Yo Brock!
First-off, this wordpress is optimised for Desktop 🙂
Here’s a proposal for you to consider…
Me and some bros are bootstrapping a new adoption and decentralisation project.
The overarching vision is to build paywithbitcoin into an ultra high capacity on-ramp for people to board selected self-sovereign decentralized technologies that are curated and configured to create good times.
We’ll do some incredibly cool upper-funnel marketing in the meatspace, and create a new economic paradigm in target communities… introducing new users to the best bitcoin L2’s and the best emerging P2P technologies… disrupting inefficient supply chains and dis-intermediating monopolies by presenting too-good-to-refuse value propositions… starting with staple grocery items like eggs and milk in some awesome mountain towns.
I think you’re going to like us. We’re all very chill, committed decentralisers. Hopefully, after reading through these pages, you’ll be interested enough to make time for a chat with me and Arctic. There’s a brief section about our backgrounds and experience somewhere in this site. The offer is an equal partnership (i.e. pari passu). If you’d like to bring some bros in, that’s cool too. We need awesome engineers with awesome vibes.
The following pages are just an outline for a concept. Nothing is set in stone and everything is up for discussion/change.
I’d really like to bootstrap it in a Mountain Town. I do Mountain Safety work from winter through spring, and spend a lot of time think thinking about how to optimise local mountain economies, and improve the lives of the people who live in them. Smaller communities generally have lower-complexity economies and should thus be easier to model… much better conditions for A/B testing and, product optimization + dev flow.
One of the main elements of the project is a location based P2P marketplace app that supports local farmers and producers, with great UX to solve the discovery problem. This will work particularly well in mountain towns where grocery stores mark-up many products by around 30%; far in excess of their actual cost delta. Mountain workers are paid close to minimum wage, and the mountain operator – usually Vail Resorts (NYSE: MTN) – is often fully diversified into local economies, owning and/or operating local restaurants, cafes, retail, equipment sales/rental, and also as a commercial & residential real estate freeholder. Efforts by these communities to increase their prosperity generally find their entropy sucked-up and delivered to the same fund managers (Blackrock, Vanguard etc.) in the form of EPS. Meanwhile, bros can no longer afford a decent house.
If locals have the opportunity to buy eggs, that are free range, laid locally, organic, and delivered to their door… for a lower price than the eggs from Your Independent Grocerâ„¢ that are laid by battery farm chickens and driven a few hundred kilometers up the mountain… that’s probably a good enough value proposition for the people to at least consider using bitcoin. (We can A/B test different price deltas for ‘activation energy’).
Combine this value proposition with a delivery service similar to Getir, but as a bitcoin native co-operative in each community, with Cypherpunk vibes, and with many products delivered and priced from farm gates. Some of the riders will probably be in Vexl as well.
There are a bunch of other elements to the project. This is actually the very first time I’ve typed it up, so forgive me if it’s a little unstructured and repetitive. (I thought it’d be better raw rather than regurgitated by LLM)
It’s increasingly apparent that broken money and corrupt centralised structures are fueling a lot of the problems in the world; depriving people of happiness and security and a good life. Our objective is to build some cool things that’ll help fix the underlying problems… using data science, nudge theory, gamification, EDM, cultural engineering, phenomenology…
If we can get the best minds working together, there’s a very good chance that we can create a decentralised force of nature for the common good, that will help liberate humanity into a decentralised future.
– Alpine
