Over 150 people attended MoneyLab #3 Failing Better, which took place on 1 and 2 December 2016 at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The 2-day conference featured panel discussions on financial surveillance, on the music industry and its revenue models as well as workshops on the blockchain technology and its social and political impact and artworks. Reviews of the different sessions and workshops can be found on the MoneyLab Blog: <http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/ <http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/>> Find below the review, by Pablo Velasco, of the workshop: Role Play Your Way to Budgetary Blockchain Bliss, hosted by Ruth Catlow and Ben Vickers (Furtherfield) Ruth Catlow (artist and curator) and Ben Vickers (curator, writer, and technologist), brought the LARPing tradition to MoneyLab in this special workshop ‘Role PLay Your Way to Budgetary Blockchain Bliss’. Unsuspecting participants were assigned characters – generic roles that frequent the business cycle of start up tech companies trying to make the next big thing with the latest technological innovation.The only twist was that this 2-day start up tech hackathon was aimed at creating Blockchain based businesses ideas that improve the life and future of cats. For this role-playing workshop, each participant was assigned a cat-invested persona and the general goal of networking their way into a profitable enterprise for themselves, the cat community, and the hosting institution. The workshop critically emulated the extravagant discourse and excitement surrounding the super-automation and hyperconectivity that comes with blockchain and similar technologies, and the capacity of the technology stakeholders to both increase and diminish global inequity. Read here the full article: <http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/2016/12/06/role-play-your-way-to-budgeta... <http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/2016/12/06/role-play-your-way-to-budgetary-blockchain-bliss/>> Best regards, Leila Ueberschlag -- Leila Ueberschlag | Intern MoneyLab#3 Institute of Network Cultures Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences | HvA MoneyLab <http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/> | 1&2 Dec 2016 | Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam www.networkcultures.org <http://www.networkcultures.org/> @INCAmsterdam <https://twitter.com/INCAmsterdam>