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From YouTube: Ethereum is Solarpunk ☀️ by Kevin Owocki | Devcon Bogotá
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Solarpunk is an art movement that envisions how the future might look if humanity succeeded in solving major contemporary challenges with an emphasis on sustainability problems such as climate change and pollution.
Solarpunk is our alternative to doomerism. … We just need a key that unlocks the building of new institutions -- Humanity Coordinating at Webscale.
Ethereum is Solarpunk - a key to coordinating humanity through it's coordination failures.
Speaker(s): Kevin Owocki
Track: Opportunity & Global Impact
Keywords: solarpunk,coordination
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Devcon 6 was held in Bogotá, Colombia on Oct 11 - 14, 2022.
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A
The
title
of
my
talk
is
ethereum
is
punk
and
I.
Think
the
first
category
of
punk
that
ethereum
is
is
safer,
Punk,
so
basically
a
cipher
Punk
is
anyone
who
is
advocating
for
strong
privacy
in
cryptography
and
especially
sovereignty
in
their
digital
systems,
and
this
serves
as
a
route
to
social
and
political
change.
Decentralizing
power
into
the
hands
of
the
individual
ethereum
is
cypherpunk,
and
if
you
want
to
know
about
the
roots
of
the
cypherpunk
movement,
you
can
read
the
cypherpunk
manifesto,
which
is
a
canonical
piece
of
text
from
Eric.
A
Hughes,
is
a
really
very
prescient
considering
it
was
written
in
the
90s.
The
second
category
of
punk
that
I
think
is
really
interesting
and
has
only
really
developed
over
the
last
couple
years.
Is
this
idea
that
ethereum
is
solar
Punk,
so
solar
punk
I,
think
is
our
alternative
to
dumerism
in
a
world
with
Rising
coordination
failures
like
climate
change,
Rising
autocracy,
misinformation,
breakdown
of
the
international
order.
We
now
have
a
transparent,
immutable,
programmable
and
Global
structure
for
coordinating.
A
We
just
need
that
key
that
unlocks
the
ability
to
build
new
institutions
Humanity
coordinating
at
web
scale,
and
that
is
how
ethereum
makes
becomes
solar
Punk.
So
if
we
want
to
make
ethereum
good
for
the
world
first,
we
have
to
do
no
harm
and
I'm
really
proud
of
the
merge
and
the
fact
that
the
network
is
nearly
carbon,
neutral.
I
think
we
have
a
little
bit
of
work
to
do
to
get
rid
of
the
rid
of
the
scams
on
the
network,
but
from
there
we
can
use
this
programmable
substrate
to
build
better
coordination.
A
Hyperstructures
that
can
do
things
like
track
carbon
credits
and
start
to
solve
climate
change,
but
also
can
track
impact
on
any
other
Vector.
So
ethereum
is
a
coordination
substrate
that
it
gives
us
the
ability
to
coordinate
at
web
scale,
and
a
lot
of
these
problems
can
be
framed
as
coordination
failures.
I
also
recommend
that
you
read
the
solar
Punk
Manifesto,
this
one's,
not
nearly
as
influential
as
the
cypherpunk
manifesto,
but
there's
a
but
there's
a
few
different
solar
Punk
manifestos.
A
Basically,
solar
Punk
is
a
movement
in
speculative
fiction
that
imagines
what
the
world
would
look
like.
If
we
solved
our
contemporary
problems
around
sustainability
and
coordination
failure,
so
solar
Punk
is
an
art
movement
that
envisions
how
the
humanity
might
look.
If
we've
succeeded
in
solving
our
major
contemporary
problems,
with
with
coordination,
with
an
emphasis
on
sustainability
and
things
like
climate
change,
cipherpunk
is
the
the
value
system
of
sovereignty
and
privacy
and
there's
a
blending
of
the
two
that
has
really
been
developing
a
lot
over
the
last
couple
years.
A
So
ethereum
is
punk,
ethereum
is
solar,
Punk
ethereum
is
cypherpunk,
and
since
these
things
are
not
mutually
exclusive,
ethereum
is
also
lunar
Punk,
so
lunar
Punk
is
regarded
as
The
Sibling.
Aesthetic
of
the
solar
Punk
aesthetic
has
more
Universal
properties
such
as
like
with
witchcraft,
futuristic
design,
nature,
renewable
energy,
and
you
can
kind
of
think
of,
like
it
being
solar
Punk,
with
an
emphasis
on
sovereignty
and
privacy
or
Cypher
Punk,
but
with
an
emphasis
on
solving
coordination
failures,
a
middle
ground
between
the
two
ethereum
is
lunar.
Punk
and
I
would
really
encourage
you.
A
There's
another
interesting
alt
of
punk.
That
I
I
think
that
many
of
the
room
haven't
heard
of
I
only
know
about
it,
because
I
get
tagged
in
every
Twitter
conversation
about
this
stuff
and
it's
called
terrapunk.
So
basically,
the
idea
behind
terrapunk
is
is
taking
solar,
Punk
and
looking
at
the
art
and
realizing
that
there's
not
a
lot
of
humans
in
it.
A
And
and
basically,
if
you
look
at
solar
Punk
and
you
assume
that
we're
going
to
solve
our
contemporary
problems
with
coordination
with
it
then
you're
going
to
then,
are
we
going
to
do
that
in
an
accelerationist
way
where
Humanity
continues
to
scale
along
with
our
economies?
Or
are
we
going
to
do
it
in
a
way
that
you
assumes
that
90
of
humans
aren't
there
and
so
I?
A
Don't
necessarily
agree
with
this
interpretation
of
solar
Punk,
but
I
do
think
that
terrapunk
as
a
way
of
expressing
solar
Punk,
but
with
a
more
like
high
growth,
High
human
way
of
doing
solar,
solar,
Punk,
is
kind
of
interesting
I.
Think
that
what
I
get
from
all
of
these
different
variants
of
punk
and
what
I
get
back
from
the
tweets
that
I
that
I
sent
out
is
that
ethereum
is
a
mirror
and
what
we
build
on
ethereum
is
an
expression
of
the
programming
capabilities
of
ethereum,
but
also
the
mirror
of
their
values.
A
Looking
back
at
us
through
these
systems,
so
ethereum
is
all
of
these
things.
Ethereum
is
a
coordination
technology
and
it's
all
a
coordination.
All
of
our
human
systems
in
meeting
our
shared
needs
involve
the
coordination
between
people
in
these
systems.
Ethereum
is
a
selling
point
for
the
hopeful,
a
transparent
immutable,
programmable
Global
substrate
for
finance
and
coordination,
and
since
we
can
program
our
values
into
our
money,
ethereum
is
going
to
be
a
shelling
point
for
people
who
are
creating
new
coordination
systems
using
web3.
A
Through
my
work
at
gitcoin,
which
leverages
quadratic
funding,
we
have
become
an
Aqueduct
for
funding
within
the
space
and
we
do
three
million
dollars
worth
of
funding
to
the
communities
in
the
web,
3
ecosystem,
using
the
magic
coordination
technology
that
is
ethereum
and
also
the
quadratic
funding
mechanism
that
distributes
value
to
communities.
So
far,
Bitcoin
has
delivered
69
million
dollars
worth
of
funding
to
our
digital
public
goods.
A
So
we're
building
coordination
Technologies
to
fund
the
public
goods
that
we're
that
we
care
about
our
vision
at
git
coin
is
to
hopefully
take
ourselves
to
the
quadratic
lands,
a
place
where
we've
Rewritten
the
laws
of
economic
gravity,
to
support
public
goods
and
prevent
coordination
failures
and
to
do
it
in
a
privacy
preserving
way.
Ethereum
is
a
mirror
that
reflects
back
to
us
our
values,
and
this
is
our
vision
of
where
we
want
to
go.
A
We
were
building
hyperstructures
institutions
in
The,
Ether
that
are
able
to
meet
our
shared
needs
and
and
are
deployed
on
Smart
contract
technology
and
the
sum
of
all
of
the
hyperstructures
out
there
are,
they
form
a
meta
hyperstructure,
which
is
a
a
set
of
hyperstructures
that
all
interoperate
with
each
other
in
a
modular
way
and
help
us
to
realize
our
shared
values.
So
what
I'm
saying
is
ethereum
is
cypherpunk,
ethereum
is
solar,
Punk
ethereum
is
lunar,
Punk
ethereum
is
also
terrapunk.