The Regeneration Will Be Funded Cosmo-Local Commoning with Web3 - Michel Bauwens (P2P Foundation)
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Jan 1, 2025 
Michel Bauwens, founder of the P2P Foundation, dives into the intersection of community and technology. He discusses how Web3 can empower local initiatives while merging them with global resources. The conversation explores Bitcoin's role as a global reserve asset and its impact on wealth distribution, particularly for marginalized groups. Bauwens also tackles grassroots economics, emphasizing collaboration, and explains how communities can navigate societal collapse through resilience and innovation amidst the rise of AI.
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Conversation Across Deep Divides
- At a pop-up village in Montenegro Michel sat with people from opposing views who conversed respectfully.
- That example showed how a shared commons can bridge political divides around a common project.
Root Digital Workers In Bioregions
- Root Web3 actors in local bioregional guilds and community projects instead of letting them be rootless digital nomads.
- Use traveling knowledge workers as seeded guilds to spread protocols and innovations locally.
Bitcoin And Programmable Currencies
- Bitcoin functions as a socially sovereign, globally scalable reserve asset useful for activists and the globally mobile.
- Programmable cryptocurrencies add context and can bind money to ecological realities.
