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Maybe take a look at Proof of Humanity? proofofhumanity.id. Real world problem (poverty) being tackled by crypto via a DAO. Very early days yet, but fascinating
by jaggs 5y ago
Maybe take a look at Proof of Humanity? proofofhumanity.id. Real world problem (poverty) being tackled by crypto via a DAO. Very early days yet, but fascinating to watch as it evolves.
- yunohn 5y ago“Proof of Humanity, a system combining webs of trust, with reverse Turing tests, and dispute resolution to create a sybil-proof list of humans.” This is their mission, and the rest of the website focuses on ID and such services. Not one mention of poverty alleviation.
- NiloCK 5y agoThe connection here is that sybil-proofing is a (the?) major bottleneck to cryptoeconomic UBI schemes.
- yunohn 5y agoThat’s like saying SSN (or other gov issued ID) solves poverty.
- NiloCK 5y agoSome people believe that government issued ID in conjunction with a government that implemented a UBI scheme would indeed improve poverty. Andrew Yang wrote a reasonable book about the idea. sybil-proofing in blockchain systems opens the possibility for any person or community to take a shot at implementing UBI. Could someone succeed in creating a token that retains some level of value long term and also consistently tops up at some rate in everyone's wallet? Beats me. But sybil-proofing is absolutely blocking issue on that front.
- lottin 5y agoAre you serious?
- TigeriusKirk 5y agoYes.
- NiloCK 5y agoI am serious that it is straightforward to create a token where everyone on earth gets X/day in a sybil proof system. Making this token retain some sort of value is of course an entirely different problem, and I don't have strong opinions on whether someone might pull it off.