Michel Bauwens is the founder and director of the P2P Foundation and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production and commons-centric economics. Michel was also a founding member of the Commons Strategies Group. He has (co-)published various books and reports, such as ‘Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy’, and more recently, P2P, A Commons Manifesto (Westminster Un. Pr. 2019).
During the early development of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto engaged in discussions on the P2P Foundation forum (**https://www.bitcoin.com/satoshi-archive/forum/p2p-foundation/**) and had multiple private email exchanges with Michel.
He is currently engaged in studying the impact of the acceleration of global catastrophic risks and its intersection with civilizational transitions, by focusing on the underestimated importance of commons-based institutions; and in a separate inquiry on the optimal forms of mutual coordination for translocal economic networks, and how these capacities intersect with market and state dynamics.
Michel was also one of the earliest individuals to openly discuss Bitcoin on Twitter. Throughout his lifetime, he has dedicated himself to transforming P2P ideas into an encyclopedia, delivering over 700 lectures worldwide in the past seven years and teaching courses at various universities.
He studied the emergence of cosmo-local forms of productive organization, in the Cosmo-Local Reader. Post-Covid, Michel Bauwens is doing 'civilizational transition' research for the Civilization Research Institute, and functions as research coordinator for the Global Chinese Commons, a crypto-nomadic community.
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