RESEARCH & WRITINGS

CRYPTO

In 2015 I started the BlockchainHub Berlin, a educational website and think tank dedicated to understand the socioeconomics implications of of Bitcoin and other blockchain networks when such information was not explored or available for most people. BlockchainHub started to produce satelite Insitutions in Bruseels, Sofia and Graz. In 2016 I was one of the curators of the TheDAO (Decentralized Investment Fund). In 2018 I went on to direct of the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics which I also co-founded while I finished the first edition of Token Economy, which soon became a bestseller, and was updated and extended 3 times as the space grew fast and applications and implications became more evident and implemented.

Working on crypto topics, my focus was always to make technology accessible to a non-tech audience so that all those who use technology can also take part in the decision-making process of co-governing the technology they use. In my work, I explain how Web3 as a socioeconomic operating system, which is why a good understanding of the technology and it’s applications is fundamental to the process of co-creating this new collective infrastructure and it’s applications.

MONEY PATTERNS

I am currently developing a dual-format project—a book and a large-scale, immersive multimedia installation—titled Money Patterns. This work dismantles the orthodox myth of money as a neutral medium of exchange, applying pattern thinking to reveal it instead as a profound social, thermodynamic, and constitutional architecture. Ultimately, money is a story: a collective fiction and malleable technology shaped by human choices throughout space and time, rather than a god-given law of nature. The current dominant economic model is just one such story, functioning much like a religious belief system that prizes infinite financial abstraction while systematically devastating the finite realities of the biosphere and human labor. Tracing the evolution of the ledger from its ancient neurobiological and ritualistic origins to the hyper-financialized algorithms of the modern era, the project synthesizes insights across ecofeminism, innovation economics, Islamic theology, and cypherpunk cryptography to map the eternal battle between "makers" and "takers" over the sovereign power to create credit. Whether through the written page or the spatial visualizations of the installation, Money Patterns provides a multi-disciplinary framework to decode our modern crisis of valuation. It reminds us that because we authored the historical patterns of money, we possess the agency to rewrite them, challenging society to reclaim the public ledger and redesign our economic story for ecological survival and social cooperation.

OTHER WRITINGS

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