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Sovereign tokens

A novel design for cryptocurrency that clarifies its dependency on social consensus

Nov 16, 2023

Sovereign tokens

Nov 16, 2023

When DAOs are Weaponized

Vulnerability

May 8, 2024

When DAOs are Weaponized

May 8, 2024

How speculating on blockchain resources causes bad UX

Those designing systems for rate-limiting resource usage via billing on decentralized networks ought to seriously consider the importance…

Feb 13, 2024

How speculating on blockchain resources causes bad UX

Feb 13, 2024

Fractal governance — A shared submission algorithm

Intro

Jan 17, 2024

Fractal governance — A shared submission algorithm

Jan 17, 2024

Thoughts on

Risk analysis

Nov 3, 2023

Nov 3, 2023

Published in
goƒractally

Bringing Off-Chain Governance On-Chain

A new crypto-economic mechanism combining off-chain subjectivity with on-chain objectivity

Aug 20, 2022

Bringing Off-Chain Governance On-Chain

Aug 20, 2022

Re: A Model-Independent Method to Measure Uncertainties in Fractal Governance Consensus Algorithms

Modeling is hard

Jul 26, 2022

Re: A Model-Independent Method to Measure Uncertainties in Fractal Governance Consensus Algorithms

Jul 26, 2022

Published in
goƒractally

Fractal Democracy — Two Consensus Rounds

Including a second round of consensus has the potential to minimize measurement error in the context of a fractal democracy.

Jul 26, 2022

Fractal Democracy — Two Consensus Rounds

Jul 26, 2022

Mutually Benefitting from Misaligned Goals

…the contributions of others toward their own personal missions can and should, to an extent, still be considered valuable contributions to…

Jul 15, 2022

Mutually Benefitting from Misaligned Goals

Jul 15, 2022

Proof of Nothing

People often imagine that the basis for consensus mechanisms is an objective proof that some work was done, or that some objective amount…

May 10, 2022

Proof of Nothing

May 10, 2022

Exchange Voting on EOS is Fine

[XPOST] This is a (slightly modified) cross-post from an earlier post in 2020 on voice.com. Reposting on Medium because the topic is still…

Jan 27, 2022

Exchange Voting on EOS is Fine

Jan 27, 2022

Fractal Democracy: A Primer

What is it, and how can it be used to build a better society?

Oct 20, 2021

Fractal Democracy: A Primer

Oct 20, 2021

Beating Quadratic Funding

Is quadratic funding always the game-theoretically optimal way to allocate funds to public goods?

Oct 11, 2021

Beating Quadratic Funding

Oct 11, 2021

Optimal Allocation of Excess Blockchain Network Token Funds

Distribute? Burn? Donate to a WPS?

Oct 7, 2021

Oct 7, 2021

On Persistent Roles in Fractal Governance

How can initiatives persist beyond the term-length of an elected delegate?

Oct 7, 2021

On Persistent Roles in Fractal Governance

Oct 7, 2021

Economic analysis of Block.One’s “Stake-based voting and rewards proposal”

Introduction

Jun 25, 2021

Jun 25, 2021

Against EOS Voter Rewards

[Voter rewards] could, except by chance, only diminish the expected quality of the block producers running the network.

Jul 15, 2019

Against EOS Voter Rewards

Jul 15, 2019

James Mart

James Mart

Science, education, the pursuit of truth, coordination, simplicity, neutrality, anti-fragility. https://twitter.com/_JamesMart

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