Arcurus

I'm not in any way fluent or skilled in jQuery or jQuery mobile, but if needed, I could show the kids the very basics for using these to manipulate sites done with HTML This would be later next month though, as I'm already busy with getting some projects to get running here in the town

Yes they could be keen on that.
 
Edit: a few kids are working on it right now just to get a slogan.

Hmm, ohh yeah Maybe thats indeed 100% the same goal in the end...
 
In their last newsletter, they reminded the five main points:
 


Seems like I have had the old way of thinking too much imprinted in my thoughts still... I took the the mentioned "gift based economy" to mean, that there would be a some kind of value attached to it in a way... but indeed, you're right, it doesnt have to have such thing  So yeah, its prettymuch the same goals or ideals ^^


I've also shot them a couple of emails during the past months and tried to get a conversation going, but so far with no response. They've been very busy though for the past half a year, traveling around the world spreading the message and doing scientific research around the ancient technology stuff Michael has been into for years They also apparently suffered a little setback while they were on their travels, with some of the people they entrusted to look over the project in Waterval Boven making some shady actions :F It was good to hear though, that nothing major got wrong there and the project and the community are still strong <3

Hi All, 
here is copy of jitmons Freicoin software projects summary:
 
Feel free to add your projects!
 
All the good,
Arcurus
 
The orgininal post can be found here:
http://freicoin.freeforums.org/freicoin-software-projects-summary-t795.html
 
 
 
 
 
 

Hi all,
would be nice if we bring more visible faces behind Freicoin, like Mark and Jitmon did here http://freico.in/bios/
I think its good if we describe also a little bit why we support Freicoin in some sentences.
 
Would be nice if also others join, the more the better!
 
Here is an suggestion, feel free to suggest changes and correct my unskilled English.
Hopefully it got not too long and too excited
 
All the good,
Arcurus
 
Martin - Nick Name Arcurus 
Employment: Exploring what it means to be human
Education: computer scientist - specialized in decentralized systems
Country of Birth: Fürth - Germany
 
UPDATE:
Responsibilities: Basic Income / World Citizens Project , Communication and Cooperation and everything that until now nobody wants to do 
 
One day, when I "googled" for myself, I found on a children's book authors website, who bears the same name as me, an beautiful "destination" that guides me since then:
 
"Making the world a little bit nicer while having as much joy and fun as possible"
 
Currently this "destination" happen to bring me to beautiful soals like Mark Friedenbach, Jorge Timón and many others.
Together, inspired by the works of Silvio Gesell, We take our part in creating a world full of complementary currencies, that are brought into being through economic development, charitable action, and the support of global commons, which engender perpetual prosperity through sustainable development. 
 
For me especially the vision of an fair monetary system is very promising. A system where all people around the world would have, through an basic income, or better called "World Citizens Dividend", an fair access to resources, .
Just imagine this one second: An world where nobody has to die, because he did not have some money for food. A world where nobody can be enslaved to pay interest! A world full of freedom to choose his own destiny without having the fear to starve! 
 
Ultimately I hope, that such currencies like Freicoin or Dogecoin, just to mention some, can  lead to an gift based economy where everybody is proud of sharing what he has to give, like it was common in ancient times where we did not number everything.
 
Lets see what we can do and don't forget to have some joy while doing it, otherwise its not worth!
 
Fell free to join!
 
See you,
Martin
 
 
 

Ubuntu Liberation Movement was started in Africa some years ago by Michael Tellinger. The movement has been growing steadily for a while now, and they've started to achieve some really awesome results and have made leaps in progress within the few months now in their home base, Waterval Boven in South Africa. The movement has very similar goals with Freicoin, except their end goal is a world without money. 
Here's their home page, if you'd like to find out more: http://www.ubuntuparty.org.za/p/home.html
And their news section, which has been active lately with some beautiful progress updates: http://www.ubuntuparty.org.za/p/home.html
 

I've decided to acquire some more mining equipment and got this phunny idea of combining a mining and farming project into one, so lets see if there is any people interested in participating on this
 
I live in a section of an old barn and during winter times have to use electricity for heating. So far I have heated just this one room I linger in, and last winter replaced my heaters with miners (gpu rigs and antminer s1's), which were enough for this one room. Now I got a dozen more of these miners, so will heat this room + the kitchen area with them 
I've also kept a grow tent in my room during the winter time, to produce chillies, tomatoes, cucumbers and salads for my own use. But, since this barn has a lot of room, I thought of expanding the grow area and offer the extra harvest for sale

So, the idea for community mining + farming if theres interest:
I have reserved a small room for the farming expansion and have already decided to go for 3x AntMiner S2's, which should be enough for this room. If there's enough people interested, the space could be expanded further
Income from mining could be shared equally with the Fedde's share system. Electricity costs could be covered in either FRC, or then from the sale of the produce from the farming I could also cover a chunk of the electricity costs, since part of it is free for me.
I could also cover the costs of setting up the space (building materials, pots, growin medium, lights, nutrients etc.)
So what would be needed to be paid by interested people, would be the mining hardware costs + some of the electricity costs ^^

I can get the three S3's cheaply from my friend, and there's a lot of other older hardware for sale in Finnish crypto forums which I could pick up. Seems like the avarage price for 1TH is around 1BTC, but I'd guess if theres enough people to buy a chunk of them, we could get them cheaper

 

Added

Here a short summary from the 4.Hangout:
 
My connection was not so good, so please correct and add what I missed!
 
Making Freicoin to a sidechain of Bitcoin
- As far as I understood Maaku is thinking of making Freicoin to a sidechain of Bitcoin. What that would exactly mean for Freicoin I hope we will get more details soon.
 
Discussion of Proof of Stake (POS)
-  Currently Maaku is not so much in favor for proof of stake, but said that he will have a look into the paper I showed him [1].
 
As far as I understood maakus main arguments against POS:
-- 1. Stake voters can sign two chains without any cost
-- 2. more complicated
-- maybe more, but my connection was lost...
please add if I have forgotten something (maybe problems with making Freicoin to a sidechain of a POW based chain???)
 
My arguments was:
-- To 1. POS combination with Proof of work (POW) as outlined in this paper[1] can make it costly to sign more chains
--  UPDATE: To 1. even in pure POS if an POS voter signs two blocks, other POS voters can ignore his blocks and exclude him for an certain time. This "exclusion" can be done off chain. 
-- To 2. also in POW miners need to verify the hole chain  
-- currently we have no solution how to build something like republicoin* (in short POS voting) on an POW chain 
 
UPDATE:I opened now an new topic to discuss POW vs POS with more arguments then here: Feel free to take part!
http://freicoinalliance.com/topic/64-discussion-of-proof-of-stake-pos/
 
Republicoin
- Maaku said that republicoin is on hold until we have a solution, how we could build it on a POW chain
(in short miners could block votes if they control more then 50% of the mining power. The main problem here is, that miners could only let their votes pass and therefore get all coins).   
 
My argument here:
- if rebulicoin is mainly vote with coins (something like POS) also the chain itself should be secured with POS, then there is no problem   
 
Currently I am working on an more Detailed Proposal to that.
 
 
Donation matching:
- maaku said, that it will be raised to 100% if he and jitmon have a better automatic donation cycling detection included.
- until that happens donation matching will increased to 25%
My Argument here was:
- so or so coins can be cycled with using exchanges and so on
- therefore we should better concentrate on making limits per org and requiring more transparency if an org reaches the limit as outlined in [3].
UPDATE: Maybe we should concentrate more the "Stake voting proposal"[2] that would have not the problem of donation cycling and would be more near to the rebublicoin idea. 
  
- maaku talked also with Fab about my proposal of advancing the donation matcher [3]. 
(Sadly my connection was lost, as far as I have understood Fab said, that he will look into that and that maaku will provide some test infrastructure 
 
Registering the Alliance for Donation Matching
- Registering the Alliance should be fine. The Alliance must not necessarily be an Non Profit as long as the mission statement fits the Freicoin foundations mission statemet.
- like all other projects that want to apply for donation matching, the Freicoin Foundation directors must vote on that after the Alliance is applies for donation matching.
 
 
That was it as far as I can remember.
Please add or correct if I have forgotten something!
 
 
All the good,
Arcurus
 
[1] Proof of Activity: Extending Bitcoin’s Proof of Work via Proof of Stake 
http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/452.pdf
 
[2] Stake voting based giveaway - to make experiments with coin voting
http://freicoin.freeforums.org/application-to-add-an-second-issuing-mechanism-t730.html
 
[3] http://freicoinalliance.com/topic/55-advancing-the-donation-matcher/

As most of you know, we have the freicoin dice running over at http://www.freicoin-dice.comwebsite.
 
Currently there is a 5% house fee, this will change once people use it.
 
I will use this a official support thread and for feedback. 
 
Happy Rolling!

Winter is coming John Snow.

If we need more forums, please let me know and we can create them.
 

Good stuff.
 
Let me know where I can help doing documentation etc.

Discussed this with maaku on the FA Hangout #4, he can provide hosting for website / tools that are needed. He will also set up the needed accounts/addresses (so that the foundation keys cannot be lost/compromised) in the testnet side when he has the time for it 
What we need to do, is the developing & coding part. I will try to help with this I've learned a bit of jQuery and jQuery mobile after the summer time, so will try to help with the development from that front (website to show the data in clear format)

UPDATE:
Cooperative Bounty (Budget) of 120000 Freicoins is set up
Cooperative means it this case, it can payed out step by step to more then one people.
Bounty for each step can be negotiated.
The tasks can be increased or decreased.
If you want more information message me.
 
Another solution to make the coins issuing more transparent would be to make an Freicoin explorer who displays that.
 
 
Update:
Arcurus: 15 Freihours (75000 Freicoins) Freicoins matched and ready to give out
Fabrizio: 4 Freihours (20.000 Freicoins)  status: promised
Fedde: 5 Freihours status: promised
 
Hi All,
I think making the Freicoin issuing more transparent for the "normal" guy out there and to make it more regularly like monthly or better weekly or even daily should have our main priority right now.
 
Maybe we should create a bounty for that?
Or is there someone willing to look into that, I am ready to help, but would be good to have someone who is more familiar with web-programming who can help.
 
Mainly I see these tasks TODO:
- 1.  Help to host a sever that runs the donation matching. The "donation matcher" could be filled manually on demand, so there is no big risk to loose funds.
- 2. Advancing the donation matching script,so that it outputs which organisation got which amount. (At best it would create automatically an html page to display that. Also the current value* on donation time and on payout time would be great to display.
- 3 Sending an information email to the organisations after matching is done.
- 4 Advancing the donation matcher, so that it displays donations per organisations and payouts per organisation (both total and per month / year) the same also in the current value*  
- 5.Adding an settable limit per organisation to prevent malicious use. (see below)
- 6 Advancing the donation matcher, so that it uses multi sigs for its receiving address and advancing it, so that he is run on X different servers that all must sign.
* At best in average working hours or something like that. Its really time to get rid of this fiat stuff!
To cycling protection: I think there is no need to spend much effort on that right now, because first of all someone can trick it with using exchanges or registering two organisations. So its better to require transparency from the organisations which get a certain amount of Freicoins per month.
So the donation matcher should have a limit per organisation. If that is reached someone has to manually increase the limit after he checked if everything is right with the organisation.
Of course a tool to help to find malicious donations would be nice to have, but is not the priority right now.
 
All the good,
Arcurus

Yea of course I can wait
Its for a Friend of me as a present.
One year ago I bought him some chili from America with Bitcoin

Ya start without legal is ok if it is ok with the Freicoin Foundation. Might be something we need sooner. Thanks Molly for checking into the charity angle.

I'll have a look into this this evening for us

The support ticket system would be great if we expect to have some "problem" situations Though for consulting/information sharing, I'd see a shared email account / access to common mailbox to be easier solution: 
 

Ok
 
Molly will provide us with a address that is secure. 
 
What i need some help with for the foundation registration is the description.
 
Short Description : 
"The Freicoin Alliance is a Freicoin Community driven project that seeks to create a world where commonplace non-usurious complementary currencies inspired by the works of Silvio Gesell are brought into being through economic development, charitable action, and the support of global commons and which engender perpetual prosperity through sustainable development."
 
Long Description: 
??
 
I have created the email address [email protected] that currently forward mail to me. We need to decide where we want this so that more than me are reciving it.

Sure, we need at least 2 people to have control in case someone goes.
 
I have asked Molly on facebook to help out and pointed him to this thread, so he might reply in the future

Thank you Arcurus for starting this thread I'd see it beneficial to drive this through as the next thing ^^
I support the description and your nominations for the people to hold the coins, as their identities are public/known in the community. Though, for me, I would like to keep mine "private", but dont mind to disclose it within the community.. if thats not an obstacle and another holder is needed, I'll sign up for it

I Would be honoured to hold coins.
 
Evelin, my better half, currently taking her level 4 in accountancy so We can have a word with her about what is needed to  make sure the "books" are kept upto date - If need be I (or her) can act as a treasurer or can at least advise.

Hello Freicoiners,
I think its now time that we bring the Freicoin Alliance to next level and register it on the Freicoin Foundation web for donation matching.
This would mainly have two benefits:
First of all bounties like the current mobile wallet bounty could be doubled with the matched Freicoins.
Second the Alliance would be a good community driven test case for the Freicoin Foundation matching program.

What we need to do?
First of all we need a description, that can be something like that:

"The Freicoin Alliance is a Freicoin Community driven project that seeks to create a world where commonplace non-usurious complementary currencies inspired by the works of Silvio Gesell are brought into being through economic development, charitable action, and the support of global commons and which engender perpetual prosperity through sustainable development."
 
UPDATE:
And here an suggestion for an short description:
Help the Freicoin Community to create a world full of charitable action and sustainable development - Help to to propagate Freicoin!


Second, we need someone to hold the registered Freicoin address.
I suggest, that the Freicoin Alliance itself tries to not hold funds for a long time period.
The funds itself should go after the matching directly to Freicoin Community projects like the bounty for the mobile wallet.
So the Alliance would not need to hold any funds for a long time period.

I suggest
Bicknellski, Fedde and Mollycat for taking care of the donation matching address.
For community projects like the mobile wallet bounty different caretakers could be found.
 
UPDATE: I also suggest Fabrizio
 
Why I suggest these? Because they have been up to now as far as I can see  the main driving forces to build up the Alliance.
And no I didn't ask them until now, so lets see what they say 
 
By the way, thank you all for what you have done for Freicoin! The Alliance is a great step forward for the Freicoin Movement!
 
As always if you have any suggestions / comments feel free to post!
 
All the good,
Arcurus