The basic core primitive of blockchain governance is the fork. This talk will challenge us with a thought experiment, “what if we forked crypto?”

The crypto industry has fallen prey to capture, mindless speculation and nihilistic triviality straying far from its cypherpunk origins — we have hit a dead end. It’s time to fork the entire industry.

We will utilise a Values based framework for analysing the state of the industry now and we will compare “what crypto is”, with “what crypto should be” and then dig into possible practical ways in which we can execute an ‘ontological fork’ effectively recapturing crypto to its true direction.

This will involve coordinating both an attack and defence, building common pooled resources, darkDAOs and DAO activism, high coherence social consensus, forking as cultural practice, leveraging subsidiarity, expanding culture and dominating the social layer. Can we do it? Or more worryingly, what happens if we don’t?