We're all unsatisfied with government, with capitalism, with how much struggling there is in the world. Even if you're doing well personally, the guilt of inequality is inescapable.
Our collective decision-making ability in the US has been entrusted to a very small group of very old people. The size of the House of Representatives hasn't increased in over a hundred years, unlike the population correlation prescribed in the Federalist Paper #55. Having more representatives would enable the development of better policy.
There's no reason we have to stop our dream of progress in 1788 though. Do I have to remind you that we have better technology for communication now? We can come up with something better than 535 people meeting in a centralized location to debate face-to-face for a few months per year.
Proof of Personhood will allow us to begin chipping away at the roles filled by government. We will be able to implement voting and progressive taxation. Government should be leading in offering proof of personhood smart contracts because they already do so much tracking of our identities.
Ideally, instead of coinpassport, you would go to your country's website and be able to attach Ethereum addresses to your identity and/or obtain identity attestations signed by known keys.
Even before voting, there's the amassing of verified accounts as a union for action. By verifying an account as your one and only, then joining a discussion area, we are building a unit, a fold.
Satoshi marked the history recording potential of blockchains in the very first block with, "Chancellor on the brink of second bailout for banks."
We can use that unalterable record to build a congress for all humanity.
When I was interviewed by.newscasters while marching on the first few days of Occupy Wall Street, they asked me, "Why are you here?"
Occupy wasn't about specific policies, it was about creating a space where people can discuss serious issues. There's a real lack of connection between our daily lives and the decisions that shape our possibilities. Respectable public forums have been eradicated from our society. We need a respectable public forum where our words can translate into action. Without this, there is no hope for the common person.
By verifying your identity and discussing important issues on chain, we can present our grievances to the historical record. The blockchain is a historical record that wasn't provided by the state.
This is a space that is yet to emerge. But it's what clonk.me is for
Decentralized moderation
All data on chain - never worry about losing pinning on ipfs or arweave
Fully extensible and composable - make new types of nfts that render in the iframe
Contrast demise of ows with resiliency of Ethereum
Include points about filtering by rpcs
The real discussion imo is that blockchain node operators should be pressured to respond to concerns about unwanted content. There's no reason they can't coordinate on filters in the same way Ethereum validators use Flashbots to ignore Tornado Cash transactions. Although I hope they can find a better solution than blocking entire contracts because it's really nice to write a simple contract for data storage. Remember: a contract is a protocol, not a program. The validators follow the instructions but it's more like a database schema to which people submit conforming messages. As the contract creator, you're just publishing your code on chain. Each user takes responsibility for their own data.
It's not magic but it is a radically different pricing model: pay once, host forever.
I see it as a massive bet on storage prices continuing to decrease.
We can't let perfect be the enemy of good when it comes to proof of personhood because the applications it enables are too important to wait
In who watches the watchmen, the less than absolute availability of government id to people around the world is presented as a reason not to use it as PoP but this is not necessary.
Bootstrapping a lot of verified human accounts to make these new applications viable doesn't require going after 100% of people immediately. A million verified humans would be astonishing.
Verifying passports is quick, easy, and cheap. And there are enough people with passports that they could have powerful discussions about our collective desires.
Later in the adoption curve, there will be other options for those without a passport to prove their uniqueness. These options already exist with brightid, PoH, and idena. This is why an identity aggregator like gitcoin passport is a crucial piece of infrastructure. Coinpassport should be an expensive to forge option for quickly building one's gitcoin passport score.