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The great creaky door called access to capital is slowly swinging open, and Aragon has turned the key.  Investment banking for the masses has arrived on the #Ethereum blockchain.

Democracy Salon: Aragon, ICOs and Ethereum, oh my!

Ryan Shea and Muneeb Ali, the cofounders of Blockstack, on how their tools enable users to control their own data, why the internet should have universal usernames but no company should control that, and why Blockstack’s storage system still allows users to choose centralized options &nbsp;like Google Drive and Dropbox. They also talk about how other blockchain systems are thinking about scaling wrong, why they launched a developer fund, and why a developer would choose Blockstack over Ethereum. Show notes:  http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2017/09/05/blockstack-on-how-to-take-control-from-google-facebook-and-amazon/ BlockStack: https://blockstack.org/

Blockstack On Getting Independence From Google, Facebook And Amazon

Can Bitcoin Replace the State? Fresh from the stage at Blockstack Berlin and Fast Forward's AccelerateGood in the Bay Area, Santi Siri talks cryptopolitics through the geopolitical lens of Venezuela, Ed Snowden's warning, with a side node about the Democracy Earth vote token, and what it means to be a governance technology nonprofit holding a token sale [coming up in Q2018.]

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Cryptopolitics at Blockstack Berlin: Talking with Santiago Siri, Founder of Democracy Earth

Over the decades, corporate power has not only effectively eliminated personal liability, ‘limited liability’ has become the main reason to form an organization. With all the talk of lambos and hodling one of the greatest transformative properties of blockchains is the end of decision laundering.  In this podcast we talk with Herb Stephens about accounting and accountability on blockchains, and what the single most important organization of the so-called Internet 2.0 will be (Hint: Aragon).

Organizing and Accountability On the Blockchain

World Economic Forum member, Democracy Earth Foundation co-founder, and Open Collective founder and CEO Pia Mancini on the intersection of technology and politics.

Pia Mancini: Designing democracy for the 21st century

Industrial revolutions have always been shaped by the powerful; now that we are at the cusp of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, how do we ensure that the voices of ordinary citizens are included?  After Brexit, WEF Global Shapemaker Alvin Carpio  decided to create a space for those voices to be heard.  

As CEO of The Fourth Group, and working with partners like Paula Berman, Director of Partnerships of of Democracy Earth Foundation, Alvin is creating more opportunities for including citizen participation in policy making that contemplates the technology-related problems that we face.  

Today we're doing a deep dive into We Are United Citizens, the initiative designed to create Sustainable Development Goals for technology.  You can share your own opinion in the We Are United Citizens endeavor at unitedcitizens.democracy.earth

Technology and Citizenship: A New Framework for Global Cooperation

Zachary Fallon, a former SEC staffer and author of the Reg A JOBS Act crowdfunding rules and a principal at Blakemore Fallon, discusses Blockstack's filing for a token offering under Reg A+, what that means for the security status of the tokens and what types of investors the company can raise from. We also talk about several of the particulars of the Blockstack filing, such as the time-lock on the tokens, the ability to raise money in bitcoin and ether, and the cap on the dollar amount of tokens any single investor can purchase. Zach also covers how much they must have worked with the SEC until this point, how long it might take the SEC to offer a response and what the filing means for token offerings going forward. Thank you to our sponsor! CipherTrace: http://ciphertrace.com/unconfirmed Episode Links Zach Fallon: https://twitter.com/ZacharyFallon &nbsp; Blakemore Fallon: https://blakemorefallon.com Blockstack: https://blockstack.org Stackstoken: https://www.stackstoken.com App mining for Stacks: https://app.co/mining Blockstack's Reg A+ filing:  https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1719379/000110465919020748/a18-15736_1partiiandiii.htm Wired story on the filing:  https://www.wired.com/story/startup-sell-you-crypto-tokens-with-sec-backing/

Blockstack's Reg A+ Filing and the Future of Token Offerings - Ep.069

Welcome to Democracy Salon, the podcast of Democracy Earth Foundation where we talk about all things governance, blockchains & cryptopolitics.