> I am a leftist whose exact ideology is a work in progress, but I'd generally call myself an anarchist in favor of localized gift economies, food production, a

> I am a leftist whose exact ideology is a work in progress, but I'd generally call myself an anarchist in favor of localized gift economies, food production, and devolved government, so distributism and worker-owned collectives are both things I'm very interested in. Sounds like we're fairly aligned here. > I'm not really sold on blockchain or IoT or, really, using TCP/IP for much of anything. I was reluctant of blockchain as well, however once I started planning out how this system might work, the use-case was particularly well suited for blockchain: transparent, verifiable, tamper-resistant. These are all qualities I'd like to see in a political/economic system. I think one of the problems with blockchain is it's associated with greedy people doing land-grab ICOs that provide no value but make big splashes, so when people see "blockchain" they think "ugh, another useless project by scammers." I don't blame them. > I realize that maybe there's not a lot of overlap there but I guess if you need any low-level drivers I might be able to help... Thanks, I'll keep that in mind! Things like voting machines might be really helpful.