In this episode, I interview Santiago Siri. Santiago is an impressive man. He is primarily a programmer and has great skills in the blockchain technology. However, he is also an activist. In his country, Argentina, he founded a political party and got local leaders to promise to follow the people’s will if he created an internet-based platform for people to vote, which he did. As exciting as it was, he was presented with terrible surprises, including a request for him to bribe a judge $100.000 in order to be able to present himself as a candidate. His experience in Buenos Aires led him to the conclusion that nation-states are too corrupt to be fixed.
When institutions are too corrupt, what can we do?
Santiago didn’t give up. He co-founded Democracy Earth, an NGO whose purpose is the research of creating censorship-resistant digital democracies. I’ll let you listen to the incredible political and technological genius he and his team are showing. If you are not skilled in IT yourself, don’t panic, I tried to keep this conversation as comprehensible as possible for the non-technical ear.
I believe it is important for people to listen to this, as there is a technological revolution taking place that many are unaware of.
About the speaker
Co-founder of Partido de la Red, a political party that ran for elections in Buenos Aires Argentina, with candidates committed to people’s will online in 2013. You are the founder of the Democracy Earth Foundation, a non-profit organization building open source censorship-resistant digital democracies, which is backed by the Templeton Foundation, a philanthropic organization who aims to support progress and is one of the only NGOs backed by Y Combinator, the famous business accelerator based in California.
Partner of Bitex.la, leading bitcoin exchange in South America operating from Buenos Aires since 2014. Author of a book called “Hacktivismo”, published in 2015 by Random House. Argentine.
“Voting is just another kind of transaction but it’s a political transaction rather than a financial one”
Santiago Siri
Co-founder of Democracy Earth
“In western democracies, we have this notion that you either have ‘one dollar = one vote’ systems and ‘one person = one vote‘ systems, meaning the financial and political world. But in reality, everything is more of a spectrum.”
Santiago Siri (quoting Vitalik Buterin)
Co-founder of Democracy Earth
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In this episode, I interview Santiago Siri. Santiago is an impressive man. He is primarily a programmer and has great skills in the blockchain technology. However, he is also an activist. In his country, Argentina, he founded a political party and got local leaders to promise to follow the people’s will if he created an internet-based platform for people to vote, which he did. As exciting as it was, he was presented with terrible surprises, including a request for him to bribe a judge $100.000 in order to be able to present himself as a candidate. His experience in Buenos Aires led him to the conclusion that nation-states are too corrupt to be fixed.
When institutions are too corrupt, what can we do?
Santiago didn’t give up. He co-founded Democracy Earth, an NGO whose purpose is the research of creating censorship-resistant digital democracies. I’ll let you listen to the incredible political and technological genius he and his team are showing. If you are not skilled in IT yourself, don’t panic, I tried to keep this conversation as comprehensible as possible for the non-technical ear.
I believe it is important for people to listen to this, as there is a technological revolution taking place that many are unaware of.
About the speaker
Co-founder of Partido de la Red, a political party that ran for elections in Buenos Aires Argentina, with candidates committed to people’s will online in 2013. You are the founder of the Democracy Earth Foundation, a non-profit organization building open source censorship-resistant digital democracies, which is backed by the Templeton Foundation, a philanthropic organization who aims to support progress and is one of the only NGOs backed by Y Combinator, the famous business accelerator based in California.
Partner of Bitex.la, leading bitcoin exchange in South America operating from Buenos Aires since 2014. Author of a book called “Hacktivismo”, published in 2015 by Random House. Argentine.
“Voting is just another kind of transaction but it’s a political transaction rather than a financial one”
Santiago Siri
Co-founder of Democracy Earth
“In western democracies, we have this notion that you either have ‘one dollar = one vote’ systems and ‘one person = one vote‘ systems, meaning the financial and political world. But in reality, everything is more of a spectrum.”
Santiago Siri (quoting Vitalik Buterin)
Co-founder of Democracy Earth
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