Digital Institutions - GenerousLabs/about GitHub Wiki

Douglass North and Robert William Fogel won the nobel prize in economics in 1993.

Throughout history, institutions have been devised by human beings to create order and reduce uncertainty in exchange. Douglass C. North - Institutions

Bitcoin is a protocol. Bitcoin pioneered the protocol a new form of institution. A digital native institution.

We believe we are only just beginning to understand the reach of this. How radically this innovation will transform human society is not yet comprehensible. We believe that protocols allow human sovereignty and liberty to flourish as they have never done before. We believe that humans innately seek to cooperate, to share, and to collaborate. We believe that digital institutions have the potential to enable this on a global scale.