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Parallel Society - Marco Castignoli | Web3Privacy Now - Rome Meetup 2024

Ethereum Cypherpunk CongressThu, Oct 9, 2025, 12:00 AM

Speaker

Marco Castignoli

Reimagining Democracy: Reducing Polarization, Enhancing Political Participation, and Promoting Prosperity Marco Castignoli is a developer and open-source maintainer. He works with the Ethereum Foundation to make smart contracts human-readable and organized events with SpaghettEth. ABOUT US Web3Privacy Now is a think-and-Do-tank of hundreds of people, projects, and organizations committed to protecting and advancing civil liberties, decentralization, and open-source software. We aim to manifest profound political and social change by advocating #privacy in the #web3 Era. With unified efforts, we carve out a path toward a more equitable, decentralized and freedom-respecting digital commons. → https://web3privacy.info/

Transcript

to to yeah to to stake them in some way instead of doing that I entering in this cycle in which my personal return turn is small but what I know is that I contributed uh for big like ethical projects to to grow and prosper and again something that I think it's fundamental is that all the um money that are exceeding are going to uh help uh to reduce the taxation needed in order to support this cycle so that then new people can enter and new people can join and the end all of these new Services becomes uh exactly a parallel society that is uh for everyone and something that I didn't mention is that all of this will be um will be enforced by some smart contract and here again it's how the blockchain can help in all of this so that if a project is not maintaining uh its promises or if someone wants to to steal all the money then as smart contractor is enforcing that all of this flow is uh proceeding without any any problem in the middle and that's it for media I was it was a short [Applause] one I forgot to mention that if you're interested in any way uh this is just uh an empty telegram group that I created so if you want to join your yeah it's let's let's discuss about it together over there thank you Marco is there any question from the public yes we have one uh that's an old one but still uh interesting your opinion from a side uh so this old quote like don't fix settle problem with technology and what I found that in many cases whatever it's a network state or a dow it doesn't matter uh many attention um is dedicated to sort like how we transact and make decisions but but almost no decisions on how people make decisions how they do collaborate how the personality is involved how the Team Dynamics move on here and there and sort it's interesting that the the technicality is there because it's basically algorithmical thing is but then way more complex system or how we collaborate is not that approached ER in the projects like that for example how you what's your opinion on like how you not fix but how you would approach social side of the whole parallel thingy okay so a hard question again um so from my personal experience for example um we are currently working with other teams um to manage our project um in a way that is totally independent from any other uh organization and we decided for example to use the method of consensus and I think that the these social um the social part of of our of our teams it works because we are like a small team so we all know each other and the community is very yeah it's we are all close to each other and that's something that I didn't mention but I think that these these uh these kind of parallel societies are not to be um like it's not going to be one parallel society that governs and fixes the problem of the world but it's going to be like several uh small teams around the world that they care about their own uh uh local city or Village or whatever maybe not 20 so maybe I'm not answering your question but still I I think the the the social part if the group is not too large can be handled I have a question um here here here me um considering that um I mean the low the low gain Paradigm sometimes works it works for certain kind of people we that usually are not sociopaths but if you had to apply this model if you had to apply this model to a niche sector in order to make it scale so let's take this model and let's verticalized it on one of the many vertical Society has considering the low gain the low uh um payback that one will have what would be like what is the the first MVP that you would try to work this on um local food so so yeah as as I said before it's I I of course it's something that the parallel Society needs to decide every parallel Society needs to decide by themsel but for me one of the key focuses should be on like uh primary needs so food as I said or education uh yeah I think the these are the most important uh services that that we have to offer for everyone at a low price with a with a high quality okay but the this is considering humans are a priority some people working for the environment like many activists in Green Peace they are quite strong misanthropist maybe for right maybe they're right I don't know yeah yeah so if you if you want to give food to everyone then you you have to take this food you you wrote it that organic food is not scalable [Music] um so if would it still be food knowing that feeding everyone would deprive land out of their ability to regenerate I I I got what you mean yeah so as I said before I think like choosing which project to finance it it will not be like a straightforward task but I think it's it's it's something that need a lot of research in advance and for example for for that problem in particular about food and organic food not being sustainable I think that there are still a lot of uh there is still a lot of research going on for example I don't know using vertical farming or aquaponics or all of these kind of Technologies and if you I think that if if you raise money and and you have enough money to do both research and then financing the right project then it's something that it becomes feasible because then it's not just a guy here saying yeah I think that aquapon like like but you you can actually pay someone that go that that does a good research about the topic and yeah okay thank you really no okay thanks a lot Marco [Music]

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