CryptoVlad
CryptoVlad

CryptoVlad

Welcome to my blog about crypto in relation to global governance, democracy, climate transformation, media and social progress. For more details, please contact me via [email protected]


Tonga to copy El Salvador regarding Bitcoin?

13 Jan 2023 1 minute read 3 comments Vladan Lausevic

    For the last two years, Tonga has been described as one of the nations that could legalize Bitcoin by recognizing it as a legal tender and national currency, similar to the El Salvador case. The process of the legalization proposal is still going...

First salary in Bitcoin paid out to a politician in Europe

12 Jan 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

      In Belgium, Christophe De Beukelaer is a member of the Brussels regional parliament in the Humanist Democratic Center. Currently, he is also famous as the first high-ranking politician in Europe to have his whole salary paid in Bitcoin.   De Be...

Aidblock - a new institute for DeFi and blockchains with focus on Africa

12 Jan 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

  African Institute for DeFi and Blockchain (Aidblock) is a new institute created by Nathaniel Dwamena, the director at the Center for Coin Liberty at Ilapi social-libertarian think-tank in Ghana.  The story of Aidblock is to do policy research, and...

First time using Seeds for buying products

10 Jan 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

Today, I used Seeds green cryptocurrency for the first time to pay for physical products. Seeds operates on the TLOS blockchain , one of the most climate-friendly alternatives. One of the main goals of Seeds is to be used for climate transformation,...

Legalization, recognition and acceptance of cryptocurrencies through bottom-up democratic engagement and civic initiatives.

9 Jan 2023 1 minute read 10 comments Vladan Lausevic

    Currently, all cryptocurrencies are regulated or depending on official and inofficial regulations, rules and recommendations. Official behaviors and decisions are made by national governments, international financial institutions such as Internat...

Crypto is mainly not neo-liberal but anarchist and libertarian

8 Jan 2023 2 minute read 6 comments Vladan Lausevic

Left-wing criticism of cryptocurrencies is usually about cryptocurrencies presented as neoliberalism and capitalism. But such criticism is incorrect and mythological. Also, it misses the fact that cryptocurrencies are historically linked to various a...

ReFi is da thing

7 Jan 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

In 2020, I joined a cryptocurrency community called SEEDS based on ideas of using crypto for sustainability, food security, and permaculture regeneration. That was my first experience with regenerative finance  (ReFi), even before I knew that such a...

10 reasons for using Aragon DAO

6 Jan 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

    A story of freedom, community and decentralization  Aragon network draws its name from an autonomous district in Spain with a short history of stateless governance during the 1930s, before the Spanish Civil War and later dictatorship.    Web 3  A...

Enter Aragon DAOism

5 Jan 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

  The Aragon Network (Aragon) was created in 2016 as an open-source and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) based on Ethereum (ETH) blockchain. The main goal is to make it easy to create DAOs and promote "digital jurisdiction" for organizatio...

Can Bitcoin become greener?

5 Jan 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

  Bitcoin requires more energy than whole countries, such as Austria and Greece. In that way, the criticism directed at cryptocurrencies is often justified regarding their negative impact on the climate and sustainability. This applies in particular...