Book - Securing Digital Rights for Communities | Chapter 25. Examples of Self-funded Communities

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Chapter 25 is about examples of self-funded communities and initiatives.

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So the Ghana Borehole Project is a great example of this work in real-world application.

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In Ghana, I think it's currently at this time 15 boreholes have been built.

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I think they're going to aim for 17 total.

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And what happened is a local group of people in Ghana realized that this DAO existed, that

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they could get funding from it.

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So they wrote a proposal.

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They do it all by social media content stored permanently on the base layer chain.

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And the community's seen that, certain members of the community have seen that, evaluated

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it, worked with these guys and said, okay, we're happy to try the first one.

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So I think they made $4,000 from the DAO.

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They funded the project.

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The project was then...

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It was then constantly documented on social media so that everyone could see transparently

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where the funding was going.

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That funding was used to build the first borehole and it was very efficient, very well-priced,

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very well-built, and it had a big logo of the chain Hive on the first borehole.

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And so it kind of became a standardized model.

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And then they said, well, let's do another one.

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So they did another one, and another one, and another one, and they've kept doing them

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for the last two years.

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They're on something like borehole 15 now.

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There's a couple of implications to this.

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The first is that there's no string attached to this funding except for the reputation

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of the people who are receiving the funding.

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So the people who receive the funding, they, and I want to give a shout out to Max Salmond

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Collinz on this, they put their reputation on the line and they actually execute these

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projects and they keep receiving more funding because they've got such good reputations

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at this point.

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So that is how this technology works.

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It's reputation-based.

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It's evidence-based.

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You can see it on the social media that's posted.

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You can see the evidence of the projects that are being funded.

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So that's how this technology works.

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And what's it done?

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In Ghana, it's helped tens of thousands of people receive fresh water in the locations

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of their homes rather than having to walk thousands of miles and hundreds of miles to

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get this water.

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It's a big deal, and there's lots of documentary evidence of this project from independent

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parties as well, not just from the guys that built it.

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And it's quite impressive to see, and this couldn't happen with original, the old Web2World

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charities, which are corrupted and the CEOs earn thousands and thousands, hundreds of

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thousands of dollars, none of the money makes it to the actual locations and then it's not

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documented properly when it is.

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In these blockchains and these DAOs projects, the funding mechanism is the content.

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You have to create the content to get the votes from the community to get the funding

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and then eventually to build a reputation so that you can get funding from the DAO,

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bigger funding from the DAO.

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So this is a big deal.

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And I also think that...

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Yeah.

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The more of these types of projects that these chains do, especially in unbanked countries,

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the more support they're going to have because, of course, governments at some point might

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see this as a threat, and instead of working with the communities, they're probably going

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to try and shut them down.

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They'll say, oh, there's terrorist funding going on, even though their own fiat currencies

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are the biggest terrorist funding currencies in the world, and that's very well proven

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over the last many, many, many decades, long before cryptocurrency was ever bought in.

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They're going to say, you know, there's bad content on these chains and things like that.

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But if the chains have been for a long time doing charitable work where they don't gain

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any profit, maybe they gain some attention because the media looks at them, they've got

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the logos on the infrastructure they've built in these countries that need the help.

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That's useful marketing for the blockchains.

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But what it's really doing as well is it's saying, well, if you want to shut us down,

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these people aren't going to get any more water.

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These people aren't going to get any more support for education.

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You've got health care, health checkup and dental checkup programs that are being run

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through these DAOs that governments just couldn't do themselves because the money goes missing.

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So then if you do that enough, you get a wider group of people that are benefiting from these

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DAOs that weren't benefiting from the old system.

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And then if the government tries to shut the DAOs down, you're going to get pushback from

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those people.

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They're going to say, hey, my dental care, my health care, my access to water has been

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taken away here.

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You know, these are big, big deals.

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And yeah, I think that's a very smart way to fund these projects and sustain them and

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make them legitimate.

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So they have some legitimacy.

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They have support in large numbers in via charitable projects that they've built.

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There's also evidence in Venezuela that there's been a project called SWC.

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It's a street acrobat group that's slowly growing.

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That's been funded by the Hive DAO.

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And, you know, it's a big project.

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It's a big project.

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It's helping a lot of disadvantaged people to access their sport and demonstrate it.

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And then fund them, put logos on their T-shirts and go do their acrobatics at shows and then

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market the chain.

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And so there's a big sort of grassroots movement in Venezuela for that.

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There's people using the currencies to pay their utility bills directly in Cuba and Mexico.

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So they can mine this currency from creating content on the chains.

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And then they can directly pay their utility bills at the point of payment via digital

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payment.

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So basically the transfer happens at the last moment.

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And they pay in the local currency.

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But there's people doing the transfer mechanisms to pay the utility bills.

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And there's systems and services set up where you can pay your bills in these currencies

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that you mined outside the banking system and you pay outside the banking system.

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It's very, very powerful stuff.

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Very, very powerful stuff.

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And the implications of all of this in the future are immense to society.

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And yeah, looking forward to seeing this all roll out and seeing what happens.

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The thing that I know for sure is that the system that we thought was going to happen,

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you know, there's a lot of propaganda about what's going to happen between 2010 and 2024

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about what type of economy we're going to have going forwards.

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What we've outlined in this book and what we've outlined in this series and in the last

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couple of chapters show that the economy of the CBDC, the economy of shutting down your

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account if we don't like what you say, the economy of people losing their sovereignty

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and control mechanisms that were trying to be put into place are going to fail.

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And I don't really know exactly what the future looks like, but I know it doesn't look like that.

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These tools, these freedom tools that we've described in this book and many others in

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various different projects across the world ensure that that's not going to happen.

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And we're going to have a lot more sovereignty of our accounts, of our transfer of value,

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a lot more sovereignty between our communications.

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The businesses that we build, how we fund those communities, the economies that we build

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around those communities, the social media that we have access to, how we tailor that

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for ourselves.

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The communities that we build and the governance models that we build into those communities

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will also be tailored to our own tastes.

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So it's going to create a lot more competition, a lot more access to tools to do interesting

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things.

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And hopefully, you know, humanity being generally good, we'll use those tools in good ways to

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produce really good results.

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Freer, better lives, better funded, more value distribution for people doing valuable

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things in the future.

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Make the world a better place, hopefully.

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All right.

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That's the end of the book.

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All right.

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Final chapter.

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Some examples of some self-funded communities and initiatives and some other examples of

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communities that are kind of burgeoning in this industry and starting to grow.

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So I guess the first one is the Ghana borehole projects.

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And this is where, this is a grassroots project.

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There's been no external influence on this.

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This is a couple of guys in Ghana who are members of the Hive community.

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They don't have to be Hive community members, but as long as they're using decentralized

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technology, this works.

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The context is that the Ghanaian government hasn't managed to...

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pipe water to everyone in the country for various reasons we don't need to go into.

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This is a case across the world.

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There's various governments that end up not fulfilling all of their obligations, let's

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say, or not managing to pipe services out to community members or their whole state.

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So there's large areas of Ghana that don't have water and people have to walk for water.

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Long, long kilometers.

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So the Ghana borehole project was a couple of guys that basically said, hey, we're going

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to use this.

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We're going to use this.

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We're going to use this.

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We're going to use this.

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And they said, hey, we could use the decentralized DAO, build water wells in the local vicinity

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of these communities, and put the logo of the DAO on those communities, on those water

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wells.

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And it's kind of like a nice deal.

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So they priced it up.

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They built reputation.

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They built trust in the community.

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And then they priced up the project for the first one, asked for the money.

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The community decided to vote to take a shot on them.

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Well, there was actually a fund that was bought.

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I'm sorry.

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that was funded by the community to do small projects like this and that fund then used some

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of their money to provide the funding to build this first water well and it went down beautifully

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and because it's a tech space layer that's been built on it was all documented every phase every

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step of the construction and the the source and the materials and everything and the spending of

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the money was documented in content on the chain there forever so it was a really cool example of

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what this system can do the the system basically created the money out of thin air to create um

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the liquidity for this um for this water well and boom they sourced they sent the money across

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it was accountable every part of it was accountable every part it was blogged and

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they created water wells and now they're on like water well number 15. it's really good for Hive

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because it's good um good publicity and of course there's more and more publicity going it looks

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we may have some large influences in the crypto world going across to there

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and this whole thing's just yeah it's just really cool example of how these

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communities can sell fun now and hold themselves accountable on the chain

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instead of having to rely on charities distributing money to different to different projects and their

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ceos taking large salaries and then you know we all know that about two percent of the money makes

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it out to the actual location where the charitable work's being done this is the other way around

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and it's documented and it's actually been built um so yeah really cool

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cool projects and the other thing as well that it does that's important is it provides uh

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I don't like the word philanthropic tropical but it provides a kind of charitable arm to

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these blockchains where they can do good in communities where governments and other

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corporations have failed they can actually do good and they can onboard masses of people

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and if the

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these chains are attacked by governments then the water supply won't spread in the way that

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people are expecting it to so it's a way to secure the chain as well by distributing money into

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benevolent projects for people that weren't able to help themselves initially

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and the other thing as well just a side story on this is that unlike bullhole number eight or nine

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I think um there were two tribes that were warring against each other and fighting against each other

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and the guy responsible for this project mc sam he was a ghanaian realized that he could tell these

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two tribes to stop fighting each other and then they would get water and they they signed a pact

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apparently I don't know exactly what the process was but they decided to stop fighting each other

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and now they have water and they share the water amongst each other as far as I understand

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so that's a big deal like this is a real long rift between two warring tribes so

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just great example great example of how this technology can do good in the world

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um where where other centralized corrupt entities weren't able to that's the first example I don't

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know if you want to say anything else on the ghanaian project then we covered it well we go um

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I mean basically have a way to crowdfund a way to have neutral funding so there's no business

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model so you can actually do good without expecting some kind of return um public goods

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and um this is a big part of where

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a lot of governments have failed you have everything from schools

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you know infrastructure like parks funding of extra curricular activities

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and beyond so this technology can go and you can document the process and then documenting

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the process it becomes valuable in itself so it's a nice positive feedback loop where you say okay

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we fund a water borehole and we document it and that's valuable because philanthropy people like to

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donate to people so if you could document easy ways to do it and everyone can get involved and

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more important that you know it's transparent it's going to where it's supposed to go

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I think it's very powerful tool

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yeah so this also ended up resulting in a health check system so I've seen dental checks in ghana

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I've seen health checkups in ghana where the same group of people who are now trusted and reputed on

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the chain have been able to get access more funds and have queues of hundreds and hundreds of people

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getting health checks and dental checks done all funded by the chain

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all with the chain's logo in the background there and all filmed and everything so that's just

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just great example of how this technology can be used for good it can be used to also secure

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the chain because people benefit from it if people benefit from it they're more likely to use it

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and more likely to defend it they're more likely to defend it right and it's harder

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to bastardize it's harder to make it look evil when you have this documented trail of doing good

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of history that can't be deleted right yeah so it yeah it's just it just shows you what naturally

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happens when like you give a group of people a community that's distributed power what they

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choose to do with it instead of like helping and putting it all in one person's pocket they choose

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to help people that need it because you know people are good people and you know people are

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naturally good they want to do good they want to help um you know they can't necessarily always

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get the shirt off their back but if they can contribute in some way in the next couple of years

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feel like their contributions being matched by a community you get things like the borehole you get

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a lot of things um a lot of powerful instances you know we call it taxation um but we don't know

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where it goes and the roads are still shitty and they keep raising it and you know it's like it's

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a different type of voluntary um it's like yeah this makes sense let's vote on it sort of thing

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all these things happening you know help communities rising where

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centralized organizations could not it's very powerful

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yep um another thing to be mentioned is the some of the work has been done in venezuela there's um

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street acrobatics parks that have been built there where street acrobatics communities are

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able to come and congregate around and do their competitions funded by Hive and the blockchain

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in the blockchain um whitener and more Maori have sheafers on the blockchain while the logos on

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their t-shirts the logos on the parks so that's another social good project there's been other

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projects in venezuela done where

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schools have been funded schools for disadvantaged children have been funded

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and as plenty of documented evidence of this on the blockchain

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again when this money goes there people don't feel like it's being extracted from the chain because

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they can see transparently how it's used and how the projects grow

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thing in cuba and to some extent in mexico but mostly in cuba there's a project where

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you're able to send Hive to a service that allows you to pay your utility bill

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in cuba and of course because these countries have got slightly lower cost of living the utility

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bills are much lower in a place like cuba so they can get you know they can do a few blogs a month

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get a few votes mine a little bit of crypto from the chain which distributes the token around the

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chain and then they can take some of that and spend it on paying their utility bills

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you know I mean that's it's a big deal it's a big deal in a country like cuba

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um so yeah shout out to the people running those projects they're all transparent public projects

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that can be demonstrated they're kind of corruption resistant because they're transparent

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on the blockchain um yeah

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very very good I know if you want to make a comment on a couple of those done and we'll

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just finish off by talking about some bigger projects that are starting to accumulate around

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the chain yeah it just has taken up places where it's needed the most um as expected

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you're seeing the gaps being filled and it can do a lot more just fill gaps you can build

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foundations on top as well these people built reputations so once you have reputable people

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across the world that you can trust with funds to do public goods that's where you know that's

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what governments are basically supposed to be um then they can get involved and it can actually

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help because I don't think governments are bad people they just think that we're at a time where

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there's too many people where the technology hasn't met up they're still using archaic ways

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that allow for corruption when it's not needed

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you know there's there's ways to eliminate the corruption

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and anyone who's against that is obviously corrupt so um

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yeah yeah and then just lastly to touch on here some other communities and

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other ways this is going to develop right we've talked about

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community platforms where they're going to have their own immutable communities with

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their own tokens these communities are going to grow there's a few burgeoning examples of

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this at the moment you have communities like LEO finance they have their own platform with their

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own token you have communities like vibes high vibes as a music competition and they are um

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like growing and using the chain to to create attention around the chain and reward the people

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that take part in the music competition eventually that will spin off into its own platform probably

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have its own token

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and we've had a Hive rally community for a long time

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there's a community called spend hbd which is rewarding people for spending the stable coin

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so this is this is what gets crazy about this technology because there's no middleman there's

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no entity behind the the ecosystem all of the value gets returned back to the users

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and you get a community that actually rewards it votes people for blogging about the fact that

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they're spending the currency on the chain so as people spend say two three four dollars on a coffee

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and they're getting voted up to twenty thirty forty dollars sometimes so actually making money

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from spending so you can have you can have this kind of incentivized spending mechanism that's

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going to go on we think that's going to play a very very big part in the future distribution of

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this currency so there's a whole community around spending the currency and mining more rewards

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because they're spending and demonstrating the fact that the thing can be spent it's good publicity

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any other communities you can think of done that are important like Splinterlands the game there's a

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whole gaming ecosystem cropping up um they have a very strong community their own tokenomic system

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their own blogging platforms all based on the Hive Blockchain makers look at what nft projects

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are trying to do as well I mean communities are trying to basic the very first part of having

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community is recognizing who is in the community and then having parameters for who can and can't

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get into the community and then from there you have different types of communities so right now

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we have a very primitive version what you see on you know it's all spread out you have the nft and

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they commute on communicate on twitter and um you just you know you just have two things that could

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be combined where you have the nfp nft is a part of the platform and the infrastructure is run by

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the community not a centralized organization but you see the need for communities to recognize

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each other

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and we saw how expensive these things got because people want to be recognized within communities

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and I think you know the whole social nft good is going to be a big deal people want to be

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recognized for doing good you monetize that you know you monetize having a badge saying hey look

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I'm a badass I've done a lot of work to help the community people were recognized so I think things

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like that make communities very sustainable because it's like hey I don't need to be paid to

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I actually rather store for free so I can earn this badge and that's when things get very

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powerful yeah yeah that's a good point I mean if you for example if you already hold an nft in an

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existing community outside the Hive ecosystem so in in a bitcoin community in an ordinal or

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an ethereum nft or a solana nft if you hold those things these systems are going to be

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easily able to drop social tokens to you and give you a social platform as a community and then that

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will kick start that community being able to have its own method of communication voting

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distribution of value there may be cases where the social token drops excludes the pre-mine

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if the pre-mines are too influential in the ecosystem thus freeing the normal users from

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the clutches of the pro-regulation vcs that often control massive stakes in these chains

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and centralize them this could be a way to decentralize the chain

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to centralize the ecosystem certainly to decentralize the voting and the

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communication on these chains so very interesting projects coming up

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and the potential for for mass scaling is is tremendous so I'm going to leave it at that

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I've got nothing else to say we hope you enjoyed the book one other thing I do want to say is if

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you know anyone who wants to help us write this if you know anyone that wants to help us make

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this better maybe we've made some mistakes in here we're not perfect um we're we're open to

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people helping us out pitching in it's an open source book we don't plan to make any money off

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this it will be put online for free for everyone to get access to this knowledge and understanding

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of how to build decentralized systems how to maintain them and how to turn them into network

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states eventually so yeah that's all