The Critical Decentralisation Cluster (CDC) is a group of likeminded assemblies working together to present projects, talks and workshops that critically discuss the future of decentralisation. We were in Hamburg (Germany) during Dec 27-30 2024 at the 38th Chaos Communication Congress.

We were part of the Community Content Team of 38C3 and helped putting together the Community Stages program. We also hosted our own talks and workshops:

assemblies

RIAT - independent research institute in Vienna
MoneroKon and Monero Community
Replicant - fully free Android distribution
Namecoin - decentralized tamper-resistant naming system + PKI
GNU Boot - de-shittification for your BIOS and UEFI
Social Dist0rtion Protocol - ad-hoc riddles and games
FOSSASIA - open-source community in Asia
Swiss Cryptoeconomics
Department of Decentralisation - collective from Berlin
Ethereum Foundation - non-profit that supports the Ethereum ecosystem
Reticulum - resilient cryptography-based networking stack
Radicle - peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git
Crypto Commons - P2P technologies for the stewardship of common goods
Off-Grid Messaging - independent networks over LoRa and packet-radio
Sibermerdeka - Kuala Lumpur’s up-and-coming hackerspace
HSBXL - Hackerspace Brussels aka Squirrel

contacts

Location: I2-K3, Hall H, Level 0
38C3 Hub/Wiki: Criticial Decentralisation Cluster
Coordination and other talk on Matrix: #cdc:dod.ngo
Email: c3 at RIAT’s domain.
Talks and workshops submissions: pretalx.riat.at