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I'm happy to see another product in the "opinionated management" space (another is https://www.loomio.org https://www.loomio.org) but think integrating a crypto

I'm happy to see another product in the "opinionated management" space (another is https://www.loomio.org https://www.loomio.org) but think integrating a cryptocurrency limits the appeal and cheapens the concept. I really can't see who this is designed for.

bmelton 9y ago
Interesting to see the comparison. I've been (very) loosely following the progress of Colony, and I've had the sense that they were much closer to Assembly (http://assemblymade.com/ http://assemblymade.com/), which is now defunct. I was a participant in Assembly, and am optimistic that an eventual replacement will figure out how to make the money side work enough that they can keep going. As it stands, I'm not entirely certain who Colony is for. Hopefully, not everybody.
- popcorncowboy 9y ago
  Agreed. And in particular I'm curious as to "what truly differentiates Colony from what Assembly did"? ie. what is Colony doing to address the fate of Assembly? I'd love to see something like this take off. I also remain unconvinced that the problem with something like Assembly was simply that it wasn't on the blockchain. It's also a big ask to bet the cumulative and growing value of your collective efforts on your contract code not ever having any kind of edge case that could leak value contrary to the _spirit_ of your endeavour. Or deferring the (still as yet untested) legal issues of DAOs.
mbrock 9y ago
To me it seems like a viable and interesting idea to have decentralized internet-based organizations with people doing work in exchange for crypto-tokens. Sure, it limits the appeal, but a lot of viable and interesting things have limited appeal... Whether this kind of thing could become mainstream within a few years is the question, no?
- spiderfarmer 9y ago
  Mechanical Turk doesn’t seem to have shortage of workers and Amazon does nothing to market it.
collinvine 9y ago
I think the token allows for more market-based economies. Maybe that's a market economy within a firm, or a market economy within a coworking space amongst members, or in open source projects. Sure, you could use fiat or a non-blockchain "token", but I believe this open market, with price discovery, adds more value then it detracts.

bmelton 9y ago

Interesting to see the comparison. I've been (very) loosely following the progress of Colony, and I've had the sense that they were much closer to Assembly (http://assemblymade.com/ http://assemblymade.com/), which is now defunct. I was a participant in Assembly, and am optimistic that an eventual replacement will figure out how to make the money side work enough that they can keep going. As it stands, I'm not entirely certain who Colony is for. Hopefully, not everybody.

popcorncowboy 9y ago
Agreed. And in particular I'm curious as to "what truly differentiates Colony from what Assembly did"? ie. what is Colony doing to address the fate of Assembly? I'd love to see something like this take off. I also remain unconvinced that the problem with something like Assembly was simply that it wasn't on the blockchain. It's also a big ask to bet the cumulative and growing value of your collective efforts on your contract code not ever having any kind of edge case that could leak value contrary to the _spirit_ of your endeavour. Or deferring the (still as yet untested) legal issues of DAOs.

mbrock 9y ago

To me it seems like a viable and interesting idea to have decentralized internet-based organizations with people doing work in exchange for crypto-tokens. Sure, it limits the appeal, but a lot of viable and interesting things have limited appeal... Whether this kind of thing could become mainstream within a few years is the question, no?

spiderfarmer 9y ago
Mechanical Turk doesn’t seem to have shortage of workers and Amazon does nothing to market it.

collinvine 9y ago

I think the token allows for more market-based economies. Maybe that's a market economy within a firm, or a market economy within a coworking space amongst members, or in open source projects. Sure, you could use fiat or a non-blockchain "token", but I believe this open market, with price discovery, adds more value then it detracts.