HCPP22 | Ryan Lackey - How something as mundane as insurance can be a tool for societal good

Insurance is usually thought of as something boring, required by governments, and ideally purchased inexpensively, never actually used, and forgotten about.
In reality, insurance can be a powerful tool to make society better, both by allowing consent-based alternatives to regulation and by transferring risk. We will explain the basics of how insurance works, how it has been a valuable tool for liberty and safety in traditional areas, and how it can enable the crypto future.
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Ryan Lackey discovered the cypherpunks mailing list as a young teenager in the early 1990s, telephoned NSA to order the NCSC Rainbow Series of books, and became a true believer in cryptoanarchy and the power of cryptography to stand up to nation-states and other oppressors. He’s worked on projects and companies involving Chaumian digital cash systems, offshore data havens in the North Sea, seasteading, uncensorable hosting technologies, remote attestation-based tamperproof cloud computing, and now cryptocurrency insurance infrastructure. He is currently the Chief Security Officer of Evertas Insurance and lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Paralelní Polis is a one-­of-­a-­kind nonprofit organization that brings together art, social sciences, and modern technologies. The ideas of liberty, independence, innovative thinking, and the development of society are the main underlying foundations the whole project is built upon.
The project intends to remain state-free as it operates entirely without government support. Most of the funds come from voluntary contributions of our donors and partly from commercial activities such as running a unique co­working space and the world’s first bitcoin-­only cafe.
It was founded by members of a contemporary-­art group Ztohoven, and Slovak and Czech hacker­spaces. Its main goal is to promote economic, social, and digital freedom. We try to be a vocal voice of liberty in order to shape the public discourse, and ultimately work towards a freer future.

[@sherrysyed]

As a non science or tech person I really admire you guys thanks for sharing such fresh and different ideas !

[@sherrysyed]

I loved legal structures (don’t understand them but am happy to have learned where I can find out about them through this talk!) would never have thought of insurance this way- it’s opened up my mind to new perspectives! thanks again for this - as an outsider!

[@sherrysyed]

Thanks to the speaker for sharing their wisdom and this forum for letting the world get this info for free this is so amazing!!!!!! There’s nothing like this online I have been able to find before! So refreshing! Kinda like the complicated stuff these tech people do like creating things which is too complex for me - but this is a little more natural to outsiders with my learning limitations I guess - like legal structures and stuff but who don’t understand how to actually create a physical product. This is so so so so cool excuse the spam it’s just the content that is really inspiring and exciting. It’s like finding a little nook in the world where you can have your interests and also not feel like the least smart person in the room cus like you get some of it at least hahaha please don’t reply or acknowledge this! Thanks for letting me share!

[@user-xq7us9xl5r]

impressive! Please publish more of the talks if possible

[@ParallelPolis]

One per week to keep you on your toes 😁

[@OPIXdotWORLD]

4algo

[@sherrysyed]

Ryan lackey the speaker seems to have very interesting ideas! I’m sorry if this is not polite please excuse that I don’t have the best social skills! But please don’t reply Hahaa very shy