Video - Bitcoin Q and A Open Source As Cross-Pollination and Consensus Through Collaboration

The interest of anthropologists drawing similarities between evolutionary biology and market economies. Cross-pollination/ cross-genetic lines or horizontal transfer of DNA between species vs. the open source environment. Different cryptocurrency developers exchanging code ("DNA blueprints") and adopting it. Bitcoin is rapidly progressing. Concepts of basic income.

Identity and reputation works best in small communities. They are difficult to scale without collapsing. We can scale reputation but should we or do we want to? Rigid mechanistic reputation systems don't have the the flexible human capability to forget. Scaling consensus through collaboration. The problem of control by the few.

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