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* [Web3 is going just great](https://web3isgoinggreat.com/) - A timeline of scams related to cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and web3 projects since the beginning of 2021 by Molly White
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### DAOs
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* [Is The DAO going to be DOA?](https://steemit.com/crypto-news/@dan/is-the-dao-going-to-be-doa) - 2016-05-16 - by Dan Larimer (founder of BitShares and much else). Larimer sets out most of the basic critiques of DAOs as governance innovation extremely well:
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> Fancy technology can obscure our assessment of what is really going on. The DAO solves a single problem: the corrupt trustee or administrator. It replaces voluntary compliance with a corporation’s charter under threat of lawsuit, with automated compliance with software defined rules. This subtle change may be enough to bypass regulatory hurdles facing traditional trustee’s and administrators, but it doesn’t solve most of the problems the regulations were attempting to address.
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> What The DAO doesn’t solve is all of the other problems inherent with any joint venture. These are people problems, economic problems, and political problems. In some sense, The DAO creates many new problems caused by its ridged rules and expensive machine-enforced process for change.
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> The DAO doesn’t solve the “group trap” where by losers subsidize winners. It disempowers the individual actor and forces him to submit to group decision making. It doesn’t make raising money cheaper for companies, it just adds blockchain-enforced bureaucratic and political processes.
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* [DAOs and the nature of human collaboration](https://world.hey.com/marin/daos-and-the-nature-of-human-collaboration-be162918) - 2021-08-12 by Marin Petrov. A critique of DAOs and technosolutionism.
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### NFTs
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* [OpenSea, Web3, and Aggregation Theory](https://stratechery.com/2022/opensea-raises-money-bans-nfts-openseas-value-cryptos-aggregators/) - 2022-01-05 - Ben Thompson of Stratechery
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* [Brian Eno on NFTs & Automaticism](https://the-crypto-syllabus.com/brian-eno-on-nfts-and-automatism/)
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* [Detailed twitter thread by @NFTEthics alleging fraudulent or close to fraudulent behaviour by a major NTF influencer named BeanieMaxi ](https://twitter.com/NFTethics/status/1483051289022017538) - 2022-01-17 ([cached](./assets/Thread by @NFTethics re beaniemaxi.pdf))
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### Specific use cases
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* https://twitter.com/ncweaver
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* https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF
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* https://twitter.com/smdiehl
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- [Crypto Criticism Threads](https://gist.github.com/sdiehl/7706ef44d951a2025fd658d1dd8687af)
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* https://twitter.com/troll_lock
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### Tether, and other stablecoins
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TODO.
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* [Bennett Tomlin: Tether and Bitfinex Introduction](https://bennettftomlin.com/2021/08/08/tether-and-bitfinex-introduction/) - 2021-08-10 - Tether and Bitfinex are two of the most important companies in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Tether is the largest stablecoin, and the primary driver of volume and liquidity. Bitfinex used to be the largest cryptocurrency exchange, and still is a frequently used exchange. Tether and Bitfinex have an incredibly problematic past and are quite possibly the largest corporate fraud in history.
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* Detailed overview of Tether and Bitfinex and their connection.
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* [Tether Papers: This is exactly who acquired 70% of all USDT ever issued](https://protos.com/tether-papers-crypto-stablecoin-usdt-investigation-analysis/) - 2021-11-10
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* [Bloomberg: Tether’s Latest Black Eye Is CFTC Fine for Lying About Reserves](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-15/tether-bitfinex-to-pay-fines-totaling-42-5-million-cftc-says) - 2021-10-15 - Biggest stablecoin issuer hit with $41 million penalty. Affiliated crypto exchange Bitfinex also fined $1.5 million.
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* [Bloomberg: Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions?](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-07/crypto-mystery-where-s-the-69-billion-backing-the-stablecoin-tether) - 2021-10-07 - A wild search for the U.S. dollars supposedly backing the stablecoin at the center of the global cryptocurrency trade—and in the crosshairs of U.S. regulators and prosecutors. [paywalled] ([cached](./assets/anyone-seen-tethers-billions.pdf))
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* [Bloomberg: Tether Fails to Dispel Mystery on Stablecoin’s Crucial Reserves](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-03/tether-gives-more-details-on-assets-backing-crypto-stablecoin) - 2021-12-03 - Holding include $30.6 billion in commercial paper and CDs. About $1 billion moved from reverse repo notes to money funds
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### Fairer governance
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Can support more democratic, distributed governance, e.g., cooperatives (somehow).
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Can support more democratic, distributed governance, e.g. cooperatives (somehow). Can save Democracy.
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* [If I Only had a Heart: a DisCO Manifesto](https://disco.coop/manifesto/) - Dec 2019 - A joint publication by DisCO.coop, the Transnational Institute and Guerrilla Media Collective. "Value Sovereignty, Care Work, Commons and Distributed Cooperative Organizations. The DisCO Manifesto is a deep dive into the world of Distributed Cooperative Organizations. Over its 80 colorful pages, you will read about how DisCOs are a P2P/Commons, cooperative and Feminist Economic alternative to Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). The DisCO Manifesto also includes some background on topics like blockchain, AI, the commons, feminism, cooperatives, cyberpunk, and more."
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* [Wired: The Father of Web3 Wants You to Trust Less](https://www.wired.com/story/web3-gavin-wood-interview/) - 2021-11-29 - Gavin Wood, who coined the term Web3 in 2014, believes decentralized technologies are the only hope of preserving liberal democracy.
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### Fairer Economy
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* [Li Jin on the future of the creator economy](https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2021/11/08/li-jin-on-the-future-of-the-creator-economy) - Shared ownership and control of online platforms is the way forward (via crypto)
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* The irony here is we want the outcome, it's just that crypto is neither necessary nor likely to get us there. See https://rufuspollock.com/fixing-facebook/
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## Reference
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History of speculation, manias, etc.
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* Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
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by Edward Chancellor (1998)
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* Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor (1998)
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* [Manias, Panics, and. Crashes. A History of Financial Crises](https://delong.typepad.com/manias.pdf) by by CP Kindleberger (1978)
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## Inbox
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* https://www.profgalloway.com/web3/ - 2022-01-15 - Prof Scott Galloway @ NYU. Unequal, focused on getting rich, facilitating crime, centralized
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* [Cryptoeconomics as a Limitation on Governance](https://osf.io/wzf85/?view_only=a10581ae9a804aa197ac39ebbba05766) - 2021-11-11 - Nathan Schneider, University of Colorado Boulder
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* [Financial Times: Matt Damon’s crypto ad is more than just cringeworthy](https://www.ft.com/content/3fac474e-aa34-439a-8bdb-32b576fe2687) (paywall)
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* [Francesca Bria on Decentralisation, Sovereignty, and Web3](https://the-crypto-syllabus.com/francesca-bria-on-decentralisation/)
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Pros
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* [BanklessDAO: State of the DAOs #7: Social Tokens and the Future of Work](https://banklessdao.substack.com/p/state-of-the-daos-7-social-tokens) - 2022-01-13
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### Other suggestions
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## Other suggestions
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* New topic concerning the psychological harm, such as: gambling, greed, cultism, etc.
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* New topic along the lines of “Ex-coiners speaking out.”
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* New topic along the lines of “Ex-coiners speaking out.”
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