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What else, dude, good
afternoon. Well,
Camila de Lalo's presentation is incredible. Well,
unfortunately, I'm not that prepared or
with that many numbers. In fact, I don't come
so much to talk about very specific use cases,
but rather to make a
space for us to dream. And
suddenly, we can pose the questions and
answers in a different way.
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Yes, it's the name that I'm known by
in this community, it's a river in Ohio in
the north and there's a word that comes from
Dusty, which means fresh water, and it
seemed very magical to me that by
chance I came to be on the Def stage,
which is called River, and for me it's
something special.
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Well, first, let's mention
the community in Colombia that has been
here, the president, accompanying all of this.
Many of them are here.
Thank you very much for having
participated in this whole
DefCon experience. This is for us, and truly,
congratulations for having made it this far.
I work with Platoedro, we are an
organization that has been working on
social projects with science, art,
culture, technology for 18 years, and we look for new
ways to cooperate new ways of
using technologies creativity
and ancestral knowledge to change
the world
and well I also wanted to take this opportunity to
thank the foundation
I know that the foundation doesn't want to appear
so sorry but really We
thank you very much for having brought so much
money and making this big production
of Def that is very nice and thank you very
much for putting your eye on it but
this is not about
Thank you for discovering us no that is a
little bit what we are going to talk about today no no it is
a little bit of maintaining that perspective that
someone is coming to discover us and well we
started
thinking from the south it is not very common
that and right now I was telling you here with the
Euro Century boxing it is very common that
sometimes we want to try to fit into a
solution is that they have been designed
thinking about solutions from what they have
called the first world and well yes
all the possibilities for the
crypto option in Latin America but that
crypto option is not going to be based on copying
models or importing models but
rather it is us ourselves who are
going to take on the task of building those
models
I would like to start with and I think that
is like the most concrete part of
my entire talk this is a space of
speculative realism and I believe that is the
power that we have in Latin America
we have the possibility of
dialogues not One non-humans the
possibility of magic the possibility
of intuition the possibility of the
jungle and it is from there from where we
should then build our
processes and from There is where we should
allow our creativity to flow this
phrase is going to share with me this week and I
love it says a science fiction
written by peoples who have overcome their
own end of the world is that we are
totally tenacious peoples a super
strong people who have been able to
combat a lot of
adversities
carried in relation to global power and
this this power that we have and that has
kept us here is what will allow us to
build the solutions that we need
in the future
last summer I was in Buenos Aires
and there is one of the founders of
this community who is very famous and in
part of the talk he says Argentina
for all of Latin America I wouldn't say so much
that I have to have little capacity in
the state I think they are rather
malicious but something that is clear is
that we have incredible talent and I have
seen it especially in the
crypto ecosystem is that there are many topless
developers who work and live in
Latin America contribute ecosystems from
all over the world special mention for the
people of Argentina please I mean
amount of money
And so the points I wanted to
start with to make here is this
introduction is
part of that process that we have of
building these new solutions in
Latin America involves cooperating
internationally and looking for the points
of friction where money does not
flow to the places where it should
be because there are many people who have
money there are many people who are doing
very good work but sometimes there are a
lot of things in between that make it
difficult for us to do everything so it is very
important that we start from here to be
able to do all this really well hack
private property one of the
biggest problems in Latin America
is the latifundio the
land grabbing by some
productive sectors that put
the rest of the population in detriment and misery
we can decentralize
land ownership and we don't even need to
reform the state we can simply
look for communities that organize themselves to
buy the land through a
crowdfunding compro through blockchain and that
the territories are
operated by non-
profit entities in that way we could then
establish small
properties that are let's say operated
collectively by means of dice
through blockchain so sometimes we don't have to
knock everything down we can get in the
middle
also let's say this issue of buying
private property in a communal way
also allows us to hack
real estate development and it's that many
times real estate development
urban development is not thought about by
people but rather you think about the
contracts they have between them
us buying small plots in the
middle of these development projects
we will be able to hack and we will be able in
some way with having
industrial development the development of cities
to protect something that is very
important and not only for Latin America
but for the world which is our
nature right
and so what we would
cause is that protecting
public goods in a water source
a tree a moor are things that serve
all of humanity and all of humanity
should be responsible for protecting them and I
believe that with this model of
triangulation between the
blockchain community and non-
profit entities I believe we can achieve it that is why I
would like to make a mention of this
project that you know here at defcon
that was born in Medellín and that makes me very very very
excited
and it is people who have precisely
daring to do this model of trying to
do crowdfunding to buy land
and give their land to the people and
that the same community is the one that
manages it And I was saying what happens with the
territory
well the other one I wanted to talk to you about was
the other use case in which we can
kind of break many things is in the issue
of international cooperation there
are many people who are trying to
finance blockchain as I was saying who are
trying to finance projects in
Latin America and sometimes it is very difficult to access
them so one of the things we
can do is create
financing pools where a financier
can go and automatically direct the money
to processes or
projects that are already established that
already have a reputation and thus facilitates let's
say the pace at which
liquidity enters the ecosystem right
the other is that in Latin America it is very
common that with a change of government a
political decision then a lot of
social or community works
start to back out
It is one of the things for which
the investment risk is rated is
because investors do not want to
risk their capital ending up in the hands
of an authoritarian government If we
work international cooperation through watching Then
we are going to have the guarantee all the time
that the money that is being stretched
for social projects will never
fall into the hands of corruption
and finally hacking the budgets
the issue of agendas and the distribution
of the public budget in Latin America
Generally makes us follow the
speeches of the agents who are
financing and not It should be that way the
financier should follow the
communities So if we create
our own pools with the
financing money that we all get we
can manage and prioritize that
financing collectively and
according to our own needs
and well This is the best part of
all, not that it is to confront corruption, that is why
at the beginning I told you that
maybe I do not believe that our rulers are stupid but that they are directly bad and bad they will not know how to do it but out of malice and one of the things that happens a lot in the issue of corruption is the overcosts public contracting in which a plate
of rice costs 100 dollars
we can have transparency in
real time and we can detect fraud and
alert of these
wrong contracts that are being made in
real time of course many people do not that that
happens many people will not believe that there is
a blockchain giving transparency to
the political contracting processes and
that is a challenge that we are going to have from now
on and it is that we are not only going to have to
face the adoption by
the people or look for
financing from the
private sector but sometimes we have to deal
with the political will
also happens that sometimes in cases of
corruption we realize that
corrupt agents had already hired, they had already been
discovered and they remained in the
system and with blockchain, let's say thanks
to cryptographic evidence we could
identify who these malicious agents are
and isolate them at the moment in which it
happens and not allow
these parasites to continue existing within the
system
and what I had spoken to you about
throughout the entire talk is the issue of
removing the seam between the processes
sometimes it is very difficult to move from one country
to another sometimes very difficult to have to
change legislation sometimes when
you want to do a project you have to
fill out a lot of reports and
forms this week I was going to enter
this building with a neon sign
that said is Colombia and they told me
you have to fill out a
commercial form because this is a free trade zone
I said
skinny or I mean we have QR codes to
enter the places and well you're
telling me that it has a form and to
mark them how to overcome the chronic and I
feel that in Latin America
somehow we have become like addicted to
bureaucracy or the state likes us to
be addicted to bureaucracy and well
right now we have the possibility with
blockchain to start removing all
those seams and well to create New
Bridges So it
is in the south where the questions are born and it is in the
south where the answers are invoked
in June I was talking with a friend
who was telling me the story of the
sub-Saharan migrants so he
told me how they cross the desert
on foot then they camp next to Ceuta
then they jump the fence cross the sea
arrive in Spain to sell their things and
when they arrive they speak five languages
and the evil told me anyone who points out
a migrant does not even come
close to them because they are tremendous people And
right now we can see it in the
Darien jungle which is the only place where
the Pan-American Highway does not exist it is one
of the wildest and most
remote places in Latin America Progress
has cost to get there and it has been
the migrants who for these days they
are opening a highway in
Darien and after Venezuela which are
recreated then Thank you very much
cool the concept of hacking hacking the
state hacking property
hacking bureaucracy
I don't know if this comes audio from my
bosses but I had been working
with the state for 13 years it doesn't make me angry
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crazy because it's seeing so much talent
sometimes stuck in the hands of people who
don't want things to happen and and and I get
excited too when you say it
Because you see it a lot all the time in
all the countries Argentina so many
people doing such good things and and so many
people putting spokes in the wheels and this
is the moment part for
us to do it this week there is a phrase
that said that in
1492 the native peoples
discovered Columbus lost at sea and
well I feel that for the for the good
of blockchain has arrived in Latin America
that we teach it a little bit of magic Thank you
very much you
propose many solutions that this
technology Well for all the virtues
that it has
allows us to rethink a new future
for Latin America for Colombia given
the conditions of the scenarios that well
many of us already know
obviously and you mentioned it there we will not
face
Well, due to political wills, the friction between
the technological issue, adoption and the
political issue may become
closer. So how do you see it, what do you
think could happen because it
stops being a technical technological discussion
and begins to take on a more
political hue. So it was like the
conversation we are having
right now is that it is very common for us to
get used to the startup discourse of
thinking that we are going to achieve this
through private capital and that then
with financing everything is possible, but the
truth is that there are some points of
friction that are in the system that is
already established and from
now on we also have to start
thinking as political actors
because we
also have to take part in how
legislation is built and
legislation that is friendly with
blockchain Because if the same bad
people who are destroying
Latin America from figures of
power understand, they will also understand
how to hinder that option.
So it is a community process. But it
is also a technological and
political process, I think.