By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/05/2026 A lot of programmers have had a heavily subsidized education in Rust programming and cryptographic fundamentals, both of which are unalloyed goods in our otherwise very insecure digital world. Some of the underlying mechanisms from the crypto are useful, even without blockchains. 18/ 1201
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/05/2026Take Metalabel, a system that lets collaborators on creative projects automate how they handle revenues from those projects by plugging DAO-like logic into traditional, dollar-based bank accounts. 19/ 1120
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/05/2026They're recycling some of the tooling from the crypto bubble to create a very useful utility, *without* the crypto: www.metalabel.com But, as with the Enron Corpus, this is pretty small ball. 20/metalabel.comMetalabel - A New Space to Release Creative WorkMetalabel is a new space to release and collect creative work. 1131