Charles On National Identity And Conflation with "The Mark of the Beast"

[johnshearing]

Greetings All,

The video below is queued up to the location where Charles discusses how some people object to national identity because it triggers their notion about “The Mark of the Beast” .

Secure Voting in US Elections

This comes from Revelation 13:17

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

From reading the scripture, it appears to me that national identity has nothing to do with “The Mark of the Beast” unless national identity is tied to some means of controlling what citizens can buy or sell. So if national identity is tied to a CDBC where a centralized authority can turn off one’s money at the individual level, then there is complete and precise control of the population. This is what I believe scripture is referring to.

This is the very reason that I work everyday to increase the use and utility of decentralized transparent public currency like Cardano. After reading Revelation I have come to believe that decentralized transparent public currency like Cardano is part of God’s plan to save all of us. I feel like the other parts still required are blockchain enabled decentralized social media, blockchain enabled decentralized sovereign identity, and blockchain enabled decentralized voting systems. I have made my case about why I believe this is so in the following Cardano Forum post.

Bioelectocracy: Better Governance Based On Morphogenesis

Greetings all, You may remember a previous article I wrote, Beemocracy, which abstracted Tom Seeley’s work on governance in the honey bee colony and applied it to human governance. By way of continuing to ask what nature has to tell us about about human governance, we now have Bioelectocracy which is governance based on Michael Levin, Benjamin Lyons, and Charles Hoskinson’s work comparing bioelectric circuits found in morphogenesis to the price system in human economies where both act as the c…

I will spare you all the long read by telling you the conclusion: God’s Great Commandment - “Love thy neighbor as thyself”, is incentivized when money and markets are unmanipulated. And it appears to me that using blockchain enabled decentralized social media, blockchain enabled decentralized sovereign identity, and blockchain enabled decentralized voting systems along with the benefits of using blockchain for decentralized finance will make it very difficult to manipulate markets and money.

So while Charles made a video showing how difficult it is to put voting on the blockchain, I feel that this may well be part of God’s plan to defeat Satan and bring Heaven here to Earth.

Charles points out that perhaps the most difficult part of building a decentralized voting system is registration of voters and sovereign identity. This is the part of the problem I focus on most days. I have a novel approach which I first posted about here a year ago. Below is that post:

A.i. Classifiers: Zero Knowledge Proofs: Without Zero Knowledge Cryptography

Portable a.i witness attests to humanity, membership, ownership and status without leaking identity or personal data. Problem Statement: Without Revealing Your Identity or biometric data, Prove You Are Human, That You Have The Right To Vote In A Given Jurisdiction, And That You Have Not Yet Cast Your Ballot, Background: The last job I had before retiring was chief controls tech at a robotic sort center. My only job was to keep everything running but I got bored and built an a.i. system t…

Soon I will post again to bring you all up-to-date on the progress.
One thing I will say here is that I recently learned how to use a.i. LLMs along with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). This is really speeding up the work. RAG allows the a.i. to become expert in specific information on one’s local computer without the need to retrain or fine tune the LLM. This advantage allows me to progress quickly on projects that before I wouldn’t even attempt.

So while the challenge is difficult, it is getting much easier to do the work. And if one community member can make some progress then imagine the kind of progress well connected, well funded, and highly educated community members can make. I think the community needs to make large scale election systems a top priority.

I would like to end this post by sharing a video (produced by Sapien) which contemplates God and Nature’s influence on Cardano.

Did God Code Blockchain?

[johnshearing]

Charles clearly understands about the beast and what kind of hell the Cardano community stands against, and moreover, what kind of heaven we are pulling toward.

Wendy O

This is why I don’t care about “number go up”.
Call it Satan, The Beast, or the Central Banks. It’s all the same.
We are literally fighting for the freedom of all humanity.
If we lose our freedom, nothing else matters.
Our most powerful weapon is prayer.
I hope you will all join me in praying for the success of our project.

[COSDpool]

In portfolio balances this year and going forward, I’m going to consider viability after a catastrophic (though likely engineered) failure of worldwide financial / monetary / political / energy systems in assessing coins’ value for long-term holding.

This is a qualitative characteristic (likely determining selection into a short list) because under these conditions a quantitative value comparison would mean very little… at least until a hoped-for rationalisation of customary values of goods, services, and property according to memories of what fiat currencies used to buy, perhaps a couple of years after that crash… or never, according to traditional notions of apocalypse.

I think it makes no sense to accumulate e.g. Bitcoin which can’t even host your transactions without abundantly available electricity — or e.g. Solana whose validators will walk away once their specialised, elite-provisioned machines aren’t worth anything to the big financial players anymore — beyond short-term speculation while status quo economic conditions provide leverage in asset accumulation before that inevitable global crash.

It’s my understanding based on long term exposure to many parts of the Cardano ecosystem at different scales — with operations knowledge of how they’d be affected by energy- and Internet-adverse conditions (as well as government repression) — that the Cardano mainnet would be one that could keep going on a shoestring of PoS operators who would never give up: supported by technical specialists who would help us adapt to any catastrophic conditions.

If anyone wants to point out better choices than ada for an “apocalypse” crypto, and Cardano for an “apocalypse” blockchain, I certainly won’t feel bad and would welcome any additional candidates for an “apocalypse” crypto portfolio.