#56 - Kelsie Nabben on DAO Research, Ethnography, and the History of Cryptography

Kelsie Nabben (@kelsiemvn) is a researcher of decentralized technology communities. As an ethnographic researcher, she is interested in the human outcomes of digital infrastructure, blockchain community culture, and algorithmic governance. Kelsie is also a recipient of a PhD scholarship at the RMIT University Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society, a Fellow at the DAO Research Collective, and a researcher in the Digital Ethnography Research Centre and Blockchain Innovation Hub.

Show highlights:

[1:51] Kelsie's introduction to Bitcoin

[6:15] Ethnography & her current role

[13:00] How to study a DAO

[15:05] Decentralization

[21:19] Autonomousness & Automation

[30:22] Sovereignty and DAOs

[43:00] Resilience and "Good Governance"

[56:55] Habits & advice

Show links & Kelsie's writing:

Blockchain Security as “People Security”: Applying Sociotechnical Security to Blockchain Technology

Towards a participatory digital ethnography of blockchain governance

Steven Levy, Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age

Aligning ‘Decentralized Autonomous Organization’ to Precedents in Cybernetics

Imagining Human-Machine Futures: Blockchain-based 'Decentralized Autonomous Organizations'

What is Resilience?

Towards a model of resilience in decentralised socio-technical infrastructure

DAO Vulnerabilities: A Multi-Scale DAO Ecosystem Mapping Tool Towards Computer-Aided Governance

DAO Vulnerabilities: A Map of Lido Governance Risks & Opportunities

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‘Crypto-States’ Will Compete With Corporates in the Metaverse

A collection of Kelsie's writing