The Responsibility PoemThe Responsibility Poem
by Charles Osgood
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody couldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have.
You will build the roads[1]You will build the roads[1]
"That pothole has been there as long as I've lived here!" In her neck of the woods, she's long given up on expecting the government to fix it. She doesn't have an extra $200 to fix something for the whole community though. But then again, she might chip in $12 if somebody else needed the work. So would the guy next door...and the next door down as well.
But who's going to collect all those payments?
Traditional financial systems ain't got time for that.Traditional financial systems ain't got time for that.
But bitcoin does! So I built a community bounty platform in which community members can all chip in (even micropayments) to deliver community needs.
How it worksHow it works
1 Someone posts a need. - Paint the hall. Fix the gate. Clean the lot. Teach a class.
2 Neighbors chip in sats. - Pledge a small amount. If the work gets done, you pay.
3 A worker claims it. - They do the job and send proof.
4 Pledgers pay up. - Everyone who promised sends sats to the worker.
How is this different from @Geyser?How is this different from @Geyser?
With a crowdfunding campaign, the person looking for the funding is the initiator. It's a proven and useful model. This is entirely different. The person who wants the service initiates in this platform. That person just can't, or does't want to pay for the whole project. It also benefits more than just him. So he is calling to arms both those who fund, and those who receive the funds through their proof of work.
Bounties already aboundBounties already abound
Well, I've got one bounty out and have had at least one other person pledge. Naturally, I've included this in my Fedi Space. As a group, we're using the app to get one new member. Would you like to claim that bounty? Maybe you'd just rather contribute to paying someone else to do it. Either way, find the bounty here. The pot is adding up!
Bitcoin MountainBitcoin Mountain
If you'd rather not get involved with the group on Fedi, I've created a made up circular economy near Mt. Saint Helens called "Bitcoin Mountain" that you can play around with.[2]
Benefits in summationBenefits in summation
- Communities (or even families) can get small tasks that are "everybody's job" done without a single angel donor.
- People can make money on tasks that would have otherwise been unpaid.
- Bitcoin adoption is encouraged and users slowly escape debasement and censorship.
Is this a good idea?!
Great idea!
What happen when a "worker" did not do well the contracted job?
Remember Hearn's Lighthouse project[1] where you could pledge UTXOs and then everyone could shame you if you spent the coin you pledged?
But it ran on BitcoinJ w/ SPV so then we suddenly needed BIP-64/
getutxo.tor link in case anyone else has issues with wayback ↩
I always wondered why nobody followed up on it.
IIRC it ultimately went with the fork, and never got real traction past the press release there either. And it was surrounded with controversy and toxicity. Perhaps the OP execution is a safer path with a higher chance of success.
I didn't know about this. Looks like a fun rabbit hole.
Lots of dead links nowadays. But it was cool.
Had not heard of this. The idea of pledging a specific utxo instead of an amount of bitcoin is neat from a fee standpoint too.
Thanks!
Any one of the pledgers can flag the worker for bogus work. The platform never collects the money. It just produces invoices for the worker and sends them to the pledgers. So the pledger isn’t forced to pay, but their reputation gets docked if they don’t pay or flag the job for bad work.
If it catches on, I’ll need to work out arbitration options or something like that.
Shit can happen all the time.
Not that workers could have bad intentions or can be scammers.
But sometimes bad execution can be from other factors and the job must have some litigations when are a lot of money involved.
This is similar to https://zap-work.com/
Regardless of the arbitration process, if I were the worker I would feel much safer if the backer’s contribution was already locked behind a smart contract. Could use Rootstock for that, I guess.
Happy Killdozer Day