From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond

From Bitcoin To Burning Man and Beyond deals with the organizational models of decentralized systems, starting with the blockchain.

It takes us into related notions such as identity in a digital society, governance, trust and social organization. Holacratic models of an organization without hierarchies are widely discussed and described. One chapter traces the 28-year history of Burning Man, and explains why this festival has managed to aggregate nearly 70,000 people each year with virtually no hierarchy, police, or centralized government.

The fifteen essays in this book speak to the foundations of a possible future - a future of open web standards and data communities, a society of decentralized autonomous organizations, a world of trustworthy digital currencies, and self-organizing and expressive communities like Burning Man.

This book also discusses the Open Mustard Seed software platform, a promising approach to identity management.