IPR: My Digital Self

IPR: My Digital Self

The mixed blessing of the digital age has reached a turning point in what some have called the Fourth Industrial Revolution. My Digital Self, with host Matthew Foley, explores digital technology as it affects the interrelation of human rights, property rights, privacy, and money. Will emerging blockchain technologies enable us to take back our privacy, own our identity and use non-sovereign digital currency, known as cryptocurrency, to engage in commerce? Listen to discussions with guests who explain these cutting-edge technologies, tell us how they are currently being used and pull back the curtain to our possible futures. IPR Podcasts presents issues and analysis that matter to you from the world's thought leaders. The Institute for Policy Research [IPR] is an interdisciplinary policy research center of the Catholic University of America.

Episodes

November 1, 2020 67 mins

The Place Between: The Analog City and the Digital City With L.M. Sacasas


The Analog City and the Digital City - How online life breaks the old political order

L.M. Sacasas

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-analog-city-and-the-digital-city


The Convivial Society

https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/


The Frailest Thing - Ten Years of Thinking About the Meaning of Technology

https://gumroad.com/l/CWRfq


The Christian Study Ce...

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The Digital City and the Curse of Ham: Looking Back to Move Forward, with Martin Gurri 


Martin Gurri

https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-gurri-370a8216/


The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millenium

https://www.amazon.com/Revolt-Public-Crisis-Authority-Millennium/dp/1732265143


Discourse

https://www.discoursemagazine.com/


Mercatus Center of George Mason University

https://www.mercatus.org/scholars/martin-gurri


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The Distributed States of America: A Prologue to Remote Electronic Voting in the U.S.

Marten Kaevats

https://www.linkedin.com/in/marten-kaevats-80098990/?originalSubdomain=ee


E-estonia

https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-governance/


Estonia’s I-Voting - The Country of Estonia has successfully implemented nationwide internet voting since 2005

https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-governance/i-voting/


America’s Federalist Government

http://www...

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Revolt Of The Public: Author, Martin Gurri, Says That The Digital Age is Sounding The Death Knell For Elite Institutions


Martin Gurri

https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-gurri-370a8216/


The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millenium

https://www.amazon.com/Revolt-Public-Crisis-Authority-Millennium/dp/1732265143


The Fifth Wave Blog

https://thefifthwave.wordpress.com/what-is-the-fifth-wave/


Mercatus Center of George...

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Save and Invest Like The 1%: Zach Wildes Talks About Celsius Network’s Revolutionary Financial Services Business Model 


Celsius Network

https://celsius.network/


The Celsius Network Community

https://celsians.com/


Zachary Wildes

Celsius Community Manager 

zachary.wildes@celsius.network


2019 My Digital Self Interview with Alex Mashinsky, Co-Founder & CEO of Celsius Network

https://share.transistor.fm/s/8b913719


Alex Mashinsky

https://en...

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If Not Now, When?  Voatz Strives To Bring The Ballot Box To The Smartphone

Voatz

https://voatz.com/

  • FAQs https://voatz.com/faq.html
  • Whitepaper https://www.nass.org/sites/default/files/2018-02/clear-ballot-voatz-white-paper-nass-winter18_4.pdf
  • Nimit Sawhney, Co-Founder & Ceo of Voatz

    https://www.elev8con.com/speaker/nimit-sawhney/

    https://cic.com/podcasts/founders-spotlight/voatz


    Rock, Paper, Scissors - How We Used to Vote (2008 New Y...

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    From The Plains Of Nineveh To The Streets Of Beirut: How ChangeInEx Plans To Unlock Global Labor And Creativity


    Stephen Hollingshead

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenhollingshead/


    ChangeInEx

    https://www.changeinex.com/


    MERS (MERSCORP Holdings, Inc.) (1:35)

    https://www.mersinc.org/about

    https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20181004005185/en/Intercontinental-Exchange-Completes-Acquisition-MERS


    Ankawa Refugee Camp(1:50) (Story of Gali)

    htt...

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    The Nordic X-Road: Bringing e-Governance to Our Digital Selves

    Petteri Kivimäki  

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/pkivimaki/


    Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS)

    https://www.niis.org/


    X-Road

    https://x-road.global/


    Suomi.fi Data Exchange Layer (Finland’s X-Road environment)

    https://palveluhallinta.suomi.fi/en/sivut/palveluvayla/esittely

    X-tee (Estonia’s X-Road)

    https://e-estonia.com/solutions/interoperability-services/x-road/

    The...

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    Separation of Money and State: Andreas Antonopoulos Talks Bitcoin

    Andreas Antonopoulos
    https://aantonop.com/
    https://www.youtube.com/user/aantonop
    https://twitter.com/aantonop

    Andreas' Interview with Peter McCormack on the Defiance podcast
    (In our interview, I mistakenly referred to Peter's other podcast, "What Bitcoin Did")
    https://www.defiance.news/podcast/why-we-need-bitcoin-andreas-m-antonopoulos

    Bitcoin Mining Explain...

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    The Lifeblood of Human Rights: Alex Gladstein Explains Why Bitcoin Matters For Freedom

    Alex Gladstein

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-gladstein-283b968


    The Human Rights Foundation

    https://hrf.org/


    Bitcoin

    https://bitcoin.org/en/


    Human Rights - HRF focuses its work on the founding ideals of the human rights movement, those most purely represented in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), and the 1976 International Covenant...

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    The Road From Serfdom: Evernym Brings Self-Sovereign Identity To Our Digital Selves

    Jamie Smith - Strategic Engagement Director of Evernym

    https://www.evernym.com/blog/team/jamie-smith-strategic-engagement-director/

    Evernym

    https://www.evernym.com/

    The best way for organisations to get started with Self Sovereign Identity (SSI), fast

    http://www.evernym.com/plans
     

    Self Sovereign Identity Resources

    https://www.evernym.com/resources/
     

    The Albe...

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    Our Once and Future Selves: David Birch Thinks Digital Money and Identity Can Take Humankind Back to its Roots

    David Birch

    https://www.dgwbirch.com/biography/


    Babylonian Money

    https://encyclopedia-of-money.blogspot.com/2010/01/babylonian-grain-and-silver-standard.html


    Yuval Noah Harari 

    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_Humankind

    Jack Weatherford - “The Future of Money Looks Muc...

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    Yael Tamar

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaeltamar

    Terramaal

    http://www.terramaal.com/
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ROXCjATUsPXHo9fLDSNSq53kNfxjTYJ675FrlPGz2A/edit
    https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1L_HTcJINwyI2UjdCXokeAdHVBfHt9I3uB6rV2hP9weE/edit#slide=id.p1

    SolidBlock

    https://www.solidblock.co/

    Somaliland

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-14115069

    What is a REIT, referenced by Yael in the show?

    https://www.investopedia.co...

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    Ziv Keinan

    https://zivkeinan.com/digital-assets-lawyers/

    Facebook's Project Libra (I mistakenly stated several times that Libra’s digital currency is “backed by a basket of securities”.  Ziv correctly reminded me that the current plan is for Libra’s token to be backed by a “basket of currencies”, not securities.)    

    https://libra.org/en-US/association/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libra_(cryptocurrency)

    etoro Trading Platform

    https...

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    Useful Links:
    Tobias Koch

    https://e-estonia.com/wp-content/uploads/eas-bio-tobias-jkoch.pdf
    e-Estonia Briefing Center
    https://e-estonia.com/about-us/
    e-Estonia
    https://e-estonia.com/
    An Article by Estonia's President, Kersti Kaljulaid
    https://qz.com/1535549/living-on-the-blockchain-is-a-game-changer-for-estonian-citizens/

    This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. 

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    Based in Tel Aviv, Israel, Ziv Keinan is a GDPR-f certified commercial-tech attorney experienced in corporate, securities, blockchain, cybersecurity, and privacy laws. Ziv has been advising publicly traded companies and IPOs for over a dozen years and is fluent in securities laws applicable to Digital Assets. 


    Ziv is also a trailblazer in the nascent SECURITY TOKEN space, where traditional paper securities are represented by electro...

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    Episode 1:

    Foley is joined by Alex Mashinsky, CEO of Celsius Network to discuss the emerging fourth economic system of the blockchain. 

    Born into communism, reared under socialism and having thrived as a serial entrepreneur under American capitalism, Mashinsky explains how capitalism has failed most Americans and how the emerging blockchain economy can fix it.

    Celsius Network’s platform shares most of its profits earned in the futures...

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