<synthesis> FairCon and postcapitalist commons

[Dallyn, Sam (Dr.)]

Hello all,

Just thought I'd share this in case it's of interest while its open access. Seems like a nice moment to share it as the Bitcoin bubble expands to new highs. The paper is focused on the question of whether it's possible to have a viable, sustainable cryptocurrency with different, post-capitalist commons values underpinning and driving it.

The FairCoop and FairCoin design was an unsuccessful and unsustainable attempt to do so, which still has had some significant achievements along the way https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.12705
[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/985fd962-b57d-468e-ac4a-8d57672a4e72/anti.v52.6.cover.gif]<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.12705>
The Challenge of Building a Scalable Postcapitalist Commons: The Limits of FairCoin as a Commons‐Based Cryptocurrency<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.12705>
Postcapitalist commons are a growing area of interest in the efforts to generate alternatives to capitalism in the present. Commons are understood as self‐organised collectives based around shared re...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Best,

Sam

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MoneyLab #X Australia program info, November 5-6, 2020
https://networkcultures.org/moneylab/moneylab-10-economythologies/<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnetworkcultures.org%2Fmoneylab%2Fmoneylab-10-economythologies%2F&data=04%7C01%7Csd461%40leicester.ac.uk%7C146dd51926a643b4662408d8864dddba%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C637407016292618575%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=KVS6eWg4YuA3pzHfBmv8UD9G3KEuOxcD%2BKs0Ag8ilUM%3D&reserved=0>

MoneyLab #11 Berlin first announcement: Disaster Capitalism, March 26-28, 2021
https://networkcultures.org/moneylab/newevents/moneylab-11-disaster-capitalism/<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnetworkcultures.org%2Fmoneylab%2Fnewevents%2Fmoneylab-11-disaster-capitalism%2F&data=04%7C01%7Csd461%40leicester.ac.uk%7C146dd51926a643b4662408d8864dddba%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C637407016292628567%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=DIEamMWK7Pp%2BZdZWw%2Bo8ZC8CnDPjhkxwAmpickn7hIY%3D&reserved=0>

EU Distributed Ledger Technologies
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Interview with Jonathan Beller on Financing the Revolution
https://theblockchainsocialist.com/one-weird-trick-to-finance-the-revolution-feat-jonathan-beller/<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheblockchainsocialist.com%2Fone-weird-trick-to-finance-the-revolution-feat-jonathan-beller%2F&data=04%7C01%7Csd461%40leicester.ac.uk%7C146dd51926a643b4662408d8864dddba%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C637407016292638564%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=Rm%2FPc2cmwl6g2Z5Z40XdYv1bc35yN%2F9eATdlzrclDz0%3D&reserved=0>

Other Internet is an independent strategy and research group:
Squad Wealth
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Headless Brands
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Silk Road bitcoins worth $1bn change hands after seven years
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Mirror, a new kind of publishing platform (via Kei)
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James Burke: The Broken De-Fi Hypecycle (via Soenke)
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Debate! The German Basic Income Machine
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Libidinal economies of contemporary capitalism<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffinanceandsocietynetwork.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F11%2Fcfp-libidinal-economies-2021.pdf&data=04%7C01%7Csd461%40leicester.ac.uk%7C146dd51926a643b4662408d8864dddba%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C637407016292668548%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=v5NojSmK5sV4b2YfKJDKH%2BhvcpNmDyF%2B7%2BPwn6B%2FeoY%3D&reserved=0>
City, University of London, 16 April 2021

https://financeandsocietynetwork.org/libidinal-economy-workshop-2021<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffinanceandsocietynetwork.org%2Flibidinal-economy-workshop-2021&data=04%7C01%7Csd461%40leicester.ac.uk%7C146dd51926a643b4662408d8864dddba%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C637407016292678543%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=%2B%2FBi1ZbAKojCQanLr7M0ObQm1wmmBzG3LOcXUXwPH%2B4%3D&reserved=0>



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