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The @P2P_Foundation (@mbauwens and collaborators) are producing a super important report on how better accounting can help save the world. I just finished the draft. All of it. I couldn't stop. wiki.p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Accounting…
@P2P_Foundation @mbauwens For one thing it was a reminder of how much I've depended on P2PF's work over the years. Such an important synthesizing role.
But more to the point, this report highlights and connects some of the leading-edge projects that leverage new ledger tech for the common good, rather than subjugating the common good to ledgers. This is a super important distinction.
Be warned: Like a lot of what P2P reports on and promotes, lots of this stuff is small—smaller, really, than what they make it out to be. Bigness isn't proof of goodness, but it does help demonstrate basic plausibility.
In many cases, I suspect features of these projects will be adopted to greater effect by other organizations that figure out better how to mobilize them.
Too often, the pioneers don't get noticed or rewarded. Which is why I appreciate P2PF's focus on those pioneers.
One thing I also appreciate about the P2P approach is the balance between solidarity and independence of participants. There are also dangers in this. For instance, I worry that more P2P networks like Holochain will produce inequality even greater than that of a Bitcoin.
Providing for the social floor is vital to enable these commoner systems to work. P2PF has a concept of the "partner state" for this and other things, but I worry it is too thin. Basic citizenship in technological societies is expensive.
But above all, I love this. We need more such geekery. We need the capacity to change what our systems value, and this report offers one such roadmap.
