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Xavier Damman
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Dad. Entrepreneur (@opencollective, @commonshub, Citizen Wallet, Storify). Citizen (Citizen Garden, Citizen Corner, Citizen Spring).
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xdamman 1 year ago
Been working on this for the past weeks. Feedback welcome! #askNostr 👉 Add metadata to any blockchain address or transaction using Nostr. In particular, see this first issue regarding the kind to use: (This is a first prototype, not production ready, use at your own risk)
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xdamman 1 year ago
Let me contribute. Civilizations eventually die under the weight of their own administration. We become so fearful of any abuse, that we end up adding more and more regulations, and new administrations to control their application. Today, our technical debt —or admin debt— is so big that we have an army of people, paid by our tax money, not to create value but to get in the way of the people who try to. The first person we had to hire for the @commonshub_bxl is someone who ends up spending half her time doing admin. It’s crazy. Then we also pay an external person to do the accounting. And now someone else, at the administration, is paid to verify that we did it all properly. One economic transaction, 3 people paid to ensure proper reporting. Crazy. The only way out: open source everything. Instead of putting the burden on entrepreneurs, put the burden on the community. That’s how the Internet grew. eBay, YouTube’s biggest realization was the idea that you should let anyone share. Every friction point should be removed. Instead, enable the community to flag bad behaviors and abuse. Trust by default and empower the community to quickly react whenever needed. What if our administration would work the same way? Contributing to society, to the community should be as easy as contributing to Wikipedia. Let people opt in to start an open source organization. All financial transactions would be open for everyone to see. In exchange, the administration stays out of your way. No paperwork, no reporting. They just send the bill for paying your fair share (also in a transparent way for everyone to see). I’m not intro entrepreneurship to become rich. I don’t have a car, I stopped flying, I don’t need much. I just want to solve problems, create value, contribute. Let me contribute.
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xdamman 1 year ago
Bitcoin is the sun ☀️ Ethereum is the mycelium 🍄
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xdamman 1 year ago
🇺🇸 US: Yang 🇪🇺 EU: Yin Yang needs to protect the Yin. Yin needs to respect the Yang. Will the US let another Yang (Russia) penetrate the Yin? Will the EU divorce from the US? The same natural polarities play out at all levels. ☯️
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xdamman 1 year ago
Holidays are starting. On our way to the Alpes ⛷️ image
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xdamman 1 year ago
My mission: make communities the new base economic unit with their own yin & yang internal economy ☯️ What is your mission?
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xdamman 1 year ago
Is there a long form nostr client yet? This could be a great replacement for RSS and the new Gemini:// protocol.
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xdamman 1 year ago
I consider myself a liberal. I’m an entrepreneur. I believe we should have the freedom to start new businesses. But I also consider myself as a leftist as I believe in solidarity. I don’t see those things as being incompatible. They are two different things in different planes of a multidimensional world. We are all different, we all have a different talent. Therefore we cannot possibly all have the same opportunity to “make a living” in a single currency, single dimension economic system. That’s why we are interdependent. That’s why we need solidarity within our communities. But in the current political landscape, how can you be supporting the left? They are in such disarray and there is no light in sight. The only thing that unites them is being against Elon and Donald. That’s not really inspiring. When they point at the moon, they look at their fingers. It’s so sad. I wish there would be a progressive wing in the political landscape, one that will defend diversity, permaculture, and technological progress. When a solarpunk political movement? ☀️ 🌳 🚲 🌻 🚀
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xdamman 1 year ago
Poem of the day. Words Are Windows (or They’re Walls) by Ruth Bebermeyer image