# Key Ideas from #hplusroadmap IRC Discussion

• Participants explored personal tokenization through Counterparty, a protocol built on the Bitcoin blockchain that enables creation and trading of custom assets, with Kanzure demonstrating this by creating and distributing "KANZURE" shares.

• The group discussed a co-op business model implemented via Counterparty where customer payments would automatically distribute as dividends to employee-shareholder-owners, representing a novel intersection of cryptocurrency and organizational structure.

• A philosophical debate emerged about the implications of personal tokenization, with some expressing concerns about "commoditization of people" while others explored how tokens might represent a person's value creation or "nerd karma."

• Technical discussions covered consensus algorithms in distributed systems, referencing academic work on the impossibility of consensus and how Bitcoin's proof-of-work relates to physically scarce resources like entropy.

• Participants shared and discussed "Strangecoin," a proposal for nonlinear cryptocurrency that appears to explore alternative approaches to digital currency design.

• The conversation touched on social reputation systems like Klout, criticizing how they incentivize users to spam their networks for kickbacks, highlighting concerns about digital reputation metrics.

• A paper on "Information Theoretic Perspective of Autonomy" was shared, connecting cryptocurrency concepts to deeper theoretical frameworks around autopoiesis and cognition.