Since AI x crypto agents seem poised to take over the world, I’m throwing this *draft* into the wild for public comment, critique, and ridicule: 🚀 Community Currencies: The Price of Attention & Cost of Influence ---or--- 💡 The Price of Entry & Cost of Exit This paper is a culmination of my thoughts on networked governance, risk, and decentralized identity that hopes to resolve the tensions and contradictions we face in the digital age: money/voting, public/private, democratic/corporate, capture/overreach, voice/exit. Meaningful feedback and contributions will be acknowledged in the final version! All errors are my own. (And special thanks to the Idena community for giving a model to chew on and improve). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…

🎉The paper 'Compressed to 0: The Silent Strings of Proof of Personhood' has been published by Stanford: stanford-jblp.pubpub.org/pub…

Vol. 8, No. 1 is now live at stanford-jblp.pubpub.org. Find the print version at future Stanford conferences. @WulfKaal @xiaoli_jin @pujaohlhaver @cryptoidentity @_paulaberman @steve_s_nam @clairebot_eth @lai @jmuller @flogsell @Drigolvc @TheDRC_ @pubpub @SLSTechLaw

This is precisely what @cryptoidentity @_paulaberman and I warned about in our paper “Compressed to 0: the Silent Strings of PoP”—-the first empirical analysis and critique of PoP. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.… (published by @Stanford_JBLP)

How can X generate more common knowledge? Check out my blogpost: "Common Knowledge Machines: From Community Notes to Community Posts" pujaohlhaver.substack.com/p/…

One related point is that giving tokens away for free is not the only "form factor" that makes sense for this: you can also do discounted sales. I talk about reasons why to do this here: vitalik.eth.limo/general/202… Depending on the degree of membership/contribution you can prove, you can buy a corresponding number of tokens at a reduced price. This helps make the supply more distributed and rewards non-financial contributors, while still ensuring buyers have "skin in the game". Any technique that works for airdrops also works for discounts. A related concept (CT @pujaohlhaver @IdenaNetwork) is to subsidize savings rates for smaller accounts as an alternative to UBI. Singapore's CPF already does something similar.

Watch the recording of the keynote speech by Puja Ohlhaver @pujaohlhaver and Mikhail Nikulin @cryptoidentity at ETHBerlin04. They shared key insights from their research paper and engaged with the audience during an insightful Q&A session. 👇👇👇 youtu.be/-mwUQp2qwjk?feature…

@pujaohlhaver gave a banger. She goes over her study that shows even when you have proof-of-personhood (single vote per person), you still have capture. I love the end where she says we need to actually make groups and stand up for something. youtube.com/watch?v=-mwUQp2q…

Thanks for the kind words, Puja! Your insights brought everything together. It was a pleasure working with you. Looking forward to our next adventure!

Giving this talk with @cryptoidentity was maybe the highlight of the year, especially the ending when the crowd erupted in applause. Thank you for the collaboration, Misha. 🙏🏽

Looking forward for the presentation at @ETHBerlin Dm me if you want to say hi and meet in person

Today at 15:50 at @ETHBerlin , Puja and Mikhail will present their latest paper on Proof-of-Personhood. If you're at the venue, come and learn more about their in-depth analysis of Idena protocol.

Watch the recording of the @metagov_project seminar with @pujaohlhaver , Mikhail @cryptoidentity and @_paulaberman presenting their research paper on proof-of-personhood, followed by discussions on identity and the puppeteering problem. The video is available here👇 archive.org/details/metagov-…

👋 Our seminar had to be postponed: it will now happen on Friday May 10th, 2024, at 11am ET. You can register at the same link: eventbrite.com/e/rxc-seminar… (If you have already registered, there's no need to do it again)

Looking forward to talking identity with @cryptoidentity!

The presentation of Puja Ohlhaver and Mikhail Nikulin, Idena’s founder, is today at 12:05 CET on the Surge stage @EthereumZurich Watch live here👇 m.youtube.com/watch?v=JODkRN…

This important paper offers a fascinating case study on the evolution of Idena's approach to online proof of personhood. Most crucially, it underlines the reality that proof of personhood will never truly achieve its goals without strong resistance to coercion and collusion.

🤔Have you heard of Proof of Personhood? 💡 Learn more from @pujaohlhaver, lawyer, innovator, technologist, & co-author of “Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul”, and @cryptoidentity, Founder of @IdenaNetwork. ⬇️ Apply to speak or grab your ticket! EthereumZuri.ch

Just finished reading this new outstanding paper on Proof of Personhood and why the required solutions are a lot more nuanced than just filtering humans vs bots. Will write up a summary thread soon.

Important work: in this era of AI and deepfakes, this is work recasts proof of personhood into a shades-of-grey measure, then finds pragmatic techniques to improve things