Decentralisation at Work: Cooperatives on the Blockchain
With Joshua Davila, Blockchain Solutions Architect at SettleMint
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Cooperatives offer users and workers decentralisation of power. Now, with blockchain technology to provide the technical infrastructure, Joshua Davila discusses the new potential solutions towards better-decentralised business models.
This article explores and analyses:
The evolution of decentralisation throughout history.
The cooperative movement and its goal to create an alternative and decentralised organisation.
Platform coops and their most recent evolution in the Internet Age.
Examples of decentralised autonomous cooperatives on the blockchain.
How far do you think we are from seeing an attempt at synthesising the blockchain with the user decentralisation of cooperatives?
Potentially not too far off.
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