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Working notes, not thought leadership.

Research from the Governance Research Lab and notes from the coop. Long, sourced, and occasionally about the things that went wrong.

ENBy Maël Rolland23 Jun 2026labsCrypto (Anti-)Commons? Controversies Surrounding the Status of Bitcoin and Public Blockchains as Digital Commons—Part 1Can Bitcoin and public blockchains be called digital commons? Part 1 maps the controversy and asks which idea of the commons the question invokes.

ENBy Maël Rolland12 Dec 2025labs"Insight Report" Series: External Interview #1 — Phil H.First of an interview series on distributed governance — opening with a recording that failed, and what that reveals about fieldwork infrastructure.

ENBy Maël Rolland5 Nov 2025labsSamouraï Governance Research Lab: A New Milestone for the CooperativeSamouraï Coop opens a research lab on cooperative and distributed governance — how eight years of building led here, and what it sets out to document.