Matt Liston, former CEO of Augur, is launching his own blockchain based religion this year
Blockchain technology will in the future, without doubt, be the cornerstone of many innovative projects, extremely useful to mankind and why not indispensable. Although in the eyes of many of us this is still at an early stage, in the eyes of others is the foundation of a new religion.
Such a religion, built on the Ethereum platform, is 0xΩ ("Zero ex omega"), which is founded by former Augur CEO Matt Liston. After leaving Augur and filed a $152 million lawsuit against his former employer, he will release his own religion built on the blockchain as he announced on May 19th in New York, distributing also 40 "holy books" of his cult, called "flame paper" .
"It's a religious framework that would allow for beliefs to update much more quickly and also to democratize the relationship between membership and convergence on what everyone believes in this religion."
Matt Liston on launch on May 19th
The main idea of this religion is that it will be a decentralized one in which the followers do not have to follow a Pope or a pastor and do exactly what he says and believe in what one man preaches, or even more they can modify the text in the "flame paper" and even organize fund raising actions within the blockchain religion to support religious actions.
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Being based on a decentralized technology such as Ethereum's, and almost impossible to hack it, it means that its believers can freely express their opinion without being censored, vote or delegate their vote just like on Steemit. Moreover, the artist Avery Singer, who is a devotee of this new religion, has also created an iconic statue called "Dogewhal" to represent the religion.
"In this religion, people participating and involved could essentially vote and continuously change the structure and nature of it"
Avery Singer
Of course, if the members of the religious group do not come along with it, there is always the possibility of a hard fork. The religion will start accepting followers once it is launched, late this year.
Although Matt Liston, the founder of the future religion, does not consider himself a prophet or pope of this religion, not the same thing happens with Avery Singer, who already calls himself Cryptsiah and Cryptophet. Although Liston will not benefit from the donations received on the blockchain by his religion, and even more he will donate a sum of money himself, he believes that people are generally more generous in donating when they know exactly where the money is going.
For the moment other details haven't been revealed about the "believes" of the new religion, how the founder is planning to attract followers and what is the blockchain based religion going to do with the future "donations".