Web3: A Map in Search of Territory
Web3 is self-referential in the extreme. The value of the tokens is expected to grow as everything is to become more liquid and interconnected: tokens from one DAO will be valuable in another; more activities will be fractionalized; more institutions will turn into DAOs; more objects into NFTs...
Francesca Bria on Decentralisation, Sovereignty, and Web3
Of all the promises made in the name of Web3, two stand out as particularly radical and democracy-enhancing. First, some expect it...
Olivier Jutel on Blockchain Imperialism
"For all the rhetoric of blockchain being a stateless technology, we have one government – that of the United States – actively pouring money into Tech Camps and other initiatives, all in order to turn the blockchain into the arch-solution to developmental problems. "
Bram Büscher on Nature3
Though they talk about tokens, blockchains, and NFTs, crypto projects that aim at conservation still rely on monetizing biodiversity and trading its ‘services’ and basically seem to render more complicated what was not working in the first place.
Jorge E. Cuéllar on El Salvador's Bitcoin experiment
"Bitcoin City, without a doubt, will precipitate land conflicts to clear the space to build it, and will lead to the expropriation of people’s lands. In a country that is as demographically stressed as El Salvador, this is inevitable."