Pop Culture Pirate: Framed! 2014/2024

February 7, 2024

Today is the 10th anniversary of a very special collaboration with a truly visionary artist who introduced me to a world of REMIX, APPROPRIATION and online creator discourse during the emergence of Web2. I had the pleasure of meeting Elisa Kreisinger at the inception of a social internet and conceptual art initiative I founded in 2011 called Kianga Ellis Projects. Elisa’s solo exhibition at our project space in Chelsea, NYC in February 2014 touched on crucial issues of art practice, new technologies, social media and constitutional rights of free speech.

I’m revisiting this history during my current reboot phase for a new iteration of Kianga Ellis Projects: KEP4 in 2024. Timely indeed as my current work in DeFi considers where the boundaries of Fair Use might be and should be drawn in the emerging AI and Web3 era.

"WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE ALL OF HUMANITY SUCCESSFUL, OR NONE."

January 30, 2024

Image credit: Linda Koong's “Pepe leading the ART prosperity” (2021). Inspired by Eugène Delacroix's liberty leading the people work. The clip used Pepe as a metaphor for leading people, or leading to NFT artistic prosperity in the future.

The Aristocracy of Money

January 7, 2023

The theme for 2023 is Abolition

Since 1789,

the aristocracy of birth and the aristocracy of religion has been destroyed by revolutionary France.

Since 1803,

the aristocracy of skin has been abolished by revolutionary Haiti.

Since 2008,

the aristocracy of money has been obliterated by Satoshi Nakamoto.

The regenerative spark of some historical moments can never be reversed and will not be contained until made 100% manifest.

MakerDAO Meet Your Delegates: ACREinvest! One year later...

November 30, 2022

Time and circumstance do not permit me to do a proper review of the past year at MakerDAO and what perspectives I’d like to share about so many things.

For now, let me say simply THANK YOU to so many wonderful people, new friends and foes, ecosystem colleagues and all the court players that make this carnival the grand stage it is.

Cheers and God bless us all in the year ahead!

I am (not) Francis Bacon

August 23, 2022

To know me is to know that the diagnosis that best explains everything is that I am a frustrated artist. Someone could observe my life and “work” as a lawyer, entrepreneur, gallery owner, Web3 founder… and realize: MY GOD - it’s performance art! They would not be wrong.

So, if I am a kind of closet artist in Wall Street meets crypto drag, then my computing devices and internet accounts and blockchain presence would be a “distributed studio”. And if it’s all conceptually my studio then the best illustration I have for it would be the studio of Francis Bacon.

But I am not Francis Bacon and I need to clean up my (distributed) (virtual) studio!

Guide to the #ReFiArmy Giving Circle

April 20, 2022

Give away 10,000 $ACRE tokens on Polygon to thank your team! Regenerative Economy work is difficult and often goes unseen or under appreciated. In Web3 we have new tools to make everyone’s contributions more visible.

The ACRE DAOs Coordinape Giving Circle will have the added benefit of recording and sharing a record of these contributions as a resource for the ecosystem at large. By joining as a Contributor, you will be putting your project and team on the MAP with an allocation of 10,000 GIVE to give away and show the world who has been an essential collaborator in your impactful work.

#ReFi Federation for Permissionless Income: Meme Governance Proposal (DRAFT)

March 26, 2022

MEME IT INTO EXISTENCE

A Picture is worth 1,000 words.

What you have below is a governance proposal composed entirely of memes!

I got the idea jamming with the incredible community at Forefront during FF Labs - Season 1. You can check out this Miro Board from the first jam session where we share what is boring about Web3.

Lot’s of people said: Governance! Reading proposals and voting is apparently a real drag.

I actually LIVE for governance. Go figure…

So tell me friends, if you were (or are) a Founding Member of ACRE DAOs would you vote to approve, reject or abstain?

What is it exactly that you think you’d be voting in favor of?

DOER Money Trust: Funding the #ReFi Army

March 2, 2022

We believe the first order of business in re-imagining impact investing must be solving for the financial stability of ecosystem worker bees.

DOER Money DAO empowers talented people to work on regenerative economy solutions by providing a source of income for their time spent building and scaling markets and in creating the #ReFi assets people want to buy.

There are few paid contributor opportunities to work with and for DAOs which limits our ability to attract and retain the "doer" army we need to achieve our goals.

ACREinvest as grantor of an irrevocable charitable remainder trust (CRT) is preparing to donate the ACRE DAOs Angels Sponsorship Pool Juicebox smart contract and $ACRE Impact ERC20 token supply to DOER Money DAO exclusively for the benefit of ACRE DAOs members and regenerative economy charitable organizations.

During Season One, our 122 Founding Members will receive a limited edition Founders NFT designed to grant unique governance powers in adopting the community constitution, electing Trust Protectors and determining regenerative economy work that’s eligible for earning $ACRE tokens.

DOER Money is Permissionless Income for the Regenerative Economy Workforce!

"Mother of Exiles" - I'm also posting as kdaverington on Mirror.xyz!

December 7, 2021

You could say my Web3 journey began in 2016 when I launched my own law practice, Daverington PLLC, to assist clients involved in the global over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives and physical commodities trading markets. That was the year the blockchain-not-bitcoin meme really exploded and I heard about Ethereum.

“Woah,” I thought, “this is the next niche I need to conquer.”

By 2018, I was spinning up Metamask and lurking in the Pepedapp Telegram to catch the latest dank memes I could buy as NFTs.

Fast forward to today and Acre of America is the name of a firm I founded in 2018 with the ambition of building a new kind of institution fit for the crypto Wild West. I now lead Acre of America Partners LP, an impact investment management & advisory firm working at the intersection of new technologies & rural problems from headquarters in Hudson, New York, USA.

ACREinvest is our new blockchain venture focused on creating compelling Web3 infrastructure, virtual network services and social incentives for DAOs and other peer-to-peer permissionless stakeholders. We recently launched ACRE DAOs, a Web3 portal for a decentralized impact investment club and its related community ERC-20 token: ACRE Impact.

Our Mission at ACREinvest is to regenerate the way capital markets work & for whom.

ACRE stands for Autonomous Communities for Regenerative Economies.

My dank MEMES ONCE WERE LOST… @Pepedappremint

November 29, 2021

Well, ladies and Pepes, the internet never forgets (especially Web3) even if I do. I’m proud to report that not only did I find the keys to my PepeDapp collectibles, but the original team launched PepeDapp Remint to allow the community to convert their holdings to an upgraded ERC1155 standard.

FAQ #1: ETH-NIMCRUT - Autonomous Fixed Income with Charitable Giving

June 28, 2021

An ETH-NIMCRUT is a wealth management product created by Kianga Daverington that combines a traditional Charitable Remainder Trust structure with the Web3 benefits of the Ethereum decentralized finance (“DeFi”) ecosystem.

A charitable remainder trust is a tax-exempt irrevocable trust designed to reduce the taxable income of individuals.

A charitable remainder trust disperses income to the trust beneficiaries for a specified period and donates the remainder to the designated charity.
A charitable remainder trust allows a donor to make contributions, be eligible for a tax deduction, and donate a portion of the assets.

The donor’s right to receive income from an ETH-NIMCRUT is a lead interest separate from the Unitrust itself (the "Lead Interest"). This Lead Interest is a capital asset of the donor's that a Trustee can document in the form of a Non-Fungible Token ("NFT") and deposit the relevant Lead Interest NFTs into the respective donor's Ethereum wallet. The BF ETH-NIMCRUT, for example, provides for the transfer of owed income payments after the creation of a BF ETH-NIMCRUT to a new wallet address(s) via NFTs for purposes of convenience, transaction privacy or other.

Kianga’s Yale Law School Graduation in 1998, New Haven CT

Introducing the Ethereum NIMCRUT for Black Farmers - 100 Years After Tulsa

June 1, 2021

On the 100 year anniversary of the bombing of “Black Wall Street” in Tulsa, Oklahoma, I wanted to do something worthy of the occasion. I wanted somehow to take all that this commemoration means to me and display it coherently in a clever blog post having to do with the future of money. So…I have designed an Ethereum based Net Income with Makeup Charitable Remainder Unitrust (NIMCRUT) for the benefit of black farmers (BF ETH-NIMCRUT) and you can be a donor grantor.

Image: The School of Athens, fresco, Raphael (1509-11) — Image: *The School of Athens*, fresco, Raphael (1509-11)

Money Problems: A Meditation on Plato's "Laws"

December 21, 2020

THE LEGISLATOR WHEN MAKING LAWS SHOULD HAVE IN VIEW ALL VIRTUE AND DEVISE CLASSES OF LAWS ANSWERING TO THE DIFFERING KINDS OF VIRTUE SO THAT THEY FULFILL THE PRINCIPAL OBJECT OF LAWS WHICH IS TO MAKE THOSE WHO USE THEM HAPPY, AND THAT THEY CONFER EVERY SORT OF GOOD.

In forming a conclusion about our laws and institutions, there is a proper way to tell how good and bad are to be estimated. All those who are ready at a moment’s notice to praise or censure any practice under discussion, proceed in a wrong way.

For example, suppose a person to be praising wheat as a good kind of food, whereupon another person instantly blames wheat, without ever enquiring into its effect or use, or in what way, or to whom, or with what, or in what state and how, wheat is to be given.

This is just what we do in our public discussions. At the very mention of a certain word or topic, one side is ready with their praises and the other with their censure; which is absurd. For either side cites their witnesses and approvers as evidence, and some of us think that we speak with authority because we have many witnesses.

Plato’s Athenian Stranger tells us that the object of laws is to make those who use them happy. Are the people around the world today happy with their money?

Like the early Americans who used their economic and political power to enforce their preference for a new system of government, users of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are expressing their preference for a new form of money.

What unfolds in the years ahead may be similar to the founding of a new nation.

Part 2 is at this link: http://youtu.be/XoFSuhloiUYPart 1 addresses these topics:- Laws prohibiting complementary currencies- Laws limiting the form of currenci...

November 2, 2020

Timothy C. May - Thirty Years of Crypto Anarchy

October 8, 2020

Hackers Congress HCPP16: Timothy is an American technical and political writer, he was a former electronic engineer and senior scientist at Intel. Most importantly he is the founding member of the Cypherphunks and author of "Crypto-Anarchist Manifesto".

Thirty Years of Crypto Anarchy
Timothy via Skype at Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis reflected on thirty years of crypto anarchy, the name for the version of a kind of anarchy where cryptographic tools provide the means for an un-coerced network of voluntary transactions. Many of the expected technologies have been realized: widespread encryption, anonymous remailers like TOR, file-sharing tools like BitTorrent. And most notably, Bitcoin and Blockchain-based systems. Ethereum for smart contracts and autonomous organizations. The prospects are bright.

It's happening... #blockchain #AI #internetofthings #quantamcomputing #unmanneddelivery #threedprinting

September 30, 2020

On September 29, 2020, Congressman Darren Soto’s bills, the Digital Taxonomy Act (H.R. 2154) and the Blockchain Innovation Act (H.R. 8153), passed out of the House incorporated into the Consumer Safety Technology Act (H.R. 8128).

For years, Americans have seen how emerging technologies, such as blockchain, improve the lives of so many while serving as enablers of social, economic and environmental growth. As blockchain moves to the center of the 21st-century, the United States must maximize its benefits to catalyze progress and opportunity for the American people. Both of Congressman Soto’s bipartisan bills seek to expand the potential of the blockchain ecosystem while leading the United States to a blockchain-enhanced government.

Don't get left behind. @bitstein

Don't get left behind!

September 22, 2020

The 2021 Great RESET: Investment Opportunities in Digital Assets

September 15, 2020

The best investment opportunities right now acknowledge that the world has arrived at a tipping point in the so-called “Fourth Industrial Revolution.” Information in the form of data and artificial intelligence will completely transform existing dependencies on the machine technologies invented in the 19th century and enhanced in the 20th century with computing power.

The current technological evolution of the internet (Web 3.0) is inextricably linked to the Fourth Industrial Revolution and will be supported by an emerging constellation of low-earth orbit space technologies designed to transcend the legacy internet’s geographical, political and physical limitations.

One way to think about the significance of bitcoin and related technological innovations in digital assets since Bitcoin’s introduction in 2008, is to recognize that we are witnessing the emergence of material that for the first time in human history represents unique, identifiable and commodifiable units of an intangible.

Bitcoin & The Future History of Money on @FrankNewsUS →

January 13, 2020

WHAT IS MONEY?

Your most pressing concern right now is not how much money you have, but rather how you have your money. Is your money in the bank? Is your money in stocks? Is your money in pieces of paper under your mattress? Look at the time. Right now, on your computer or phone – it’s whatever o’clock. Do you know where your money is exactly and whose permission you need to access it? Do you know what your money is?

The answers to these questions clearly demonstrate how the disruption in money underway around the world contributes to the new perspective on Work/Life Balance gathering steam in the Hudson Valley.

While social media and social norms tell us that big cities are the place to be, there's a case to be made for post-industrial mid-sized cities across the United States. These are known as Prospect Cities and they're giving millennials a great place to launch almost any career.

Why millennials should move to smaller cities and towns | @RepAndyVargas | TEDxBU →

December 17, 2019

While social media and social norms tell us that big cities are the place to be, there’s a case to be made for post-industrial mid-sized cities across the United States. These are known as Prospect Cities and they’re giving millennials a great place to launch almost any career. They’re cheaper, close enough to the big city, and facing serious social challenges that millennials especially can help solve. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. It beautifully describes a major trend making the Hudson Valley a great place to live, work and invest.