I am looking for a public feedback/discussion on Validbook idea. Although Validbook is not wiki project, I am looking for feedback here as in spirit and in governance model Validbook is similar to Wikimedia projects. My original email about Validbook [1] to this mailing list contained a bit too much of everything. I hope this email contains the right amount of details and will trigger an interesting discussion.
In a nutshell Validbook idea is simple:
- create service that allows to create Self-Sovereign Identities - create service that allows these SSIs to prove that they uniquely represent human individuals in a digital world - create Kudos (tokens with daily supply 1 token per 1 living human (7.5B KDS/day in 2018) - distribute all daily Kudos only between SSIs that proved to uniquely represent human individual - thus creating huge continuous incentive for people to participate in Kudos distribution and support Validbook Services right from the start (*solving common killer of "big ideas" – the chicken-egg problem*) - use Kudos for development and support of *human-centric* Validbook Services (low-engaging non-addictive social networking service; end-to-end encrypted email service; digital signatures service, wallet for self-sovereign money, etc); as a result create leading implementation, "killer application" for Self-Sovereign Identity idea, DIDs and Verifiable Credentials specifications, that will provide pressure and motivation for governments and organizations to coalesce around it, leading to widespread adoption of SSI, end-to-end encryption, self-sovereign money, and ultimately to more freedom and more protection of human rights.
This all might sound as something too grandiose and futuristic, but I cannot find a reason why it cannot be done. Maybe someone can point me to it?
See more details and how to login into Validbook alpha version at https://docs.google.com/document/d/19pJ3_xMyNX-bAZSHTXvnwr5xLWsV-ShVv3Vy1S4g...
-- Bohdan Andriyiv
[1] - https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-May/090302.html
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