For two days, the stars aligned at Engelnest Coworking space in Berlin. The tiny sliver of overlap between the enthusiasts of cryptocurrency and the political left was, for a fleeting moment, not just a construct of online discourse. Crypto and web3 have long captured the ire of many in progressive circles. Without a doubt, much of this criticism is well-earned. But the Breadchain Popup at Funding the Commons Forum Berlin not only provided respite from these narratives, but showed us a glimps...| breadchain.mirror.xyz
There is no denying that web3 has been heavily influenced by capitalist logic (ie, profit maximization, rent-seeking, etc.). Because of this, there’s an overwhelming bias that blockchains are a hyper-individualistic technical media dependent on financial speculation - but this is not what blockchains really are. They can more accurately be seen as permissionless networks of computers and users that collaborate with one another around a distributed database of economic information by reachin...| breadchain.mirror.xyz
This article has been updated since Breadchain migrated to Gnosis Chain.| breadchain.mirror.xyz