Ethereum’s culture, climate change and xrisk: can the World Computer save the world?

I’ve just release a series of 3 Medium posts on Ethereum and climate change. I dig back in to the pre-ASIC mining days of BTC in the first piece, then go through the “theory of change” concept in the second piece.

The third piece is really the payload (as you would expect): what is Ethereum able to contribute to a world on fire? What do we have to offer that can help stave off climate change, and the other xrisk scenarios?

We all know the existing economy is broken: a sane system would have priced oil based on the damage it does ten or twenty years ago. I think a lot of those problems come from siloed data and responsibility, and I think the Ethereum approach has the seeds within it if solving those problems.

Give it a read, let me know what you think.

https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/can-the-world-computer-save-the-world-part-3-building-an-economy-with-a-future-5d4156f06a04