From an idea, to a concept, to a company, to products. This is a personal post about the journey over the course of the second half of during which we established Eris Industries and built our first products for release.
Recap of DAO Design Jam held on Google Hangouts on 11 May. The discussion this week focused on corporate governance of a DAO by the nodes who are participants of the DAO.
We have been structuring and building one possible paradigm for a model layer which DAOs can use to store and disseminate information while controlling access to that information's contents and that information's existence.
Recap of DAO Design Jam held on Google Hangouts on 4 May. The discussion this week focused on the transmission or distribution of value to the nodes that are actively assisting (working for or contracting for) a DAO.
Recap of DAO Design Jam held on Google Hangouts on 27 April. The discussion was lively and varied and provided some interesting thought food for those of us interested in this space.
My reactions to Ethereum's unveiling at a bastion of American legal and technological thought.
Last night I gave a talk at the Amsterdam Ethereum Meetup. Here are my prepared notes. I did not cover all these topics, but the majority of them I covered in the talk.
This is a proposal for a package manager which will help in the assembly, development, and deployment of virtual automatic contracts within the Ethereum ecosystem.
How do virtual automatic contracts know that a real world event took place so that it could take a particular action? This is an interesting question that will need to be explored in some detail before virtual automatic contracts can be workable in real life. Here is my early take on three possible linkages I would recommend lawyer|coders build into smart contracts.
How could we leverage automatic contracts and virtual currency to speed up service delivery to populations affected by humanitarian crises in a way which will entrench local markets rather than displace them? Sounds too good to be true, perhaps it is not.