Yeah, I’ve been independently thinking about that for some time lately. Basically, the cryptocurrency the units of which are created when someone donates valuable items to charity, as opposed to the psychopathic, antisocial process of creating medium of exchange by wasting electricity (which could have been used to create valuables for third world).
Exactly! Nice to hear that you have had similar ideas. I was disappointed to see this post downvoted.
The big question is how to get people to start to use it but I don’t think it would be impossible. A charity with a good name could possibly do it. Perhaps the Gates foundation or others could be persuaded into supporting it.
People did end up buying dogecoin, after all. Was dogecoin what started you thinking about it?
And as far as trust goes, one could have a network imposed limit on the coin creation rate, the coin creation requiring a secret key which can be revoked and replaced when stolen. The absolute worst case where all the money get misused is still not as bad as burning electricity. I say we should start a website about the idea and approach, say, GiveWell.
No, I wasn’t aware of dogecoin, am reading about it now. How is it different from Bitcoins? Specifically, who benefits from the money-creation process? Is there any waste?
Regarding trust: yes, that’s one idea. The only problem is that one might want to adjust the coin creation rate in accordance with the increase in use of the currency. Otherwise, the value of the currency might increase rapidly (if the currency became more frequently used), which won’t help the poor but rather the existing owners of the currency.
See also Gunnar’s interesting ideas about using the legal system to regulate the money creation process. That would, as I write, go some way towards solving the trust issue.
An alternative idea is to try to bind the currency to the dollar, or that it’s “central bank”/regulators tried to keep it as close as possible to the dollar. To implement these policies, the central bank would have to mint new money at the same pace that the usage of the money is increased.
Dogecoin is just a bitcoin clone, not any better than original except it has a cute dog as a logo, and is basically just a joke. AFAIK, it’s currently world’s third by capitalization.
I think that some expected deflation may be necessary to get people to use it initially. And if value increases rapidly, that makes it profitable to donate. No doubt a lot of it will end up making some of existing owners virtually rich, but the goal here is not to avoid that, but to direct some percentage towards the poor. edit: and note that the poor are helped irrespective of whenever the whole thing is a bubble or not.
I messaged you in private, would be easier to continue discussion by email.
Evidence? I would argue that someone who spends money selfishly can do a lot less damage then someone trying to spend it for “the common good” who doesn’t quite know what he’s doing.
Yeah, I’ve been independently thinking about that for some time lately. Basically, the cryptocurrency the units of which are created when someone donates valuable items to charity, as opposed to the psychopathic, antisocial process of creating medium of exchange by wasting electricity (which could have been used to create valuables for third world).
Exactly! Nice to hear that you have had similar ideas. I was disappointed to see this post downvoted.
The big question is how to get people to start to use it but I don’t think it would be impossible. A charity with a good name could possibly do it. Perhaps the Gates foundation or others could be persuaded into supporting it.
People did end up buying dogecoin, after all. Was dogecoin what started you thinking about it?
And as far as trust goes, one could have a network imposed limit on the coin creation rate, the coin creation requiring a secret key which can be revoked and replaced when stolen. The absolute worst case where all the money get misused is still not as bad as burning electricity. I say we should start a website about the idea and approach, say, GiveWell.
No, I wasn’t aware of dogecoin, am reading about it now. How is it different from Bitcoins? Specifically, who benefits from the money-creation process? Is there any waste?
Regarding trust: yes, that’s one idea. The only problem is that one might want to adjust the coin creation rate in accordance with the increase in use of the currency. Otherwise, the value of the currency might increase rapidly (if the currency became more frequently used), which won’t help the poor but rather the existing owners of the currency.
See also Gunnar’s interesting ideas about using the legal system to regulate the money creation process. That would, as I write, go some way towards solving the trust issue.
An alternative idea is to try to bind the currency to the dollar, or that it’s “central bank”/regulators tried to keep it as close as possible to the dollar. To implement these policies, the central bank would have to mint new money at the same pace that the usage of the money is increased.
I’m all for the website idea!
Dogecoin is just a bitcoin clone, not any better than original except it has a cute dog as a logo, and is basically just a joke. AFAIK, it’s currently world’s third by capitalization.
I think that some expected deflation may be necessary to get people to use it initially. And if value increases rapidly, that makes it profitable to donate. No doubt a lot of it will end up making some of existing owners virtually rich, but the goal here is not to avoid that, but to direct some percentage towards the poor. edit: and note that the poor are helped irrespective of whenever the whole thing is a bubble or not.
I messaged you in private, would be easier to continue discussion by email.
No, burning electricity is just “wasting” a resource. Someone stupidly (or maliciously) misusing money can do a lot more damage.
The guy who’s wasting electricity also gets money that they then can (and will) misuse.
Evidence? I would argue that someone who spends money selfishly can do a lot less damage then someone trying to spend it for “the common good” who doesn’t quite know what he’s doing.
The guy burning electricity can also spend money for “the common good”.
The problem is, how do you publicly demonstrate that the charity is in fact doing good things?
Also linking your currency to a centralized charity makes it much easier to shut down.