Swarm Activism Powered by Bitcoin: Free Uber
In response to the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire passing an ordinance effectively restricting ridesharing services from operating in the city, Uber driver and Bitcoin entrepreneur Christopher David started the Free Uber campaign. He has since led an activism effort to legalize ridesharing inspired by the swarm organizational model outlined in Swarmwise by Rick Falkvinge, founder of the first Pirate Party in Sweden. We reached out to Christopher David to talk about his Free Uber activism campaign: CoinTelegraph: Ok, so for the uninformed, what is Free Uber? “Of course there is a setup....
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The city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire passed an ordinance regulating ride-sharing services that took effect in September of 2015. The ordinance made driving with Uber and other ride-sharing companies illegal within the city limits. Christopher David, a former Uber driver, launched the Free Uber campaign using Bitcoin prize pools to incentivize activism protesting the ordinance. Now, in the wake of protests by Uber drivers over the company’s decision to cut fares, David is launching his own blockchain-based ride-sharing platform, Arcade City. To promote the new platform, he and nine other....
Swarm's concept has been generally written about here, and announced here. Joel Dietz is the founder of Swarm, which Entrepreneur Magazine called "a crowdfunding platform that operates on a Bitcoin framework." I invited him onto my podcast to discuss what Swarm is, how it will disrupt finance and the 1%, and why it's the Uber of venture capital. Here's the episode, with the transcript of the interview below. You guys just launched recently, right? That's right, on June 17th we kicked it off. That's so exciting, and you got a big write-up in Entrepreneur Magazine. Yea! And we've seen a lot....
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