Digital scarcity

This is perhaps one of the reasons that the recent generation of peer-to-peer technologies are overwhelmingly about determining and enforcing forms of digital scarcity and private property through blockchains and smart contracts: to protect our efforts, creations and communities against expropriation. Now we are liberated to make private property of our own data before it enters the market — a depressing response to data extractivism.

– Seeding the Wild