I’m working on this and several other complimentary projects. One of them will include our entire community here, which will be fun and interesting for all involved. It will also help to amplify our collective voice. As soon as I’m ready, I will present here with a request for comments. Stay tuned. . . .
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ADALove- Choskins recently answered the “how to defeat large banks over time question” in this video https://youtu.be/DKCSSZXm9ac (fast forward to minute 54–59)
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Thank you for the link. I’m not yet sure how I feel about his approach. I understand his rationale for wanting to take a safe and slow path under the radar in Africa and the developing world first. However, it will be difficult to suppress the enormous emotional outpouring that every conscious human in the developed world, too, should experience when they have the epiphany of what Cardano represents for humanity.
Additionally, as much as I would prefer to avoid harassment from the state, we’re running out of time. The rapid evolution and convergence of artificial intelligence, micro-drones, the IoT, capital controls, generational debt prison, and the collusion between state and corporate interests to suppress all liberty-enhancing projects will soon make it virtually impossible to escape the ubiquitous surveillance state that many governments are relentlessly building today.
If we don’t escape before the great convergence, humanity may never be able to escape. That’s a difficult reality to ignore and it’s one of the most compelling reasons to build support for our community ASAP. It’s a moot issue now because nobody outside the core team has any influence over the roadmap, but when we have the ability to vote with our stake, it will become an interesting debate over time.
Anybody who feels a societal sense of urgency will rationally want to bring freedom to all ADA stakeholders before AI+IoT+ubiquitous surveillance+corporate/state dominance is too powerful to evade or escape.
I guess we’ll take it one day at a time.
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“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” - George Orwell.
One day at a time…
Some thoughts:
I think it’s the right approach to prove that the system actually works. If it works and is accepted in Somalia, then from a technical point of view it will work everywhere (I don’t say that in a prejudiced way, when I visited Somalia in 2007, it was said that Somalia had one of the best mobile phone networks in Africa… If it is used and accepted in Somalia, then the system is good). If it can be scaled to a significant part of the global population and work well, then that is a proof that from an organisational point of view it works. This is important to gain credibility. There are a number of issues linked to only betting on this horse though: the key ones I see are that the intent to take on the status quo is clear (and made public) and that the time, effort and energy it will take to roll this out will be important. The banksters know the intention, and have the time to analyse and prepare their counter-attack, which, if the Cardano team is up to their ears in rolling out and solving operational issues in Africa/ Asia/ Latin America, will be difficult to meet. Getting 3 billion persons as back-up is not going to do it when Cardano would be attacked.
I understand Charles point that he doesn’t want to make himself too obvious a target. But he already is to some extent.
Therefore an approach needs to be taken that will take him off the hook, and Cardano itself out of the cross-hairs (to the extent possible). I agree with ADALove that there needs to be a parallel movement that simultaneously raises the awareness around Cardano (maybe I interpret here, this is what I read).
For reasons already mentioned elsewhere I’d advocate to make this movement as wide as possible, I don’t think this should be exclusively about Cardano. Present them with many targets. Cardano, if it starts to become a threat, is easy to take out. A platform of many blockchains, civil society organisations (e.g. human rights, development, environmental orgs), important business partners, research centres, government champions and with known, credible and trusted advocates and 3 million unbanked who have become banked much less so. It has to become a movement, with a clear vision around what the blockchain technology could achieve for society, and that develops a multi-pronged approach to take this vision forward. Such a movement needs to start somewhere, it could start ‘from Cardano’, but I think that it shouldn’t stay there.
I have proposed to several humanitarian organisations I have worked with in the past to do some work on what the blockchain could potentially do for them and for the persons they work with (the more who are on board, the better), but no real interest up to now… I think we’re still too early…
I also feel that there is an urgency to get this movement rolling if this is to fly.
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