chelsea
09:49:03 From Evo : BTW, I was just offered 920 acres for experimentation in California to use.
09:53:08 From alexaclay : amazing!
09:56:07 From Evo : I have a few opportunities we can have people plug in with....
09:56:17 From Joel Dietz : cool
09:56:20 From Evo : 1. The land and freespace experiments in California
09:56:23 From Michel Bachmann : sorry, had to restart my computer
09:56:25 From Joel Dietz : where are they?
09:56:38 From Evo : 2. Association/Society building for change agents for alignment around actions and projects
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fractastical / gist:08f5c233bf55f9668766
Created September 2, 2014 01:32
errors after npm install

npm install

Using worker: worker-linux-8-2.bb.travis-ci.org:travis-linux-12

git.1 1.26s $ git clone --depth=50 --branch=master git://github.com/SwarmCorp/angularfire-seed.git SwarmCorp/angularfire-seed Cloning into 'SwarmCorp/angularfire-seed'... remote: Counting objects: 7335, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5383/5383), done.

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fractastical / gist:e50121495fc1085e403b
Last active August 29, 2015 14:02
[SWARM] How I became a Bitcoin believer

To appreciate why Bitcoin is such a great innovation, you have to understand a great number of different variables, including economics, politics, history, and technology. Although I have a decent background in all of these areas, it took me a long time to appreciate the full genius of Satoshi and potential of Bitcoin. What follows is my own story from skeptic to believer.

My initial appraisal of Bitoin was that it was a fascinating technical innovatoin that would forever be accessible only to a very small segment of the population that salivates over cryptography.

Ironically, it was in the process of creating a startup that in many ways was the polar opposite of Bitcoin that I started to appreciate the core innovations of Bitcoin. My own platform, Evergreen, contained it's own blockchain optimized for high velocity micropayments, with a unit of account weighted to a basket of currencies and commodities. In many senses, it was a reflection of an international monetary system as I would have designed it, fa

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fractastical / writings
Last active December 26, 2015 23:29
My writings over the past year
My writings over the past year:
Assisi Outlook | Away in a Manger (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6060961/Untitled.txt)
ouishare.net/2012/12/p2p-travel-accommodation
ouishare.net/2013/01/nathan-schneider-occupy-wall-street/‎
http://ouishare.net/2013/02/naked-money-when-alchemy-doesnt-work-anymore/
ouishare.net/2013/03/book-review-wealth-of-the-commons/‎
ouishare.net/2013/07/does-money-have-a-future/‎
http://ouishare.net/2013/08/the-power-of-sharing/
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