¨You are crazy talented in the craft of hacking down code and designing distributed currencies, you have a unique sense for UI design and a precise eye for perfection, you love to cross your tongue and brain in paragraphs, you have mastered the art of information design and animation, enjoy coordinating and kicking ass between team members, have an affection for numbers and maths, just prefer to write stories about creative people or have a skillful hand for finding the golden line in our communication.¨
If you take it by word,
you must fulfill all of that:
¨You are crazy talented in the craft of hacking down code and designing distributed currencies, you have a unique sense for UI design and a precise eye for perfection, you love to cross your tongue and brain in paragraphs, you have mastered the art of information design and animation, enjoy coordinating and kicking ass between team members, have an affection for numbers and maths, just prefer to write stories about creative people¨
OR
have a skillful hand for finding the golden line in our communication.¨
Communication rules!
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¨UNIVERSAL INCOME spread widely as possible across the planet where people need it.¨
I fully agree with that, If you look in the old forum and in this forum, that is exactly what I am advocating for since the beginning even before we started Freicoin. Inaway for me thats the main idea behin Freicoin.
But now back to the history. Before we started Freicoin we discussed about how we could distribute the coins without using mining.
I was much in favor of an basic income, the problem is, how to pay it out in an fair way.
Another problem was, that the idea of an basic income was very new for most of the people at that moment, so we agreed to experiment general with alternative distribution methods.
To make this experiment maaku suggested that the easiest way is to make an foundation, so that we can start Freicoin and still experiment with alternative issuing methods.
Initially Maaku wanted to have the foundation separated from the main developers. Here I made maybe my biggest failure and turned down the offer to me.
Therefore we ended up with having the core developers also to manage the foundation.
Because they wanted to do nothing wrong, they ended up with an very very very conservative coin distribution approach.
First the idea was to make grants to projects.
Then they didnt want them self in the position to make a decision on which project to support and which not. So they suggested to let the community decide through donation matching.
Sadly we also needed a very long time to create the website (thanks finally jorge made one) for the donation matching and it was also very complicated to bring orgs to register to that.
Nevertheless mainly jorge managed to have some very nice orgs registred on that.
Sadly no one used the foundation web to donate except me (i think more then 80% to 95% of the donations before we increased from 10% to 100% donation matching, which is an story in itself).
Sadly also it took very very long time before the donations was paid out. I think it was, mainly to have an script in place that looks for donation cycling abuse.
i think mark and jorge was also very very very busy at that time, because they entered into becoming a full time bitcoin core developer with all the responsibility that brings.
So their life turned upside down.
Another issue was, that marcs and jorge main passion was not so much on making the foundation, it was mostly about having freimarkets in place.
Also we had the situation that the republicoin project (in short making the foundation p2p), what my main focus was and still is, was on halt because we could not find any good solution to the miners censoring votes problem at that time, except for using an different way of securing the chain which I advocated for.
Here we lost fully the connection between the main community interests that was coin issuing and the core developers.
I think they still do not know how important coin issuing / having a coin-republic is for the community, because thats what Freicoin really can make different.
The first decentralized nation.
Now I realize, all these problems we had are mainly communication problems.
Marc and Jorge was super conservative and didnt want to make anything wrong, the community wanted to be lot more progressive with the coin issuing.
But we never met in person (except once with jorge which was a very very good meeting).
The first time I saw maaku on video chat some days ago which was very very helpful.
We really have to be more directly connected. best by personal meeting, second best by video chat. irc and forums is simply not enough.
So here is my offer, contact me and at best also the other main Freicoin participants and talk to them one to one.
Talk to them what is important for you, and listen to them what is important for them.
I still see that we can do a lot good with Freicoin if we manage to talk directly with each other.
Mainly we need to fix the basics, like block time, having updated websites with updated clients, and bringing the coins issuing to run.
What I advocate is 50% distribution as universal income to all participants, 50% for other projects like for example giving 10% back if you pay something ethical with freicoin.
Mainly I suggest to start with your school project as test example.
One the donation matching is functioning and well tested I guess I could bring also some good NGOs on bord, But first we have to fix it! I cannot go to an NGO and say, you weill get maybe 100% maybe 10% for donations, maybe in one month, maybe in one year. Maybe freicoin is there then maybe not, maybe block takes 10 min or maybe 1 day or two or three.
Thats not good! )
Im not keen on promising something until I can stand for it. Therefore Im focusing on your school project, because thats from Freicoin people, so they are ready to take some effort to make it work as pilot project, at least thats my hope.
I also hope, that Frederic is starting the organic mining project and registres it on the foundation web.
With feds pool we could also start the Freimining project (in short one coin to donate for each mined coin).
Also feds freicoin faucet should not be that difficult to fix and bring to the foundation web.
I for my part want mostly focus on bringing the freicoin giveways to run. they could be giveaways to projects, but mostly the idea is to make small giveawys to individuals.
in short do some good, post it which the freicoin bird inside and get some coins for it.
By the way, we should use ONE logo not two or three or four. The Freicoin bird maaku choose was very nice. It tell a story of freedom. We should stay with the bird, maybe advance it little bit graphically, but stay with the bird, it tells a story and it connects!
So in short what we all should do now, take your phone or even better feet and talk directly, and yes I mean like really direct, tell what you feel, and listen to what others feel.
And no, their is currently no problem if the foundation get no new funds. The idea was to make it p2p. Still we have a lot funds to test new issuing alternatives, but yes a more clear statement would be wish-able, that we want alternative mining methods and no we are not ready to accept the fallback to mining only. That should be communicated very clearly on the websites.
And sorry, that I may sound little bit like Trump, happened to have seen little bit too much from the American tragedy / comedy what is currently going on these days...
Still I wish you all the best!
And please no bashing of JO, whatever is or not is, Freicoin was his life and he could not handle to see it fail!
If someone is to blame, I am to blame!