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brianostrander 7 months ago
Who can stop the unstoppable “United States” dollar from purchasing weapons governments use to make it rain kids? Perhaps representative, open-source, decentralized currency printers can lead to regenerative greenhouses instead?
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brianostrander 7 months ago
Can toddlers understand the dangers of central bank monopolies by giving only a few kids an unlimited amount of candy, not requiring them to share, and allowing the teacher to take payment in candy? Every day? For over a century?
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brianostrander 7 months ago
Does the value of a central bank come from private supply controllers or the abundant, delicious, nutritious, wild, heirloom, ancient, heritage, and ancestral food you can easily find and afford?
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brianostrander 7 months ago
Can open-source decentralized governance automatically alert victims of surveillance abuse and allow those who perpetuate it to face legal repercussions? In systems developed under central banking, could this become modified to omit abuse? Can open-source decentralized systems securely prevent these types of modifications?
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brianostrander 7 months ago
Could replacing central banks with open-source, decentralized Web3 tools act as an Achilles heel to systems that harm people at scale?
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brianostrander 7 months ago
Could a global government turn authoritarian? If so, who will help with food?
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brianostrander 8 months ago
Potentially Install Freedom Anywhere! If you install the following anywhere, you might have freedom and could potentially copy and paste it anywhere: 1. Indoor (unless secure and healthy airspace is available), organic, sustainable, and regenerative farming of wild, heirloom, ancient, heritage, and ancestral food, available to everyone. 2. Permanently (not currently or possibly) finite digital assets for savings. 3. A small percentage of all transactions sent to all citizens automatically. 4. Humane punishment and rehabilitation over harm. 5. Open-source decentralized 100% publicly verifiable voting system with digital ballot access and unlimited neutral internet access provided to all. A growing number of people believe our problems stem mostly from the nonrepresentational creation of money. Solutions may be relatively simple. Life finds a way.
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brianostrander 8 months ago
Could the first country to secure bitcoin storage for the public rapidly become the richest country in the world?
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brianostrander 8 months ago
Law enforcement's support of the BIS may be a significant misstep in human history.
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brianostrander 8 months ago
Could inappropriately designed central banks result in global authoritarianism?
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brianostrander 8 months ago
Imagine 20% of your family photos were automatically deleted every year. We don't allow this in information technology. Why does law enforcement allow the BIS to do this to their money?
Freedom Plan (Potentially) By focusing on four relatively simple areas, a community can potentially become free: 1. Food There are many things the human species can get wrong over the next 1000 years, but food extinction is not one. ~400,000 years ago, humans had wild ancestral food. ~15,000 years ago, we began to cross-breed domestic food to our tastes. ~100 years ago, we began to modify our food genetically. A significant portion of food sold is genetically modified. GMO food can contaminate wild, heirloom, ancient, heritage, and ancestral food by being close to it. This can potentially lead to unintended consequences, such as you starving. Organic, humane, sustainable, and regenerative farming can strengthen communities. Protecting people's access to wild, heirloom, ancient, heritage, and ancestral food is relatively simple and inexpensive compared to the long-term benefits it provides. 2. Money Savings By using permanently (not currently or possibly) finite digital assets, savings can go up in value over time. This gives the community the ability to plan, grow strong, and survive. Basic Income Automation will continue to replace workers exponentially. By offering 1% of transactions to all citizens (who don’t opt out) as a small experiment, and aiming to lower the cost of living, communities can grow stronger. It is significant to note that you do not want to print currency to provide a basic income, as that could cripple future generations with inescapable debt. 3. Rehabilitation Over Punishment Rehabilitation over punishment can help people to stop hurting others. When combined with a livable basic income, it can also help people to stop hurting others for money. 4. Voting In a new voting initiative, your town decides to build open-source voting machines because they are more accurate, verifiable, and secure. They also digitized ballot access, provide identification cards and documents instantly at voting locations, and provide unlimited internet access to the public so they can access education and political information. They use the latest standards for high-security open-source hardware and software. The entire supply chain is recorded by blockchain and video and is fully accessible to the public. This includes creation, installation, physical transfers, setup, multiple inspections, and breakdowns. Each voting machine uses instant-runoff, ranked-choice algorithms. The population is 1,000,000, so they put the appropriate number of sats (or the smallest unit of an open-source asset with a public ledger) into local “Unused Votes” wallets on each machine. The machines do not include touchscreens, behavioral biometrics, timestamps, or anything that could potentially identify the voter. They do not have Bluetooth or Wi-Fi capability. At midnight, each machine connects to the network via cable and transfers the sats (or units) to candidate wallets to ensure a publicly verifiable vote. The open-source documentation is now available to everyone and can potentially strengthen other communities too.