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Like the Biblical story of Moses, Bitcoin’s decentralization is a powerful motivating idea. But is it true? (Paramount Pictures/Wikimedia Commons)

Consensus Magazine

The Decentralized Mystique

New academic research on Bitcoin’s early years undermines its foundational myths of privacy through pseudonymity and decentralization, Jaron Lanier and Glen Weyl write.

Like the Biblical story of Moses, Bitcoin’s decentralization is a powerful motivating idea. But is it true? (Paramount Pictures/Wikimedia Commons)

By Jaron Lanier Glen Weyl

Jun 7, 2022 at 1:11 a.m. UTC

Jun 7, 2022

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Consensus Magazine (layer2)

After DeFi, DeSoc: Finding Web 3’s Soul

By using Web 3’s building blocks to represent social identity, the ecosystem can overcome its current limitations and bring about a decentralized society.

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May 11, 2022 at 9:12 p.m. UTC

May 11, 2022

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Glen Weyl, founder and chair, and Jack Henderson, co-founder and president, of RadicalxChange

Markets

Year in review 2019

Smashing Through Surveillance Capitalism With Blockchain

The founders of RadicalxChange argue that we need to focus on the political economy if we want technologies like blockchain to produce better social outcomes.

Glen Weyl, founder and chair, and Jack Henderson, co-founder and president, of RadicalxChange

By Glen Weyl Jack Henderson

Dec 23, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. UTC

Dec 23, 2019

Year in Review 2019