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The Place Between: The Analog City and the Digital City With L.M. Sacasas

The Analog City and the Digital City - How online life breaks the old political order

L.M. Sacasas

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-analog-city-and-the-digital-city

The Convivial Society

https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/

The Frailest Thing - Ten Years of Thinking About the Meaning of Technology

https://gumroad.com/l/CWRfq

The Christian Study Center

https://www.christianstudycenter.org/about

BOOKS and AUTHORS

The City of God - Augustine of Hippo

https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-City-of-God

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_of_God

Alan Jacobs

http://ayjay.org/

Ivan Illich

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ivan-Illich#ref1221206

Marshal McLuhan

https://marshallmcluhan.com/

Walter J. Ong

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_J._Ong

Hannah Arendt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt

Neil Postman

http://neilpostman.org/

Miscellaneous

Fiddling while Rome converts

A generation of pagan bureaucrats amassed wealth and status while Roman emperors Christianised the world around them

https://aeon.co/essays/pagan-complacency-and-the-birth-of-the-christian-roman-empire

Excalibur - John Boorman

https://cinephiliabeyond.org/excalibur/

Constitutional Governments and the Social Contract

https://www.britannica.com/topic/constitution-politics-and-law

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The Digital City and the Curse of Ham: Looking Back to Move Forward, with Martin Gurri

Martin Gurri

https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-gurri-370a8216/

The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millenium

https://www.amazon.com/Revolt-Public-Crisis-Authority-Millennium/dp/1732265143

Discourse

https://www.discoursemagazine.com/

Mercatus Center of George Mason University

https://www.mercatus.org/scholars/martin-gurri

FROM THE MAGAZINE

Everything Magnified

Why were the protests and riots of 2020 so explosive?

https://www.city-journal.org/2020-riots-protests

The Prophet of the Revolt

https://pullrequest.substack.com/p/the-prophet-of-the-revolt?s=03

The Analog City and the Digital City

How online life breaks the old political order

L. M. Sacasas

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-analog-city-and-the-digital-city?s=03

Douglas Murray

The Madness of Crowds

https://www.amazon.com/Madness-Crowds-Gender-Race-Identity/dp/1635579988

Andrey Mir

Postjournalism and the death of newspapers. The media after Trump: manufacturing anger and polarization

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GWWXDG7

https://human-as-media.com/2020/10/05/the-tectonic-turn-of-the-news-media-away-from-advertising/

The 30 Years War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War

The Social Dilemma

https://youtu.be/uaaC57tcci0

A Serious Man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Serious_Man

Jonathan Haidt

https://www.amazon.com/Jonathan-Haidt/e/B001H6GAXW%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

What is the significance of the story of Jesus and Barabbas in the Bible?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barabbas

Marshall McLuhanhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan

Matthew 27:16-17

16 At that time they had a well-known prisoner whose name was Jesus[a] Barabbas. 17 So when the crowd had gathered, Pilate asked them, “Which one do you want me to release to you: Jesus Barabbas, or Jesus who is called the Messiah?”

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+27%3A16-26&version=NIV

Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo Press Conference - “You won. What do you want?”

https://news.yahoo.com/cuomo-don-t-protest-won-163708594.html

Genesis 9:20-27, King James Version

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+9%3A20%E2%80%9327&version=KJV

Jordan Peterson

The Curse of Ham - lo-fi take by Akira The Don

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJHEaWfpFqA

https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago

Veteran of the Psychic Wars
Blue Oyster Culthttps://youtu.be/jGKNaIXtBZQ

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The Distributed States of America: A Prologue to Remote Electronic Voting in the U.S.

Marten Kaevats

https://www.linkedin.com/in/marten-kaevats-80098990/?originalSubdomain=ee

E-estonia

https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-governance/

Estonia’s I-Voting - The Country of Estonia has successfully implemented nationwide internet voting since 2005

https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-governance/i-voting/

America’s Federalist Government

http://www.pbs.org/tpt/constitution-usa-peter-sagal/federalism/

https://www.ushistory.org/gov/3.asp

Distributed Systems

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/18909/distributed-system

GDPR (General Data Protection Act)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation

Stasi - What Marten Referred to as the “East German FBI” during Soviet occupation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi

China and Data Privacy

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/05/793014617/in-china-a-new-call-to-protect-data-privacy

Shoshana Zuboff - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

https://www.amazon.com/Age-Surveillance-Capitalism-Future-Frontier/dp/1610395697

Unicorn Companies in Estonia

https://www.marketline.com/blog/estonia-only-1-3m-people-but-4-unicorn-start-ups/

Kersti Kaljulaid - President of Estonia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kersti_Kaljulaid

Verification of Absentee/Mailed Ballots in the United States

https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/How-States-Verify-AbsenteeMailed-Ballots.png

History of the Secret Ballot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_ballot

Nimit Sawhney, Co-Founder & Ceo of Voatz

https://www.elev8con.com/speaker/nimit-sawhney/

https://cic.com/podcasts/founders-spotlight/voatz

https://voatz.com/

• FAQs https://voatz.com/faq.html
• Whitepaper https://www.nass.org/sites/default/files/2018-02/clear-ballot-voatz-white-paper-nass-winter18_4.pdf

Estonia’s e-identity Program

https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-identity/id-card/

U.S. Estonia Relations

https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-estonia/

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Revolt Of The Public: Author, Martin Gurri, Says That The Digital Age is Sounding The Death Knell For Elite Institutions

Martin Gurri

https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-gurri-370a8216/

The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millenium

https://www.amazon.com/Revolt-Public-Crisis-Authority-Millennium/dp/1732265143

The Fifth Wave Blog

https://thefifthwave.wordpress.com/what-is-the-fifth-wave/

Mercatus Center of George Mason University

https://www.mercatus.org/scholars/martin-gurri

Definitions of Terms in the book:

The Five Waves:

• 1st & 2nd Wave - development of the alphabet and written language
• 3rd Wave - the mass production of the printing press
• 4th Wave - 20th Century Mass Media, credentialed positions, hierarchical institutions
• 5th Wave - the digital information tsunami (chaos)

The Public - It is not a fixed body of individuals. It is merely the persons who are interested in an affair and can affect it only by supporting or opposing the actors. It is many, not one. Most effectively, it negates people and institutions without providing a viable replacement.

The People - A Political abstraction. The public can never be the people because the people are an abstraction of political philosophy. (Revolt of the Public, p.98, Kindle edition).

A Legal Definition:

The aggregate of the individuals who comprise a state or a nation. In a more restricted sense, as generally used in Constitutional Law, the entire body of those citizens of a state or a nation who are invested with political power for political purposes (the qualified voters).

Authority - The incumbent hierarchical structures which are established and accredited. Government first and foremost, but also corporations, universities and the whole roster of institutions from the industrial age.

Jordan Peterson

https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/

Hanz Zimmer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Zimmer

The Buggles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Buggles

Noblesse Oblige

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/noblesse-oblige

Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students

Allan Bloom (1987)

https://www.amazon.com/Closing-American-Mind-Education-Impoverished/dp/1451683200/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&hvadid=78683852427491&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvqmt=e&keywords=the+closing+of+the+american+mind+by+allan+bloom&qid=1594323973&s=books&sr=1-1&tag=mh0b-20

The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy

Christopher Lasch (1996)

https://www.amazon.com/Revolt-Elites-Betrayal-Democracy/dp/0393313719/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2EEFI2BYII6AQ&dchild=1&keywords=the+revolt+of+the+elites+and+the+betrayal+of+democracy&qid=1594324072&s=books&sprefix=the+revolt+of+the+elites+and+the+betrayal+of+democracy%2Cstripbooks%2C153&sr=1-2

A Time To Build

Yuval Levin (2020)

https://www.amazon.com/Time-Build-Community-Recommitting-Institutions/dp/1541699270/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=a+time+to+build&qid=1594324100&s=books&sr=1-1

Nassim Taleb (Skin in the Game)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb

Ibn Khaldun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Khaldun

Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo Press Conference - “You won. What do you want?”

https://news.yahoo.com/cuomo-don-t-protest-won-163708594.html

Antonio Garcia Martinez

https://antoniogarciamartinez.com/

Student Loan Debt - A raison d'etre of the public’s revolt?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_loans_in_the_United_States

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesrealestatecouncil/2020/06/04/student-loan-debt-holds-back-professional-and-market-growth/#534b4eef1a84

https://www.consumerreports.org/student-loan-debt-crisis/lives-on-hold/

The Big Lebowski

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Lebowski

Fight With Nihilist Scene (graphic language and violence)

https://youtu.be/lQjpNtI4FFY

José Ortega y Gasset

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ortega_y_Gasset

The Mob Rules by Black Sabbath

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QcJCoKj6Kc

Dramatic Reading of the Declaration of Independence by Max McLean

(Demonstrates the difference between a revolt and a revolution)

https://youtu.be/4uE-tqe0xsQ

Not discussed in this episode, but an interesting corollary to the show:

Bishop Barron’s Admonition to Catholic Twitter Mobs - “Cut It Out!”

https://youtu.be/QbLR4pUCW1Q

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Save and Invest Like The 1%: Zach Wildes Talks About Celsius Network’s Revolutionary Financial Services Business Model

Celsius Network

https://celsius.network/

The Celsius Network Community

https://celsians.com/

Zachary Wildes

Celsius Community Manager

zachary.wildes@celsius.network

2019 My Digital Self Interview with Alex Mashinsky, Co-Founder & CEO of Celsius Network

https://share.transistor.fm/s/8b913719

Alex Mashinsky

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Mashinsky

Tether (USDT)

https://tether.to/

Fractional Reserve Banking

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fractionalreservebanking.asp

https://mises.org/library/are-fractional-reserve-bank-deposits-money

Do You Own The Money In Your Bank Account?

“When someone opens a bank account and makes a cash deposit, he surrenders the legal title to the cash, and it becomes an asset of the bank. In turn, the account is a liability to the bank.”

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bank-deposits.asp

The Federal Reserve’s Response to COVID-19

https://www.brookings.edu/research/fed-response-to-covid19/

Temporarily relaxing regulatory requirements: The Fed is encouraging banks—both the largest banks and community banks—to dip into their regulatory capital and liquidity buffers, so they can increase lending during the downturn. The reforms instituted after the financial crisis require banks to hold additional loss-absorbing capital to prevent future bailouts. But these capital buffers can be used during a downturn to stimulate lending, and the Fed is encouraging that now, including through a technical change to its TLAC (total loss-absorbing capacity) requirement, which includes capital and long-term debt. (To preserve capital, big banks also are suspending buybacks of their shares.) The Fed also eliminated banks’ reserve requirement—the percent of deposits that banks must hold as reserves to meet cash demand—though this is largely irrelevant because banks currently hold far more than the required reserves. The Fed also relaxed the growth restrictions previously imposed on Wells Fargo, as part of an enforcement action related to widespread consumer protection violations, so that the bank could increase its participation in the Fed’s lending programs for small- and mid-sized businesses.

Cel Token

https://support.celsius.network/hc/en-us/sections/360000538817-CEL-token

Negative Carry

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/negativecarry.asp

Margin Call

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/margincall.asp

Good Article on The Traditional/Legal Duties of Corporations

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-corporations-obligations-to-shareholders/a-duty-to-shareholder-value

FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)

https://www.fdic.gov/

SIPC (The Securities Investor Protection Corporation)

https://www.sipc.org/about-sipc/

MakerDAO’s Multi-Collateral DAI (MCD)

https://makerdao.com/en/whitepaper/#abstract

https://www.coindesk.com/there-are-more-dai-on-compound-now-than-there-are-dai-in-the-world

DeFi (Decentralized Finance)

https://blockonomi.com/what-is-decentralized-finance-defi/

Ethereum ERC20 Smart Contracts

https://www.investopedia.com/news/what-erc20-and-what-does-it-mean-ethereum/

Wallets for Digital Assets (Self Custody)

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bitcoin-wallet.asp

WireCard Scandal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirecard

Brain Wallet

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Brainwallet

Financial Self Sovereignty

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alastairjohnson/2019/10/03/self-sovereign-banking-putting-you-back-in-control-of-your-money/#89c7b681f615

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If Not Now, When? Voatz Strives To Bring The Ballot Box To The Smartphone

Voatz

https://voatz.com/

• FAQs https://voatz.com/faq.html
• Whitepaper https://www.nass.org/sites/default/files/2018-02/clear-ballot-voatz-white-paper-nass-winter18_4.pdf

Nimit Sawhney, Co-Founder & Ceo of Voatz

https://www.elev8con.com/speaker/nimit-sawhney/

https://cic.com/podcasts/founders-spotlight/voatz

Rock, Paper, Scissors - How We Used to Vote (2008 New Yorker Article by Jill Lepore)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/13/rock-paper-scissors

The American Party

For those who have seen Martin Scorcese’s Gangs of New York, Bill the Butcher, portrayed by Daniel Day-Lewis, was an enforcer in the American Party, whose ruffians attacked the Kyle brothers as they attempted to cast their votes in 1859.

Some Leading Legacy Voting Equipment Companies

Clear Ballot

https://clearballot.com/

Hart InterCivic

https://dev17.hartintercivic.com/

Dominion Voting

https://dominionvoting.com/

MicroVote

https://www.microvote.com/home.html

Election Systems & Software

https://www.essvote.com/

Unisyn Voting Solutions

https://unisynvoting.com/

Vulnerabilities In Legacy Voting Equipment and Systems

NPR’s Article about Mail-In Voting Referenced by Nimit

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/24/820232540/as-coronavirus-delays-primary-season-states-weigh-expanding-absentee-voting

Hanging Chads and the Florida Election Recount of 2000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election_recount_in_Florida#Palm_Beach_County's_butterfly_ballots

A Couple of Articles Critical of Mobile Voting Platforms in General & Voatz

https://www.coindesk.com/snake-oil-and-overpriced-junk-why-blockchain-doesnt-fix-online-voting

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-26/cybersecurity-experts-say-hacking-risk-is-high-for-mobile-voting

The February 2020 Iowa Caucuses Debacle (Involved a mobile app made by another company - Shadow Inc. - which was not used to place votes, but report precinct voter tallies)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Iowa_Democratic_presidential_caucuses

Estonia’s i-Voting - The Country of Estonia has successfully implemented nationwide internet voting since 2005

https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-governance/i-voting/

Tivi Remote Voting (Used in Estonia and other countries)

https://tivi.io/

November 3, 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election

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From The Plains Of Nineveh To The Streets Of Beirut: How ChangeInEx Plans To Unlock Global Labor And Creativity

Stephen Hollingshead

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenhollingshead/

ChangeInEx

https://www.changeinex.com/

MERS (MERSCORP Holdings, Inc.) (1:35)

https://www.mersinc.org/about

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20181004005185/en/Intercontinental-Exchange-Completes-Acquisition-MERS

Ankawa Refugee Camp(1:50) (Story of Gali)

https://english.ankawa.com/?p=15949

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (5:58)

https://www.mturk.com/worker

Patriot Act (4:30, 22:30)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act

Bank Secrecy Act (4:30)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Secrecy_Act

Blockchain (7:25)

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/blockchain.asp

Biometrics (7:53)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometrics

Juan Zarate (10:00) - Treasury's War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare

https://www.amazon.com/Treasurys-War-Unleashing-Financial-Warfare-ebook/dp/B00DFM5C3U/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=juan+zarate&qid=1591373210&sr=8-1

M-PESA (28:50)

https://www.vodafone.com/what-we-do/services/m-pesa

SIM Swapping (32:00)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_swap_scam

Special Economic Zones

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sez.asp

MNO - (32:30) Mobile Network Operator (When discussing M-Pesa)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_network_operator

LEBANON (36:45)

Refugee Crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrians_in_Lebanon

Liquidity Crisishttps://www.gfmag.com/magazine/march-2020/lebanon-liquidity-crisis

Political Crisishttps://www.dw.com/en/lebanons-political-and-economic-meltdown/a-47179661

Lollars - (42:00)

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Lollar

SWIFT

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/050515/how-swift-system-works.asp

Fractional Reserve Banking (42:30)

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fractionalreservebanking.asp

David Birch (47:00)

https://www.dgwbirch.com/biography/

Hernando DeSoto (49:00) - Economist “The Bell Jar”

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_de_Soto_(economist)

Schenzhen, China’s Special Economic Zone (53:15)

https://www.britannica.com/place/Shenzhen

Rwanda (55:00)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda

Paul Kagame - President of Rwanda (55:15)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kagame

Hutus & Tutsis (55:20)

https://www.thoughtco.com/location-of-conflict-tutsis-and-hutus-3554918

Smart Africa Alliance (55:35)

https://smartafrica.org/

Venezuela’s Maduro Diet (56:30)

https://www.csis.org/analysis/maduro-diet-food-v-freedom-venezuela

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The Nordic X-Road: Bringing e-Governance to Our Digital Selves

Petteri Kivimäki

https://www.linkedin.com/in/pkivimaki/

Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS)

https://www.niis.org/

X-Road

https://x-road.global/

Suomi.fi Data Exchange Layer (Finland’s X-Road environment)

https://palveluhallinta.suomi.fi/en/sivut/palveluvayla/esittely

X-tee (Estonia’s X-Road)

https://e-estonia.com/solutions/interoperability-services/x-road/

The MIT License

https://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php

Estonia's i-Voting Systemhttps://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-governance/i-voting/

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Separation of Money and State: Andreas Antonopoulos Talks Bitcoin

Andreas Antonopoulos
https://aantonop.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/aantonop
https://twitter.com/aantonop

Andreas' Interview with Peter McCormack on the Defiance podcast(In our interview, I mistakenly referred to Peter's other podcast, "What Bitcoin Did")
https://www.defiance.news/podcast/why-we-need-bitcoin-andreas-m-antonopoulos

Bitcoin Mining Explainedhttps://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bitcoin-mining.asp

China Controls Much of the World's BTC Mining Powerhttps://www.livebitcoinnews.com/china-controls-much-of-the-worlds-btc-mining-power/

The Rise of Digital Moneyhttps://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fintech-notes/Issues/2019/07/12/The-Rise-of-Digital-Money-47097

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The Lifeblood of Human Rights: Alex Gladstein Explains Why Bitcoin Matters For Freedom

Alex Gladstein

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-gladstein-283b968

The Human Rights Foundation

https://hrf.org/

Bitcoin

https://bitcoin.org/en/

Human Rights - HRF focuses its work on the founding ideals of the human rights movement, those most purely represented in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), and the 1976 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

https://www.ohchr.org/en/udhr/pages/introduction.aspx

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CCPR.aspx

Blockchain

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/blockchain.asp

Capital Controls, a.k.a. Currency Controls

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/capital_conrol.asp

Bearer Asset

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bearer-instrument.asp

Panopticon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

Satoshi Nakamoto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto

Pseudonymous Wallets

https://blockgeeks.com/guides/cryptocurrency-wallet-guide/

Andreas Antonopolous

https://aantonop.com/

KYC - Know Your Customer

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/k/knowyourclient.asp

Chainalysis

https://www.chainalysis.com/

Bug Bounty Programs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_bounty_program

Bitcoin Wallet

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bitcoin-wallet.asp

Seed Phrase

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Seed_phrase

Fiat Money

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fiatmoney.asp

Satoshis

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/satoshi.asp

Custodial Services

https://www.investopedia.com/news/what-are-cryptocurrency-custody-solutions/

Binance

https://www.binance.com/en

Bitmex

https://www.bitmex.com/

Coinbase

https://www.coinbase.com/

ICO - Initial Coin Offering

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/initial-coin-offering-ico.asp

Self Sovereign Identity

https://www.windley.com/archives/2018/09/multi-source_and_self-sovereign_identity.shtml

Coindesk

https://www.coindesk.com/

The Little Bitcoin Book

https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Alex-Gladstein/e/B07WJ6JVSJ/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_4

小比特币书

https://book.douban.com/subject/34940249/

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The Road From Serfdom: Evernym Brings Self-Sovereign Identity To Our Digital Selves

Jamie Smith - Strategic Engagement Director of Evernym

https://www.evernym.com/blog/team/jamie-smith-strategic-engagement-director/

Evernym

https://www.evernym.com/

The best way for organisations to get started with Self Sovereign Identity (SSI), fast

http://www.evernym.com/plans

Self Sovereign Identity Resources

https://www.evernym.com/resources/

The Alberta Credential Ecosystem (ACE) - a real life SSI ecosystem, working across sectors in Canada

http://www.aceprogram.ca/

Zero Knowledge Proofs- Wired article

https://www.wired.com/story/zero-knowledge-proofs/

Sovrin
https://sovrin.org/

Diwala

https://www.diwala.io/

My Digital Self Diwala Episode

https://share.transistor.fm/s/2a991ad3

Rohingya Project - Myanmar muslim refugees ID system

https://rohingyaproject.com/

Know Your Customer (KYC)https://www.investopedia.com/terms/k/knowyourclient.asp

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Our Once and Future Selves: David Birch Thinks Digital Money and Identity Can Take Humankind Back to its Roots

David Birch

https://www.dgwbirch.com/biography/

Babylonian Money

https://encyclopedia-of-money.blogspot.com/2010/01/babylonian-grain-and-silver-standard.html

Yuval Noah Harari

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_Humankind

Jack Weatherford - “The Future of Money Looks Much More Like Its Past”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Weatherford

Star Wars Money (Galactic Credits)

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Galactic_Credit_Standard

Star Trek’s Money-Free Society - Wired Article

The Economic Lessons of Star Trek’s Money-Free Society
https://www.wired.com/2016/05/geeks-guide-star-trek-economics/

Theory of Optimal Currency Areas

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/optimal-currency-area.asp

Jan Jocobs
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs

Nick Szabo - The Mental Accounting Barrier to Micropayments

http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/rob/Courses/InformationInSpeech/CDROM/Literature/LOTwinterschool2006/szabo.best.vwh.net/micropayments.html

Technode Article

Chinese bet on blockchain to counter vaccine scandal cover-uphttps://technode.com/2018/07/23/vaccine-scandal-blockchain/

51% Attackhttps://www.investopedia.com/terms/1/51-attack.asp

Seigniorage

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/seigniorage.asp

Facebook’s Libra

https://libra.org/en-US/

China’s Central Bank Digital Currency - Binance Link

https://research.binance.com/analysis/china-cbdc

Davos Conference

https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2020

Former Head of the CFTC Cofounds the Digital Dollar Foundation

https://www.forbes.com/sites/benjessel/2020/01/17/former-ctfc-lead-and-accenture-launch-think-tank-to-digitize-the-us-dollar/#22778fb428ff

New York's Proposed State-Issued Digital Currencyhttps://dailyhodl.com/2020/01/08/new-york-will-launch-its-own-digital-currency-if-this-proposal-passes/
https://ronkimnewyork.com/downloads/The-New-York-Inclusive-Value-Ledger-Sept-2019.pdfhttps://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/s4562

The U.S. Constitution Has a Few Things to Say About States Creating Moneyhttps://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/articles/1/essays/70/state-coinage

Niall Ferguson - America’s power is on a financial knife edge

http://www.niallferguson.com/journalism/finance-economics/americas-power-is-on-a-financial-knife-edge

KYC - Know Your Client

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/k/knowyourclient.asp

AML - Anti Money Laundering

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/aml.asp

Homomorphic Encryption - Forbes Article https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2019/11/15/what-is-homomorphic-encryption-and-why-is-it-so-transformative/#1242b4497e93

Zero Knowledge Proofs - Wired Article

https://www.wired.com/story/zero-knowledge-proofs/

Cryptographic Blinding - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinding_(cryptography)

How Distributed Technology Can Help Regional Currencies - By Max Demyan
https://hackernoon.com/how-distributed-technology-can-help-regional-currencies-2b8341c23b59

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Snow’s Linkedin Profile & Personal Webpage

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vongohren/

https://vongohren.me/

Snows’ Javazone talk

https://vimeo.com/233629394

Diwala

https://diwala.io/

https://medium.com/diwala/the-story-of-diwala-5f8567ae71d1

https://medium.com/diwala/diwalas-ecosystem-76b35037a4c2

Zero Knowledge Proofs - Wired article

https://www.wired.com/story/zero-knowledge-proofs/

Hawala - Snow Describes Diwala as “Digital Hawala” insofar as it builds trust back into the skill id network, much like Hawala builds trust into money transfer networks.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hawala.asp

Kampala, Uganda

https://www.britannica.com/place/Kampala

Blockchain

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/blockchain.asp

Cryptocurrency

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cryptocurrency.asp

Oslo Blockchain Day

https://osloblockchainday.no/

Gnosis.io

https://gnosis.io/

Revolut (I meant to refer to Transferwise’s means of moving money in the show, but Revolut and Transferwise offer similar services)

https://www.revolut.com/en-US/

https://transferwise.com/us/

SWIFT

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/swift.asp

IBAN

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/iban.asp

Cryptographic signatures

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signature

Peer to Peer Networks

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/peertopeer-p2p-service.asp

Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) - a term reflecting the belief that an individual should own and control their identity without intervening administrative authorities. SSI allows people to interact in the digital world with the same freedom and capacity for trust as they do in the offline world.

https://medium.com/@AlexPreukschat/self-sovereign-identity-a-guide-to-privacy-for-your-digital-identity-5b9e95677778

Decentralized Identifier Specifications Upon Which Diwala Builds its Platform

https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-primer/

https://medium.com/@adam_14796/understanding-decentralized-ids-dids-839798b91809

https://www.uport.me

https://sovrin.org

VC use cases: https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-use-cases/

VC Spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/

DID spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/

OAuth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth

GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation

Brave Browser

https://brave.com/

Coil

https://coil.com/

Cinnamon.video

https://www.cinnamon.video/

Lever - Software for the Employee Recruitment Process

https://www.lever.co/about/

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Yael Tamar

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaeltamar

Terramaal

http://www.terramaal.com/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ROXCjATUsPXHo9fLDSNSq53kNfxjTYJ675FrlPGz2A/edit
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1L_HTcJINwyI2UjdCXokeAdHVBfHt9I3uB6rV2hP9weE/edit#slide=id.p1

SolidBlock

https://www.solidblock.co/

Somaliland

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-14115069

What is a REIT, referenced by Yael in the show?

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/reit.asp

Fibree.org

https://fibree.org/

Ido Shacham

http://blog.solidblock.co/2019/05/01/yael-tamar-ido-shacham-named-fibree-regional-co-chairs/

Propy

https://propy.com/browse/

Georgia’s Blockchain Land-Registry Project

https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/inov_a_00276

Valery Vavilov

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2018/02/07/fintech-crypto-billionaires-valery-vavilov/#3addf22813be
What is the blockchain?https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/blockchain.asp

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Ziv Keinan

https://zivkeinan.com/digital-assets-lawyers/

Facebook's Project Libra (I mistakenly stated several times that Libra’s digital currency is “backed by a basket of securities”. Ziv correctly reminded me that the current plan is for Libra’s token to be backed by a “basket of currencies”, not securities.)

https://libra.org/en-US/association/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libra_(cryptocurrency)

etoro Trading Platform

https://www.etoro.com/en-us/

GoodDollar

https://www.gooddollar.org/
Ownera - The Blockchain of Ownershiphttps://ownera.io/

Grassroots Economics

https://www.grassrootseconomics.org/

The International Monetary Fund's Fintech Notes Series

The Rise of Digital Money

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fintech-notes/Issues/2019/07/12/The-Rise-of-Digital-Money-47097

Give Direct

Givedirect.org

Ethereal Tel Aviv 2019

https://www.etherealsummit.com/events/tel-aviv-2019

Tomer Barel, VP of Risk and Operations for Calibra

https://www.etherealsummit.com/tomer-barel

Seigniorage - How governments create revenue from printing and coining money

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/seigniorage.asp

WeChat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat

Binance Paper on China’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

https://info.binance.com/en/research/marketresearch/CBDC.html

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Useful Links:
Tobias Koch
https://e-estonia.com/wp-content/uploads/eas-bio-tobias-jkoch.pdf
e-Estonia Briefing Center
https://e-estonia.com/about-us/
e-Estonia
https://e-estonia.com/
An Article by Estonia's President, Kersti Kaljulaid
https://qz.com/1535549/living-on-the-blockchain-is-a-game-changer-for-estonian-citizens/

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Based in Tel Aviv, Israel, Ziv Keinan is a GDPR-f certified commercial-tech attorney experienced in corporate, securities, blockchain, cybersecurity, and privacy laws. Ziv has been advising publicly traded companies and IPOs for over a dozen years and is fluent in securities laws applicable to Digital Assets.

Ziv is also a trailblazer in the nascent SECURITY TOKEN space, where traditional paper securities are represented by electronic tokens, thereby creating liquidity for otherwise illiquid assets.

A passion for impact investing led ziv to co-found Blockchain For Purpose, a nonprofit organization that supports United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

DISCLAIMER REGARDING LEGAL ADVICE

The views expressed on this podcast are not intended to be legal advice and are for informational purposes only. You should not act or refrain from acting on the basis of any information conveyed on this podcast without seeking legal or other professional advice. Only your individual attorney can provide assurances that the information conveyed on this podcast – and your interpretation of it – is applicable or appropriate to your particular situation.

Useful Linkshttps://il.linkedin.com/in/advzivkeinan https://www.zivkeinan.com/
https://www.gooddollar.org/
https://www.blockchainforpurpose.com/

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Episode 1:

Foley is joined by Alex Mashinsky, CEO of Celsius Network to discuss the emerging fourth economic system of the blockchain.

Born into communism, reared under socialism and having thrived as a serial entrepreneur under American capitalism, Mashinsky explains how capitalism has failed most Americans and how the emerging blockchain economy can fix it.

Celsius Network’s platform shares most of its profits earned in the futures market and margin lending with account holders by paying in-kind interest on their cryptocurrency deposits. Lending services are also provided to account holders who may borrow cash, using their deposited cryptocurrency as collateral. Celsius aims to replace Wall Street banks, which pay account holders virtually no interest, instead sharing profits with stockholders.

Special thanks to David Kroell for sound engineering and editing this episode. And to my wife, Hanan, for all of her support.

References
http://www.mashinsky.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Mashinsky
https://celsius.network/