SCRF Interviews SCRF

Part 7 of our 7-part series with the team at BlockScience features a conversation with Jessica Zartler, Communications Advisor and Researcher at BlockScience. Jessica delves into various areas, including:

What is “decentralization”?
What is “progressive decentralization”?
What is the relationship between decentralization and centralization?
How do decentralization, ethics, and regulation overlap?

Jessica Zartler, Communications Advisor and Researcher at BlockScience
Website: ​​https://block.science/team
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JessicaZartler

Eugene Leventhal, Podcast Host and Executive Director of SCRF
Website: https://scrf.io
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bbeats1

If you want to learn more about SCRF, check out:

The Forum: https://www.smartcontractresearch.org/
Discord: https://discord.gg/BPqN5mjzeC
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SCRForum

Part 6 of our 7-part series with the team at @BlockScience features a conversation with Michael Zargham, founder and CEO of BlockScience, and Jeff Emmett, Communication Lead at BlockScience. They delve into a variety of areas, including:

- The definition and role of “computer-aided governance” (CAG) in web3
- How CAG compares to computer-aided tools for other disciplines
- The ways that BlockScience utilizes CAG in its projects
- The necessity of mapping the terrain before using CAG tools
- The inherently political nature of #policy decisions that allocate resources
- How CAG makes the decision-making process more visible

Dr. Michael Zargham, founder and CEO of BlockScience
Website: ​​https://block.science/team
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mZargham

Jeff Emmett, Communications Lead at BlockScience
Website: https://block.science/team
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeffemmett

Eugene Leventhal, Podcast Host and Executive Director of SCRF
Website: https://scrf.io
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bbeats1

If you want to learn more about #SCRF, check out:

The Forum: https://www.smartcontractresearch.org/
Discord: https://discord.gg/BPqN5mjzeC
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SCRForum

Part 5 of our 7-part series with the team at BlockScience features a conversation with Eric Christopher Alston, a contributor to BlockScience as well as a Scholar in Residence at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Kelsie Nabben, Lead Social Scientist at BlockScience. They delve into a variety of areas, including:

Defining “governance” and contextualizing its importance within groups
Identifying current challenges and opportunities within the space
Acknowledging prospective vulnerabilities in governance
Sharing strategies for creating and maintaining resilient governance systems
Discussing some emerging methodologies and practice

Eric Christopher Alston, Scholar in Residence, University of Colorado at Boulder
Website: ​​https://block.science/team
Twitter: https://twitter.com/IncompleteRules

Kelsie Nabben, Lead Social Scientist at BlockScience
Website: https://block.science/team
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kelsiemvn

Eugene Leventhal, Podcast Host and Executive Director of SCRF
Website: https://scrf.io
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bbeats1

If you want to learn more about SCRF, check out:

The Forum: https://www.smartcontractresearch.org/
Discord: https://discord.gg/BPqN5mjzeC
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SCRForum

Part 4 of our 7-part series with the team at BlockScience features a conversation with Senior Research Scientist Jamsheed Shorish and BlockScience Founder and CEO Dr. Michael Zargham. They delve into a variety of areas, including:

Defining “formal methods”
The need for validation and verification
Generalized dynamical systems (GDS)
The application of formal methods in system design

Jamsheed Shorish, Senior Research Scientist at BlockScience
Website: https://block.science
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jshorish

Michael Zargham, Founder and CEO at BlockScience
Website: https://block.science
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mZargham

Eugene Leventhal, Podcast Host and Executive Director of SCRF
Website: https://scrf.io
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bbeats1

If you want to learn more about SCRF, check out:

The Forum: https://www.smartcontractresearch.org/
Discord: https://discord.gg/BPqN5mjzeC
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SCRForum

Part 3 of our 7-part series with the team at BlockScience features a conversation with Senior Engineer Danilo Bernardineli and Communications Lead Jeff Emmett. They delve into the role of models in data, computational methods versus analytical and empirical methods, and using computational simulations to explore uncertainties and help inform decisions.

Danilo Bernardineli, Senior Engineer at BlockScience
Website: https://block.science
Twitter: https://twitter.com/danilolessa

Jeff Emmett, Communications Lead at BlockScience
Website: https://block.science
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeffemmett

Eugene Leventhal, Podcast host and Executive Director of SCRF
Website: https://scrf.io
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bbeats1

If you want to learn more about SCRF, check out:

The Forum: https://www.smartcontractresearch.org/
Discord: https://discord.gg/BPqN5mjzeC
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SCRForum

BlockScience is a company that does analytical modeling in the distributed ledger (i.e., blockchain) field, working on complex cybernetic systems. David and Kelsie’s conversation explored a variety of topics, including:

What is measurement?
What can we measure?
What do we do with what we measure?
How can measurement data inform decisions?


David Sission, Senior Engineer at BlockScience
Website: https://block.science
Twitter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-f-sisson/

Kelsie Nabben, Lead Social Scientist at BlockScience
Website: https://block.science
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kelsiemvn

Eugene Leventhal, Podcast host & Executive Director of SCRF
Website: https://scrf.io
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bbeats1


If you want to learn more about SCRF, check out:

The Forum: https://www.smartcontractresearch.org/
Discord: https://discord.gg/BPqN5mjzeC
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SCRForum