Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods

An era of global protocols requires a visionary redefinition of public goods, in service of others.

Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods Authors Published July 02 2021 Thanks to their open source and permissionless nature, crypto protocols have rekindled a popular conversation about public goods. Indeed, the transparency and accessibility of blockchains has already re-imagined models of free exchange and association. Nevertheless, while crypto protocols operate as open networks, do they truly enact a public if solely comprised of private capital? Questions of scope, access, and ownership complicate our understanding of what is public on the in

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