> federation is dependent on domain names which can and are regularly seized by governments This is exactly what Arthur and Eric from the MetaCurrency Project

> federation is dependent on domain names which can and are regularly seized by governments This is exactly what Arthur and Eric from the MetaCurrency Project aimed to confront. Protocol Cooperativism (not Platform Cooperativism) means direct, fully transparent, distributed, and mutually-sovereign protocol negotiation in all areas of our new digital world/life [1], making invisible the dogmatic legacy 'wealth acknowledgement systems' now in place [2]. Even Banking 'apps' and things like land-registry [3] and more can be re-invented (I'd argue that banks are one of the earliest forms of software). [1] https://medium.com/holochain/holochain-reinventing-applications-d2ac1e4f25ef https://medium.com/holochain/holochain-reinventing-applicati... [2] http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/11/05/id-55 http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/11/05/id-55: "When I was growing up in Ecuador, I remember in the market place there would always be a couple men sitting by tiny tables with pen and paper and a line of people waiting for them to write letters, for which they would pay a small fee. This is a common sight wherever literacy isn’t universal. This situation is almost exactly the same we are in today with respect to money. We, and by we I mean our communities (not ourselves as individuals) are monetarily illiterate, and therefore we need others to make our wealth acknowledgment statements on our behalf (and we pay a pretty penny for it) when in fact, we could simply learn to write. Learning to write in the monetary context, is simply issuing a currency. Or, more precisely, creating the symbols and rules that a community will use to make wealth acknowledgment statements. But the problem is that we don’t have an alphabet, a grammar that we can follow with which to make such statements. Our monetary system and the financial world behind it is essentially that 40,000 character dictionary and the scribes who can interpret it. It does work. It creates a system in which we can make wealth acknowledgment statements at a global scale. But it does so at a direct cost like paying the scribe in the marketplace, and also a systemic cost, that of allowing an elite who control that system to grow and take advantage of those who do not." [3] https://medium.com/@AlastairParvin/a-new-land-contract-684c3ba1f1b3 https://medium.com/@AlastairParvin/a-new-land-contract-684c3...