Frequently Asked Questions (Blockchain and Society Blog and Site)

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Blockchain technology is in the early stages of transforming the Web and the world--certainly creators, and cryptocurrency holders, maintainers, and users, but also far beyond. In short order, likely touching nearly everyone through a new form for the Web, new forms of money, smart contracts, unparalleled automation, NFT and digital authentication and copyright, and governance will spawn further change.  Please subscribe to the blog Blockchain and Society.  The blog seeks to provide historically and socially contextualized reflections on blockchain and crypto development, use, opportunities, and challenges--especially on issues of capital, policy, and societal equity and ethics. The site is a blog that will and ever evolving resource site with glossaries, regularly updated reading lists, a Blockchain Historical Timeline, and much more. You can participate by subscribing and sending comments. 

It is a blog and a resource site on blockchain, and social, cultural, political, and economic issues run by its principal, Dr. Jeffrey Yost.  In the very long-term it may evolve to a nonprofit. For now, the near term, and the intermediate term, it is a side hobby on issues important to me, social possibility and social justice with Web 3.0--a more egalitarian future than past.

Blockchain and Society is a public history and social study of technology site and I elected to set up as my own blog, fund it myself, and do it on my own time.

Blockchain and Society is a personal site and does not accept donations. The primary goal is public engagement (within as well as far beyond academia) and promoting conversation on important issues of technology and societal inequality.

The site has no popups or advertising and no revenue in order to optimize reader experience.  

Privacy: Blockchain and Society will never sell or trade names or emails. I have the site set so people can easily opt out of cookies. Cookies do allow for aggregated data that is helpful, but the choice is yours.

Officially, Blockchain and Society is a Division of Enterprise History, LLC. I am the sole proprietor and set this up years ago when I thought I might have time to consult. The only income to date outside of my day job as a Research Prof. and Institute Director (CBI) at UMN, are the typical ones of humanities and social science academics--royalties on sales of my books and small honoraria for refereeing books for university presses, occasional talks, or writings.