On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 03:24:17AM +0000, jim bell wrote: > [Jim Bell's note: I cannot find the name of the person who wrote this.] > https://lbry.tv/@DigitalCashNetwork:c/activism:b?r=Gd7GBo8adnW7dSEBDc2pPP8Ytw9Rw3L9 > The Next Killer Crypto App: Decentralized Monetized Organizing > "At the start of 2015, inspired by the Bitcoin revolution, I started an > activism project called the Rights Brigade where I organized various > pro-freedom activities across the state of New Hampshire, compensated by > Bitcoin donations. Our highlight was informing jurors of their right to > nullify bad laws, to the tune of many thousands informed at 10 of the 11 > courthouses in the state, some days with five simultaneous operations around > the state involving dozens of activists. I ran into some organizational > headaches, most notably in the difficulty of sending payments to long ugly > cryptographic hashes and the lack of decentralized recurring payments. When I > heard Dash was working on exactly these things, I put the activism on hold > and went on to work full-time towards the advancement of these crypto > technologies. Now, in 2020, we're much closer to solving these organizing > pain points, but we're still not quite there. > > "Seeing what one guy alone could do five years ago with almost no budget and > some really inferior tools at his disposal, I can easily see just how > powerful for the world a streamlined, all-in-one, monetized, decentralized > organizing app would be. To say that it could change the world would be a > massive understatement. Here's what we need, what the perfect solution would > look like, and where we stand now. > > "What's "Organizing"? > > > > "What I mean by "organizing" is, essentially, collaborating, communicating, > sharing resources, and executing plans of action. Basically, any situation > where a bunch of people are trying to get stuff done on a voluntary and > collaborative basis (i.e. they aren't on the payroll of a company or other > entity that can simply tell them what to do). Here's a few of the key tools > needed to make this sort of thing happen. > [end of partial quote] > Jim Bell's comments follow: Maybe this could be described (in part) as > "paid-flash-mobs"? I suspect there was a lot of much-less technologically > advanced activity going on in the "Occupy Wall Street" and other protests.
Letting folks know of their right to nullify bad laws is awesome! I hope they included handing out some William Penn snippets. Freedom has a price ...
