Offering a viable alternative architecture to centrally-controlled globa...
While the original purpose of blockchains was to realize a payment syste...
A distributed system is 'grassroots' if it can have autonomous,
independ...
Cordial Miners are a family of efficient Byzantine Atomic Broadcast
prot...
While the physical lives of many of us are in democracies (one person, o...
The ecosystem of cryptocurrencies benefits the few and exacerbates econo...
Many democratic political parties hold primary elections, which nicely
r...
Presently, the practice of distributed computing is such that problems e...
Any community in which membership is optional may eventually break apart...
A self-governed community or society must have rules by which group deci...
The executive branch, or government, is typically not elected directly b...
A companion paper defined the notion of digital social contracts, presen...
Cryptocurrencies are a digital medium of exchange with decentralized con...
Almost two centuries ago Pierre-Joseph Proudhon proposed social contract...
We study a scenario in which an agent population wishes to identify a
ma...
Voting rules may fail to implement the will of the society when only som...
We introduce the fundamental notion of a genuine global identifier, name...
About 1Bn people around the globe are born and live without identity
doc...
Sybil attacks, in which fake or duplicate identities (sybils)
infiltrate...
We consider an electorate composed of both genuine and fake voters, aka
...
We consider an electorate composed of both honest and fake voters, aka
s...
Deliberation and voting are considered antithetic: In deliberation, the ...
A contribution to a Globalcit debate entitled: Cloud Communities: The Da...
When voting on a proposal one in fact chooses between two alternatives: ...
The Internet revolution of democracy, which will transform earthly
repre...
The budget is the key means for effecting policy in democracies, yet its...
The budget is the key means for effecting policy in democracies, yet its...