李士傑,宏華環境保護與數位未來基金會 / 星輿股份有限公司
區塊鏈發展的他山之石,何以作為在地的磨刀石,來打磨手上的美玉?我們將從荷蘭的數位文化發展案例歷史切入,來試圖理解文化藝術生態系統,在什麼樣的問題意識下,如何跟區塊鏈加密技術的種種應用與發展對話。
區塊鏈如何是一個數位文化的新興、重要研究課題?新興的文化場域當中,有著什麼樣的行動者(actor),而我們又可以用什麼樣的方法來研究與分析?應該創造什麼樣的社群、實體與虛擬的空間,沿著什麼樣的邏輯來演進與對話?
在區塊鏈與加密貨幣爆炸性的發展過程中,彷彿缺乏了一些人性的與練習體驗的部分…
MoneyLab #3: Role Play Your Way to Budgetary Blockchain Bliss from Institute of Network Cultures on Vimeo.
It has been said that in terms of its ecology of tools and infrastructures, the Blockchain is at the same stage of development as the World Wide Web in the late 1980s. Since 2013 blockchains have become a focus for investment by world banks, fintechs and corporations who predict a fourth industrial revolution of super-automation and hyperconnectivity that will increase global inequity. In this version of the future, code replaces legislation. Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) route around systems of regulation and taxation via immutable smart contracts. Those that grew up with the WWW know that decentralised infrastructure does not equate to decentralised power. Therefore it is crucial that people from diverse disciplines and backgrounds are involved when working out how blockchain technologies can be shaped in the interests of more diverse needs and interests.
Role play the formation of a DAO for solidarity and a commons for the arts in the age of networks. Experience and debate the hopes and tensions; work through the asymmetries, dramas, inequities and politics of coalitions across difference…. starting with the budget! This activity is a precursor to a series of smart contract role play and design activities for people of all backgrounds and disciplines – lawyers, philosophers, economists, financiers, artists, designers, developers – where participants will write social relations into code as a basis for debate.
這裏的治理議題,不只是國家的金融治理問題,更包括了技術本身內含的治理性,以及自身欲望 / 願望與社會集體的改變的管理議題…
"…this possibility to fork proves the autonomy of cryptocurrencies: to not have to live under majority rule."
"…revalue different tasks in the art center and to create a shared basic income between members."
"…The implementation of cryptocurrency allows for a questioning of relationships in production and self-governance. … their choice for using cryptocurrency. The idea was to produce a local autonomy within a larger structure. The use of cryptocurrency allows the organization to be in dialogue with international movements, while fine-tuning their system for local use."
"…a demand based economy that connects blockchain, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of things (IoT) technologies."
"vote on specific algorithms…not on politician"
“In what kind of nation do you want to live in 2026? A capitalist, communist, or socialist nation, or do you want to create your own?”
"錯置信任認為科技可以帶來自主性"
"…fragmentation also means greater freedom of choice"
內文分成五個部分:
第一部分,〈更新數位經濟〉(Updating Digital Economy),
第二部分,〈區塊鏈批判〉(Blockchain Criticism),
第三部分,〈演示未來金融〉(Performing Future Finance),
第四部分,〈大計畫批判〉(Critiques of the Grand Schemes),
第五部分,〈金融想像的另類可能〉(Alternatives in Financial Imagination)。「大計畫批判:著名金融作家與記者 Brett Scott 談數位付費全景監獄時代的金錢;印度學者 Tripta Chandola 以民族誌的方式,談論非正式經濟下的去價值化「信任」(devaluing ‘Trust’)做為一種貨幣;研究不穩定創業新階級(「諸羅流眾」) Silvio Lorusso 對個人群眾募資與(文創)創意企業家主義的看法(「第一次是藝術,第二次是悲劇」);法籍學者 Nathalie Maréchal 談對貧窮的戰爭,如何因為資料而變成對窮人的戰爭。
當物聯網連上了你的錢包:O’Dwyer:「會交易的東西」
「…可以自主作出決策的事物,就將成為世界中的一個角色(actor)。」
「物聯網冰箱沒有牛奶了,自動連去超市選購牛奶,然後叫快遞送貨到家。冰箱要怎麼付錢?冰箱能否跟超市定長期契約?超市能否針對連線的冰箱,提供折扣?超市能否藉由降價,來交換牛奶隔壁物件的情報?最終,冰箱能否背叛擁有者,成為獨立的存在?」
"WombCoin is said to work against the reproduction of market dynamics in friendships, relationships, social behaviour, and in our bodies."
策劃者言:〈飛錢:組織化的犯罪與新數位金錢〉
議題內容
無現金化彷彿高大上
「…當越來越多的人們仰賴電子環境,而非金錢的日復一日基礎與看得見摸得到的形式,同時世界的金融系統越來越複雜,許多人被迫要去困惑思考:誰該對這種新型態的金錢價值、這些交換系統的穩定性負責?從這個角度出發,理解組織化犯罪擁有什麼樣的機會就顯得分外重要。現金(交易)往往被視為一種髒兮兮的商業活動,一種讓罪犯得以洗錢的方式,同時數位的金錢可以看起來像是一種對這些問題的一種具有吸引力的解答。加密貨幣連結到「拉高與出倉」式騙局(pump & dump schemes)、猖獗的內線交易,它也被運用在勒索贖金與「暗網」(dark web)平台(如數位絲路市集),顯示了這種思考方式的弱點。」
在災難現場的經驗,你會希望有一種工具直接把人們的苦難,用最小的摩擦力與代價,來盡可能縫補那些悲傷與苦痛。
The experimental phase of Social Wallet started in 2013 with a European Union project called D-CENT[8]. This project itself was a collaborative policy-making tool. The initiative aimed to improve participatory design and digital tools for citizens, such as decentralized tools to engage individuals in public participation. The project aimed to build privacy-aware tools for direct democracy and economic empowerment. One of these tools was a digital wallet; which was initially called freecoin. The reason to develop this tool was to use it as an incentive for people to participate in policy-making processes. At that time there was a large monolithic application, namely a software project that included a system for authentication and authorization. Afterwards it was broken down in multiple modules.
At the time of writing in June 2018, Social Wallet is in a pilot stage. The core of the tool is entirely functional, the software developers keep improving and adding features in an agile way, as Aspasia Beneti, lead developer of the tool at Dyne.org, explained to me in an interview: