Philosopher / @hubs_network_ https://xitter.cf/t.co/qBSFIJ6gmd / #RadicalDecentralization, #SociocracticGovernance and #ImaginationActivism.
Barcelona, Spain
Joined October 2010
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nikoline_nik ⿻ retweeted
4 weeks. 95 humans. All gathering at @CommonsHubAT, at the foothills of Rax 🏔️
The first Valley of the Commons is a wrap, and our closing letter is out: what happened, what we learned, and where we’re headed 👇
nenajain.substack.com/p/four…
nikoline_nik ⿻ retweeted
It’s Spooky Season! 👻🦉
The @InternetArchive is serving frights all month. Today’s treat: a 1906 postcard design by R.L. Wells featuring a wide-eyed owl perched beneath the ominous words, “Tis the wise that visit us.” 🦉
Some visitors know when to come calling. 👀
More Spooky Stuff here ⤵️
archive.org/details/@iasocia…
#PublicDomain #Halloween #SpookySeason #DigitalHistory
ALT A 1907 postcard illustration on aged cream paper. A stylized owl with a white face and body, black-outlined features, and red eyes perches on a branch in front of a large red crescent moon shape, gripping a birch tree trunk with its talons. Hand-lettered text to the right reads "Tis the wise that visit" in hand-rendered text.
nikoline_nik ⿻ retweeted
This is serious! I am travelling by train to Prague and Shrooms have been keeping me connected to my infra the whole time - even when the internet went down, it recovered quickly.
I am so proud of this app!
The Logos Testnet v0.3 changes things though - I have to figure out RLN for Shrooms - and that's gonna be tough from the UX perspective:(
nikoline_nik ⿻ retweeted
Today at 17:00 CET: What we told the Commission about MiCA.
@MarinaMarkezic and @AnjaBlaj on the @EuEthInstitute submission to the MiCA review, the pressure from banks, and where the real points of tension are.
EEI Insights Live: What we told the Commission about MiCA
We're submitting our response to the Commission's MiCA review. @MarinaMarkezic and @AnjaBlaj walk through what we argued across all four parts of the consultation, what it means for the industry, and the conversations happening around it, including the pressure from banks.
On the agenda:
→ MiCA scope and crypto-asset classification
→ ART and EMT requirements
→ Whether the CASP framework is fit for purpose
→ What MiCA doesn't cover yet
→ Why banks and crypto want more of the same thing than the headlines suggest
Thursday, October 1 at 17:00 CET ↓
xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1dGYlaomq…
nikoline_nik ⿻ retweeted
Here's a small thing you can do for the future:
🌐 Find a webpage you care about.
💾 Save it.
✔️ That's it.
One saved page becomes part of the web's shared memory.
Try it today 👉 web.archive.org/
#ToolsYouCanUse
ALT Cream graph-paper graphic framed by yellow line art, featuring a screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine page, with the "Save Page Now" options circled in red. A yellow ">" chevron tagline below reads "tools you can use," pointing toward a yellow arrow.
nikoline_nik ⿻ retweeted
< " An economy that can only value what is scarce will keep destroying what is abundant to manufacture more scarcity. " >
* 'Current-sees': Money is not, first of all, a store of value; it is a way of seeing and directing flow.
This is the problem Holochain was built to solve.
decent.holoventures.io/03-wh…
1.
"A single national currency, optimised for large-scale trade, is extraordinarily good at what it does — and, like any monoculture, efficient but fragile, and unable to carry the kinds of value it was never designed for. Healthy ecosystems are plural; a resilient economy would be too. Not one currency, but many — national money for the trade and capital it already serves well, and alongside it the currencies it has no way to express: for local exchange, for regenerative work, for the trust between communities."
2.
"This is the problem Holochain was built to solve. Before it was infrastructure for anything else, it was infrastructure for currencies: a substrate for issuing plural currencies that measure real value and clearing between them, with no central mint, at the scale the theory always needed and never had. Everything that follows — the accounting engine, the mutual credit currency, the marketplace — is that substrate taking shape. And it reaches maturity as serious economics reaches for the same thing again: regenerative and bioregional finance, complementary currencies, the search for money that measures real value rather than only extracting it. The ideas are old and well-founded. What is new is that the coordination layer to run them now exists."
nikoline_nik ⿻ retweeted
Are you one of the 10 peer villages we want in our global village network?
We've been working hard for 6+ years, prototyping systems to scale regenerative solarpunk villages into mainstream. In the process we learned a lot, and now we are ready to help the next wave of adopters.
nikoline_nik ⿻ retweeted
You can help build the library. 🏛️
Have digital materials you’re allowed to share? Upload them to the Internet Archive so other people can discover and use them.
📷 A photograph.
🎙️ A recording.
📄 A document.
💾 A piece of digital history.
What you have might be useful to someone else, and worth preserving for the future.
Upload your first item 👇
archive.org/upload
#ToolsYouCanUse
ALT Four "Tools You Can Use" Upload campaign tiles arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top left, a cream and yellow tile with a folder icon reading "Upload" and "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share." Top right, a cream tile with bold black text: "Upload digital materials to help preserve and share knowledge with people around the world." Bottom left, a cream tile with a screenshot of the Internet Archive's Upload files page, with the "UPLOAD" nav link and "Choose files to upload" button circled in red. Bottom right, a cream tile with bold black text, "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share," and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building.
nikoline_nik ⿻ retweeted
Age verification is not a measure that only applies to children. Because to keep one age group off a platform, you have to establish the age of everyone on it. Von der Leyen used today's State of the Union address to present plans on age restrictions for social media.
“No social media under the age of 13. No personal account under the age of 15,” Von der Leyen said, adding platforms would also have to introduce “safe design” for under-18s.
The objective is legitimate and widely shared, but an age gate is an identity layer by another name, and it affects the entire user base rather than the group it is meant to protect. Whether this proposal is a problem depends almost entirely on which verification method is required, not on the age threshold, and not on which platforms are in scope.
Practically speaking, this will likely create an ID verification requirement for using large parts of the internet.
Reporting ahead of the speech gave some indication of where this was heading, but one could not predict the speech’s bombshell announcement: that Canada could become the EU’s first “associate member”.
The speech ranged well beyond this, too, with topics such as the long-discussed European Security Council, bringing together the EU and like-minded countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Ukraine and Norway; the strategic role of European data, particularly in the context of healthcare; and the broader role of Europe in AI development also making the list.
nikoline_nik ⿻ retweeted
ETHRome 2026 is a wrap 🏛
⏳ 40 hours of building inside Urbe Hub
🧩 15 projects shipped
🥪 100 trapizzini gone
🍺 branded beer on site, also gone
Four sponsor bounties, $5,000, all assigned in full. Here's who won 🧵👇
Vienna is the only airport I have seen a open-piano in constant use by incredibly skilled players. Classical instrument education is taken seriously here ... its wonderful!
nikoline_nik ⿻ retweeted
Revolut didn’t get “hacked.”
It handed customers’ IDs, addresses, account numbers, transaction histories, selfies and more to an unauthorized third party after receiving a fake government request.
That’s the real KYC problem: once companies are forced to collect your most sensitive data, you’re trusting them to protect it for years.
More ID checks = more leaks.
Yet, governments are constantly pushing for more ID checks to access basic aspects of daily life, like social media...
reclaimthenet.org/revolut-le…
nikoline_nik ⿻ retweeted
ETHRome 2026 begins 🏛️
40 builders just walked into our own house in Rome.
40 hours of code start now.
Grazie @ethswarm @arkivnetwork @AvaxTeam1 @ensdomains 🤝
Good luck hackers ⚔️💫
nikoline_nik ⿻ retweeted
Freedom Browser creates an alternative vision for what the open web could be: user-owned, peer-to-peer, non-custodial, self-sovereign, private, secure, open-source, censorship resistant.
When Apple released its browser in January 2003 , the web was dominated by Microslop's Internet Explorer. Steve's vision was do call their browser "Freedom". 23 years later, it's finally happening.
nikoline_nik ⿻ retweeted
* Book: How to Exit to Community. Tara Merk with Primavera De Filippi, Morshed Mannan, and Nathan Schneider. BlockchainGov, 2026.
metalabel-o4trzb8.metalabel.…?
"As crypto increasingly reproduces the power dynamics it once sought to challenge, community governance matters more than ever. How to Exit to Community offers a practical toolkit for blockchain projects seeking to decentralize ownership and governance.
With contributions from Danny Spitzberg, Guilherme Maueler, Lauren Garcia, Benhur Destar, and Lovisa Björna."
nikoline_nik ⿻ retweeted
So many people love art, support artists and buy works, yet still tell us, “No, no, I’m not a collector.”
Let’s move beyond the historical and social baggage surrounding the word “collector” so more people can recognize themselves as patrons of the arts.
Who gets to be an art collector?
More people than we think.
Many people who love art still assume collecting isn’t for them. Digital art can make that first step feel even harder.
Read our interview with Pauline Foessel on why we created 100 + 1 = 101 to help ↓
100collectors.art/info/artic…