Fabrizio

Right now I'm working on the physical wallet itself, trying to find a simple way to seal the private key. The simplest solution until now is a paper folded twice (I made it three squares in a row) with a lovely c-section (one for the ladies  ) along the second false (fold), so you can "lock" what's printed on the first two squares away from prying eyes and cameras, while the rest is easily accessible. See attached sketch below.
 

 
While working on this, I got thinking about the kind of ration stamps that were in use during and after the war over here-- could it be useful to have more than one public key? Either identical ones or unique, so they could be torn off and given away almost like a business card? On an A4 page you'd manage to have at least six extra public keys in addition to the one above.

Low carb no carb Atkins was truly an amazing period. I was able to really concentrate once my system was free of the overload of sugar based foods. I am not on it now and I know it affects my weight and my health negatively.

Hi Bick, which diet you use? By the way, we are here just harvesting our own crown potatoes, carrots and so on, ok we didn't reach 100% autocracy yet, but it is a beginning.

Lone Gunmen March 4, 2001 PILOT EPISODE
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRtqQLMAZek
 
I love this one. Released in spring 2001, the pilot for the X-Files spin-off show The Lone Gunmen (remember the hackers Mulder visits from time to time, those guys, fantastic series covering most of the classic conspiracy theories btw) follows a plot that has very much in common with the 11-09-2001 attacks, or rather, in common with the conspiracy theories that came bubbling out of the abyss that opened, concerning the supposed inside-job conspiracy, RC planes, controlled demolition, the whole and shameful crap&fan commotion that started after 9/11. Anyway, I remember seeing this episode not long after the fact, and it struck me how whoever brought down those NY pillars, they must have seen that episode. Still strikes me as odd.

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

 

Oki, here goes my current idea for the community dividends:

1. Set up a community bank/reserve and fund it (for example with 100 000 FRC). Single address.
2. Create paper wallets of 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 20, 30, 50, 100 FRC. Use the FRC from the community banks single address to fund these.
3. Confirm the identities of participants and create two individual addresses for each 
4. Distribute certain amount of these paper wallets (to be decided) to each registered community member.
5. Allow exchange of these wallets 1/1 to Euro's. Keep these exchanged Euro's as a reserve for common good community project fundings.
6. Create a service / application that can be used to confirm the balance of the paper wallets by scanning the QR code.

So, every month, community members would contribute certain amount (10 FRC for example) to the community bank with the paper wallets (or in Euros). These contributions would be made to one of the individual addresses created in the registration, to keep track of the contributions.
In farmers market and community events, prices would be in FRC's for the community members, but also in Euro's to allow non-community members to buy the goods. The Euro's from these sales would be exchanged to FRC's 1/1 via the community bank (this obviously requires trust in the participants)

There would be weekly or monthly community gatherings, where the current community banks budget would be audited and discussion on common good projects to be supported would be decided. The another individual address would be used to sign/vote on these projects.
 
--- Setting up common good / community projects
For example, a farming project could work something like this:
- A person decided by the community would offer farm land to be used for a community project to produce healthy food. He would oversee the project.
- Other persons sign up to contribute time to support the farming. Be it daily/few times a week/weekly.
- After each workday, the person overseeing the project, would sign with the secondary address, that these persons have indeed contributed towards the project.
When the monthly meeting is held again, the contributions would be checked and if it falls within the lines of the community's contribution requirements, he would be entitled to daily free meals and a housing within the community.
 
Hehe, I bet I missed something and there is some "holes" in this, so, discussion and ideas on this would be much appreciated Nothing is set in stone and the project is still under development ^^

*Edit: Campaign ended 19 Dec successfully! 1.8M raised, 480% of the target! ^^
*Edit2 (1.2.2015): It's available for order again


Posted about the Jolla phone discount a while back, so thought about sharing this one as well ^^ Jolla tablet available for pre-orders at IndieGoGo:
Jolla Tablet - world's first crowdsourced tablet - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/jolla-tablet-world-s-first-crowdsourced-tablet/
 

 

If people want to use directly Freicoins, go on with that.
But I see no use in Euro backed paper wallets...
In a way the perception dollar is very easy to explain, much easier then crypto currencies, just give it in the hand. Beauty speaks for itself
The Ubuntu ideology is also very easy to understand, just participate in creating something together.
You must understand, that participation in an local community is an basic human need. Through society, the current culture, current school system , wearing cloths just to mention some people are just detrained to follow these natural instincts of helping each other.
But back to the topic, here an example how an Freicoin Backed Basic Income could work:
1. Founding
Group up with for example 10 people.
In the beginning and once in a while make an live-stream transmission and invite other nearby groups to share / build trust relationships / verify identities.
Make an group picture of this event and share it online, the more transparent the better.
2. Signing up with Freicoin Word Citizens Network
Get some Freicoins, so that you can take part in getting your basic income for your group.
Give the Freicoins out directly to your members if they want to use it directly (forget paper wallets, use mobile wallets if you want to use Freicoin).
or give them some note instead, that represents one FreicoinDay (see below)
Design your local community backed currency or use one design which is already there.
Back it with Freicoin if you want. For example one of this currency = one FreicoinDay (basic income in Freicoins)
For example lets say each person can get 3.000* Freicoins per month from the basic income network.**
This means 100 Freicoins per day, so an FreicoinDay would equal 100* Freicoins.
Participants can get the Freicoins directly, or an note that represents one FreicoinDay, you can give it also another name(but no paper wallet)
If an participant takes the paper money, the Freicoin Group will hold the Freicoins for him,
The Freicoin Group may lend them without interest to other groups or invest in community projects.
*If the value of Freicoin happen to rise, these number will naturally decrease. So one Freicoin day (also the old ones) would be for example 50 Freicoins if the value of a Freicoin doubled. This means that one Freicoin Day will always be one Freicoin Day, therefore lending and accounting can be done in this more stable unities.
If the value decreases, an Freicoin day would be equal to more Freicoins.
**To get the basic income, with currently 25% matching, the local Freicoin Group must "have" for each person 3000*4 = 12000 Freicoins
Imagine the economy of that. If the Freicoin price rise, people would need to have less Freicoins to back up their Freicoin Days and to get their basic income, so more Freicoins would be available, so the market would become more liquid and balance the price.
Also the other way round. The more the price falls, the more Freicoins are needed to get the full basic income amount and to back the Freicoindays, the less Freicoins would be available on the market, which would balance the price.

Here an important discussion how we want to proceed with the micro loan project:
 
Important questions are:
Do we want to support these with donation matching?
Does that fit the Mission Statement of the Freicoin Foundation?
Do we want to extent it to ethical investments?
 
Please answer in the linked topic below, not in this topic! 
 
http://freicoinalliance.com/topic/79-freicoin-alliance-micro-loan-program-whats-the-next-step/
 
This topic is devoted to Freicoin Alliance related news and announcements! Please respect that! All other stuff will be deleted! 

Hi all,
here a news and announcement topic for the Alliance.
Feel free to post links to important projects / alliance news here!
 
All the good,
Arcurus
 
 
This topic is devoted to Freicoin Alliance related news and announcements! Please respect that!
 
All other stuff will be deleted! 

- Addes some new forums, also added a support thread.
- Moved support threads to the new support forum.

A picture has been leaked that shows who is really behind the Freicoin Alliance from their last Hangout at a unknown location recently.
 
As it's public, we post it here to warn all the members that their faces (and ehm.. bodies) have been exposed to the public.
 
 
 

Woosh! It's all good, read the post you made in the other thread a while back (and have totally forgotten/not had the time to post a sensible reply :F), so a little time off is no wonder ^^ But great to see ye back now buddy!

And yeah, would be cool to see some sketches and ideas, so feel free to post anything related here

I've taken a liking in the Perception Dollar's design which Arcurus shared a link to in other thread, could be something to get some ideas from: http://www.communitycurrency.org/perception.html

Woosh! It's all good, read the post you made in the other thread a while back (and have totally forgotten/not had the time to post a sensible reply :F), so a little time off is no wonder ^^ But great to see ye back now buddy!

And yeah, would be cool to see some sketches and ideas, so feel free to post anything related here

I've taken a liking in the Perception Dollar's design which Arcurus shared a link to in other thread, could be something to get some ideas from: http://www.communitycurrency.org/perception.html

We'd be starting to have use for this soonish (within the end of the year), so I'll offer a bounty getting this done: 5000FRC.

I'd love if the paper wallet would have some kind of forest / lake theme, or other nature orientation. Maybe even have something similar to the coat of arms shown in here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mäntyharju

Would anyone (*wink wink* Prometheus *wink wink*) have the time to design some simple paper wallets for A4 size prints? 
The paper wallet should be foldable, so that the private key is "inside" / not visible until opened. The visible sides should have the public key in its long form, the QR code, the Freicoin logo and an area for the value/amount of coins in the wallet. Maybe the Freicoin Alliance logo as well?

The Freicoin logo can be either the current one, or the new one found in the New Freicoin Logo thread (http://freicoinalliance.com/topic/19-new-freicoin-logo/)

I have been unavailable for quite some time, and didn't read this until now. I'll keep it in mind and see what I can come up with together with Fedde who had some ideas as to how we can make it work application-wise. Sooo wink noted, I'll keep you informed. Should I post sketches here in this thread?

Here is how I would set it up.
 
Aquaponics: Vegetables & Fish
Biodigestor: Fish & Plant Waste 
Solar & Bio Gas Generator: Mining
 
Cold climate waste biogas heat can warm the greenhouse.
 
I suggest you could use the plastic bottle techique of building to make the green house and the digestors
 
Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QF5CRoPI1g
 
I have a certificate as a Greenhouse Technician. Given what I know about simple lean to or hoop houses you could definitely use mining in the mix to help heat the greenhouse as long as you have large enough solar array and bio gas genset.
 
http://www.simgas.com/
http://takamotobiogas.com/
http://www.gvepinternational.org/en/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJSmI-aONio

I like the idea of the perception dollar, but its been hard to get people here in the town to understand even the concept of cryptocurrencies. I've spoken about the Ubuntu ideology.. world without money, barter, value, etc. but people are not ready to accept those ideas yet.
This is a small town, with only less than a hundred people living here. Counting the surrounding towns, the population is maybe around two hundred. And.. the average age is somewhere around 50 I'd guess  Most folks 60+. With only a handful of teenagers (I know only two here this town ), and most of them will likely move to bigger cities when they get the chance :I
In the nearest city, where the townfolks also have to visit for shopping and so on, there's however some more action... would you think it's still worth the while to try to explain and go for the perception dollar?

I was thinking of using Freicoin directly, to promote the technology and idea behind cryptos. So far it has been received well. And via teaching the use of Freicoin, I'd have the chance of having other classes on using computers and mobile devices for everyday life. Only a handful of the older people here have learned how to surf the web. 

Sicanet has created a Cointopay module for opencart. It was made in close work with Cointopay to integrate Freicoin into their web wallet system as Freicoin at this point had no merchant gateway tools and it was needed.
 
Thanks to Christian and his support team at Cointopay and my team of developers in Sicanet we made a fully working payment processor for Freicoin and other supported coins that Cointopay support.
 
Cointopay can also act as exchange from Fiat to Freicoin.
 
With the latest release of Opencart (2.0) we are rewriting the module and preparing a release during the next few days! I might have a suprise for this release
 
For 1.5.6 you can find it here : http://www.sicanet.net
For 2.0.0 : To be announced!
 
Cointopay : https://cointopay.com/
 
Opencart : http://www.opencart.com/
 
Your advantages with Cointopay in a nutshell: Fully functional web wallet Best possible exchange rates Multiple crypto coin trading pairs Real time balance sheet and dashboard Full REAPI Support for your site and application Personal Data encryption for high anonymity function Autonomy mode  

For example
1. create local community / find some local that share your vision
2. create your own local currency like Unity Credit, transition Credit or something.
3. Make sure to what society / world you want make a transition to
4. Get inspired by the perception dollar. The main point is to change the perception.
5. Use local projects / persons where you want bring the awareness to on your currency.
6. Give out 30 of these Transition Credits per month (so one per day.
7. Encourage people that they give some kind of Rabat if they give one of this notes during an purchase
8. Encourage that merchants put a sign with an nice symbol (like an smiling world) on their store and the percentage of their Rabat they give.
9. If you want bag your Transition Credits with Freicoins through using the Freicoin basic income project.
10. Group up with other world wide Transition communities
11. Enjoy Life and have some fun!
[1] http://www.deceptiondollar.com/11andTrillionandPerc/PerceptionDollar1.html

I'm for the citizens dividend / basic income, but wouldnt see the basing of it in dollar value (or any other fiat) to be good in the long run since the crypto markets are driven so greatly by speculation and other greedy actions and fuckery (pardon my french ).

I've been wrecking my brain with this for months and would see the technology needing to mature a bit more before this would be possible in world wide scale  Something like freimarkets/republicoin could allow this to be achieved?
For now, one solution could be to have communities establish common good projects / activities to provide the basic human needs; proper housing and food. Maybe electricity and access to internet on top of that
 
The thing I'm working to establish here in the town is based in the Ubuntu ideals: work towards the communitys benefits few hours a week and be entitled for those needs  
Hmm, I'm too tired to get my thoughts out straight at this point, so will try outline the plan I have so far tomorrow

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

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

No so much a conspiracy as the reality.
 
Here is a really good way to look this food issue.
 
Go to your supermarket and try and shop for things that do not have added sugar.
 
That pretty much cuts out almost 70% of the foods in the supermarket.
 
Then look for slow foods. Foods that are fresh and unfrozen or would require you to prepare the food to eat. 
 
Then look for foods that are from your area.
 
It is pure insanity the food system.
 
Heart disease / Diabetes alone are killing more people every year than anything else.
 
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs312/en/

Key facts Diabetes
347 million people worldwide have diabetes* (1). In 2012, an estimated 1.5 million deaths were directly caused by diabetes (2). More than 80% of diabetes deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries (3). WHO projects that diabetes will be the 7th leading cause of death in 2030 (4). Healthy diet, regular physical activity, maintaining a normal body weight and avoiding tobacco use can prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs317/en/

Key Facts CVD
CVDs are the number one cause of death globally: more people die annually from CVDs than from any other cause (1). An estimated 17.3 million people died from CVDs in 2008, representing 30% of all global deaths(1). Of these deaths, an estimated 7.3 million were due to coronary heart disease and 6.2 million were due to stroke (2). Low- and middle-income countries are disproportionally affected: over 80% of CVD deaths take place in low- and middle-income countries and occur almost equally in men and women (1). The number of people who die from CVDs, mainly from heart disease and stroke, will increase to reach 23.3. million by 2030 (1,3). CVDs are projected to remain the single leading cause of death (3). Most cardiovascular diseases can be prevented by addressing risk factors such as tobacco use, unhealthy diet and obesity, physical inactivity, high blood pressure, diabetes and raised lipids. 9.4 million deaths each year, or 16.5% of all deaths can be attributed to high blood pressure (4). This includes 51% of deaths due to strokes and 45% of deaths due to coronary heart disease (5). ----
 
Personally I have actually gone on a diet that cut out most of this and I have to say it changed my ability to concentrate and think clearly.