Gm Brussels #regenwalk

Let me contribute. Civilizations eventually die under the weight of their own administration. We become so fearful of any abuse, that we end up adding more and more regulations, and new administrations to control their application. Today, our technical debt —or admin debt— is so big that we have an army of people, paid by our tax money, not to create value but to get in the way of the people who try to. The first person we had to hire for the @commonshub_bxl is someone who ends up spending half her time doing admin. It’s crazy. Then we also pay an external person to do the accounting. And now someone else, at the administration, is paid to verify that we did it all properly. One economic transaction, 3 people paid to ensure proper reporting. Crazy. The only way out: open source everything. Instead of putting the burden on entrepreneurs, put the burden on the community. That’s how the Internet grew. eBay, YouTube’s biggest realization was the idea that you should let anyone share. Every friction point should be removed. Instead, enable the community to flag bad behaviors and abuse. Trust by default and empower the community to quickly react whenever needed. What if our administration would work the same way? Contributing to society, to the community should be as easy as contributing to Wikipedia. Let people opt in to start an open source organization. All financial transactions would be open for everyone to see. In exchange, the administration stays out of your way. No paperwork, no reporting. They just send the bill for paying your fair share (also in a transparent way for everyone to see). I’m not intro entrepreneurship to become rich. I don’t have a car, I stopped flying, I don’t need much. I just want to solve problems, create value, contribute. Let me contribute.

Gm. #regenwalk

Bitcoin is the sun ☀️ Ethereum is the mycelium 🍄

Gm 👋 Getaway week outside of Brussels to focus on work. Can’t recommend this place enough. And they accept bitcoin. 👉

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Xavier Damman

I have an idea for a small project to get the opportunity to work together (if you are up for it)

I did this side project a few years ago ...

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🇺🇸 US: Yang 🇪🇺 EU: Yin Yang needs to protect the Yin. Yin needs to respect the Yang. Will the US let another Yang (Russia) penetrate the Yin? Will the EU divorce from the US? The same natural polarities play out at all levels. ☯️

What do Nostrers think of this? https://paragraph.xyz/@xmtp_community/xmtp-launches-testnet-building-the-worlds-most-secure-decentralized-messaging-network

Gm La Rosière

Holidays are starting. On our way to the Alpes ⛷️

Gm Brussels

My mission: make communities the new base economic unit with their own yin & yang internal economy ☯️ What is your mission?

Is there a long form nostr client yet? This could be a great replacement for RSS and the new Gemini:// protocol.

Gm Brussels

Gm Brussels

I consider myself a liberal. I’m an entrepreneur. I believe we should have the freedom to start new businesses. But I also consider myself as a leftist as I believe in solidarity. I don’t see those things as being incompatible. They are two different things in different planes of a multidimensional world. We are all different, we all have a different talent. Therefore we cannot possibly all have the same opportunity to “make a living” in a single currency, single dimension economic system. That’s why we are interdependent. That’s why we need solidarity within our communities. But in the current political landscape, how can you be supporting the left? They are in such disarray and there is no light in sight. The only thing that unites them is being against Elon and Donald. That’s not really inspiring. When they point at the moon, they look at their fingers. It’s so sad. I wish there would be a progressive wing in the political landscape, one that will defend diversity, permaculture, and technological progress. When a solarpunk political movement? ☀️ 🌳 🚲 🌻 🚀

Poem of the day. Words Are Windows (or They’re Walls) by Ruth Bebermeyer

Train time. Great time.

Here is my thinking for @Open Collective V3. Please poke holes in it. Work in progress and open for feedback. #asknostr 🚀 Mission Give communities the tools they need to manage their financial and non-financial resources transparently and effectively. 🤔 Why? We need an Internet native way to organize ourselves (i.e. allocate our common resources) that would embody the open source values of transparency, decentralization and open collaboration. 🧐 Why? Look at the impact of open source in the past few decades. What if organizations were operating by the same principles? What if we could complete each other instead of competing with each other? 🥇 First use case Make spending transparent—show how the funds that you receive from the community are used. Eventually, we want to support more than just financial contributions. We should help communities to: - Issue and manage different currencies (tokens) to reward people contributing in other ways. - Make it easy to spend those tokens to access certain resources of the community. - Transparent decision making (think GitHub Issues for proposals) 🎯 Initial target group I was thinking to first target open source projects on Gitcoin. But Nostr projects and meetups could also be good candidates if there is a demand. I’d just need help to support lightning ⚡️ Eventually: any association of people with a common resource to develop or protect 👠🔅💪 📦 MVP - Make on chain transactions human readable by adding metadata (description, tags, pictures, …) using Nostr. - Connect existing bank accounts to the blockchain (to have an on chain reference for each tx) using PSD2, Ponto, Plaid, … Imagine if all government spendings were on chain with open annotations. DOGE wouldn’t be needed. 💕 Values - open source - decentralized 🎞️ Context / background: I started opencollective.com 10 years ago. While impactful ($130M raised across 4k+ collectives, including $50M for open source projects), it’s still a drop in the ocean. Current implementation doesn’t scale because it relies on fiscal hosts. Too much bureaucracy. So we moved the current version to a new entity owned by existing fiscal hosts that rely on it. I’m starting a new Internet native version to scratch my own itch to manage the @Commons Hub Brussels. It’s a common physical space in the capital of Europe that many of you have visited during the Nostr Meetup alongside #FOSDEM. We receive money through Stripe, SEPA, but also crypto (including satoshis to commonshub@coinos.io). We also have our own “yin token” to reward non financial contributions to the community ☯️ 🙋🏻‍♂️ Who wants to help? Looking for developers that are themselves part of a community that could make use of it. Scratching your own itch is the best way to iterate fast 🔁