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Political Economy · Yanis Varoufakis · 2023
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
To discuss crypto from the left, one must understand platform power. This book offers a provocative vocabulary for that, and also a target for debate.
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FeatureEC·B·0032022Political Economy · Feature
What Would Karl Marx Think About Crypto?
Ben Munster · 2022
A provocative feature mapping the left's split over Web3. On one side, critics who see financialization with a cooperative veneer; on the other, those who defend DAOs as tools for worker cooperatives and argue for contesting these technologies instead of handing them over to libertarians and anarcho-capitalists.
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WhitepaperEC·B·0162014Web3 & Power · Whitepaper
Ethereum Whitepaper
Vitalik Buterin · 2014
The original proposal for a programmable blockchain, the basis of smart contracts and DAOs.
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Academic articleEC·B·0242022Web3 & Power · Academic article
Blockchain and the emergence of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs): An integrative model and research agenda
Carlos Santana e Laura Albareda · 2022
An academic review that organizes what is known about DAOs and proposes a research agenda.
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