diary-02-2022

2022-02-24:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1436636

edit /etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="i8042.dritek=1"

# did not fix it

sudo update-grub

2022-02-18:

Funding, is a *threshold* issue.

Any org with Big Money could help others avoid debt.

For example, larger corporations could buy raw land without mortgage
and then vest ownership to the workers who build an ecovillage there.

By gaining real property ownership, every owner-occupant pays 0 rent!

And if we trade Work Bonds, we can ensure any Future Production.

2022-02-18:
systemctl stop ua-timer.timer
systemctl stop ua-license-check.path
systemctl disable ua-license-check.path
systemctl disable ua-timer.timer

2022-02-18: Tokenomics Shootout
CCsehttps://ecorise.gitbook.io/docs/basic/faq
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11040FOvIJIsjXl0gvkBLRegOIWdYM_04OnXsXzHliTU
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YhS62BjTgfj3LKMKqPK0PKirkXykIrGhg7-0Ksw3N9Y
https://nomicon.io/Economics

2022-02-12:

                Metaopoly - A game to make games to find new ways.

Each player receives an identical copy of a Grid depicting a parcel of Land in it's current state.

A Path around the Grid depicts the passage of Time, and the different states of the Grid.

Players place Tiles on the Grid to vote on the future state of that land.

For example:
+--------------+
|GO|        |  |
|--+--------+--|
|  |RRRRTTTT|  |
|  |TTTTTTTT|  |
|  |TTTTTTTT|  |
|  |TTTTTTTT|  |
|  |TTTTTTTT|  |
|  |TTTTTTTT|  |
|  |TTTTMMMM|  |
|  |TTTMWWWW|  |
|--+--------+--|
|  |        |  |
+--------------+
R=Rock
T=Tree
M=Mushroom
W=Water

Before gameplay begins, a RULESET is chosen or created
to define how COMPONENTS interact within that economy.

COMPONENTS:
Player: A person.
Group: A set of Players holding Sources to secure Future Production.
Bank: A Group with authority to create Money, and transfer Titles.
Sources: Land and water-rights and all other truly finite things.

Future Production: A specific good or service at a *projected* quantity and quality.
Source Title: A Bank document representing property ownership of Sources.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)#Deeds
Work Agreement: A Player or Group commitment to achieve Future Production.
Money: A set of numerically-denominated (numismatic) Bank documents.

Each RULESET is an opportunity for Token Engineers to set internal policy.

RULESET choices:
. How is Money issued?
1. In IRL, Federal Reserve Notes are Created as interest-bearing debt, not as Fiat, causing The Bank to eventually own most Source Titles.
2. In Monopoly, money is a debtless, true Fiat with unlimited supply (the rules even say "The Bank" may create new money on any paper if needed).
3. The earthChange Fungible Token is issued without debt, but is not Fiat because it is strictly limited in supply by the number of square-meters of land on Earth.

. Who receives the newly minted money?
1. In IRL the Federal Reserve Banks receive M0 money, and then trickles down through the other Banks.
2. In Monopoly it is *handed out* like UBI, every time you pass GO.
3. earthChange is *sold* to buy Sources.

. How are Sources acquired?
1. In IRL, Banks usually loan (rent) Money to Players and Groups.
2. In Monopoly, if you can buy Sources from the UBI, you can charge rent.
3. In the For Product model, you gain Source Titles as you complete Work Agreements.

. How is Future Production organized?
1. In IRL and Metaopoly_default it is mostly organized by those who sell to Players For Profit.
2. In the For Product model it is organized by the Players who want those results.

. How do you gain Land ownership?
1. In IRL, Banks offer interest-bearing debt as loans or Mortgages.
2. In Monopoly, the Bank transfers Source Titles in return for 'cash' Money (no loans).
3. For Product: Bank transfers Source Titles in return for completed Work Agreements.

. What do workers receive?
1. IRL and Metaopoly_default: Money
2. For Product: Source Titles

. How can a Player fix a pothole?
1. IRL and Metaopoly_default: Pay Money (taxes) and vote for a representative.
2. For Product: Sign Work Agreements to "cross-pay" for that Future Production.

2022-02-09: WWOOF-USA About Me

I grew up on a 640 acre farm in the Idaho desert.  We grew Alfalfa and raised just enough Chickens, Cattle and Bees to have Eggs, Meat and Honey.

After the farm I worked construction, some of it overseas with DomeTechnoloy.com

I love working with my hands and usually able to solve almost any problem.

I have repaired hundreds of small engines such as motorcycles and lawn mowers, etc.

I was drawn to computer programming (Software Engineering) because of the control it seemed to give me.

But as began to realize we do not control our food systems, I have refocused my goals to be directly involved in permaculture.

2022-02-09: flow chart

2022-02-09: 213620

2022-02-09:

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2022-02-04:
The For Product model conflicts with the usual approach of "financial returns", yet it is provably *just as effective for each shareholder* in a strange, sort of **inverted** manner as you own shares to **avoid** paying the profit you would otherwise pay when buying that product from the regular market.

It is a fundamentally different *reason* to co-own land and farms and factories and all the infrastructure we already pay for as consumers.

We can own these productive assets **because we need the results** to finally regain control of that production and receive those products at the true cost of that production.

By the way, we, as consumers, already pay all the costs of production (and even more when we pay profit), so it is easy to see we could afford to be the owners.

It is common to assume such ownership would require those consumers to be the workers, but I don't understand this stance since we own shares "for profit" without being the workers, so why can we not own shares "for product" without being the workers?

This is actually just one part of a more comprehensive approach that protects the workers in a profoundly deep way by first recognizing every worker is a *consumer* of many different goods and services, then, using that information, we insure each worker gains real property ownership in the land required to produce the goods and services they need to *consume*.

So in the For Product model, workers become owners **as consumers**, both to avoid paying profit, and also to have the ultimate say in how those things are produced.

Every worker gains real land ownership in the land and water-rights and tools, etc. required to produce all of the things they need to consume.

This causes profit, rent and interest to safely approach zero even while all of these special consumer+shareholders are satisfied as property ownership is used to **protect** them from paying more than the real costs of production.

But even more profoundly, this approach finally eliminates the usual 'need' for market scarcity since the product itself is never sold (except surplus), because each consumer+shareholder of "beehives" accepts the "honey" itself as the natural return-on-investment.

This allows us to ignore market price and removes the usual temptation to use artificial scarcity to increase prices.

"'They stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.'" -- The Grapes of Wrath

If we do not address this issue, we will never be able to achieve the true abundance we seek because profit actually **requires** scarcity.

Throughout history, governments have made many laws (for example https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Laws ) to prop-up prices to 'protect' the owners who intend to sell the product (such as bread) for more than the real costs of production.

We are so accustomed to this approach that it is hard to imagine any other reason to own.

But imagine a bizarre corporation that is wholly owned by the consumers of the product that will be created **and** these strange consumer+shareholders do not *buy* the product from the collective others, but instead simply accept the product itself as the natural ROI.

This approach **only** works for goods and services we can *predict* we will need, but the fortunate thing there is that most 'essential' goods and services are easily predicted.

This is a generalization of https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Imputed_rent - eliminating Rent from housing and also eliminating Profit from any 'predictable' good or service.

2022-02-02: From "'SEEDS Guide V 0.8.5 (SEEDS Community Edit)'"  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C4w9Ol8VGabCIcQDVPDrwcTRoJXBqhrb7VjslwQbUGU/edit#

1.1 Individual Accounts: Becoming a Visitor, Resident and Citizen
1.2 Contribution Scores (CS) Defined
1.3 Contribution Scores - Individual
1.4 Reputation - Building trust in our new civilization
1.5 Organisational Accounts: Creating an organisation account and gaining status
1.6 Contribution Scores - Organisational
1.7 Regional Accounts: Boundaries by emergence
1.8 Regional Contribution Scores [2.0 Feature]
1.9 Badges - Identifying rights and responsibilities [2.0 Feature]
Section 2: Regenerative Governance - How We Evolve and Decide Together
2.1 Citizen Governance
2.2 Trust Tokens Distribution and Design
2.3 Voting Cycle & Trust Depreciation
2.4 Voting Rewards
2.5 Quorum and Unity Thresholds for Referendums Table
2.6 Staking Seeds for Proposals
2.7 Referendums
2.8 Campaign, Alliance and Funding Proposals
2.9 Distrusting and Needs Improvement
2.10 Proposal Lifecycles
2.11 Decentralized Arbitration [2.0 Feature]
2.12 Intrinsic and extrinsic incentives over punishments
2.13 Constitutional Guardians (Previously Stewards) [1.1 Feature]
2.14 Evolution of Decentralized Governance
2.15 Member Activated Hard Fork
Section 3: Regenerative Finance - How We Thrive, Coordinate and Distribute Value
3.1 The Economics of SEEDS
3.2 Harvest Distribution
3.3 Calculating an Accounts Share of the Harvest
3.4 The Gratitude Token - Expanding Tools for Value Distribution and Coordination
3.5 Escrowed Seeds Release Schedule
3.6 Burning Seeds (SEEDS 2.O)
3.7 Seed Bank [2.0 Feature]
Section 4: Regenerative Economics - How We Create Future Possibilities
4.1 Using Inflation to Acquire Networks (SEEDS 2.O)
4.2 Better-Than-Free | The People’s Economy
4.3 Circular and Regional Economies
4.4 New Economic Possibilities (Global)
4.5 New Economic Possibilities (Regional)
4.6 Retirement Plan / Safety Switch

CS (Contribution Scores) are the SEEDS economic alternative to “Proof of Work” (employed in blockchains like Bitcoin, etc) and “Proof of Stake” (Ethereum. etc V2) as a protocol to track and reward contributions to the SEEDS ecosystem and network. While the former tracks but a single metric (“work” or “stake”) SEEDS Contribution Scores track a myriad (and continually expanding) set of metrics and contributions as detailed throughout this section.

The CS of an account determines the Trust Tokens (voice) received for governance decisions (for Citizens) and the share of the Harvest (new Seeds) received (for Residents and Citizens).

Proof of Stake of 1-token=1-vote/reward.

In Proof of Stake networks if an account has staked 50% of the tokens, they’d get 50% of the rewards.

“staking” tokens in other blockchain protocols;
A "transaction" is any blockchain action (not just sending Seeds), like giving ratings, vouching, forum votes, casting Trust Tokens, etc...
Participating in decision making via casting or delegating Trust Tokens in SEEDS Governance.
Members may earn Reputation for participating in decision making (voting and delegating Trust). See Section 2 on governance for more details on Trust tokens, delegation and voting.
Cast/Delegate your Trust Tokens, Pass Proposals, Earn Reputation Points
Cast Your Trust Tokens
Members earn [N] Reputation Points for casting any Trust Tokens during a cycle.
Cast Your Trust Tokens
Members earn [N]% of the Reputation Points that the Citizen they delegated their Trust Tokens to received in a cycle.
Members earn [N]% of the reputation from every account that has delegated their Trust (governance token) to them and they participate in governance that cycle.
Reputation disproportionately (versus the other metrics) affects the total Seeds and Trust Tokens (governance token) an account earns.
Regardless of how wealthy (economic volume and planted Seeds) an account is, if they have a negative or 0 reputation score they would earn no rewards (Harvest) and gain no Trust Tokens (governance tokens). This gives the Citizens a tool to defend the economy from a variety of attack vectors.
Ratings Tokens System [2.0 Feature]
Provide “Ratings Tokens” that Members need to spend to give a rating. This introduces an opportunity to more deeply consider a rating as it comes with an opportunity cost and may result in more accurate and thoughtful ratings.
Rating tokens are provided at the start of each cycle equal to the Members Contribution Scores.
If a Member gives +7 they would send 7 of their rating tokens; if they give a -4 they send 4 ratings tokens to the organisations.
Badges are special tokens and contracts within SEEDS that confer specific rights upon the bearer.
This is a badge that is issued to an organisation when 3 organisations who hold this badge vouch for another organisation to be a “Rating Org”. Organisations holding this token (badge) are able to rate other organisations. At any time Citizens are able to remove these organisations’ badges through utilizing the “Flag” feature.
2.2 Trust Tokens Distribution and Design
2.2 Trust Tokens Distribution and Design
Trust Token Distribution Table
Global Trust Token Distribution
Trust Tokens are distributed equal to the Contribution Score of the Citizen.
E.g. a score of 95 will provide 95 Trust Tokens to that Citizen.
Regional Trust Token Distribution
Trust Tokens are distributed equal to the Contribution Score of the Citizen.
E.g. a score of 95 will provide 95 Trust Tokens to that Citizen.
Each Citizen may obtain voting rights through receiving Trust Tokens relative to their Contribution Scores. These Trust Tokens are distributed once per cycle.
Each Citizen earns Trust Tokens for each category of governance operations in the SEEDS Global and the Region in which they are Members.
[%] of Trust Tokens cast delegatee = [%] of Trust Tokens cast of delegator
If a delegate casts 1/10 of their Trust Tokens on a proposal it triggers a matching vote of 1/10 of the Trust Tokens of the delegator.
A citizen can choose their top 2 favourite permaculture practitioners to delegate to and give each one of them 50% of their Trust Tokens (or 60/40… 70/30… 33/33/34… etc).
Distributing Trust Tokens in a percentile distribution pattern is designed to move beyond Plutocratic or “Mob Rule” approaches to democracy. SEEDS provides a foundation to a more equitable distribution of voice to Citizens by tracking a wider diversity of participation (Contribution Scores) beyond token holdings alone, or 1-Citizen-1-vote.
Trust (governance tokens) cannot be obtained with wealth alone (owning Seeds tokens or purchasing Trust tokens). This is a departure from most crypto governance designs that have a governance token that can be bought and sold, creating pure plutocracies (governance by the wealthy).
Citizens have until [N] in the voting cycle in order to cast their Trust Tokens without Trust depreciation..
[N]% of total Trust Tokens are removed every 24 hours following the [Trust Depreciation Start] mark
If Trust Tokens have not been cast by the ‘trust depreciation start” time, then a linear deterioration starts until they reset by the start of the next voting cycle. Trust tokens will be restored for the next voting cycle.
If Mary has 80 Trust Tokens at the start of the cycle when the deterioration starts she will have 40 Trust Tokens half way through the deterioration and just a few Trust Tokens by the last day before the next cycle.
A Member immediately receives Trust Tokens upon evolution to a Citizen to use during that cycle. The depreciation of Trust tokens is applied retroactively.
Jane evolved to a Citizen during the second half of a cycle; she'll get a depreciated amount of tokens relative to the point in the cycle and her Contribution Score.
# of Trust Tokens cast in favour (Trusted) ÷ Trust Tokens casted on proposal
# of Trust Tokens cast in favour (Trusted)
Total Trust Tokens cast in favour on all proposals in the same category and cycle
[N]% Proportion of Trust Tokens in Favour vs Against
# of Trust Tokens cast in favour (Trusted)
Total Trust Tokens cast on proposal
In the event more funding proposals passed than the budget can afford then proposals will be paid out prioritised by the number of Trust Tokens received.
Citizens can have their stake returned and close their proposal. Alternatively, Citizens can opt to have their proposal repeated next month. This will reset all Trust Tokens gained.  If the proposal fails to get funding in the second cycle, the proposal will be considered failed, and the Citizen will lose their proposal fee.
Citizens are given Trust Tokens unique for each proposal (to vote for or against).
However, this doesn’t come without cost. The tokens, accounts, badges, Seeds and other blockchain data would be different from the main SEEDS blockchain (think Bitcoin versus Bitcoin Cash) and the new one. So, this new fork would require applications, exchanges and other tools accessing the network to adopt this new Blockchain for it to have any meaning.
IMPORTANT NOTE: THE FOLLOWING PROTOCOLS DON’T TAKE EFFECT UNTIL AFTER “GO LIVE” HAS BEEN TRIGGERED BY THE CITIZENS. BEFORE THAT EVENT, SEEDS IS A FIXED SUPPLY CURRENCY AND BEHAVE AS DETAILED IN THE TOKEN ALLOCATION AND ECONOMICS PAPER
3.4.1 Gratitude Token
3.4.2 Abundance Token
Adding the tokens taken out of circulation and subtracting the tokens brought into circulation from the Gross Harvest suggestion creates the “Net Harvest”. Seeds are created [each hour] and sent directly to accounts following the Harvest distribution.
These funds are reserved for maintaining the Seed Bank and purchasing the underlying blockchain tokens (TLOS) to reserve adequate bandwidth to maintain SEEDS network bandwidth.
3.4.1 Gratitude Token
This token means nothing if kept (as next cycle it will reset) and only means something once it's given away (a compliment is only valuable when shared). Gratitude is allocated by means of an “acknowledgement” action, that will not specify the exact amount of tokens being shared, being limited to ~[N] of the total gratitude that the account has. To better use all tokens, Members are recommended to acknowledge at least N times per cycle (configured on [gratz.acks] setting), and the exact token value transferred is calculated just at the end of the cycle, based on the number of acknowledgements (acks) each Member made.
At the end of the cycle, the Seeds amount allocated on the Gratitude contract will be split to all Gratitude Members based on their proportional shares, just before resetting all Gratitude tokens.
Gratitude Token Table
Each Resident gets [N] Gratitude tokens as a base distribution at the start of each cycle.
Each Citizen gets [N] Gratitude tokens as a base distribution at the start of each cycle.
All Seeds in this account will be equally distributed amongst gratitude token (Gratz) holders.
3.4.2 Abundance Token [2.0 Feature]
The escrowed Seeds release schedule is designed to reduce sale pressure as escrowed Seeds come into circulation to meet new demand as the SEEDS economy grows. This encourages a more stable value for Seeds and benefits all participants by removing the often-experienced mass “sell off” of tokens in various crypto economic experiments. This mutually beneficial game-dynamic encourages a more stable value for Seeds as they’re released.
The Seed Bank is also a powerful tool Citizens can leverage to build alliances with other ecosystems. The assets the Citizens choose to store in the Seed Bank are benefited by being held and locked out of circulation by the Bank. This benefits tokens designed to appreciate in value.
For example a regenerative token backing mangrove reforestation that’s designed to appreciate in value as carbon credits are paid to the holders and more forests are regrown. This token would be an ideal candidate for the Seed Bank.
The Regen DEX is a tool for Members to exchange value directly (without a middleman) amongst each other with a variety of tokens and decentralised (on-chain) currencies and assets. Members can create organisation, village, team or other types of tokens and swap value with people across the globe.
For example members may swap Seeds with Hypha (Hypha Value Token) or HUSD (a USD Stable token) and a variety of other tokens that Members chose to support using this tool.
Tokens
Tokens help Members create new methods of tracking, exchanging, and distributing information and value.
There are 3 main types of tokens within SEEDS:
Trust Tokens
Trust tokens give Members a tool to more accurately and equitably distribute voice amongst each-other.
Since each Member contributes and is committed to SEEDS at varying degrees (and thus variably affected by the outcomes of decisions made within SEEDS) Trust Tokens are a tool to more equitably track and distribute voice based on levels of contribution.
Value Exchange and Coordination Tokens
Members gain access to a variety of “tokens” within SEEDS to track, exchange and coordinate value flows.
Seeds Tokens
Gratitude Tokens
Abundance Tokens [2.0 Feature]
Abundance is another tool and exploration into radically redesigning how value is distributed. Abundance tokens can be earned through a multitude of Citizen chosen actions. Such as paying more than the average price when using the Gift Economy API.
More Tokens To Be Co-Created…
The Gift Economy API gives Members a tool to create hybrid markets. Members are able to buy and sell resources using a ‘sliding scale’ that can go from 0 to any value (either getting it cheaper if they need, or paying excess to earn other benefits like Abundance tokens).
For those that pay more than the average price, they earn an equal amount of “abundance tokens” for those that pay less, the seller earns these tokens.
It provides Members an ability to hold their appreciating crypto-assets while still gaining access to an optimal medium-of-exchange (Seeds) to make their regular purchases with (e.g. you could get a low interest Seeds loan by collateralising your organisations asset tokens).
An action of entrusting another account with directing your Trust Tokens.
One who receives the delegation of Trust Tokens from another Citizen.
One who delegates their Trust Tokens to another Citizen.
Name of the currency used by the SEEDS Ecosystem. Divisible to four decimal points. Use interchangeably with ‘token’.
Tokens
Trust Token
SEEDS decouples equity tokens and Trust (voice) tokens. In today’s dominant paradigm “money talks” and simply by virtue of having money, one could buy up a majority voice in any organisation. This is true of many crypto-projects as well. If we’re to build a system that can’t be co-opted or corrupted by our dominant paradigm, we cannot allow legacy value to buy governance in SEEDS. For this reason, Seeds are not what is counted when weighing voice, but rather the number of Trust Tokens an account has earned. Trust is earned through participation and contribution, where money committed is but one metric and not the whole story.
SEEDS uses nomenclature and models found in our legacy nation-states to ease the transition into SEEDS - further, many functions of our societies today play important roles that can be remodelled to serve us better. One of those functions is the process by which a person can join a new society (or nation-state). The barrier to become a Visitor is extremely low, allowing you to come and experience what SEEDS can offer. When you become a Resident, you begin earning a Harvest and increase your allocated transaction volume based on how many Seeds you have planted. After you gain your citizenship, you unlock further abilities to increase your Harvest and begin earning Trust Tokens to participate in governance.
token.seeds
Main Token Contract for all Seeds
Hypha’s token selling contract, used to convert EOS, BTC, TLOS and potentially other cryptocurrencies into Seeds
Contract for the Gratitude Token

2022-02-01: On the impossibility of sharing the material Sources of Production - User Freedom in the Physical Realm?

It has been said: TANSTAAFL

But lunch could be "Free as in Freedom" if every User could gain fractal* property ownership in all the physical Sources, throughout the entire supply-chain, required for that production.

Just as the solitary owner of a single tree owns that fruit before it blossoms,
the co-owners of a food forest could each own tiny amounts in each of those physical Sources
as required to make all the goods and services they each need.

(*) Fractal property ownership is a "fractional assets" management strategy designed to:

1. Eliminate the conflict between Users and Shareholders by making them one-and-the-same.

2. Create

Use Property Rights to enforce Property Left through a strict
Terms of Operation requiring Users

Users
to receive **the actual good or service**

prioritize local production through a

if 🤖s could replace all 'essential' workers,
because
don't own the land and water required to grow and ship and cook that food.

required to produce all the goods and services they know they will need,
they could *own* those goods and services **even before they are produced**.

But the 🤖s are not here