Daniel Larimer is a visionary blockchain innovator who created the core consensus mechanism and original designs of what we now call the Respect Game.
He also introduced the concept of fractal democracy underpinning the Respect Game in his 2021 book "More Equal Animals: The Subtle Art of True Democracy" and further refined the process in ƒractally. More details can be found in the whitepaper and Optimystics blog. Prior to pioneering fractal consensus processes, he founded several projects that reached combined valuations of over 23 billion dollars and paved the path for the most popular onchain protocols of today.
You can learn more by reading his bio and the infographic on written on fractally.com, which are both provided below for your convenience.
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Leveraging 20 years of software development and consensus-building experience to build ƒractally - the next generation of DAOs
Since 2002, Daniel has been tackling cutting-edge problems using open source software and thought leadership. In 2006, he adopted a life mission to “create free market, voluntary solutions for securing life, liberty, property, and justice for all.” This led him to Bitcoin in 2009, where he engaged with Satoshi about the scalability of Bitcoin. In 2013, he “coined” the term Decentralized Autonomous Company (DAC) to describe Bitcoin and was the inspiration that evolved into DAOs.
His 2021 book, “More Equal Animals: The Subtle Art of True Democracy,” is a blueprint to DAO governance using fractal democracy, tested and refined through Eden. He focuses on designing more representative decentralized systems for Web3 using fractal governance and cutting-edge blockchain technology that puts the user and developer first.