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Bitnation?
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I needed a random group generator for a pseudonym parties anti-sybil system I've designed, I call it the POI system, so wrote this. it's probably not gas/computationally optimized, better solutions are welcome
quote on the POI protocol,
"The tokens are fully anonymous and you receive a new one each month, not traceable to your previous one, making it very anonymous. POIs are similar to Bitcoin as e-gold in that sense, each POI is completely public but its very hard to find a pattern in who they have belonged to. "
I designed the protocol because I needed an anti-sybil system for a crypto basic income system I had designed, https://bitnation.co/blog/using-mutual-credit-to-draw-a-map-of-financial-inter-dependence-at-a-global-scale/
At the moment (at least in the UK) bitcoin is only subject to capital gains tax.
In the future I'd envisage a Voluntary taxation system that allows you to decide (on macro and micro scale) where you would like your economic energy to be spent. Much like Islam works (everybody donates around 10% of their earnings to causes they're interested in, that's it).
Paying tax and helping fund amazing initiatives would then be seen as a point of pride as you see your energy being put to actual good work (building schools, maintaining local hospitals, foreign aid infrastructure investment and so forth).
"Glass Governance" then becomes far less about tax collection and redistribution as most of that work is handed over to the crowd, in much the same way we see crowdfund projects do amazing things for communities. So rather than the state needing tax collection, the emphasis is on worthwhile transparent distribution. And since everybody is paying the same amount, no-one needs to feel cheated by those using loopholes etc. The enforcement to comply side is basically replaced with incentive to do good.
Couple this with liquid democracy voting platforms that allow people to vote on macro and micro issues they have expertise in and the role of central government is diminished as many tasks are moved over to towns, local councils and their populace (that know their needs best).
Bitnation are doing amazing things in this area. Especially Johan Nygren's work with "Resilience" and dividend pathways.
Seems legit to me. Here is the actual white paper from Satoshi that created bitcoin. This concept of decentralization is one of the major current developments that gives me hope for a future that isn't completely dominated by a central authority. People are beginning to expand on this notion in very intriguing ways, for example bitnation is a fascinating concept.
If there was no government, who would provide for mutual defense against aggressors ranging from a local violent gang to an enemy state that's less enlightened than you are? How about conflict resolution in cases where somebody screwed you over and now you want to be compensated for it? How would we isolate violent criminals? I would definitely be for a "pay as you go" system for services like civil court cases on the understanding that the loser in a civil court case has to compensate the winner for the fees involved (thus allowing for a more equal standing in cases where one party can't afford to pay the fees of a good attorney and the court). There are even attempts to privatize government and give people more options when it comes to governance. But I can't see eliminating government altogether because that would practically be an invitation for the biggest thug on the block to take over.
You can probably make a career as a bridge between old law and crypto law. E-Estonia have just now started using crypto-notaries, https://bitnation.co/blog/pressrelease-estonia-bitnation-public-notary-partnership/, and that's an example of what the transition between nation-states and crypto-nations will look like. DApps will gradually interface with old law, the transition is going to take a while, maybe years, maybe more maybe less, and the old legal system is going to have to deal with the transition. If you are one of the few who understand crypto, then maybe you could become "the crypto lawyer" or something.
>a hierarchy of good ideas/solutions vs bad ideas/solutions
Exactly. And that's exactly how consensus works, by filtering out those ideas/solutions that are the best for the whole group and enabling everyone within that group to have an equal share of voice.
Things get interesting when that whole group becomes the global village with lots of working groups and 'networked states' deciding on which ideas have greatest merit outside of formal hierarchical structures.
See Bitnation: Networked States and their recent Web 3.0 Pangea platform for early working released that are delivering those solutions, some of which have already enabled the UN to register stateless citizens on the blockchain in order that they may receive refugee aid.
This kind of system is also what Goldman Sachs' LLoyd Blankfein was talking about just today when he said "maybe in the new world something gets backed by consensual arrangement by people that agree... kinda' like what social media does."
This kind of wisdom of crowds is also what Ed Snowden was taking about when he tweeted "It was once impossible to imagine countries without Kings. A time will come when they look back and say the same of Presidents."
I just drop this in, maybe, if we're lucky we get some kind of this system in the future: https://bitnation.co
The owners are libertarians and they said it would be the best if we would've 8 billion governments in the world.
Well, we understand how supply and demand works, and there would probably high demand for former state services in anarchy, so people would provide them and trade them against things of value.
There's already a startup that wants to provide state services for money, you can check it out at https://bitnation.co/ . I don't see how this shouldn't become large if there wasn't a state.
What are Taxemes ?
Facebook user Alex said it best in this post in <strong>The Arts of Decentralizatoin, Anonymity and Security</strong>
>Now, this is really interesting. The units of replication in this genetic algorithm are called 'taxemes' (instead of genes or memes), to determine how much money is put into a decentralized basic income system.
Read more:
Using a genetic algorithm for self-organizing emergent tax-rates in a crypto basic income system - Bitnation.co
I could see a system of private toll highways, the theory being that the people who actually use them would be the ones who pay for them. In low traffic areas, sure, there might only be one tollway, but in places that see high traffic levels (thus, high demand), there's going to be competition between multiple tollway owners. There could easily be two or three competing tollways going between Tampa and Orlando that take slightly different routes past most of the major theme parks. There were plans for a private bicycle tollway in California somewhere and part of it was actually built before cars became a major deal. If you take the government out of the picture, maybe not much would change except the roads in my gated community / homeowners' association would be regarded as being "owned" by the homeowners' association and each homeowner would contribute to a fund that maintains them instead of paying property taxes. The company that fills potholes would be regarded in a way that's not much different from the landscapers who mow the lawn once a week as things stand now. There might be three or four companies in the area that can do pretty much the same job and we can always switch companies if we need to.
And with basic governance, new technologies have come up that could theoretically compete with traditional governments that are basically regional monopolies. Bitnation is one and I heard that they recently teamed up with Ethiopia to provide more flexible "e-residency" and public notary services. It's not really eliminating governance as a concept; it's just providing people with alternatives that reduce the monopoly that traditional governments have had.