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Colony: A platform for open organizations

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Re: Colony: A platform for open organizations

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So where is the actual signup for this? The homepage does not make it obvious...

Welcome to the world of blockchain startups! There is no signup nor product, but please subscribe to our newsletter and download our whitepaper! And don't forget to pay into our ICO!

Actually we said we won't do an ICO until we have a product live on mainnet https://blog.colony.io/the-colony-token-sale-7ac14c845bc0

Re: Colony: A platform for open organizations

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Interesting project, but I find it unfortunate that they chose such a historically loaded term.

Agree,It's a big turn off for me personally to be honest. And I imagine institues in countries which were once colonized wouldn't be excited about using such a product/project due to fair historical reasons.

Re: Colony: A platform for open organizations

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Interesting project, but I find it unfortunate that they chose such a historically loaded term.

I thought of ants and bees.

In a pro-decentralisation context, the interpretation you're referring to--which is the pinnacle of centralisation forced through violence for selfish goals--is so obviously irrelevant, that it didn't even come to mind.

Re: Colony: A platform for open organizations

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the difference between a protocol token and the scam tokens you usually get from ICOs?

One's a scam and the other isn't? I mean, it's just a question of whether the thing is legitimate, real, and non-fraudulent.

That's what I'm asking though. Are "protocol tokens" the same as regular tokens, technically speaking?

Re: Colony: A platform for open organizations

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the difference between a protocol token and the scam tokens you usually get from ICOs?

A protocol token can actually be used to do something.

What is it then? How does it differ from regular tokens, from a technical point of view?

Re: Colony: A platform for open organizations

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> you're empowered to do the work you care about, not just what you're told to do.

> Influence is earned by consistently demonstrating just how damn good you are.

> Tokens let you stake your ownership on your good judgement when proposing tasks

> The more reputation you earn, the more influence you have on decisions relevant to your expertise.

How does that all work precisely?

Re: Colony: A platform for open organizations

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Honestly, I feel many of the features that are claimed as 'new' don't seem so new. Giving credit to previous work really seems to be a big issue in the ICO and BTC community, for any reason (?).

However, Google wasn't the first search engine either. That being said, it might be among the platforms that does at least good in design. When looking at some UI etc I still got the feeling that it's overengineered, i.e. has too many functions. Maybe think about more MVP, gain community and slowly add features on top.

Also, there's so e research on the future of work and recently flash organizations (Stanford, MIT..). The idea you propose looks very similar to Dynamo/Foundry (2015,2016) and what B12 (2016) does, except for the protocol.

Re: Colony: A platform for open organizations

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I work for a digital workers cooperative. It is organised non-hierarchically and via consent (i.e. a modified and lighter form of consensus decision making that emphasises "I won't stop this" over "I 100% in agreement) - there is no voting but decisions still get made. Its called sociocracy[1]. Here is roughly how it works: 1. Someone brings in work, meeting clients etc. 2. They put together a proposal on this work,…

Question: are you guys legally organized as a cooperative, or is it still a conventional corporate structure?
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