I’d like feedback from engineers familiar with smart contracts
on whether this structural MVP is sound at a structural level,
before any actual implementation.
Thank you. Indeed, if we had user counts broken down by country, we could test many different hypotheses — and it seems India would lead.
Through this exchange with you, I realized that what I really wanted to know was: “Which countries have more people asking deep questions?”
However, to investigate that, we would probably need to know “how much computation AI is running in parallel to generate a response.” I’m thinking of asking OpenAI about this as a test.
Thank you for the information; I learned a lot.
Regarding the LETS issue of “services not expanding,” this protocol was originally designed as an emergency disaster prevention system, so it’s fine even if a single community doesn’t expand excessively.
Time-based currency has a similar orientation. The challenges of skill value imbalance and the difficulty of sustainable operation due to declining motivation are indeed present. Each local operating organization should run a PDCA cycle to evaluate and improve, and AI-based fair evaluation support could also be effective.
The “limited scope of use” and “dependence on the issuing company” problems of Canadian Tire money are addressed in this protocol by allowing communities around the world to autonomously issue currency without relying on a single company.
We want to offer this protocol free of charge to talented engineers worldwide.
In an emergency, this protocol enables people within the affected community to exchange essential goods and services such as food, disaster-prevention supplies, clothing, and medicinal herbs.
Because it has functioned as one of the foundations for currency issuance and trust even in normal times, it can continue to support the production and distribution of essential goods like food if existing infrastructure is disrupted.
Even if the national currency or banking systems are down, currency issuance and circulation are managed locally, and can continue in both digital and analog forms—providing a sense of stability.
This is why it can function as an emergency disaster prevention system.
Thanks！
A locally-rooted value system that is not based on a public blockchain can become a gentle value-creation mechanism, tailored to the climate and culture of the region.
In one community, such a system is currently being operated using analog methods, though certain management challenges have begun to surface.
However, even without smart contracts, we believe the same concept can be implemented relatively simply within the community by utilizing a database.
We're building a contribution-based protocol that operates without price or currency.
Instead of money, it uses trust (prestige), contribution history, and system connectivity as core signals.
The protocol's internal logic is already mathematically proven — it prevents inflation, exclusion, and market saturation by design.
Its long-term dynamics converge toward a natural point of systemic harmony, represented by π (pi).
When I asked GPT-4 to forecast the global scale of such a system, it gave an answer.
But it led me to a deeper question:
> Can AI meaningfully forecast systems that have no historical precedent?
> Or is it simply extrapolating from past trends?
There may be challenges unique to online communities,
but in our real-world community, we’ve implemented a protocol specifically designed to address this issue—
a system built to prevent the emergence of gatekeepers, and it's actually working in practice.
There are small problems, sure, but they haven't disrupted or degraded the overall service.
In fact, we’ve seen people who try to assert authority join the community,
but they usually don’t last long.
They naturally drift away because they don’t truly understand the value of long-term commitment and authentic relationships.
If you're interested, we've written a formal proof that explains how the structure prevents gatekeeping:
Thank you for your comment.
I deeply respect those who serve others without seeking praise.
We’ve supported people in poverty without seeking any profit.
But in this capitalist society, acts of care that can’t be turned into money—so-called “invisible labor”—are often treated as worthless.
Even those who received the support sometimes saw it that way.
Kindness taken for granted often returned only as sadness.
That’s why we believe care and service deserve fair recognition.
Don’t you think this could be possible—if we had an economic (or social) system that isn’t based on capitalism?
Thank you!
This is very similar to the protocol we are building.
Your website taught me a lot — I really appreciate it.
By the way, is SourceCred still active?
It looks like the Twitter and GitHub repos have been quiet for a while.
Is your acquaintance still working on it?
