In this episode, Jahed and Martin spoke with Dr. Jaya Klara Brekke, a researcher on the political economy of blockchains at Durham University and Chief Strategy Officer at Nymtech. Nymtech is reimagining a world where resilient digital platforms and ecosystems and individual privacy are not mutually exclusive. We connected with Dr. Brekke on a variety of topics including identity, security, control and power. Dr. Brekke’s work is guided by both political economy and anthropology and she brings a discerning eye to both the potential and limits of blockchain applications.

Show Notes:

1.)   Distributed Ledger Technologies for Social and Public Good - https://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/65645/1/jrc121675_dlt4good_scanning_the_european_ecosystem_online.pdf

2.)   Digital Scarcity - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351076380_Digital_scarcity

3) The market as a gun to your head, tool in your hand or escape route from hell https://agorist.xyz/files/Agorism_XXI_I_2022.pdf

4) Cryptopolitics - an update

http://sumrevija.si/issues/sum-15/

5) The Dissensus Protocol https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fhumd.2021.641731/full

6) Hacker-engineers and their economies https://sci-hub.wf/10.1080/13563467.2020.1806223

6.)    “The World of Anonymous Credentials” - https://blog.dock.io/anonymous-credentials/

4.)   “Why I am Joining Nym” - https://medium.com/nymtech/why-i-am-joining-nym-2bcae776f7a7

5.)   The Age of Survelliance Capitalism - https://www.amazon.es/Age-Surveillance-Capitalism-Future-Frontier/dp/1781256845

6.) Cloud Money -  Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto and the War for our Wallets

7.) How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality

8.) Louise Amoore - https://www.dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics