Co-founders of UkraineDAO and Friends With Benefits DAO talk autonomous organ...
Panelists discuss whether DAOs can have enough legal power to replace not only corporate structures but to also challenge governance models. Kimbal Musk, Nadya Tolokonnikova and Alex Zhang took to the SXSW stage on Monday to participate in the "Move Over NFTs. Here Come the DAOs" panel at Austin's Convention Center. Tolokonnikova is a former member of the Russian protest punk rock group Pussy Riot, and the co-founder of UnicornDAO and UkraineDAO. Zhang co-founded the social club, DAO Friends With Benefits, and serves as its mayor, while Musk cofounded the philanthropic Big Green DAO.....
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One week into the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the team behind Ukraine DAO announced their efforts will go to local NGO Come Back Alive. UkraineDAO, the decentralized autonomous organization created by Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova, Trippy Labs and PleasrDAO members, crowdfunded 2188 ETH, or $6.1 million, for a 1/1 Ukrainian flag NFT. Proceeds will go to nonprofit organizations in Ukraine that are helping those affected by the Russian invasion.The NFT sale was hosted as a PartyBid auction, allowing people to pool resources and bid collectively for fractionalized ownership of the digital....
Today sees the launch of peer-to-peer Bitcoin lending platform Credible Friends, designed to spread Bitcoin awareness while enabling friends to borrow virtual currency – on terms decided by them. The platform, which is the brainchild of developers Gavin Knight and Zach Doty, was launched with help of Bitcoin entrepreneur Roger Ver from his St. Kitts home....
When it comes to bitcoin's use as money, word-of-mouth has been its biggest asset. The journey from Internet obscurity to interest from financial incumbents has been a long one, but it started with passionate users, willing to discuss its benefits with friends, and those friends, intrigued by the idea, began to explore – and spend – the currency themselves. Bitcoin, because of its peer-to-peer design, thrives on connection. As this conversation goes viral, talk of digital currencies is spreading across the globe, and one community that has been drawn to bitcoin (and the blockchain) is....
On the latest episode of the Bitcoin.com podcast, Simon Dixon rejoins our host, Zach Doty, to discuss Bitcoin P2P lending the new P2P lending app Credible Friends that Zach himself founded. BnkToTheFuture CEO Simon Dixon on P2P Lending. After the first time BnkToTheFuture CEO, Simon Dixon, joined the Bitcoin.com podcast, Credible Friends placed a private....
Recall Andreas Antonopoulos’s talk at the Wired Money 2015 conference the other week. There, he said, “Bitcoin is about the other 6 billion [people].” This is striking, of course, because most Bitcoin startups in the States and in the Philippines are looking for acceptance. They’re looking for regulations to accommodate their innovations. But Andreas is saying something else here: That Bitcoin startups shouldn’t, and that if they do: They’re missing the point. The point is, perhaps, to start from scratch. Take another point in his talk as an example. He points to children. He throws at....