kinetic movement fitbit style mining bracelets - mining on the go to engage in society

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i’ve recently been thinking about the process of mining, we mine for resources in both everyday life to extract materials to craft into other things, not always in a nice and efficient way and we certainly don’t replenish the seas and control the way we fish it (greed and demand i guess) part of the virus that we call the human race — regardless about those things in life i feel are so out of reach of making a dent in i try and think about the futures of those technological items in life that with a tweak and a bit of thought can be approached differently.

humour me here for a moment, but what if all along one of the solutions for a motivation for keeping fit, paying for gym membership, helping out at a local homeless shelter, the list goes on. gps vs time served at a location, verification, nfc, blockchain powered portable mining strap - earn for activities and effort expended! boom, mindblower. ..

what if our fitbits and exercise tracking bands also had the ability to be our miners on our wrists? now i know what your thinking surely they would not be able to mine much. but maybe they are nano sized ASIC based chips, maybe the mining is just enough for the transactional network fees of sending packets of information on a blockchain. what if the device had nfc and people could pay you in more of the same blockchain for your activities, local council sponsored events for running and health, not using your car to go into work, working on a local charity project for a few hours maybe?

the homeless person

i hear you, a homeless person aint gonna have the funds to wear and power a damn bracelet tracker thing. i get that. but i’ve seen many brand agencies who have been hired to raise awareness for homelessness do things like create wifi hotspots at events, give out phones and data packages for a month to help homeless people to communicate, to put a name to face, to make them visible passed sitting on a piece of cardboard begging in the street, some have even gotten jobs before the end of the month — imagine those wanting to claw there way back into society from a life of gambling, alcohol, even just down on their luck and poor finance management.

whatever the situation which led to that homelessness they are a human being and we are only ever one pay cheque away from that life too — i’m not sure what the use case is here and i’m sure the distraction economy facebook keyboard warriors would have a moan about it all typing from their ivory towers about what’s just and the ‘government needs to do more’ but that doesn’t help people at street level today.

taking part in recovery programs, turning up, regular, gps tracked anon in terms of location checkin, miles walked to move trolleys about, only having access by the band to get food instead of alcohol or cigarettes, tracking progress in general, being able to get credits for hours worked when they don’t have an address or a bank account. a life band, a life line to the outside world when everything else seems so lost. the blockchain is for everyone and the connection too it needs to be affordable, portable and almost transparent in it’s ability to empower someone.

the weekend volunteer

i setup teamhumble.org for one reason. i had just fractured my wrist from rollerskating with my daughter one weekend and was feeling sorry for myself, feeling alone, one arm in a sling, struggling to get things done around the caravan. i wanted to build a little collective that just helped, did things for people with mental health issues, mainly focused on artists who wanted to give back, a little empowerment collective of creatives that were willing to work for free or give back — we did a project in nyc in 2015 - Humble NYC Press Release | Slack because i got fed up trying to get a soup kitchen in the uk to answer my emails.

we raised some money to pay for flights and a place to stay and helped out a few times at a homeless shelter in the city, the sheer amount of waste of food that was contributed was staggering but it was awesome to take part, prepare food and help feed people, it’s a big problem and it’s only getting bigger. i’ve always been of the mindset to give back after seeing a lot of dark times in my life too. it’s a karma thing and a ‘right thing to do’ thing for me, it’s not good enough just to be driven by the greed of what you want.

imagine being part of a leaderboard of people connected to how many hours you contributed to the local community, maybe you got discount on local council properties - swimming, maybe parking, or it made you credits that you spend elsewhere, maybe on a certain day, around a certain time a discount on food and drink for people that were active members of the local area, bit like suspended coffee.

The idea of "Suspended Coffee" is simple: When you buy yourself a coffee at a participating cafe, you also pay for a second one - which can then be claimed by someone who cannot afford it themselves. They don't have to "prove" anything to claim one, but the scheme relies on the good faith of everyone involved

the handy person

how many times have you needed a local tradesperson? - a plumber, electrician, how many times have you asked peer recommendations for that, friends and family, your facebook tribe about who you can TRUST to do that job. it seems fitting to me that the blockchain is perfect for this for labour type people. for instance i’d love to have a wood burner installed in my van (unless i build that crypto miner first!) but something like that i can’t take a risk with, it needs to be shielded away from my daughter properly and the roof outlet needs to be perfect, it cannot go wrong in terms of expelling the heat, i need a perfect job, not a sloppy job so who to use, who can you trust with your life, who is approved and has the right qualifications to get the job done?

the sharing economy

sharing economy and blockchain are perfect together, time and place micro managed on a public blockchain, objects for rent or sharing, time period, two parties, verification processes, tracking and recommendations and trust all built in. i’d be interested to see if companies like uber or airbnb ever put in a model for crypto payments, can you imagine who will win that race if one of them put in the ability to pay with bitcoin for instance? or maybe it’s going to be some open source startup that gives away the technology as part of it’s marketing itself. expect some game changing methods of using crypto for the things that you need right now from housing, transportation, loaning of items to mow your lawn. i know this is an area that’s gonna expand in the next few years massively.

the gamification possibilities

i love leaderboards. always have. ever since i was a teenager staring at the arcade screen nudging the joystick right to enter three characters in for my name so i could see and others could see how well i did. it’s just something so compelling to me. it’s just an old skool bulletin board style way of saying ‘i’m here’ and ‘i did this’ - in the same way i see gamification as a way for local councils to celebrate locals in their involvement in local community, no matter what your background, how much you are giving back - maybe not at person level, maybe postcode, maybe street by street, neighbour against neighbour, we already have that for energy tracking, why not build in the ability to mildly compete for the optimisation of where you are.

the validation band

just idea riding here seeing as i got into cloud mining recently and it’s made me think about the idea of money and value even more so about the hours when we are sleeping and how those hours are a massive amount lost over time if money is not working for us, or at least time itself is not working for us. i woke up this morning and my cloud miner had made me $5 - the difference between having a coffee with something to eat and not. while i was sleeping it was working. if your a freelancer these days you can get a virtual pa and have them working on your projects while you sleep. the world is realtime twenty four seven and technology and progress never sleep, up until now i’ve been quite happy to allow those daily sleep periods to just be used by sleeping but i’m realising now that in the world we are moving into we need to be present twenty four seven even if we are resting, having cloud mining, distributed silos of courses providing that are automated, the brand of one is going to be a skill that we are all going to need to wield on some level. the skill will be how we balance all of it.

the on location brand advocate

i believe a lot of money is wasted on advocacy, thousands of dollars on a whim, on a hope, on a gamble. investing in supposed advocates and engagement from jumping on the top of someones reach and network often does not translate even if you are taking only a percentage will actually be in the brands vision they bring. i believe that a blockchain approach to brand advocate makes perfect sense. you have thousands of people going to E3 and similar events, walking the floor, seeking out the brands they love with social networks who follow them.

currently the method is to back the most successful people who have the numbers and the quality but what if you just being on location, every tweet, geo located, or nfc swiped, interacted, not just a tweet or a facebook like was in someway backed with crypto, what if you could track the actual impact your brand advocate was having in ‘getting your brand out there’ as they walked the floor, did some networking etc. i know it sounds very black mirror but it’s going to happen anyway if you like it or not. why not make it about a time period, open, not behind silos and shady contracts or handshakes - let’s have brand advocacy out in the open.

weirdly, as i was thinking about this later in the day i found this link on steemit about a wrist strap for DASH! - https://www.cryptoninjas.net/2017/07/13/irish-startup-introduces-first-ever-wearable-dash-payment-wristband/amp - crazy! :)

anyway, just my 2 cents, or 2 steam. .. whatever you wanna look at it, i can certain see something like this existing in the very near future.. .

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