Article in [[WIRED]] about [[Santiago Siri]]‘s experiments with [[Blockchain]] democracy.

Summary: [[Santiago Siri]] has made a blockchain voting platform called [[DemocracyEarth]]. Its goal is to "tokenize the like," ie to use social media’s toolkit to dispense money and/or achieve democracy via cryptocurrency. A problem with this approach is the token is monetized, which complicates open governance, and the onus is on Siri to prove his tools help more than they hurt.

Siri dreams of a new kind of social media platform on which we spend “vote tokens” that can do anything, from electing politicians and passing referendums to enacting the bylaws of a social club or establishing the business plan of a corporation. It’s democracy by click.

[[DemocracyEarth]] has a white paper.

In code, a tool can easily be repurposed from its original context— removed from its first ontology— and blockchain seems this way. "Money" = "vote" like "product for sale" = "Wordpress blog post." It’s just the structure being hacked. But it still sounds bad to make blockchain = money. How can a blockchain structure not be worth money?

Filed in: [[Literature Notes]]

Related Links: [[Hauling Democracy Out of the 19th Century]]