Scout Stork: Decentralization Personified.

Ledgerback Update: 05/20/2019

By Charles Adjovu, Scout and Researcher

Introduction

Hello and welcome to the official blog of Ledgerback, an independent research institution in the blockchain industry, organized as a solidarity cooperative.

In the past week, Ledgerback has modified the website and is working on an advertising proposal for the Cooperative.

For this coming week, Ledgerback will focus on 1) Cooperative Advertising; 2) Planned Research; and 3) Reforming its Membership Model.

Ledgerback Membership

You can become a Member of Ledgerback (hereinafter “Scout”) by reading the Guide to Ledgerback, and completing the Membership Application Form and the Disclosure Statement.

As Ledgerback is updating its Bylaws, we are changing to a multi-stakeholder cooperative, AKA a Solidarity Cooperative, with the following types of membership:

Research Analyst

Supporter

Greenback

Developer

Writer

Social Coordinator

Each type of membership comes with “regular member benefits,” which include a 25 percent (25%) discount on all Ledgerback products, and a $10.00 credit for network transaction fees (i.e., miner’s fee).

​You may purchase any membership above, with a one-time fee of $25.00 for each type of Membership, which may be paid either through US Dollars or Digital Assets (preferably stablecoins excluding Tether USD). Alternatively, you may Volunteer fifteen (15) hours of your time to Ledgerback to receive Membership, limited to one (1) type of membership.

For more information about our new types of membership, please refer to our Coop Opportunities & Benefits page on our website.

We would love your feedback! If you have any feedback on the new types of membership send it to hello@ledgerback.coop.

Last Week

We have completed the majority of design changes needed for the research platform, including greater discussion on the new types of membership.

We added new pages which should clearly state our current and past research interests, and the research we plan to finish by Q4 of this year.

This Week

For this week, we are working on an advertising campaign for the Cooperative, our planned research, and the website redesign.

First, we are working on an advertising campaign for the Cooperative, which may or may not include specifically advertising Greenback Marketplace. We expect to have an advertising plan completed soon, and hopefully have the campaign up-and-running by July or August 2019.

Second, our planned research continues, with progress being made on Project Historia and DeLicensing (hereinafter AutoLicensing).

Charles and Afonso are collaborating on Project Historia. Currently, the multi-stakeholder framework appears to be completed, with only the background and analysis sections left to be completed. Hopefully, a working draft can be completed within the next 2 months.

Charles Adjovu and Ewa Fabian are collaborating on AutoLicensing. Currently, more research sources are being added to the literature review, including a discussion on the Open Music Initiative (OMI) and Coalition of Automated Legal Applications (COALA-IP). Additionally, USA and EU law regarding the acceptance of electronic signatures is being added as a new topic under the legal framework section. Lastly, the requirements for the prototype standard form for automated licensing is almost completed, but still needs to be thoroughly described in the report.

No updates on Bikechain at this time.

Second, concerning our research papers, we also have two projects open to the public for anyone to become a *contributor* or *analyst member*.

Please send an email to hello@ledgerback.coop to join any of Ledgerback’s projects and direct them to Charles Adjovu.

Third, the majority of the website redeisgn is completed. You may now purchase Ledgerback’s products and services with cryptocurrency thanks to Kyber Network’s payment widget.

Decentralized Collaborative Analyst

Afonso Casanova recently became our new Decentralized Collaborative Analyst at Ledgerback. Afonso will primarily work on Project Historia and Project Statis.

Afonso is extremely enthusiastic about the blockchain industry, with a particular focus on blockchain governance, and has worked on prior blockchain projects including iMusify.

Thank you for joining us Afonso and we hope we can meet your expectations.

Contact Ledgerback

You can contact Ledgerback by leaving a reply or sending an email to hello@ledgerback.coop.

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Our website is www.ledgerback.coop.

For more information about platform cooperatives, please refer to www.platform.coop.