{"id":3596,"date":"2014-04-15T16:26:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T20:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/?p=3596"},"modified":"2014-04-18T15:53:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T19:53:25","slug":"primavera-di-filippi-on-ethereum-freenet-or-skynet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/2014\/04\/15\/primavera-di-filippi-on-ethereum-freenet-or-skynet\/","title":{"rendered":"Primavera De Filippi on Ethereum: Freenet or Skynet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethereum is a contract validating and enforcing system based on a distributed public ledger such as the one implemented by the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. The system allows for the management of complex distributed autonomous organizations, which raises questions about legality. Could this new platform promote the establishment of an entirely decentralized society, or will its disruptive potential eventually be absorbed by the established system? In this talk Primavera De Filippi &#8212; Berkman fellow and postdoctoral researcher at the CERSA\/CNRS\/Universit\u00e9 Paris II &#8212; explores the dangers and opportunities of Ethereum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2014-04-15_primavera\/2014-04-15_primavera.mov\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2014-04-15_primavera\/2014-04-15_primavera.mov.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAlso <a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2014-04-15_primavera\/2014-04-15_primavera.ogv\">in ogg for download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More info on this event <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheon\/2014\/04\/difilippi\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethereum is a contract validating and enforcing system based on a distributed public ledger such as the one implemented by the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. The system allows for the management of complex distributed autonomous organizations, which raises questions about legality. Could this new platform promote the establishment of an entirely decentralized society, or will its disruptive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[590],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3602,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596\/revisions\/3602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}