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Sovereign Grassroots Currencies: A CBDC Architecture for Credit and Monetary Policy (Full Version)
Ehud Shapiro
A Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is central-bank money in digital form, held by the public. Leading designs have two limitations: conversion from bank deposits into CBDC can…
Formalising and Implementing Grassroots Social Contracts: From Legal Text to Grassroots Platforms (Full Version)
James Golike, Andy Lewis-Pye, Ehud Shapiro
Two centuries ago Pierre-Joseph Proudhon envisioned a social contract that is (1) an agreement of man with man; (2) reciprocal; (3) imposing no obligation upon the parties except t…
GLP: A Grassroots, Multiagent, Concurrent, Logic Programming Language for AI
Ehud Shapiro
A grassroots platform is a multiagent distributed system in which multiple independent instances can form and operate independently of each other and of any global resource, yet ma…
Securing People and their Machines Against Major Faults
Ohad Eitan, Idit Keidar, Ehud Shapiro
We consider grassroots platforms -- distributed systems of agents consisting of people identified by self-chosen public keys and their machines (smartphones) -- and wish to make th…
Digital Speech Acts Retain Control of Copyright with People, Not Platforms
James Golike, Ehud Shapiro
Legal precedents protect computer code as copyrightable expression. They have enabled centralized digital platforms -- operating from corporate servers that hold all user data -- t…
Constitutional Governance in Metric Spaces
Ehud Shapiro, Nimrod Talmon
Computational social choice and algorithmic decision theory offer rich aggregation theory but no end-to-end process for egalitarian self-governance: aggregation, deliberation, amen…
Volition-Guarded Multiagent Atomic Transactions: Describing People and their Machines
Andy Lewis-Pye, Ehud Shapiro
Formal models for concurrent and distributed systems describe machines; the people who operate them are either ignored or treated as external environment. Yet, key distributed syst…
Grassroots Bonds: Financing by the People, for the People
Ehud Shapiro
Grassroots currencies turn mutual trust into liquidity: a grassroots coin is a unit of its issuer's debt, backed by the issuer's goods and services, which the issuer must redeem, 1…