Distributed Ledgers and Databases

​This session is part of the Introduction to Political Technology course at Newspeak House, but is open to the public.

​This is a lecture on distributed ledgers and databases. We'll talk about:

• ​How do blockchains work?

• ​Are they helpful in governance?

• ​Are they actually helpful in governance?

• ​Are they helpful in other domains of human life?

• ​Bitcoin

• ​Ethereum and its L2s

• ​pod

• ​DAOs

  • ​aragon.org

  • ​mantle.xyz