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small update, impossible to understand any modern communist state (USSR, China, Vietnam, Cuba etc.) without reading this book.

exploring the blockchain as a trust machine. In fact the blockchain is not trustless but introduce a deterministic mechanism of trust between participant that comes to improve on mechanisms that are already built in our society but can fail sometimes (like the banking system in 2008)

Interesting chapter on the comparison with the rule of code and rule by code in contrast to the rule of law and the rule by law. The internet/tech space is currently living by the rule by code where companies determines our lives by code and algorithms opaque to us. While the rule of code is more transparent algorithmically it raises questions on liability and who is accountable for it

Chapter 2 comes back to the definition of the blockchain its history and eventually how we got there. Also, explores multiple approaches about blockchain and democracy (quadratic voting, voting with NTT etc.) general overview of the technology

Incredible first chapter, showing us governance not as a linear evolution but more as a messy social experiment made of trials and error to eventually reach some sort of governance. This messy social experiment often happens in times of big technological evolution (industrial revolution, new ways of building ships, agriculture).

i think this is one the greatest book i have ever read. it is so old yet so actual, talking about the way machines and the capital squeeze every ounce of life out of the workers while now it is less machines from the assembly lines and more LLMs which many people use to complete their daily tasks at work or even at school this book is still revolutionary, i have many more things i can talk about but it is a must