§4 Are we witnessing the emergence of the tokenised self?

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/latest-blockchain-trend-tokenizing-people-1663448

https://blog.wavesplatform.com/entrepreneurs-tokenise-themselves-on-the-waves-platform-d8dcd94f5645

With the development and proliferation of blockchain technologies — the digitized, decentralized, public ledger most associated with cryptocurrency transactions — the potential for these to be used and developed outside the niche world of cryptocurrencies is going somewhat unnoticed. As work and employment become increasingly atomized and precarious, the framing of selves in relation to work is ripe for reconstitution in light of blockchain technologies’ proliferation. Whereas the entry of gig-economy platforms raise questions concerning entrepreneurial activity and enablement, the suggestion in the attached link hints at the potential of blockchain to reach and reconfigure our relation to employment, work and self-understanding.

/Pete Watt

Originally published at anowmedia.com on March 30, 2018.