2012-09-?? p2p.coop/P2P fndtn - Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy

[julz]

A comprehensive report (not specifically on Bitcoin) From the P2P foundation.

This was tweeted by Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation as "will be released in the next few days"
I assume he intended this to be public info (or semipublic) or he wouldn't have tweeted it - but perhaps the URL or contents will change before final release, so it's probably best not to link the URL below too much.
I'll update this post as necessary.

Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy

P2P Foundation
April 2012

http://p2p.coop/files/reports/collaborative-economy-2012.pdf

...
More significant still is the emergence of the Bitcoin ecology. Bitcoin is important because it is the
first global, digital, peer to peer and ‘socially sovereign’ currency. It has emerged with the backing and
accepting of the global hacker community, where it is already used for real economic transactions. For
example, the P2P Foundation cooperative pays its members in Bitcoin currency
...

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[Piper67]

A comprehensive report (not specifically on Bitcoin) From the P2P foundation.

This was tweeted by Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation as "will be released in the next few days"
I assume he intended this to be public info (or semipublic) or he wouldn't have tweeted it - but perhaps the URL or contents will change before final release, so it's probably best not to link the URL below too much.
I'll update this post as necessary.

Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy

P2P Foundation
April 2012

http://p2p.coop/files/reports/collaborative-economy-2012.pdf

...
More significant still is the emergence of the Bitcoin ecology. Bitcoin is important because it is the
first global, digital, peer to peer and ‘socially sovereign’ currency. It has emerged with the backing and
accepting of the global hacker community, where it is already used for real economic transactions. For
example, the P2P Foundation cooperative pays its members in Bitcoin currency
...

Oooh, I like the "Socially Sovereign" tag... we should co-opt that.

[n8rwJeTt8TrrLKPa55eU]

A comprehensive report (not specifically on Bitcoin) From the P2P foundation.

This was tweeted by Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation as "will be released in the next few days"
I assume he intended this to be public info (or semipublic) or he wouldn't have tweeted it - but perhaps the URL or contents will change before final release, so it's probably best not to link the URL below too much.
I'll update this post as necessary.

Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy

P2P Foundation
April 2012

http://p2p.coop/files/reports/collaborative-economy-2012.pdf

...
More significant still is the emergence of the Bitcoin ecology. Bitcoin is important because it is the
first global, digital, peer to peer and ‘socially sovereign’ currency. It has emerged with the backing and
accepting of the global hacker community, where it is already used for real economic transactions. For
example, the P2P Foundation cooperative pays its members in Bitcoin currency
...

Oooh, I like the "Socially Sovereign" tag... we should co-opt that.

Personally "Personally Sovereign" might be more accurate...?

[Piper67]

A comprehensive report (not specifically on Bitcoin) From the P2P foundation.

This was tweeted by Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation as "will be released in the next few days"
I assume he intended this to be public info (or semipublic) or he wouldn't have tweeted it - but perhaps the URL or contents will change before final release, so it's probably best not to link the URL below too much.
I'll update this post as necessary.

Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy

P2P Foundation
April 2012

http://p2p.coop/files/reports/collaborative-economy-2012.pdf

...
More significant still is the emergence of the Bitcoin ecology. Bitcoin is important because it is the
first global, digital, peer to peer and ‘socially sovereign’ currency. It has emerged with the backing and
accepting of the global hacker community, where it is already used for real economic transactions. For
example, the P2P Foundation cooperative pays its members in Bitcoin currency
...

Oooh, I like the "Socially Sovereign" tag... we should co-opt that.

Personally "Personally Sovereign" might be more accurate...?

Heh. Really? If you're the last person standing and you own all bitcoins, how much are they worth exactly? The power, my friend, is in the network, not the individual.