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  • Forking as Cultural Practice: Institutional Governance after The DAO

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    The “right to fork” is inherent in the fundamental software freedoms common. Forking also takes place in “traditional institutions” such as non-profit associations and political and religious movements. Forking was in the spotlight when a controversy about The DAO had caused Ethereum to split in two instances. This essay is part of the Proceedings of…

  • Cryptocurrencies as Distributed Community Experiments

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    Cryptocurrencies as Distributed Community Experiments: how Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero and other Cryptocurrency is based on experimental economics of distributed experimentation. This chapter is part of the Handbook of Digital Currency: Bitcoin, Innovation, Financial Instruments, and Big Data edited by David LEE Kuo Chuen. Since Bitcoin other Altcoins (Litecoin, Ethereum, Monero) emerged as Distributed Community Experiments…