mbauwens (mbauwens)

* Nepal’s Two Global Awakenings: From the Bodhi Tree to the Digital Network https://myrepublica.nagariknetwork.com/index.php/news/nepals-two-global-awakenings-from-the-bodhi-tree-to-the-digital-network-74-99.html Bimal Pratap Shah explains: "The Buddha once gathered what he called a sangha, a community of seekers bound by shared purpose and mutual support. In September 2025, his descendants formed their own version of that ancient community, but theirs lived in the cloud. They met not in monasteries but in encrypted chat groups, coordinating not through sermons but through livestreams and shared location data. Their organization was spontaneous, their discipline collective. They had no appointed leaders, no published manifestos. They moved as a single organism, guided by something closer to shared consciousness than traditional command structures. Each smartphone became a sensor. Each social media feed became a heartbeat."

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* Fireside Chat with Michel Bauwens on his Interactions with Satoshi Nakamoto https://youtu.be/DSoCwBCGYFE?si=ZZGzb12wuP1OM75y via @YouTube Forensic interview with Jens Ducrée.

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“a GitHub for the humanities.” "The Raw School platform includes a tool called “Ambiguity,” which applies a peer-production approach to collectively organize and connect academic concepts. " here: https://www.rawschool.site/

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Hello everyone, My name is Michel Bauwens, and I'm the founder of the P2P Foundation, which operated until 2018 but still exists as a network. Farcasters might be interested in my review of my relationship with Satoshi, retold here at https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/my-relationship-with-satoshi-nakomoto I maintain free versions of my Substack, where the last three months of my artices are also available for free, via our wiki, here at https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Fourth_Generation_Civilization_Substack_Newsletter_of_Michel_Bauwens

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Thanks for reading and sharing my newest article: *The Network State in Context https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/the-network-state-in-context On the essential contrast between the post-universalist Civilization States, Networked Sovereignty, and the Archipelago of Regenerative Projects “ the Network State is no longer an aspiration. It is an active, instantiated movement, a new geopolitical layer in a world where old layers are visibly fraying.” (Parallel Citizens)

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* The # ZuKas 2025 report https://zukas2025.notion.site/ "ZuKas 2025 was organized in Kaş as an experimental gathering of builders, philosophers, academics, and Web3 community organizers. The guiding theme was to bridge **ancient democratic practices** with **contemporary decentralized technologies**, while testing the boundaries of governance, privacy, and community resilience. This report documents the sessions day by day, combining narrative and academic analysis. It highlights both the **intellectual explorations** and the **concrete outcomes** that emerged, particularly the design of a new governance protocol inspired by ancient models and adapted to blockchain-native communities."

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