Decentralized economic security: fraternal organizations, unions, and churches

Steve Waldman will speak on decentralized mechanisms to provide economic security that could be implemented on Ethereum. He will review how fraternal organizations, labor unions, and churches helped people in the past, and will compare these organizations with traditional mechanisms. Steve (https://twitter.com/interfluidity) blogs at interfluidity.com (http://www.interfluidity.com/); see for example a recent post (http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/5302.html) on innovation and inequality that responds to comments (https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/474180894131904513) on Twitter from Marc Andreessen.

Before Steve, Matthieu Riou of Blockcypher (http://www.blockcypher.com/) will give an analysis of Ethereum, including both positive aspects and criticism.