6:30 - 7:00 arrival

7:00 - 7:15 Joel Dietz (https://twitter.com/fractastical) on the history of DAOs

7:15 - 7:30 Martin Köppelmann (https://twitter.com/koeppelmann) on Futarchy and cryptonomics research

7:30 - 8:05 Vitalik Buterin (https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin)

from 08:05 discussion and Q and A with the speakers



Vitalik Buterin will speak to us about decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and decentralized governance. He will cover blockchain-based identity, and governance of Ethereum development.



Decentralized systems create the opportunity to build many kinds of novel and innovative system for the governance of social and economic processes, but the platforms on which these systems run themselves pose many significant challenges. Over the last few months, we have seen issues ranging from the bitcoin blocksize debate to DAO scams, and yet the specific issues that are raised seem unlike anything that exists previously. Blockchains are not like countries, and they are not like Linux-style open-source projects, so what are they? What are the similarities between the Bitcoin Core/Classic dispute and Thomas Schelling's model of brinksmanship in nuclear warfare, and what are the differences? Can futarchy provide an effective second chamber of governance to enforce DAO shareholder protections? Does cryptoeconomics need to expand out into a more general theory of crypto-political science, and if so what might that kind of theory look like?