<synthesis> MoneyLab links

[Geert Lovink]

The Emergence of Paid Communities
https://subpixel.space/entries/come-for-the-network-pay-for-the-tool/

Gabriel Nicholas: The Crypto Family Farm
https://logicmag.io/bodies/the-crypto-family-farm/

Brett Scott’s must see video lectures 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmWOO7r_NMw

Yanis Varoufakis on why bitcoin is not a socialist’s ally
https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2020/07/27/why-bitcoin-is-the-not-socialists-ally-reply-to-ben-arc/

Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
https://timjrobinson.com/universal-basic-income-is-capitalism-2-0/

Nesta DAO essay competition, the finalists
https://www.nesta.org.uk/project-updates/decentralised-digital-organisations-and-key-topics-people-are-talking-about/

SORAnomics: realizing a supranational world economic system
https://medium.com/@sora.xor/sora-the-new-economic-order-3ec3f0327e5a <https://medium.com/@sora.xor/sora-the-new-economic-order-3ec3f0327e5a>

Justin Clemens: In the State of Nature Nothing Will Be Lost
http://australianhumanitiesreview.org/2020/05/31/in-the-state-of-nature-nothing-will-be-lost/

Via Patrice and Eduard:

Kenneth Rogoff: Will Covid make countries drop cash and adopt digital currencies?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/aug/06/covid-cash-digital-currencies-coronavirus-central-banks <https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/aug/06/covid-cash-digital-currencies-coronavirus-central-banks>

"(...) the central bank is poorly positioned to provide quality service on small retail accounts. Perhaps this could be addressed over time by using artificial intelligence or by expanding financial services offered by post office branches.” re-inventing the wheel - after we burned it). re: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/intro/publications/pdf/ecb.mipinfocus191217.en.pdf <https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/intro/publications/pdf/ecb.mipinfocus191217.en.pdf>
(from reading the execsum) sounds like a complicated solution for a problem that should not exist in the first place ...




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