Learn about Smart Contracts and Blockchain
Posted onThis video starts with a basic introduction to Blockchain and then includes an introduction to Smart Contracts along with some examples of use cases that could employ a smart contract.
Author: Ron Suarez
Introduction to the Inter Planetary File System, IPFS
Posted onWatch this video to learn the basics of the decentralized web that is being created using IPFS.
Learn how to build a decentralized Marketplace
Posted onWatch this interview with Matthew Liu Co-Founder of Origin Protocol. Origin is a protocol for creating peer-to-peer marketplaces using the Ethereum blockchain and IPFS. The Inter Planetary File System, IPFS, enables the decentralized web where information is content addressable rather than using IP addresses. Learn more about peer to peer marketplaces and plans for partners […]
Learn about the decentralized Web and Blockchain
Posted onLearn about cooperative legal structures
Posted onThe video below is set to start with Jason Wiener’s description of legal structures. However, we do recommend that you watch the whole video and learn from Nathan Schneider in Part 1.
A Story about a member owned cooperative microbrewery in Dayton Ohio
Posted onLearn about the founding and growth of the Fifth Street Brewpub in Dayton, Ohio and the development of their co-op brewpub. Cooperatives cant take many forms including worker owned cooperatives or member owned cooperatives. In this case, the Fifth Street Brewpub offers some insights into how members financed the startup and integrated their business into […]
Listen to a great intro to Blockchain from the ZigZag Podcast
Posted onJen and Manoush discover the premise and promise of blockchain technology. Turns out it could accomplish a lot more than just making Bitcoin speculators stupid rich. But now they have a LOT of questions. Should they stake their careers on the blockchain? How can they explain it without sounding like techno-utopians who have bought into […]
Everything for Everyone by Nathan Schneider
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We are recommending Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy as the first book on our reading list. Nathan Schneider, along with Trebor Scholz coined the term Platform Cooperativism and started the Platform Coop conferences in 2015. Here is the review from Google Books: The origins of the next radical […]
What is a coop?
Posted onA coop or cooperative is an organization that is run democratically by the members. A cooperative can be composed of buyers or sellers or both. Cooperatives can assume various legal structures and be a non profit or a for profit. Watch this video for an introduction to the concept of platform coop and details about […]
What is a platform?
Posted onOur learning community is building a platform coop. Watch this video to get a basic introduction to the concept and benefit of creating a platform. However this video does not cover the inclusion of a cooperative or democratic governance.