If you are actively interested in discussing charity projects on the blockchain, then I guess this is the place to do it!
I havnt been too active recently - explained below - but I have been thinking a bit recently;
I am imagining a charitable branch that supports those in very poor economies who are able to show the good work they are doing.
@muzito08 is the example that is currently inspiring me but Im sure there are plenty more.
It would be good to create an updateable list of who these people are so that we can easily encourage the community to support them, champion them, reward them and advise them on how best to document the charitable work they are doing.
I think if this were developed in to a functioning concept then it would be an attractive in-road for wealthy west!rners who can probably see no worth in being part of a poorly-paid blogging platform, but who might be considerably more inspired if they can actively support those in need.
Faith in charities has been damaged over the past couple of decades by stories of mismanagement and corruption, but imagine instead of asking people to give away their money, instead they INVEST their money in a cryptocurrency, and either delegate it to a charity, or personally oversee who they are funding by getting actively involved in the community.
Many people in more priveliged societies have a desire to support those from needier backgrounds and this platform offers amazing potential for that to happen in a decentralised, empowering way. The accounts of community leaders in needy communities will become stronger, and in order to continue recieving support, they will have to continue showing evidence of the positive impact they are having.
Its not completely ideal. There is still room for misleading evidence and corruption, but this is something that will always be a possibility in the human race, and we should have faith that as a community we can use our intuition, and guide our focus towards truly positive, transformative projects.
When I first came to the blockchain (for me it was steemit back in August 2017) I was initially a bit disturbed by how essentially we were paying each other to be nice to one another. 'If you say a nice thing, I'll pay you for it'. At first I was very synical having already felt repulsed by much of what social media has done to peoples 'like' addiction and false personas, but I carried on because the idea of being financially rewarded for my creativity was too tempting to avoid. After a while I began to leave nice comments because I would sometimes get a big upvote from someone and also it helped to gain followers. I was playing the game. But something strange happened to me.... After a while I began to feel genuine positivity from these interactions. I started realising that my encouraging words were having a positive impact on people (even when I felt I had exaggerated about how good I thought their work was, or even downright lied that I liked it!) Equally, I was dubious about the intent of some of the nice comments I recieved, but never-the-less, I found it encouraging, and I even began to make friends with people. I realised that something alchemical was taking place in me. I was being TRAINED to be nice! Imagine? My jaded, cynical mind was starting to see the best in people and then tell them so. It felt so damn good, that after a while the money hardly mattered anymore! It was mostly a pittance anyway, and something far more rewarding was happening. I was becoming a better person. It started to leak in to my daily life and over the last few years I think I have realised the power of selfless positivity, and begun to transform it in to something genuine, insightful and uplifting (not the original manipulative half-truths!).
Recently with the global Covid thing, I took a huge backstep from life, work, creativity and even computers. Finally after all these years of living, I was ready to check in to some spiritual teachings and this inner journey has been incredibly transformative again (how many times will I transform in this life? will I ever stop transforming even after death?). I love the works of Eckhart Tolle and I have also been practising some buddhist meditation and reading some sufi stuff, some soami and yogi stuff, and listening to cool cats like ken wilbur and the rebel wisdom channel.
Man, the journey just keeps going....
And recently Ive started wondering how I want to interact with the world (now that I plan not to persue any wild egoic dreams and delusions!) and the blockchain is a place where I saw such positive transformation in myself and also a potential to spread wealth and empowerment to places where they are very short on these crucial things.
Im not a very technical person, and unfortunately not a very consistent person either, but I hope that I can do my little bit to spread uplifting ideas and encourage love and positivity in this world.
Those are just some incoherent thoughts that Im jamming with at the moment. Let me know if you want to discuss anything further.
Basil x