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Solidarity Body of Knowledge
Our resource list for the Societal Convention
We wanted to provide a resource list of literature, which we term “body of knowledge,” to help in preparation for Solidarity’s first stage, the Societal Convention. This body of knowledge is our resource for informing ourselves and others about the topics we wish to discuss during the Social Convention*.
Additionally, we shall provide in a later post the terms of participation for the Societal Convention. The terms of participation will outline the roles, duties, operation, and outcomes of the Societal Convention. You are more than welcome to provide feedback on the terms and if warranted, we will modify the terms based on your feedback.
1. Host a Societal Convention to establish a Social Code and Decentralized Initiative (“Organizing Documents”) for Solidarity.
Body of Knowledge
The body of knowledge, as of Jan. 21, 2019 (this resource may be updated at a later time), is as follows:
- NIFTY™: Ethereum’s First Trademark Battle, by Yalda Mousavinia
- Building a more inclusive blockchain, by Derek Beres
- Cross-chain infrastructure, by Kain Warwick
- Creating Virtual Economies: The Ultimate Guide, by Shaan Ray
- Behavioral Cryptoeconomics: The Secret of Digital Currencies (or The Additive-only Future: Release the Banana Hostages!), by Amber Cazzell
- What is a DAO?, by Blockchainhub
- A Crypto Thesis, by Joey Krug
- The Oracle Problem, by Delphi
- What is a Smart Contract, by Steven Wight
- Blockchain Governance 101, by Vlad Zamfir
- There’s more to decentralisation than blockchains and bitcoin, by Irina Bolychevsky
- The Case for Human-Centric Design in Blockchain, by Will Seggos
- Next, the Internet: Building a Cooperative Digital Space, by Nathaniel Schneider
- Limitations to Decentralisation: How far are we and how far can we go?, by Anaïs Urlichs
- Liberal Radicalism: Breaking down Buterin, Hitzig and Weyl’s paper for a self-organizing decentralised ecosystem of public goods, by FlatOutCrypto
- Liberal Radicalism: A Flexible Design For Philanthropic Matching Funds, by Vitalik Buterin, Zoë Hitzig, and E. Glen Weyl
- On the Attempt to Take Over Ethereum Classic (ETC), by Igor Artamonov
- Economics of Tokenized Incentives 1: Intro to Pay for Performance, by Cathy Barrera, PhD
- Blockchains are not companies, by Dean Eigenmann
- Tragedy of the Commons, by Investopedia
- On Consensus and Humming in the IETF, by Pete Resnick
- 9 Types of Consensus Mechanisms That You Didn’t Know About, by Daily Bit
- What is Ethereum Governance? Complete Beginner’s Guide, Bogdan Rancea
- Decred Constitution, by Decred
- The Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork Will Show Us Which Coin Is Best, by Jake Smith
- The DAO, The Hack, The Soft Fork and The Hard Fork, by Antonio Madeira
- Commons-based peer production (CBPP), by Yochai Benkler, Mayo Fuster Morell, and Samer Hassan
- Internet Governance — Why the Multistakeholder Approach Works, by Internet Society
- From Platform to Open Cooperativism, by Stacco Troncoso/Ann Marie Utratel
Suggestions and Comments
If you have any suggestions, comments, questions or other feedback on the body of knowledge, please send an email to solidarity@ledgerback.coop.
“*” = the Social Convention is our version of a Constitutional Convention, but instead of creating a new enabling/organizing documetn for a goverment, we (1) debate and consider solutions to problems in blockchain governance; and then (2) create organziaing documetns for a Network Society. wherein we debate the above topics to hopefully solve existing and potential issues in blockchain governance and create a Network Society.
