we're gonna build the roads
Discussion
There should be an app for people to fund their prefered common goods with bitcoin and make them built. Let's build one?
A simple project listing + escrow accounts for trusted human "oracles" who determine whether or not to release escrowed funds to project workers.
Let's put a team together, I'm in. I can build and/or help with product development.
We'll build it on ecash. Mints will act as/with escrow
Could we subdivide the listing in regions, towns and neighborhood to make it even more decentralized and with a worldwide reach?
Of course
So something like this: people propose and vote for things (common goods) locally, then after approved funding starts, when funded providers bid to do the job and get the funds. Details such as who vote and which proposals are allowed must be defined later in the project. The community could be of various size, from groups, to streets and cities.
I think you can do it without the voting.
A team gets together who have a product/common good idea. They describe the project and put up a sort of "bounty" for it. Then they choose a trusted oracle/escrow holder.
This project now sits there waiting to be funded by the community (of whatever size, commensurate with the project details).
If milestones fund, the team works on them, the oracle determines whether the work is acceptable or not and either disperses the funds to the workers or refunds it to the community.
No voting necessary. Valuable projects will get funded, things nobody wants won't.
There shouldn't be any other moderation needed other than value via price signal. If this were built on Nostr, the only moderation even _possible_ would be at the relay level, which seems fine to me.
You could have relays acting as aggregation points for projects. The relay could be geo-based for real world projects or community-based for digitally-networked ones.
Yes. The funding is the "voting".
And the cars
LFG
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