Podcasts about democracy earth

“The exciting thing with crypto to me is that we don't need to wait for anyone's permission in order to explore and implement some of these ideas” - Santiago Siri Santiago Siri is the founder of Democracy Earth and ProofofHumanityDAO. He is building the Universal Basic Income (UBI) token via proof of humanity. In this episode, Dhee and Santiago discuss: Universal Basic Income (UBI) Santiago's inspiration to build UBI Proof of Humanity Santiago's meeting with Vitalik Buterin Differences between government projects and crypto projects Shoutout to our sponsors! Unstoppable Domains: unstoppabledomains.com Brave Wallet: brave.com/wallet To stay up to date on all things Web3 with Dhee, you can follow Dheeraj Shah on Twitter @DheerajShah_ and Web3 with Dhee @web3withDhee. You can follow our guest, Santi, on Twitter @santisiri. If you enjoyed this episode, please rate, subscribe, and share with your friends and family so we can keep talking about all things web3. Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational & entertainment purposes only. None of the discussions qualifies as financial or tax advice. Kindly talk to a qualified accountant/advisor for financial and tax advice.

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El emprendedor abre el año de entrevistas de Julio Leiva con un mano a mano imperdible en los estudios de Filo.News, en donde analizan el pico de popularidad de las criptomonedas y cómo puede ser encarado desde nuestro país. ¿Es posible pensar en las cripto como una salida al problema con el dólar? ¿Podemos distribuir ingresos básicos universales con ellas? Estudió programación con tan solo 10 años y tras enfocarse en las criptomonedas gran parte de su carrera, el fundador de Ethereum respaldó su proyecto y lo hizo crecer exponencialmente. Además, se desempeña como Presidente en la Fundación Democracy Earth: una ONG que busca promover las herramientas cívicas digitales incorruptibles. Es uno de los grandes impulsores del Bitcoin en América Latina, promoviendo su uso desde hace más de una década. También creo el Partido de la Red y es un pionero en BIG DATA: en 2007 fundó un laboratorio que impulsó la semántica e investigación de redes sociales.

En este episodio, Juani Reig, Tomi Galicia y Conra Valenzuela entrevistan a Santiago Siri, hacktivist, programador y educador en el ambiente de blockchain. Es el fundador de Democracy Earth, una organización respaldada por Y Combinator que busca revolucionar la democracia. También es director ejecutivo de DAO Education, enfocada en la enseñanza sobre temas de blockchain. En el pasado fundó el Partido de la Red, un partido político digital en donde los legisladores votan según un voto online de sus constituyentes. Hablamos de todo esto y más.

Latinofuturismo por Felipe Echandi (@felcheck) En este segundo episodio conversé con Juliette Chevalier, ingeniera de software, educadora, estratega y autora. Juliette dio un giro 180 a su vida cuando dejó atrás la Embajada de Panamá ante Naciones Unidas para dedicarse de lleno a desarrollar productos digitales con impacto. Juliette trabaja como Directora de Proyectos para Admios, una agencia de desarrollo de software de EE.UU. Es también profesora de programación para Le Wagon Coding Bootcamp y escritora de su propio newsletter llamado nerd_splash donde cubre la intersección entre tendencias tecnológicas y el futuro de la educación. Conversamos sobre: La motivación y curiosidad causada por todos los problemas que existen en Latinoamérica para tratar de mejorar las cosas. El camino usual de intentar cambiar las cosas a través de la política y el derecho. Latinoamérica es una de las regiones con mayor homogeneidad cultural relativa, pero relativamente fragmentada institucionalmente. La inexistencia de movilidad internacional accesible como una de las causas de falta de integración institucional. La inexistencia de transporte urbano y espacios públicos que alimenta al clasismo. Las estructuras y jerarquías coloniales siguen vigentes en nuestros países. Ver los problemas institucionales no como problemas de personas, sino como problemas de sistemas. La falta de representatividad en el día a día y su consecuencia: la falta de participación recurrente. El contraste de expectativas de los nativos digitales que observan el cambio rápido en su vida privada pero la inoperancia de instituciones del siglo XIX. Puedo contactarme con alguien en Indonesia pero no puedo contactar a mi representante que vive cerca mio. La incompatibilidad de las instituciones con los superpoderes del internet causa desencanto. Santiago Siri y el Partido de la Red como una forma de hackear el sistema para hacer las instituciones antiguas compatibles con los superpoderes del internet. La reinterpretación de la representación política con ayuda tecnológica. La transparencia en la representación puede ser mediada por blockchains. DemocracyOS y Democracy Earth como generalización del Partido de la Red. El software de código abierto que permite colaboración descentralizada de calidad. Para ver una lista completa de temas entra aquí. Canción de inicio y fin: Curación por LamatUuc, músico y criptoartista mexicano. Agregada con su autorización. Pueden ver sus NFTs aquí.

En este episodio, vas a escuchar a una invitada que Santi conoce muy bien. Crearon juntos el Partido de la Red y muchos proyectos más. Pia Mancini visita "Las Promesas de Elon". Es fundadora de las organizaciones Open Collective y Democracy Earth, es politóloga, no tiene cuenta de Instagram, abandonó WhatsApp, y hace muchos años que se viene preguntando cómo actualizar la democracia en la era de internet siendo ciudadanos y ciudadanas del siglo XXI haciendo lo mejor que podemos para interactuar con instituciones diseñadas en el siglo XIX basadas en tecnologías de la información del siglo XV. El caballo de Troya, el blockchain y la política, Silicon Valley, utopía para realistas y qué se siente ser una chica Tesla.

(31.05.21) Hablamos con Santiago Siri sobre Democracy Earth, UBI (Universal Basic Income) y Proof of Humanity. Conocimos su perspectiva sobre la política en general, y también la argentina, hablamos de democracia digital y más. #TPLT

Santi comes from Argentina and began building Democracy Earth in a YC cohort. This project continues to evolve, and at the time of the podcast he had just launched an experiment in Universal Basic Income called Proof of Humanity. If you’d like to take a first step into the crypto ecosystem, this would be a very interesting experiment and community to participate in (and you get streamed money for doing so!).

Herb is co-founder and treasurer of the Democracy Earth foundation, a non-profit building a blockchain-based open source "liquid democracy" governance platform, with the aim of bringing blockchain-based tools for democracy to the world at large, as well as executive Director of the Independent National Union, a new organisation with the aim of strengthening political power independent from the two-party system to enable the Independent governing of American cities, states and nation.He's a serial software entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, having built and sold multiple companies mostly building systems where power purposefully shifts to the user through technology. When he learned of blockchain technology in 2012, considering it to be "the best invention since the Internet itself", Herb dedicated the rest of his career to social entrepreneurship.In our conversation, we cover:Sovereign identity and proof of humanity IDQuadratic votingCurrency, nation-states, and the blockchain revolution we will seeHow the Universal Basic Income token works, what the philosophy behind it is, and what the plans for it areWhat's wrong with politics in the US at the momentSupport & ShownotesPodcast shownotesRate it on Apple PodcastsSubscribe on YouTubeBy me a coffeeFollow Sam on TwitterLinksDemocracy.EarthProof of HumanityHerb's TwitterIndependent National UnionBook: Architecture of a Techno democracyBook: The Politics IndustrySupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations

In what has become a de facto world tour of crypto hot spots, this week “Money Reimagined” is headed to Nigeria.This episode is sponsored by hellointerpop.io and The Sun Exchange.We talked to two Nigerian entrepreneurs – Yele Bademosi, the CEO of payments app Bundle Africa, and Adia Sowho, a venture builder and operator – about the burgeoning crypto innovation ecosystem in their country. Among this entertaining pair’s many insights was the idea the Nigerian Central Bank’s February order that banks shut down crypto companies’ access ended up being a positive for the industry. It spurred even more innovation in the space, inspiring local developers to dream up interesting new decentralized solutions for getting around the banking sector’s gatekeepers.The idea dovetails with some we’ve heard from other guests – from Democracy Earth’s Santiago Siri, for example, who spoke of how the startup scene in his native Argentina is shaped and driven by the failure of the existing financial system and the efforts by authorities there to constrain people’s financial freedom. It shows how the crypto world has fostered a new breed of developer-entrepreneur, one who no longer wants to work to change the existing system but is inspired to build entire new alternatives to it. We also learned from Bademosi and Sowho that the narratives the crypto community in the industrialized world tend to embrace about the technology’s value in the developing world are often misplaced. It’s convenient for people in the U.S. to talk up the idea that Nigerian activists were using bitcoin during the anti-government protests last year or that it is being used widely as a remittance and payments vehicle. But our guests point out those use cases aren’t as widespread as believed and that, much like in the U.S, most Nigerians are for now buying bitcoin as a store of value. On the other hand, they tell us Nigeria specifically – and Africa generally – is a hotbed of innovation in DeFi. And why not? The opportunities for experimentation and creativity for decentralized finance are arguably much greater in places where the existing financial system is underdeveloped. -InterPop is redefining the future of NFTs and fandom. Learn more at interpop.io. -The Sun Exchange is offering CoinDesk Reports listeners a free solar cell with your first purchase and automatically lease them to power businesses in sunny, emerging markets.Image credit: Fela Sanu/iStock/Getty Images Plus

In what has become a de facto world tour of crypto hot spots, this week “Money Reimagined” is headed to Nigeria.This episode is sponsored by hellointerpop.io and The Sun Exchange.We talked to two Nigerian entrepreneurs – Yele Bademosi, the CEO of payments app Bundle Africa, and Adia Sowho, a venture builder and operator – about the burgeoning crypto innovation ecosystem in their country. Among this entertaining pair's many insights was the idea the Nigerian Central Bank's February order that banks shut down crypto companies' access ended up being a positive for the industry. It spurred even more innovation in the space, inspiring local developers to dream up interesting new decentralized solutions for getting around the banking sector's gatekeepers.The idea dovetails with some we've heard from other guests – from Democracy Earth's Santiago Siri, for example, who spoke of how the startup scene in his native Argentina is shaped and driven by the failure of the existing financial system and the efforts by authorities there to constrain people's financial freedom. It shows how the crypto world has fostered a new breed of developer-entrepreneur, one who no longer wants to work to change the existing system but is inspired to build entire new alternatives to it. We also learned from Bademosi and Sowho that the narratives the crypto community in the industrialized world tend to embrace about the technology's value in the developing world are often misplaced. It's convenient for people in the U.S. to talk up the idea that Nigerian activists were using bitcoin during the anti-government protests last year or that it is being used widely as a remittance and payments vehicle. But our guests point out those use cases aren't as widespread as believed and that, much like in the U.S, most Nigerians are for now buying bitcoin as a store of value. On the other hand, they tell us Nigeria specifically – and Africa generally – is a hotbed of innovation in DeFi. And why not? The opportunities for experimentation and creativity for decentralized finance are arguably much greater in places where the existing financial system is underdeveloped. -InterPop is redefining the future of NFTs and fandom. Learn more at interpop.io.-The Sun Exchange is offering CoinDesk Reports listeners a free solar cell with your first purchase and automatically lease them to power businesses in sunny, emerging markets.Image credit: Fela Sanu/iStock/Getty Images PlusSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Few countries have as deep and long-lasting a history of financial crises as Argentina. Given how otherwise blessed it is with natural and human resources, Argentina is Exhibit A in the argument that repeated monetary mismanagement will do lasting harm to long-term prosperity. A century of such crises, which has bred profound mistrust of the institutions of government among Argentines, took their country from being the seventh-richest nation on earth to the 75th. Now, with the advent of cryptocurrencies and blockchains, some finally a way out of this trap of mistrust. It's no coincidence that Argentina has a relatively high level of bitcoin adoption nor that it has contributed a disproportionately high number of successful developers to the global crypto community. But is crypto the answer, or should Argentines continue to work within the system to get the accountable government they deserve? We explore that question, along with a deep dive into just what it is that explains Argentina's uniquely dysfunctional economic experience, in his week's edition of “Money Reimagined.” We're joined by Lucas Llach, a professor of economics at Torcuato di Tella University in Buenos Aires, and Santiago Siri, the founder of Democracy Earth, a radical, blockchain-based solution for democracy inspired his struggles to reform government in his native Argentina. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What if cities are the greatest opportunity we have to redesign the rules we live by? On this episode of the Podcast we speak with Pia Mancini, co-founder of Democracy Earth and Open Collective. Pia is an activist, technologist and serial impact entrepreneur working at the intersection of technology and policy making. Pia speaks with us about how we can reorganize how we govern so we are not bound by old rules tied to the places we are born and how decentralizing funding gives us the agility to do the work we love.   Pia is the co-founder of Democracy Earth, a foundation dedicated to incorruptible digital governance for organizations, and Open Collective, a platform for organizations to collect and spend transparently. She is the Chairwoman of The DemocracyOS Foundation, a Y Combinator backed collaborative decision-making platform. In the city of Buenos Aires, she co-founded Partido de la Red (The Net Party) one of the world's first political parties to be fully informed and powered by internet participation. Pia is a representative of the World Economic Forum Social Media Council, a member of The World Fix, and former Chief Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of Political Affairs of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires.

In this episode of the DeFi Download, Piers Ridyard interviews Santiago Siri, founder of Democracy Earth Foundation. Their discussion revolves around the concept of democracy, identity, and new systems of governance and decision-making procedures informed by blockchain protocols and communities that transcend national borders. 

Por Isonomia El Covid aceleró procesos de digitalización que ya venían ocurriendo. El análisis de Santiago Siri, Presidente de la Fundación Democracy Earth. El podcast En pos de sobrevivir, nos volcamos a una vida más digitalizada. Con Santiago Siri de Isonomia se publicó primero en Wetoker.

Our sixth episode features Santiago Siri, founder of Democracy Earth who spoke with us about his first experiences with computers, his political career with the Net Party in Argentina, what drove him to experimental technologies and how we can shape digital identities to create democracies online.    Santiago Siri was born in Buenos Aires. He started his career in the Argentinian gaming industry. He created a game called Football Deluxe. He claims was his experience ‘taught him everything there is about business'. Then he went on to create Popego Inc., a firm doing big data based on social media. In 2012 Santi became the founder of Partido de la Red (The Net Party) in Argentina, a political movement to promote citizen engagement through the use of open source software. Two years later, Santi founded the Democracy Earth Foundation, a non-profit which develops governance infrastructures for crypto networks. He is author of the book Hacktivism. Because of his involvement with innovation and high tech, some have dubbed him “the Steve Jobs of the Pampas”.

Hablamos con Santiago Siri de Bitcoin, DeFi, Ethereum 2.0, Maximalismo, tecnología, criptografía como arma, sistemas de votación, política, Maslatón, criptocomunismo, minería en China, Vitalik Buterin, etc. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/circulovicioso/support

Iniciamos la segunda temporada del bslPodcast, episodio número 21, y como bien lo saben, conversaremos con los principales exponentes de la 4ta versión del Blockchain Summit Latam. En este nuevo episodio conversamos con Santiago Siri, fundador de Democracy Earth, escritor del libro hacktivismo y fue reconocido por el MIT como uno de los jóvenes latinoamericanos innovadores menores de 35 años. Santiago es argentino, emprendedor y un reconocido referente del ecosistema blockchain de Latinoamérica. Conversamos sobre cómo en su vida se topó con la política, la tecnología y blockchain, destacando alguno de sus más importantes proyectos desarrollados. Conocimos su faceta de emprendedor y político argentino, donde cofunda el partido de la red en Argentina y nos comparte algunas anécdotas de dichos procesos. Nos comentó el por qué decidió emigrar de Argentina, y cómo ha podido conocer diferentes realidades alrededor del mundo viviendo en Silicon Valley, Nueva York, y ahora en Madrid. Compartió con nosotros el nacimiento de Democracy Earth, un proyecto que fue acelerado por Y Combinator y que busca empoderar a los individuos de una sociedad. Abordamos con Santiago lo que es gobernanza y blockchain, si realmente se pudiera resolver con la tecnología y sobre todo si esto es posible de implementar en Latinoamérica, conociendo el funcionamiento de nuestros gobiernos. Por último conocimos su mirada con respecto al ecosistema de Latinoamérica y nos compartió varios consejos y reflexiones para todos aquellos que están emprendiendo en este ecosistema. Te invitamos a ver su charla y participar de la 4ta edición del Blockchain Summit Latam, del 2 al 6 de noviembre y de manera gratuita. Visita nuestra página web www.blockchainsummit.la para más información. Te invitamos también a seguir nuestros paneles de conversación todos los miércoles y bslContrarreloj, tu noticiero semanal, ambos por el canal de YouTube del Blockchain Summit Latam. Si te gusta este episodio te invitamos a compartirlo usando el hashtag #bslPodcast y seguirnos en redes como Blockchain Summit Latam. Ahora, a disfrutar de esta conversación.

En el episodio 18 de SI, el podcast de Somos Innovación, Federico N. Fernández conversa con Gonzalo Blousson acerca de Signatura, una plataforma cuyo principal objetivo es la certificación en blockchain de documentos de todo tipo. Gonzalo también habló respecto de cómo ve a Bitcoin y cuáles son otros proyectos basados en cadenas de bloques que le interesan. Nuestro invitado: Gonzalo Blousson (ARG) es un emprendedor de internet desde sus inicios, con experiencia corporativa en las industrias bancaria y de seguros. Actualmente se desempeña como CEO de Signatura, compañía de la que es también co-fundador. Pueden encontrar a Gonzalo en redes en LinkedIn, Twitter y en la web de Signatura (https://signatura.co). Links relevantes: Signatura Blog (https://blog.signatura.co) Kleros (https://kleros.io) Democracy Earth (https://democracy.earth) Somos Innovación en Redes: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/innovacionsomos/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/LatAmInnovacion Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SomosInnovacionLatAm/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/somos-innovaci%C3%B3n/ Web: SomosInnovacion.lat Acerca de Somos Innovación: Somos un grupo de individuos e instituciones que están convencidos que a través de soluciones innovadoras es cómo las personas se involucran en la resolución de problemas. Por ello, cuando los innovadores crean nuevas tecnologías o nuevos modelos de negocio, las mismas deberían permitirse por defecto. A menos que se pueda presentar un argumento muy sólido contra una nueva invención, el derecho a existir de las innovaciones debería ser siempre respetado. Son los consumidores quienes deben aprobarlas o rechazarlas en el mercado. La verdadera catástrofe es no permitir este proceso a través de excesos regulatorios o prohibiciones. El Futuro Llama.

In this episode, I interview Santiago Siri. Santiago is an impressive man. He is primarily a programmer and has great skills in the blockchain technology. However, he is also an activist. In his country, Argentina, he founded a political party and got local leaders to promise to follow the people's will if he created an internet-based platform for people to vote, which he did. As exciting as it was, he was presented with terrible surprises, including a request for him to bribe a judge $100.000 in order to be able to present himself as a candidate. His experience in Buenos Aires led him to the conclusion that nation-states are too corrupt to be fixed. When institutions are too corrupt, what can we do? Santiago didn't give up. He co-founded Democracy Earth, an NGO whose purpose is the research of creating censorship-resistant digital democracies. I'll let you listen to the incredible political and technological genius he and his team are showing. If you are not skilled in IT yourself, don't panic, I tried to keep this conversation as comprehensible as possible for the non-technical ear. I believe it is important for people to listen to this, as there is a technological revolution taking place that many are unaware of. In this interview, I try to discuss in layman terms the amazing and cutting-edge research that is being led at Democracy Earth, right at the crossroads of technology, politics, and finance.

Hola, bienvenidos al episodio 26 del podcast de BTCenEspañol, que es posible gracias a CoinFabrik, que desde el 2014 han trabajado en más de 100 proyectos en cripto activos y blockchain.CoinFabrik se focaliza en servicios de auditorias en seguridad, desarrollo de software, consultoría e investigación.Si necesitas ayuda con tus proyectos blockchain te invito a que visites su pagina web coinfabrik.com (con k al final), donde tendrás más información sobre sus servicios y puedes ponerte en contacto directo con ellos.Si conoces a alguien que esté buscando alternativas de ingresos y le interese iniciarse en el mundo del trading de criptomonedas, junto con CryptoResources lanzamos la pre-venta de un curso completo de trading que le ayudará a comenzar muy rápidamente a tradear con bitcoin, ethereum o cualquier otra criptomoneda.Solo en esta etapa de pre-venta y hasta el próximo Viernes 24 de Abril de 2020 a la media noche, hay un descuento único de 40% y un bonus, que no se va a repetir. Para más información envíame un email a joaquin@btcenespanol.comHoy tengo de invitado a una persona cuya búsqueda de una mejor democracia y su fanatismo por la tecnología lo llevó a fundar su propio partido político y a crear una fundación internacional que busca desarrollar herramientas de democracia utilizando redes crypto.Estoy hablando de Santiago Siri Fundador de Democracy Earth.En la conversación hablamos de:Sus comienzos en Bitcoin en 2011Su opinión sobre la impresión de dinero única en la historiaPetrodolar y la debilidad de Estados Unidos.Qué le ha dejado bitcoinQué trabajo hacen en Democracy EarthLas amenazas que recibió durante su época como lider de un partido político.Lecciones aprendidas luego de experimentar 5 años con proyectos de democracia alrededor del mundoQue herramientas existen para tener una "prueba de humanidad" confiable y seguray muchos temas másPuedes conectar directamente con Santiago en Twitter si lo buscas @santisiri (https://twitter.com/santisiri)Si te gusta este podcast, déjanos tus comentarios en twitter o compártelos a aquellos que les pueda interesar.Espero que te agregue valor! [LINKS]The Whuffie Bank en TechCrunch Disrupt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O15YGYOiviQPaper de Democracy Earth: http://paper.democracy.earth/On Computable Numbers (Alan Turing) → https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdfTeoría de la comunicación (Claude Shannon) → http://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.pdfPaper de Bitcoin (Satoshi Nakamoto) → https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

This week I spoke with Paula Berman (@_paulaberman), researcher at the Democracy Earth Foundation (@DemocracyEarth) which is a tech non-profit that aims to create platforms for decentralized and incorruptible online governance. Their projects have largely been based on Ethereum.In the interview we discuss the identity problem for decentralized platforms like blockchain, the advantages of quadratic voting as opposed to current systems, and why the Left should care about all these things.Sign up for the Blockchain 101 for Socialists Live SessionEventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/blockchain-10…m_term=fullLinkNewsletter: theblockchainsocialist.com/sign-up-for…newsletter/Discord: discord.gg/Hs78cVMWant to stay in touch?Check the site -> theblockchainsocialist.com/Join the community -> www.reddit.com/r/cryptoleftists/Contribute to the project -> www.patreon.com/theblockchainsocialistOther Platforms:Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/3geORcile9E…hURsSBlErXnihh9AiTunes: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-…st/id1501607045Soundcloud: @theblockchainsocialistStitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-blockchain-socialistPodcast Addict: podplayer.net/?podId=2598359Deezer: www.deezer.com/us/show/961422Podchaser: www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-blo…ocialist-1034109iHeart Radio: www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-b…cialist-59432216/Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/theblockchainsocialist)

Santiago Siri, the cofounder and president of Democracy Earth, reads from his essay on how governance and identity change in the age of cryptography. Thank you to our sponsors!  Kraken: https://www.kraken.com CipherTrace: https://ciphertrace.com Crypto.com: https://crypto.com/

Santiago Siri, the cofounder and president of Democracy Earth, reads from his essay on how governance and identity change in the age of cryptography. Thank you to our sponsors!  Kraken: https://www.kraken.com CipherTrace: https://ciphertrace.com Crypto.com: https://crypto.com/

Alanna Hartzok is an educator, activist, and lecturer in the areas of economic justice, land rights, and land-value tax reform. She is co-director of Earth Rights Institute; General Secretary for the International Union for Land Value Taxation; Global Outreach Coordinator for the Robert Schalkenback Foundation; and a member of the Advisory Council for the Prout Research Institute of Venezuela.She delivered this speech at the 21st Annual E.F. Schumacher Lectures in October 2001.If you would like a physical copy of this lecture or others like it, visit centerforneweconomics.org/order-pamphlets to purchase pamphlets of published works and transcripts.The Schumacher Center's applied work seeks to implement the principles described by these speakers within the context of the Berkshire hills of Massachusetts. Our work, both educational and applied, is supported by listeners like you. You can strengthen our mission by making a donation at centerforneweconomics.org/donate, or call us at (413) 528-1737 to make an appointment to visit our research library and office at 140 Jug End Road, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Repost from Humans of Bitcoin podcast: "A look at DAOs, political organizing, and latin america from one of the thought leaders of the Ethereum ecosystem, Santi Siri."

The inflation rate in Argentina is currently at 55% per year. It's not a surprise that bitcoin has a strong following and usage there. A talented developer and thinker, Santiago is the founder of Democracy Earth. He's someone that gets a ring from political activists in Chile and Mexico asking him for advice on how to organize digitally. He declined to work with the political party in Mexico due to ethical reasons. He also started a political party, the Net Party, in 2012 in Argentina. I'll leave it there. Listen to the episode!!

Agatha Bacelar is a 27-year-old Brazilian-American running for Congress in California’s 12th district, a seat currently held by House speaker Nancy Pelosi. Agatha is not your typical Congressional candidate. With a degree from Stanford University and a professional background in blockchain, Agatha is aiming to make tech regulation an important conversation in politics. In this conversation, Agatha discusses how she got into politics, her time working at Democracy Earth, her stance on universal basic income, and why now is the time to run against the most powerful Democrat in the country. I hope you enjoy the episode.

Herb Stephens is the co-founder of Democracy Earth, a non-profit dedicated to building open-source and censorship resistant democracies. He's also a Universal Basic Income advocate who will be speaking at the San Francisco Basic Income March on October 27th. We talked to Herb about his company - Democracy Earth, cryptocurrencies and the effects of new technologies in global politics. You can learn more about Democracy Earth by visiting their website at: https://democracy.earth/ You can find out more about the Basic Income March by visiting: https://www.basicincomemarch.com/ And you can find out more about Herb by following him on Twitter at: @HerbStephens

En esta edición de “Algo que decir” conversamos sobre la relación actual entre política y tecnología. La desinformación y la injerencia extranjera se han convertido en una fatalidad de los procesos electorales. Las redes sociales exacerban la polarización política y fomentan el ascenso del populismo. Ante este panorama distópico, Santiago Siri propone pistas y herramientas para lidiar con la época y, quizás, convertirla en una oportunidad. El argentino Santiago Siri fue distinguido en 2017 por la revista del MIT (Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts) como uno de los grandes innovadores menores de 35 años de América Latina que están a punto de cambiar el mundo con tecnología. Siri fundó el Partido de la Red en 2012 en Buenos Aires, vivió en Estados Unidos y preside hoy desde Madrid la Fundación Democracy Earth, una start up que busca nada menos que reinventar la democracia a través de herramientas como la inteligencia artificial y la tecnología que se esconde detrás de criptomonedas como el Bitcoin. En esta conversación, hablamos de la tensión entre la política e internet, del escándalo de Cambridge Analytica, del ascenso de los populismos en tiempo de redes sociales, del fin del Estado nación y de cómo la alfabetización digital sea quizás el mejor camino para impedir que vivamos en una pesadilla imaginada por George Orwell.

En esta edición de “Algo que decir” conversamos sobre la relación actual entre política y tecnología. La desinformación y la injerencia extranjera se han convertido en una fatalidad de los procesos electorales. Las redes sociales exacerban la polarización política y fomentan el ascenso del populismo. Ante este panorama distópico, Santiago Siri propone pistas y herramientas para lidiar con la época y, quizás, convertirla en una oportunidad. El argentino Santiago Siri fue distinguido en 2017 por la revista del MIT (Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts) como uno de los grandes innovadores menores de 35 años de América Latina que están a punto de cambiar el mundo con tecnología. Siri fundó el Partido de la Red en 2012 en Buenos Aires, vivió en Estados Unidos y preside hoy desde Madrid la Fundación Democracy Earth, una start up que busca nada menos que reinventar la democracia a través de herramientas como la inteligencia artificial y la tecnología que se esconde detrás de criptomonedas como el Bitcoin. En esta conversación, hablamos de la tensión entre la política e internet, del escándalo de Cambridge Analytica, del ascenso de los populismos en tiempo de redes sociales, del fin del Estado nación y de cómo la alfabetización digital sea quizás el mejor camino para impedir que vivamos en una pesadilla imaginada por George Orwell.

Las instituciones democráticas con las que convivimos hoy en día no han sido fáciles de conseguir y han costado sudor y lágrimas a nuestros ancestros. Hablo con Santi Siri, creador de Democracy Earth, sobre las posibilidades que tendrían estas instituciones (y la política en si) con la aplicación de Blockchain y todo su abanico de posibilidades como red descentralizada e incorruptible.

Este es un episodio especial acerca de Code for Venezuela, una organización creada en San Francisco para unir a toda la diáspora venezolana distribuida por el mundo; conectar experiencia técnica de esta red de profesionales venezolanos y así ayudar a su país usando soluciones basadas en tecnología.  En este episodio, compilé algunas de  las conversaciones que tuve con participantes del Hackathon de Code for Venezuela el 14 de Abril en San Francisco: Fabio Canache,  Ingeniero de Software para Slack en el área de monetización, Johanna Figueira, Coordinadora de Marketing para Code for Venezuela, Eduardo Medina, Desarrollador para Democracy Earth, y Diego García, Manager de Ingeniería para Velocity. Hablamos acerca de sus trabajos, sus historias, y cómo Code for Venezuela y la tecnología están ayudando al país a salir adelante. Conéctate con ellos vía linkedin: Fabio CanacheJohanna FigueiraEduardo MedinaDiego Garcia Recursos mencionados: SF Hackathon - Code for VenezuelaAlumnUSB Médicos por Venezuela Human Rights WatchDemocracy Earth FoundationSovereign - herramienta de gobernanza(votación) de Democracy Earth que puede ser utilizada por distintas redesDr. Julio CastroSlackVlocity CourseraUdacity Nos quieres ayudar a crecer?: Déjanos una reseña en ITunesMandanos un mensaje a ConexionesPodcast@gmail.comCompártelo con un amigo Notas de la conversación con Fabio Canache: 04:06 – Dando la bienvenida a Fabio Canache04:38 – Cómo llegó Fabio a San Francisco05:30 – Qué es un Front End Engineer?06:31 – Como es el trabajo de Fabio en el área de Monetización de Slack FABIO EN EL ÁREA DE MONETIZACIÓN DE SLACK Fabio trabaja en el área de Monetización, es decir, área de pagos y todo lo referido a dinero de Slack. Tienen servicios gratis y pagos, y es un producto global. Su trabajo es crear interfaces para que usuarios puedan ver sus invoices y puedan pagar sus servicios, usando un software por escrito y teniendo en cuenta, entre otras cosas, impuestos y leyes de finanzas cuando escribe el código. La otra parte del equipo se encarga de membresía. Los usuarios tienen beneficios al pagar más y su misión es que vean el valor de su producto. “Hay productos que se pagan con gusto porque hacen el día a día mucho más fácil” 09:31 – Acerca de fair membership11:48 – Experiencia de Fabio en SF Hackathon - Code for Venezuela Notas de la conversación con Johanna Figueira: 13:15 – Dando la bienvenida a Johanna Figueira13:28 – Experiencia de haber estado en SF Hackathon - Code for Venezuela14:43 – Acerca de Johanna y cómo llegó a Code for Venezuela16:14 – La Misión de Code for Venezuela MISIÓN DE CODE FOR VENEZUELA La misión de Code for Venezuela fue organizar la diáspora que trabaja en Tech, en Silicon Valley, y hacer una conexión con Venezuela. Se buscó ayudar al país usando soluciones basadas en tecnología porque era el domino de todo el equipo, pero en el futuro quieren expandir sus áreas de solución. La misión del Hackathon fue crear una comunidad de colaboración para dar solución a los retos. 17:56 – Proceso para elegir los retos de cada grupo21:02 – Mayor sorpresa del Hackathon22:13 – Recuerdo que se lleva Johanna del Hackathon23:21 – Últimas palabras para la audiencia Notas de la conversación con Eduardo Medina: 23:57 – Acerca de Democracy Earth29:47 – Gente involucrada en Democracy Earth31:09 – Historia de Democracy Earth33:54 – Rol de eduardo dentro de la fundación ROL DE EDUARDO EN DEMOCRACY EARTH En la fundación hay dos “developers”, y Eduardo es uno de ellos. Desarrolla software de código abierto, y está en un período de mucha programación y trabajo por hacer. Cualquiera con expertise se puede acercar para ayudar. “En Democracy Earth creemos que una persona puede aprender a programar y hacer un cambio grande” 35:14 – Motivo del viaje de Eduardo de New York al Hackathon en San Francisco37:06 – Qué reto les tocó?38:46 – Recuerdo que se lleva Eduardo del Hackathon

Este es un episodio especial acerca de Code for Venezuela, una organización creada en San Francisco para unir a toda la diáspora venezolana distribuida por el mundo; conectar experiencia técnica de esta red de profesionales venezolanos y así ayudar a su país usando soluciones basadas en tecnología.  En este episodio, compilé algunas de  las conversaciones que tuve con participantes del Hackathon de Code for Venezuela el 14 de Abril en San Francisco: Fabio Canache,  Ingeniero de Software para Slack en el área de monetización, Johanna Figueira, Coordinadora de Marketing para Code for Venezuela, Eduardo Medina, Desarrollador para Democracy Earth, y Diego García, Manager de Ingeniería para Velocity. Hablamos acerca de sus trabajos, sus historias, y cómo Code for Venezuela y la tecnología están ayudando al país a salir adelante. Conéctate con ellos vía linkedin: Fabio CanacheJohanna FigueiraEduardo MedinaDiego Garcia Recursos mencionados: SF Hackathon - Code for VenezuelaAlumnUSB Médicos por Venezuela Human Rights WatchDemocracy Earth FoundationSovereign - herramienta de gobernanza(votación) de Democracy Earth que puede ser utilizada por distintas redesDr. Julio CastroSlackVlocity CourseraUdacity Nos quieres ayudar a crecer?: Déjanos una reseña en ITunesMandanos un mensaje a ConexionesPodcast@gmail.comCompártelo con un amigo Notas de la conversación con Fabio Canache: 04:06 – Dando la bienvenida a Fabio Canache04:38 – Cómo llegó Fabio a San Francisco05:30 – Qué es un Front End Engineer?06:31 – Como es el trabajo de Fabio en el área de Monetización de Slack FABIO EN EL ÁREA DE MONETIZACIÓN DE SLACK Fabio trabaja en el área de Monetización, es decir, área de pagos y todo lo referido a dinero de Slack. Tienen servicios gratis y pagos, y es un producto global. Su trabajo es crear interfaces para que usuarios puedan ver sus invoices y puedan pagar sus servicios, usando un software por escrito y teniendo en cuenta, entre otras cosas, impuestos y leyes de finanzas cuando escribe el código. La otra parte del equipo se encarga de membresía. Los usuarios tienen beneficios al pagar más y su misión es que vean el valor de su producto. “Hay productos que se pagan con gusto porque hacen el día a día mucho más fácil” 09:31 – Acerca de fair membership11:48 – Experiencia de Fabio en SF Hackathon - Code for Venezuela Notas de la conversación con Johanna Figueira: 13:15 – Dando la bienvenida a Johanna Figueira13:28 – Experiencia de haber estado en SF Hackathon - Code for Venezuela14:43 – Acerca de Johanna y cómo llegó a Code for Venezuela16:14 – La Misión de Code for Venezuela MISIÓN DE CODE FOR VENEZUELA La misión de Code for Venezuela fue organizar la diáspora que trabaja en Tech, en Silicon Valley, y hacer una conexión con Venezuela. Se buscó ayudar al país usando soluciones basadas en tecnología porque era el domino de todo el equipo, pero en el futuro quieren expandir sus áreas de solución. La misión del Hackathon fue crear una comunidad de colaboración para dar solución a los retos. 17:56 – Proceso para elegir los retos de cada grupo21:02 – Mayor sorpresa del Hackathon22:13 – Recuerdo que se lleva Johanna del Hackathon23:21 – Últimas palabras para la audiencia Notas de la conversación con Eduardo Medina: 23:57 – Acerca de Democracy Earth29:47 – Gente involucrada en Democracy Earth31:09 – Historia de Democracy Earth33:54 – Rol de eduardo dentro de la fundación

Este es un episodio especial acerca de Code for Venezuela, una organización creada en San Francisco para unir a toda la diáspora venezolana distribuida por el mundo; conectar experiencia técnica de esta red de profesionales venezolanos y así ayudar a su país usando soluciones basadas en tecnología.  En este episodio, compilé algunas de  las conversaciones que tuve con participantes del Hackathon de Code for Venezuela el 14 de Abril en San Francisco: Fabio Canache,  Ingeniero de Software para Slack en el área de monetización, Johanna Figueira, Coordinadora de Marketing para Code for Venezuela, Eduardo Medina, Desarrollador para Democracy Earth, y Diego García, Manager de Ingeniería para Velocity. Hablamos acerca de sus trabajos, sus historias, y cómo Code for Venezuela y la tecnología están ayudando al país a salir adelante. Conéctate con ellos vía linkedin: * Fabio Canache* Johanna Figueira* Eduardo Medina* Diego Garcia Recursos mencionados: * SF Hackathon - Code for Venezuela* AlumnUSB * Médicos por Venezuela * Human Rights Watch* Democracy Earth Foundation* Sovereign - herramienta de gobernanza(votación) de Democracy Earth que puede ser utilizada por distintas redes* Dr. Julio Castro* Slack* Vlocity * Coursera* Udacity Nos quieres ayudar a crecer?: * Déjanos una reseña en ITunes* Mandanos un mensaje a ConexionesPodcast@gmail.com* Compártelo con un amigo Notas de la conversación con Fabio Canache: * 04:06 – Dando la bienvenida a Fabio Canache* 04:38 – Cómo llegó Fabio a San Francisco* 05:30 – Qué es un Front End Engineer?* 06:31 – Como es el trabajo de Fabio en el área de Monetización de Slack FABIO EN EL ÁREA DE MONETIZACIÓN DE SLACK Fabio trabaja en el área de Monetización, es decir, área de pagos y todo lo referido a dinero de Slack. Tienen servicios gratis y pagos, y es un producto global. Su trabajo es crear interfaces para que usuarios puedan ver sus invoices y puedan pagar sus servicios, usando un software por escrito y teniendo en cuenta, entre otras cosas, impuestos y leyes de finanzas cuando escribe el código. La otra parte del equipo se encarga de membresía. Los usuarios tienen beneficios al pagar más y su misión es que vean el valor de su producto. “Hay productos que se pagan con gusto porque hacen el día a día mucho más fácil” * 09:31 – Acerca de fair membership* 11:48 – Experiencia de Fabio en SF Hackathon - Code for Venezuela Notas de la conversación con Johanna Figueira: * 13:15 – Dando la bienvenida a Johanna Figueira* 13:28 – Experiencia de haber estado en SF Hackathon - Code for Venezuela* 14:43 – Acerca de Johanna y cómo llegó a Code for Venezuela* 16:14 – La Misión de Code for Venezuela

Este es un episodio especial acerca de Code for Venezuela, una organización creada en San Francisco para unir a toda la diáspora venezolana distribuida por el mundo; conectar experiencia técnica de esta red de profesionales venezolanos y así ayudar a su país usando soluciones basadas en tecnología.  En este episodio, compilé algunas de  las conversaciones que tuve con participantes del Hackathon de Code for Venezuela el 14 de Abril en San Francisco: Fabio Canache,  Ingeniero de Software para Slack en el área de monetización, Johanna Figueira, Coordinadora de Marketing para Code for Venezuela, Eduardo Medina, Desarrollador para Democracy Earth, y Diego García, Manager de Ingeniería para Velocity. Hablamos acerca de sus trabajos, sus historias, y cómo Code for Venezuela y la tecnología están ayudando al país a salir adelante. Conéctate con ellos vía linkedin: Fabio CanacheJohanna FigueiraEduardo MedinaDiego Garcia Recursos mencionados: SF Hackathon - Code for VenezuelaAlumnUSB Médicos por Venezuela Human Rights WatchDemocracy Earth FoundationSovereign - herramienta de gobernanza(votación) de Democracy Earth que puede ser utilizada por distintas redesDr. Julio CastroSlackVlocity CourseraUdacity Nos quieres ayudar a crecer?: Déjanos una reseña en ITunesMandanos un mensaje a ConexionesPodcast@gmail.comCompártelo con un amigo Notas de la conversación con Fabio Canache: 04:06 – Dando la bienvenida a Fabio Canache04:38 – Cómo llegó Fabio a San Francisco05:30 – Qué es un Front End Engineer?06:31 – Como es el trabajo de Fabio en el área de Monetización de Slack FABIO EN EL ÁREA DE MONETIZACIÓN DE SLACK Fabio trabaja en el área de Monetización, es decir, área de pagos y todo lo referido a dinero de Slack. Tienen servicios gratis y pagos, y es un producto global. Su trabajo es crear interfaces para que usuarios puedan ver sus invoices y puedan pagar sus servicios, usando un software por escrito y teniendo en cuenta, entre otras cosas, impuestos y leyes de finanzas cuando escribe el código. La otra parte del equipo se encarga de membresía. Los usuarios tienen beneficios al pagar más y su misión es que vean el valor de su producto. “Hay productos que se pagan con gusto porque hacen el día a día mucho más fácil” 09:31 – Acerca de fair membership11:48 – Experiencia de Fabio en SF Hackathon - Code for Venezuela Notas de la conversación con Johanna Figueira: 13:15 – Dando la bienvenida a Johanna Figueira13:28 – Experiencia de haber estado en SF Hackathon - Code for Venezuela14:43 – Acerca de Johanna y cómo llegó a Code for Venezuela16:14 – La Misión de Code for Venezuela MISIÓN DE CODE FOR VENEZUELA La misión de Code for Venezuela fue organizar la diáspora que trabaja en Tech, en Silicon Valley, y hacer una conexión con Venezuela. Se buscó ayudar al país usando soluciones basadas en tecnología porque era el domino de todo el equipo, pero en el futuro quieren expandir sus áreas de solución. La misión del Hackathon fue crear una comunidad de colaboración para dar solución a los retos. 17:56 – Proceso para elegir los retos de cada grupo21:02 – Mayor sorpresa del Hackathon22:13 – Recuerdo que se lleva Johanna del Hackathon23:21 – Últimas palabras para la audiencia Notas de la conversación con Eduardo Medina: 23:57 – Acerca de Democracy Earth29:47 – Gente involucrada en Democracy Earth31:09 – Historia de Democracy Earth33:54 – Rol de eduardo dentro de la fundación

Today’s episode features a conversation between Santi Siri - Founder of Democracy Earth Foundation, the Y Combinator-backed non-profit enabling token-based community participation - and Patrick Stanley, Blockstack’s Head of Growth. Together, they explore the concept of democracy, the decline of nation-states, and the potential of open-source protocols and crypto networks to enable free, sovereign, and incorruptible governance. 00:42 Patrick tells the story of how he and Santi met in San Francisco through Balaji Srinivasan. https://twitter.com/balajis https://www.amazon.com/Sovereign-Individual-Mastering-Transition-Information/dp/0684832720 02:19 Patrick: "For the folks who don't know you: who are you and what have you been working on?” 02:24 Santi: "For the last six years or so I've been implementing new kinds of democratic experiments... which led to the formation of The Democracy Earth Foundation where we explore this intersection of using blockchain based networks to deploy democracy over the Internet." https://democracy.earth https://twitter.com/democracyearth 04:03 Patrick: "Can you unpack your tweet: 'The Internet is not compatible with the nation state?'" https://twitter.com/santisiri/status/998028341633568769 05:40 Santi: "If not even the US is protected from foreign influence meddling with domestic affairs, then the nation state is no more. We have to acknowledge the fact that we live in the Age of Information.” 06:05 Patrick: "Presuming that's correct, what's next then?" 06:13 Santi: "I think it's the most interesting moment in time to be working on software." 06:55 Santi: "Democracy is simply an idea that can be extremely helpful when you really need it the most: when you face disagreements as a society or organization." 07:25 Patrick: "Where do you believe democracy should be applied in the context of deep disagreements in the crypto protocol space?" 07:36 Santi: "It is challenging in crypto because it's an environment where creating an identity is extremely, extremely cheap." 08:11 Santi: "Most of the governance happening in crypto today is fundamentally proof of stake or coin voting. For private endeavors, it works very well - it's like shareholder voting. Often less than 1% has over 50% of the vote." 08:38 Patrick: "Something about that sounds wrong, doesn't it?" 08:41 Santi: "Governance is tricky because it's not just the elite that understands how the system works. There are other constituents that are the people impacted by an economy. Not everyone is an economist, but everyone is impacted by the decisions they make about the economy." 9:00 Santi: "So if you don't want to have an elite running a society and you really want a society where everyone's input is considered, democracy becomes very useful. The challenge is not just reaching the best decision in a collective way, but reaching a legitimate decision - one that the greater constituency supports, and not just a powerful minority." 9:58 Patrick: "You've been working on quadratic voting. Can you tell folks what this is and what hopes you have for it?" 10:10 Santi: "Quadratic voting is an idea that comes from the Microsoft researcher and founder of the RadicalxChange movement, Glen Weyl..." http://glenweyl.com/research/ https://radicalxchange.org/ 10:27 Santi: "The idea is you can vote on any issue and every voter gets the same amount of credits, but the more votes you put on a specific issue, it will cost you an exponential amount.” 10:58 Santi: "If you really care for one issue, the opportunity cost will be really high for not supporting other issues." 11:11 Santi: "This leads to this outcome where the winning option is something that is the preference of the community, but also - because of this interesting quality of square roots - it's also an option that has the greatest support among the quantity of voters." 11:29 Patrick: "The one catch there that I'm thinking of is Sybil attacks... how do you stop those?" 11:50 Santi: "We're actually researching using quadratic voting to validate identities themselves." 12:32 Santi: "The two requirements of quadratic voting (qv) is that you need to have a strong consensus and identities participating. This is a requirement of any democratic system. And then you have a Universal Basic Income mechanism of some kind." 12:54 Patrick: "You mentioned previously a fear of becoming Facebook in the process of solving this problem. What's the concern there?" 13:21 Santi: "Facebook became a relevant attack vector for legacy democracies because they've become the largest identity registry in the world." 13:36 Santi: "There are two ways to subvert democracy: one is control the identity registry of voters and the other one is gossip - false information that confuses the voters." 13:53 Santi: "If we're going to do any kind of formalization of identity... to help people trust that there's a human behind an address and that that human doesn't hold the keys to any other address within a consensus... we should do it in a way that prevents the formation of a monopoly." 14:20 Santi: "If you end up having a monopoly like Facebook or the People's Republic of China, then you have this Orwellian situation that works against the interests of democracy: free speech, the right to legitimate information...." 14:40 Santi: "The challenge is how do you have a marketplace that does not allow for the formation of monopolies?" 15:29 Santi: "We've been very lucky at Democracy Earth to do the first quadratic voting implementation for the state of Colorado." 15:58 Santi: "It's an incredible precedent. The first official quadratic voting round under the US government." 16:15 Patrick: "Do you feel online voting has more or fewer attack vectors than traditional voting?" 16:46 Santi: "Where there are deep disagreements, the stakes are high, and where the stakes are very high, attacks will happen." 17:21 Santi: "In traditional democracies, I think the best recommendation I've seen is actually from the German Supreme Court in 2009 where they argued... that hybrid models are ultimately best." 17:47 Santi: "The idea of paper is important because in large populations there are still not 100% digital natives. ... Our parents and elders are really digital migrants and we need to respect that reality." 18:12 Santi: "Democracy, at the end of the day, is always a work in progress.... It's really an ideology about how we make decisions." 18:47 Santi: "We cannot surrender this battle in the world of crypto." 18:56 Santi: "If this is the new world that we're creating... a new kind of plutocracy or oligarchy... we deserve better... and we should be daring to think about what democracy means in all of these contexts." 19:12 Santi: "We can really make something better that what the nation state has given us." 19:17 Patrick: "What are you excited about and see as worth pursuing in the next 20 or so years?" 19:48 Santi: "The rise of nations and the idea of nationality was a consequence of information technology. The printing press allowed for people to start writing and publishing books not in the language of power - that was Latin - but in their vernacular local languages. ... that gave this sense of being part of a large imagined community through literature." 20:23 Santi: "With crypto I think we're witnessing a similar phenomenon. In the rise of maximalism and these new protocols are a kind of nationalism." 20:32 Santi: "It's very clear these are nations founded not in a common language, but actually in a common ideology. If you're an Austrian economics money fetishist, you'll be a Bitcoiner." 21:22 Santi: "We troll each other too much, but we're really good, nice idealists." 21:35 Patrick: "The great thing about Twitter is you can lose your mind in public." 21:50 Santi: "The revolution of our generation is in crypto." 22:01 Patrick: "I would classify Bitcoiners as probably more libertarian, conservative leaning, less likely to be liberal - not to say there aren't any liberals in Bitcoin - and very much in the Hayek/Austrian school of economic thinking." 22:38 Patrick: "It does feel like people are splitting up into their own ideologies, but it still does feel like it's very early on and we're kind of in the Germanic nation state building era." 22:51 Santi: "We're discovering where the boundaries and new geographies and frontiers are. But there are frontiers and maximalism as nationalism is a very real thing." 23:06 Patrick: "Definitely. And I also think there will be fights and violence and - at a minimum - cyber warfare and meme warfare and potentially physical warfare between protocols. There's a lot at stake - especially over a long enough timeline, if these things accrue value." 23:33 Patrick: "Crypto is inherently political." 24:10 Santi: "I recently was with an expert on military defense and strategy and the way they approach the idea of how the world is at right now around in terms of cyber attacks and this whole new ground of the battlefield is that we're not in war or peace, but a world of un-peace. Everyone has to assume they've already been attacked." 25:10 Santi: "In China, you have to use a VPN. It's interesting. ... being there really pushes you to think about how you're being observed." 25:38 Patrick: "What changed in your mind about China visiting recently?" 25:43 Santi: "It's the one place where Communism took over and won and it's been the highest growth country on the whole planet for the last three to four decades." 26:08 Santi: "It turns out the Communist elites are the best administrators of modern capitalism." 26:23 Santi: "You feel the authoritarian state everywhere. You see cameras everywhere." 26:46 Santi: "There are some things about the transformation of China that you can really see being there. Of course, they are the worst about free speech - you have to access the Internet through a VPN. But on climate change, the silence coming from every single motor [being electric] in Beijing is really mind blowing." 27:31 Santi: "Communism was this terrible thing in the 20th Century. I watched the horror of Venezuela very closely and went to Cuba for a month when I was very young and it was a heartbreaking environment. It really was a big failure." 27:45 Santi: "But the Chinese experiment - at the same time - had this tremendous potential of bringing 300 - 400 million people into the life of the middle class." 27:58 Santi: "I come from a developing nation and I scratch my head how we can deal with 30% of the people in my country that are below the poverty line." 28:19 Santi: "There are a lot of things going wrong [in China] - I mean they're persecuting Muslims... that's why we need the Internet." 28:32 Santi: "For Democracy Earth, I think there's no bigger, killer use case than a Chinese democracy." 28:43 Patrick: "What do you think China got right that Cuba got wrong?" 28:46 Santi: "Deng Xiaoping allowing private property and capitalism." 29:12 Santi: "It is the labor of the world - the proletariat of the world. All of our iPhones, all of our computers, all of our chips...." 29:35 Santi: "In this age where we do perceive rising inequality, we do perceive the advance of automation. ... I don't think we should be so afraid of these ideas." 30:15 Santi: "All of the revolutions that happened in the 20th century happened in poor countries." 30:47 Santi: "People are talking about taxing AIs and robots - that's kind of what Marx was talking about." 31:02 Santi: "I don't believe much in revolutions because they all have this original sin of violence and I think we have much better tools than guns." 31:26 Santi: "We can definitely use computers to create better societies." 31:34 Patrick: "If some democracy is good, is absolute democracy better? And how do you avoid the Kyklos?" 32:46 Patrick: "It's democracy, aristocracy, and monarchy. And the three degenerate forms of these are ochlocracy, oligarchy, and tyranny." 33:08 Santi: "These thinkers are trying to find the gears of history, which are very hard to find. But if they are somewhere, I think it's looking through the lens information and information theory." 33:27 Santi: "I don't like absolutist ideas in politics. We need to use different tools for different means. It's evident that private endeavors and companies are much better governed by dictators - some people call them CEOs.” 34:04 Santi: "What I'm reading a lot lately is 'An Introduction to the Theory of Mechanism Design’ by Tobin Borgers." https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Theory-Mechanism-Design/dp/019973402X 34:43 Santi: "I began my career as a video game developer and today I find myself reading a lot about game theory as it applies to the context of crypto." 35:10 Patrick: "Any other recommendations for books about game theory?" 35:24 Santi: "George Gilder's 'Knowledge and Power' which applies an information theory lens to understand capitalism." 35:46 Patrick: "There's probably a lot of listeners trying to learn more about how democracy can work online and what are the hard problems being solved... what would you recommend checking out?" 36:04 Santi: "I feel compelled to recommend the work we've been doing at Democracy Earth at democracy.earth and @democracyearth on Twitter." 36:43 Santi: "Everyone I talk to is very confused about things right now." 36:50 Patrick: "What do you mean?" 37:16 Santi: "We lost our compass in terms of what's democracy in modern day America - in the civilization we're creating. So we're all in a state of confusion." 37:31 Patrick: "Any other books or blog posts you'd recommend to listeners on democracy?" 37:37 Santi: "Hélène Landemore's 'Democratic Reason'" https://press.princeton.edu/titles/9907.html 38:07 Goodbyes. 38:19 Credits. Santi Siri: twitter.com/SantiSiri Patrick Stanley: twitter.com/PatrickWStanley Zach Valenti: twitter.com/ZachValenti See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Santiago Siri is the founder of the Democracy Earth Foundation. In this conversation, we discuss what democracy actually means, how technology can improve governance in different ways, why he started a political party, how he helped implement quadratic voting in a US state, and where blockchain technology can create real world impact in the short term. ----- If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe. This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworksgroup.io

Santiago is the founder of Democracy Earth, an open source platform for governance and community participation. A former video game developer turned activist-slash-founding member of Argentina's political party Partido de la Red, Santi takes us on a walk through NYC's central park to talk about the future of democracy. We explore the intersection between democracy and the internet to understand how technology can help make governance better - in the democratic systems of our future, as well as in any other community we're building. And because we like to keep our episodes unpredictable, this one features the lovely–yet sometimes distracting–chirping of birds on a spring day in New York City's Central Park. Ladies and gents, here is episode 19 of the Community Podcast with Santiago Siri.

Glen Weyl, a political economist and social technologist, the coauthor of Radical Markets and a principal researcher at Microsoft, and Santiago Siri, the founder of Democracy Earth, discuss how blockchains can be used to create borderless democracies that can reach any citizen on earth and can be used not just by nation-states but in all kinds of communities such as the workplace, church or a social network like Facebook. We cover concepts such as quadratic finance and quadratic voting, and look at how forcing voters to have a budget for their votes changes voting behavior. We also dive into what needs to be put in place for blockchain-based voting systems to work, why identity solutions are crucial but also so hard to get right, and how we can prevent token-based governance systems from becoming plutocracies. Plus, we surmise that blockchain-based governance might be the 21st century political experiment and that someday, we may all be citizens of multiple communities. Thank you to our sponsors! CipherTrace: http://ciphertrace.com/unchained Microsoft: https://twitter.com/MSFTBlockchain and https://aka.ms/unchained Episode links: Democracy Earth:  https://www.democracy.earth Santiago Siri: https://twitter.com/santisiri Radical Xchange: https://twitter.com/RadxChange Glen Weyl: https://twitter.com/glenweyl Radical Xchange conference in March: radicalxchange.org Radical Markets: https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11222.html Democracy Earth white paper: https://www.dropbox.com/s/sifogl4zimwkkei/Democracy%20Earth%20-%20Social%20Smart%20Contract%20-%20Paper%20v0.2.pdf?dl=0 Democracy Earth cofounder Pia Mancini on early work with digital democracy: https://www.ted.com/talks/pia_mancini_how_to_upgrade_democracy_for_the_internet_era?language=en Santi on how blockchains could revolutionize democracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UajbQTHnTfM Wired article on Democracy Earth: https://www.wired.com/story/santiago-siri-radical-plan-for-blockchain-voting/ CoinDesk feature on Glen Weyl: https://www.coindesk.com/coindesk-most-influential-blockchain-2018-glen-weyl Vitalik Buterin blog post on Radical Markets: https://vitalik.ca/general/2018/04/20/radical_markets.html Paper by Vitalik, Zoe Hitzig and Glen on quadratic financing: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3243656

Glen Weyl, a political economist and social technologist, the coauthor of Radical Markets and a principal researcher at Microsoft, and Santiago Siri, the founder of Democracy Earth, discuss how blockchains can be used to create borderless democracies that can reach any citizen on earth and can be used not just by nation-states but in all kinds of communities such as the workplace, church or a social network like Facebook. We cover concepts such as quadratic finance and quadratic voting, and look at how forcing voters to have a budget for their votes changes voting behavior. We also dive into what needs to be put in place for blockchain-based voting systems to work, why identity solutions are crucial but also so hard to get right, and how we can prevent token-based governance systems from becoming plutocracies. Plus, we surmise that blockchain-based governance might be the 21st century political experiment and that someday, we may all be citizens of multiple communities. Thank you to our sponsors! CipherTrace: http://ciphertrace.com/unchained Microsoft: https://twitter.com/MSFTBlockchain and https://aka.ms/unchained Episode links: Democracy Earth:  https://www.democracy.earth Santiago Siri: https://twitter.com/santisiri Radical Xchange: https://twitter.com/RadxChange Glen Weyl: https://twitter.com/glenweyl Radical Xchange conference in March: radicalxchange.org Radical Markets: https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11222.html Democracy Earth white paper: https://www.dropbox.com/s/sifogl4zimwkkei/Democracy%20Earth%20-%20Social%20Smart%20Contract%20-%20Paper%20v0.2.pdf?dl=0 Democracy Earth cofounder Pia Mancini on early work with digital democracy: https://www.ted.com/talks/pia_mancini_how_to_upgrade_democracy_for_the_internet_era?language=en Santi on how blockchains could revolutionize democracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UajbQTHnTfM Wired article on Democracy Earth: https://www.wired.com/story/santiago-siri-radical-plan-for-blockchain-voting/ CoinDesk feature on Glen Weyl: https://www.coindesk.com/coindesk-most-influential-blockchain-2018-glen-weyl Vitalik Buterin blog post on Radical Markets: https://vitalik.ca/general/2018/04/20/radical_markets.html Paper by Vitalik, Zoe Hitzig and Glen on quadratic financing: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3243656

Santiago Siri est le fondateur et président de Democracy Earth, une organisation à but non lucratif, accélérée par Y Combinator, qui développe une solution open-source pour le vote en ligne. Il est également membre fondateur du« Partido de la Red » (le parti du Net), un parti politique argentin qui vise à améliorer la représentation de candidats engagés via des requêtes citoyennes en ligne. Défenseur du Bitcoin depuis 2011, il aide certaines Startups et organisations à adopter ce système de transactions révolutionnaires. Élu « Global Shaper » par le Forum Économique Mondial, il publie son premier livre « Hacktivismo » en 2015.➡️ En savoir plus sur https://fr.boma.global Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

Our guest in this episode is Pia Mancini, a political scientist and activist from Argentina, who has spent most of her career researching and experimenting how we can upgrade democracy for the modern world. She is the co-founder of Open Collective, which supports groups to quickly set up a collective, raise funds and manage them transparently, and Democracy Earth, an open source and decentralized democratic governance protocol for any kind of organization. Today we talk about how democracy can function better in the age of internet, why we are seeing signs of the return of the city-state, how to build a self-sovereign identity, pros and cons of liquid democracy, and how to enable large scale cooperation in decision making. IN THIS EPISODE OF FUTURE THINKERS: - Why democracy is outdated and which aspects of it need to be upgraded - How the trust in society is shifting from present political systems to technology based solutions - Flow and access to information as a primer purpose of future political systems - Pros and cons of liquid democracy and how to build it on a global scale - How nation states are being challenged by cryptocurrency - The rising power of cities and possible return of city-states to the world - The minimum capabilities and structures that a city of the future needs to provide for its citizens - The challenges of building a self-sovereign identity that is resistant to civil attacks - What structures are useful to test and implement in order to deal with problems such as climate change or extremist governments Show notes: http://www.futurethinkers.org/70 Join the Future Thinkers Community on Discord: https://www.futurethinkers.org/discord This episode is sponsored by: http://www.futurethinkers.org/qualia Recommend a sponsor for Future Thinkers: http://www.futurethinkers.org/recommend Support us on Patreon: http://www.futurethinkers.org/support

It's episode 28 of This Strange Life Podcast and today the boys sit down with Santiago Siri, co-founder of Democracy Earth, to talk about a range of topics including liquid democracy, politics & corruption, the power of social media, fake news, and blockchain use cases. Santi has an interesting background, having grown up in Argentina and creating a political party at a young age. The party is called Partida de la Red and its in existence today. After that, Santi took an interest in blockchain technology and Bitcoin. He then went through the prestigious Y-combinator accelerator and started Democracy Earth — an open source governance software project for peer to peer networks and politics. He has some interesting first hand stories about why governmental elections are — and will continue to be — very corrupt & how centralized social media companies like Facebook are a problem that needs solving. Santi is one of a handful of TSL guests to have his own wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Siri More about Democracy Earth: https://www.democracy.earth/ Follow Santi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/santisiri Big thanks to our sponsors: Zest coin — zestcoin.io — Charity-focused masternodes Nextpakk — nextpakk.com — solving last mile delivery Join in the conversation with Mickey and Willy, in the official chatroom: thisstrange.life/#discord   www.thisstrange.life/   twitter.com/strangelifethis   www.instagram.com/strangelifethis/   Email us: thisstrangelifepodcast@gmail.com #santisiri  #liquiddemocracy #democracyearth #fakenews #ycominator #politics #argentina #blockchain #blockchainvoting #bitcoin #corruption #government #socialmedia #facebook #Zuckerberg #crypto   #cambridgeanalytica #bitcoin   #ethereum   #ghosts   #aliens    #joerogan   #jre   #podcast #podcastfridays #thisstrangelife  #TSL

The use of blockchain in the public sector reached another milestone this month when West Virginia became the first U.S. state to allow internet voting by blockchain in primary elections. While the voter participation through this platform was estimated to be small, the intention of the administrators was to test the technology in a pilot project with no immediate plans to implement it at a larger scale. Matt and Kelso review the current challenges of voting, the potential for blockchain to revolutionize, and a few projects that are already operating in the U.S., Africa, and South America. Mentioned in the episode: Voatz - Voatz.com Agora vote - https://www.agora.vote/ Democracy Earth - https://www.democracy.earth/  Follow My Vote - https://followmyvote.com/ Democracy OS - http://democracyos.org/ Vote Watcher - http://votewatcher.com/ Voto Social - http://votosocial.github.io/ Skepticism - http://www.govtech.com/GT-OctoberNovember-Securing-the-Vote.html?flipboard=yes

In this episode, Ben and Jay connect with Vanessa Grellet, who serves as Executive Director at ConsenSys with a strong focus on the Blockchain for Social Impact Coalition, to explore initiatives and trends in blockchain and data management that are shaping the future of social good. She highlights four key sectors for social good that are most impacted by blockchain and recounts trends that emerged at the Blockchain for Social Impact Conference. Vanessa sheds light on what it takes to empower people who have been displaced or disenfranchised by governments; the value of cutting out middlemen; and the work of Robert Opp, Director, Office of Innovation and Change Management, United Nations World Food Programme. Jay calls out Bono, aka “the worst thing that has happened to Africa.” Vanessa suggests that in spite of peoples’ best intentions, “creating wealth and property is not going to solve issues of poverty...” We discuss Ethereum’s roots in social good, and why the media is obsessed with the crypto valuations over impact and causes. Vanessa talks about the “Decentralized Impact Incubator” where companies compete for $50k in prize money. She gives a shout out to MakerDAO, Dether, Everledger and Democracy Earth, and gets excited about taking “the coalition” on a roadshow starting in Africa and Asia, to ensure people on the ground are learning about the value of blockchain technology.

We chat with Santi Siri (@santisiri), founder at Y-Combinator backed non-profit Democracy Earth Foundation. We talk about: The geopolitical implications of crypto What is liquid democracy, and how it relates to blockchain How governments can be affected by crypto ...and more. Please rate and subscribe to help us get this podcast to more people! Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi) Music by and used with permission from Phortissimo: https://soundcloud.com/phortissimo Not financial advice.

Sandra Miller Intro What is Democracy.Earth? Origins of Democracy Earth Foundation Democracy and voting Problem to be solved- Corruption Commercial - DemocracyEarth Ambassador Program How do you prove your identity without a third party? Facebook as an authoritarian regime Trust How the Internet has changed David Bowie analogy about the internet How you can get involved! http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/05/19/digital-gap-between-rural-and-nonrural-america-persists/ The Future of Democracy | Santiago Siri | TEDxStPeterPort - https://youtu.be/yGmGWZCE4h0 https://www.democracy.earth/ https://github.com/DemocracyEarth/ambassadors/blob/master/README.md Note: Ray meant to say bitcoin rewards for mining will end in 2140 (not 2040)

The business of government has remained cautiously analogue as our lives have digitised, and perhaps there are good enough reasons for that. Nonetheless, a new generation of digital democrats is afoot, with plans to infuse legislatures everywhere with technological upgrades. If they succeed, governments of the future will be more open, more evidence-based, more data-rich and more responsive than ever before. The notion of representation could be changed beyond recognition, and legitimacy too will adopt a different hue. Are such changes necessary or welcome? And with filter bubbles and bots entering the lexicon, how does technology also threaten the efficacy of our governing systems? We filter the issues with Beth Noveck, Director of the Governance Lab; Carl Miller, author of ‘Power: Control and Liberation in the Digital Age’; David Binetti, founder of Votizen; Pia Mancini of Democracy OS and Democracy Earth; and Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s Digital Minister without Portfolio.

Blockchain for Good, 12.14.17, NYC by Crypto NYC x Democracy Earth Speaker: Santiago Siri, Founder, Democracy Earth Foundation https://www.democracy.earth/ This is the Impact Innovation Podcast by Rebel Method. Bringing you events and panels on different topics to keep you on the edge of innovation and accelerating impact founders from zero to impact. What your event covered? Or have comments or suggestions? Message Sergio on LinkedIn here: www.linkedin.com/in/sergiomarrero Music credit: Starlight by NUBY https://soundcloud.com/nubymusik/starlight

Blockchain for Good, 12.14.17, NYC by Crypto NYC x Democracy Earth Speaker: Benjamin Siegel Impact Policy Manager, Social Impact @ ConsenSys This is the Impact Innovation Podcast by Rebel Method. Bringing you events and panels on different topics to keep you on the edge of innovation and accelerating impact founders from zero to impact. What your event covered? Or have comments or suggestions? Message Sergio on LinkedIn here: www.linkedin.com/in/sergiomarrero Music credit: Starlight by NUBY https://soundcloud.com/nubymusik/starlight

“At the end of the day, it's about getting corruption out of our public ledgers, and those public ledgers are both voting and budgets… by putting the voting and these budgets on blockchains, we remove the corruption. And now that's going to reflect the will of the people,” says Herb Stephens, explaining the ultimate aim of Democracy Earth. As president of the company, Stephens elaborates on the ways in which a blockchain-based online voting system would bring an unprecedented level of transparency, accessibility, and understanding to the democratic process. As it stands, elections and polls across the globe are vulnerable to manipulation, limited by the binary choice of a “yes” or “no” vote, and reflective only of those who can cast their opinions at a polling station. “Liquid democracy opens up possibilities, so we can think of different forms of democracy operating over time,” says Stephens. “Right now we have liquid democracy, but it's frozen.” Stephens also discusses: * His skepticism regarding successful adoption by the U.S., and why there is resistance to the level of transparency that Democracy Earth makes possible. * The meaning behind the term “decision laundering” and how it can be prevented through the use of blockchains. * The new Democracy Earth token called “vote” and the upcoming, first of its kind Initial Rights Offering (IRO). * Examples of top-down and bottom-up use cases.

Should the Internet be a new political jurisdiction? Pia Mancini certainly thinks so. Tom chats to her about the future of politics and the nation state for Episode 9: A Democracy Fit for the 21st Century. Pia is a founder of the Net Party, a political party headquartered in Argentina, and co-founder of Democracy OS, a platform for collaborative decision making. Pia only has one goal: to pioneer the democracy of the 21st Century, and in her chat with Tom she explains how we could use tech to open up our current political systems to create a much fairer and more transparent democracy. And this is where Democracy OS - or Democracy Earth in its latest incarnation - comes in. Through this platform we can stop thinking of the nation state as the only political entity and jurisdiction. The Internet has the potential to become a new jurisdiction and can give people a voice in locations where they are currently only represented by undemocratic governments. By rethinking representation this way, Pia argues we can move from territorial representation to a much more fluid, non-territorial form of representation. Even though the nation state won’t disappear anytime soon, it could quickly become less important and will lose its current monopoly. One way people can make the nation state weaker is by using cryptocurrencies rather than its own money, that is often entrenched in the particular state’s ideals and values. By choosing the currency we use, we are telling the world what we believe. Is now the time to fight and decide on these alternatives?

Felipe Álvarez, representante para Colombia de la fundación Democracy Earth y líder de la fundación Redmocracia, explicó en La Nube en qué consiste la propuesta para realizar un plebiscito digital. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What does the future of democracy look like? How is Bitcoin to change the world? What will the world be like when we can all trust each other? Marc has a fly on the wall conversation with Santi Siri from Democracy Earth on the surprising and unexpected future of governance.