Steem, BitShares and Liberland?
We (BitSpace) just met with the president of Liberland, Vít Jedlička, and discussed things we could do to help the cause. Crazy as I just posted this yesterday, anyway. We're going to expand the Liberland community here in Norway, and we're also hoping to help him with the blockchain/cryptocurrency component of his plans. Help come up with suggestions here. :)
They are looking to integrate their economy with blockchain technology. Currently they give away "merits" 1:1 for each dollar donated, but they are also considering having shares for, among other things, Liberland property. They also want some type of voting system that can help Liberland citizens vote on decision, funding infrastructure and other commons. Vit Jedlička has been in contact with other cryptocurrency projects such as Dash, Counterparty, NEM and Ethereum; I think each of them wanted Liberland on their own chain. My brother and I suggested he create his own Liberland chain with the Graphene Toolkit instead, to do things properly and not rely on mainchain politics, specifying his goals for Liberland and engineering the incentives in the appropriate way for those specific goals.
Given his objective he seemed impressed with the self-governance features of BitShares, especially the possibility to vote for funding things and the possibility of having a committee that retains some control over key decisions. He was worried about how to distribute the shares, and how to retain control over the amount of total shares; he was concerned with task-management and wanted to have some sort of bounty-system as well. Do you guys see a way to integrate the functionality of Steem, BitShares, perhaps even Vote, to create a Liberland chain that can serve as the economic and value communications infrastructure and incentive backbone of Liberland?
I also suggested Liberland create some sort of Virtual World with blockchain-based property. My brother has been really interested in this concept since his son is playing MineCraft, and there's this server BitQuest where you can claim land for Bitcoin and own your own digital property. Unfortunately that server isn't fully integrated on the blockchain, so there's centralized control over the property. Liberland could be the spark to create a fully digital viritual space where virtual property reflects real Lberland property :)
He seemed interested in the idea as they have tons of designs for the future architecture of Liberland, like commons infrastructure, buildings and parks, that could be displayed and created and interacted with in the virtual space before being made in meatspace.
Hi Clains, I'm reading that article a good year later. Hopefully you'll see my comment. Just saw Jeff Berwick's interview with Vít Jedlička. For some reason I had managed to remain totally unaware of the existence of Liberland for more than two years. Are you still involved? Has some progress been made on the distributed governance front?