S01E27
Dime & Punishment Panel

This is a the recording of a panel I organized and moderated in Febuary 2020 as part of my research fellowship at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. The panel critically discusses the expansion of cryptoeconomics into an 'art of government'. The panelists are:

• Jaya Klara Brekke (Post-Doc Researcher at the Department of Geography, Durham University)
• Benjamin Seibel (Director of the Ideation & Prototyping Lab at the Technologiestiftung Berlin and author of “Cybernetic Government”)
• and Martin Köppelmann (Co-founder and CEO of Gnosis)

Description:

Cryptoeconomics is a design-paradigm that is used, among other things, for the protocol layer of almost all currently existing blockchains. It is intended to generate security guarantees for the reliable execution of these protocols by combining economic incentives/penalties (-economics) with applied computer science (crypto-). Apart from this specific use case in distributed, “decentralized” networks, cryptoeconomic design principles are being promoted by some to be an adequate way of “designing” social interactions and institutions in areas not related to questions of network security.

Shownotes:

• Homepage Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society
  https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/

• Homepage Weizenbaum Research Group 17 (Trust in Distributed Environments)
  https://weizenbaum-institut.de/en/research/governance-and-norm-setting/trust-in-distributed-environments/

• Research Group 17 on Twitter
  https://twitter.com/JWI_TruDi

• Homepage Jaya Klara Brekke
  http://www.jayapapaya.net/

• Jaya's dissertation homepage
  http://distributingchains.info/

• ...and the dissertation itself
  http://distributingchains.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/DisassemblingTrustMachine_Brekke2019.pdf

• Jaya in episode 6 of Future Historieshttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01e06-jaya-klara-brekke

• Jaya on Twitter
  https://twitter.com/jayapapaya

• Martin Köppelmann Portrait by his companys blog
  https://blog.gnosis.pm/gnosis-portraits-martin-köppelmann-ceo-co-founder-7953211e079a

• Homepage Gnosis
  https://gnosis.io/

• Gnosis on Twitter
  https://twitter.com/gnosispm?lang=de

• Martin Köppelmann on Twitter
  https://twitter.com/koeppelmann?lang=de

• Circles on Twitter (Blockchain UBI project initiated by Martin)
  https://twitter.com/circlesubi?lang=de

• Homepage Maker DAO
  https://makerdao.com/en/

• Homepage DAOStack
  https://daostack.io/

• Benjamin Seibel on Twitter
  https://twitter.com/bnjmnsbl?lang=de

• Homepage Ideation & Prototyping Lab (led by Benjamin)
  https://lab.technologiestiftung-berlin.de/en/

• "Cybernetic Government" by Benjamin Seibel
  https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783658124892

• Benjamin Seibel in episode 1 of Future Histories
  https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01e01-benjamin-seibel

• "Economic Fables" Ariel Rubinstein (open access)
  https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/136

• Book "Game Theory: A Critical Introduction" by Hargreaves & Varoufakis
  https://www.routledge.com/Game-Theory-A-Critical-Introduction/Hargreaves-Heap-Hargreaves-Heap-Varoufakis-Varoufakis/p/book/9780415250955

• Homepage of Ethereum
  https://ethereum.org/

• Homepage of "Radical Markets" by Weyl & Posner
  http://radicalmarkets.com/

• Medium article by Vitalik Buterin & Glen Weyl
  https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/liberation-through-radical-decentralization-22fc4bedc2ac