Aleeza Howitt

Hello!

I am an organic, self-aware lifeform passionate about universal basic income, data privacy, and ethereum, among other things. I'm currently working on Disintermedia and μNode. Feel free to email me or find me on Twitter.

A flower crown and a gas mask.
Disintermedia

The production house for tokenized films.

2024-01-01
μNode

A low-cost machine that is both a self-hosted Ethereum client (can extend to a validation node) and a node for decentralized data permissioning, storage, and retrieval.

2023-01-01
Shell Protocol

Shell Protocol is the first DeFi super dapp, making DeFi accessible by solving the UX problem.

2021-11-01
Knockoff NFT

A conceptual art project exploring ownership of NFTs. With Knockoff NFT, you can copy NFTs and take the knockoffs for yourself. The project is free to use.

2021-09-29
GraffitETH

A digital graffiti wall in which pixels are NFTs subject to the Harberger tax. It’s an experiment in market socialism, a collaborative artwork, and a window into Ethereum for the world.

2021-02-15
Trustlines Protocol

A blockchain-based payment system that uses a mesh credit network in lieu of tokens. The network consists of bilateral credit lines.

2019-12-01
UBI Research

A think tank that supports scholarly research on the potential of a UBI created without governmental auspices, including both theoretical work and analysis of active projects.

2019-01-01
Astro Ledger

Astro Ledger provides a transparent platform for assigning and recording hand-picked names for stars, while raising funds for space grants.

2018-06-01
Shell Protocol v2 White Paper

This paper introduces a composable architecture for linking together smart contracts. The goal is to reduce friction for builders and users in DeFi.

2022-02-09
Financial inclusion through solidarity: The potential for blockchain-based mutual credit in Venezuela.

Working Paper: Explores the potential for blockchain-based mutual credit systems in Venezuela, guided by Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 8.10 on access to banking and financial services.

2021-09-01
How to Distribute a World Basic Income By Collateralizing P2P Credit.

A creative solution to an emergency distribution system for a world basic income.

2020-03-29
Mutual Credit and Universal Basic Income: Situating Two Cryptocurrencies Within Economic Theory.

Working Paper: Critical comparison of Trustlines Protocol and Circles, two alternative currency projects that are conceptually identical but differ in economic theory. Presented at the Complementary Currencies and Societal Challenges Conferencein Brussels.

2019-11-21
SoK: Non-Dystopian Approaches to Sybil-Resistant Digital Personhood

Working Paper: Overview of current approaches to Sybil-resistance in decentralized, privacy-preserving identity systems. First draft created at RWOT 9 Prague.

2019-09-06
Decentralized unique identity via graph-based Sybil-detection on a peer-to-peer credit network.

Discussion of viability of a decentralized system for distinguishing between real and fake (i.e. Sybil) network members, based on analysis of the connectivity of these members in a p2p credit network.

2019-05-30
Bottom-Up Money: Fair, stable, resilient—envisioning a free market in supplier-issued basic income currencies.

Proposal for a decentralized system of monetary governance formed from an ecosystem of freely-formed coexisting UBI currencies, each backed and governed by its own network of suppliers.

2019-03-21
Proposal for a Decentralized Unique Identity Seeding Protocol.

Outline for assigning a temporary proof of uniqueness to participants who physically attend pseudonym parties, for the purpose of integrating that data into a complementary graph-based Sybil-resistant identity network.

2019-03-05
Roadmap to a Government-Independent Basic Income (UBI) Digital Currency.

This paper examines the challenges involved in designing and implementing a new currency whose objective is to permanently provide some level of universal basic income (UBI).

2018-12-20
Play the Merge

A live musical performance to mark Ethereum's transition to Proof of Stake. Musicians played a waltz generated randomly in real-time with each block hash as the Merge took place. Based on the artwork Amadethus. Performed at Full Node, Berlin.

2022-09-15
Under Pressure (Crossword Puzzle)

I made a crossword puzzle for fun once.

2022-01-01
Knockoff NFTs are the best blockchain art

A manifesto of sorts, from that moment in history when NFTs started going mainstream.

2021-09-29