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RE: Steemit.city website and logo officially launched!
This is one of the main reasons we are building this concept. Living here is cheap and with minimal government interference.
This is one of the main reasons we are building this concept. Living here is cheap and with minimal government interference.
I expect there will be more projects like this, in every place where government is weak and there is ample real estate to do such things. You got me thinking that when I have the resources to scout out a suitable location, I will start one myself.
if you want to be in Europe, talk to @razvanelulmarin, I think that he'll be doing a steemit.city in Bucharest
I see this username, and it makes me think of the bulgarian word 'razvulnuvan' - to be thrilled - well, in Bulgarian and in Russian. Razvanelul, and marin, this reads like romanian to me, they use '-ul' where russians and ukrainians use -om, and bulgarians use -ut or -ata/ite/eto (instead of having a 'the' type word in front). I never studied romanian that much, but I grasped well enough that some of my bulgarian would help me get it quicker.
I didn't like Bucharest tho. But maybe that was just because I was homeless and penniless when I was there. Every time I walked around a corner looking for somewhere I could just go have a snooze, BAM up comes some security guard. I was jumping at shadows. Timishoara was a much nicer city than Bucharest.
Well, maybe in time we can do something here in Bulgaria too. It would be awesome to have a network of them all over the world. Here in bulgaria, we could even maybe scrape together a whole village, since so many, especially in the north, are empty (182!).
The idea of using an empty village to build the future is deeply compelling. Please let me know how we can support your interpretation of steemit.city!
Well, I am not in any position to find out, and I already did a little research to learn about where the empty villages are, but the person who did the research to find out, and reported their numbers, and made a graphic, never got back to me when I asked. But I expect that the relevant bulgarian ministry in charge of census and tax registrations can probably provide the necessary information to find out where these places are.
I would guess that probably there is more than a few in Romania as well.
The idea is not so original, really, I originally coined a name for it, the "Free Village Project", derived from the Free State Project. https://freestateproject.org/ The idea was to have a proving ground for a pure anarchocapitalist private law type situation. Well, I guess steemit.city is sorta like, and then add cryptocurrency, and steem.
The puzzle is in finding out how much it will cost at given locations that are found, per what you get, the benefits of the particular location, and the obstacles that have to be dealt with. It should not be difficult, in most cases, to persuade the land title holders to get something rather than nothing for their, probably now fully gypsy-stripped old villas and shops and such, and there will also be the issue of negotiating with the relevant 'authority' who owns the roads, plumbing and the central government building that almost all villages have.
So it's not a small project. First to find it, then to find out who owns it, then to negotiate a sale to acquire enough of it to get the project launched, to find the people who want to invest... I'd think maybe 5-10 million dollars would be a starting point somewhere around that. Your project is more modest in costs and so forth, but I think that maybe, with time, this village idea could go somewhere. The trick is to have a ready resource that can be produced in this place. Obviously, there is plenty of nature and old buildings to be had. But we can also set up servers and miners, and maybe eco stuff as well, energy generation will be an issue for this.
A true anarchocapitalist, cryptoagorist/anarchist little village. It is a nice dream. I hope someday it is realised, and demonstrates the benefit of the way we do things here :)