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By this agreement, we define cyber•Congress, as a sovereign self-funded community of scientists, developers, engineers and craftsmen who create on its mission the foundation for a new kind of existence.
Helping the evolution of species
We believe that we are united by the values we share, thus helping us to achieve our goals:
- Security. We work with digital signatures only
- Anonymity. If someone chooses to stay anonymous or private - it is their right to do so
- Open-source. Everything we run in production must be open-source either software or hardware.
- Transparency. Transactional transparency is fundamental to community building
- Informational freedom. No local laws can prohibit the flow of any information
- Economic freedom. Nobody has the right to prevent or block transactions
- Free will. We reject corporate slavery bullshit, such as conflict of interest or NDA
- Capital, not salary. Helping to switch our team from selling time to selling knowledge
- Engineering is marketing. We would rather spend our resources on engineering of marketing, then on marketing itself.
- Physical liberty. Limitations for physical liberty can be economic, but not authoritative
- Automation. Everything that can be automated, must be automated
- Intelligence. An entity can be treated as intelligent if they can control their private keys and can sign transactions
- Decentralization. Everything that has a single point of failure may not have it
- Build for centuries. We believe our grandchildren could use what we built
cyber•Congress is founded by the following cryptographic entities using the genesis account:
- @21xhipster: Keybase ID, Ethereum ID
- @litvintech: Keybase ID, Ethereum ID
- @hleb-albau: Keybase ID, Ethereum ID
The foundation timestamp, is a timestamp of the last transaction from every signature account to a multisig account that contains an IPFS hash of this document as a payload + the hash of the last git commit.
The following accounts of cyber•Congress are official:
- Ethereum 2of3: 0xB52B7EdA722249499e3a28B5BB6c778ee0Ac462c
- Bitcoin 2of3: 38W5xwiJTYAL5aLcokdYNvY28DAzS6Piqz
All decisions must be proved by a transaction from one of the congress accounts. The signature accounts which control the multisig accounts are also considered official. For the time being, all other accounts must be registered in this document.
We are starting from the simplest but a resilient form of decentralization: a simple 2of3 multisig. We value decentralization and agree that we will do our best to throw more brains into the pot. More brains can support more income. We also understand, that decentralization always comes at expenses. For now, we struggle to find an organic growth balance between those kinds of expenses and an income. We understand that a flat voting system does not scale to more than 7 members. Thus, if there will be demand for further growth, we will make a decision based on in-depth research in the field.
Members communicate between themselves and between teams by using provably secure communication channels. At the moment, we use Keybase for communication. If any teams wish to use a more convenient channel, they are welcome to do so.
cyber•Congress can hire. Our goal is number of employees = number of members * X, the X is 7.
cyber•Congress forms communities around our ideas through investing into different tokens. All drops to the members of the community are computed proportionally to the valuation of assets under control.
Currently, cyber•Congress can be expanded only to an odd number of members.
If someone wants to become a member - they can. If one member wants to quit the congress - they can. Congress can decide to drop out a member. In any case, they need to create a proposal here. Congress can fill the proposal here: proposals.
If one member is leaving, they receive a one-time drop, which is calculated by using the following formula:
total valuation of assets under control / number of member * 50%
The other 50% will be split evenly between teams and between the community. The drop must be executed in 30 calendar days after the initiation of a proposal.
Congress can liquidate itself. If this event happens the following will occur:
- The software goes to a public domain
- The hardware obtains personal freedom
- Non-transferable tokens will await being transferable
- Non-fungible items will be auctioned
- 50% of transferable tokens, will be dropped to community members. 25% will be dropped to teams. The remaining 25% will be given to the community, either in the form of a drop or a burn
If a community decides to drop to cyber•Congress, they must understand the following guidelines:
- 60% is dumped back in favour of our communities and will remain under the control of cyber•Congress. cyber•Congress can choose to fully keep the dropped tokens to itself;
- 20% of the tokens will be dropped to community members
- 20% of the tokens will be dropped to teams
If any team feel the independent need to create a new organization or a fork, they are free to do so. Congress members will benefit from such behaviour and are ready, in case the team is self-sustainable, to transfer repositories.
- Value management: control of keys and investment decisions
- Community building: continuous development of community on gitcoin
- Communications: ensure clear communications across channels
- Delivery pipelining: improving our development pipeline
- Roadmap evolution: keeping the roadmap up to date and rethink it every block
- Sprints runs: planning of 2-week sprints on Mondays, closing sprints on Fridays
- Forecasting: happens at the end of every sprint
- Team ambience: create a cosy environment and help switch from salary-based to capital-based income
- Knowledge sharing: everything around gathering and transferring of knowledge created inside
- Visual perfection: visual can be fun and sexy
- Improvements: improvement proposals can be merged or spun off.
This list of functions is exclusive. If someone wishes to add something, they can try to guess what needs to do be done to complete the task.
The current product priority is the following:
- cyber•Search
If one wishes to add something to this list, they must create a proposal with some research here
We have a Library. Please join us in the pursuit of our goals.
This agreement is alive and dynamic. If changes happen, they must be reflected accordingly.
The agreement is valid for cyber•space
@hleb-albau left cyber•Congress on his own accord and was replaced by @npopeka: Keybase ID, Ethereum ID. Replacement was made by executing proposals №134 and №135 on Ethereum 2of3 multisignature contract: 0xB52B7EdA722249499e3a28B5BB6c778ee0Ac462c by @21xhipster and @litvintech.
Current cyber•Congress members are:
- @21xhipster: Keybase ID, Ethereum ID
- @litvintech: Keybase ID, Ethereum ID
- @npopeka: Keybase ID, Ethereum ID
From serejandmyself
Over 40 years ago, Earth launched Voyager 1 and 2 into deep space. Until today, this mission is ongoing and keeps uniting us as species and gives all of us hope. With the Voyagers, our species sent the golden record to space, assembled out of 115 images and a variety of natural sounds, such as those made by surf, wind and thunder, birds, whales, and other animals. To this, they added musical selections from different cultures and eras, and spoken greetings from Earth-people in fifty-five languages.
That record carries what we believe in, with this, below, we have outlined the goals and values that we believe in the most. This is a hard mission, as our foremost wish is freedom and outlining anything when speaking of freedom is hard.
We do not believe in captchas. We do not believe in KYC. We do not believe in licensing and any other similar to the above-mentioned bullshit. We do believe in code. We believe in innovation and in making use of our knowledge to make the world a slightly better place for our children. However, blockchain technology has opened the opportunity for development which was previously impossible. cyber~Congress, is a sovereign self-funded community of scientists, developers, engineers and craftsmen who create on its mission the foundation for a new kind of existence.
Over 40 years ago, Earth launched Voyager 1 and 2 into deep space. Until today, this mission is ongoing and keeps uniting us as species and gives all of us hope. With the Voyagers, our species sent the golden record to space, assembled out of 115 images and a variety of natural sounds, such as those made by surf, wind and thunder, birds, whales, and other animals. To this, they added musical selections from different cultures and eras, and spoken greetings from Earth-people in fifty-five languages.
That record carries what we believe in, with this, below, we have outlined the goals and values that we believe in the most. This is a hard mission, as our foremost wish is freedom and outlining anything when speaking of freedom is hard.
We do not believe in captchas. We do not believe in KYC. We do not believe in licensing and any other similar to the above-mentioned bullshit. We do believe in code. We believe in innovation and in making use of our knowledge to make the world a slightly better place for our children. However, blockchain technology has opened the opportunity for development which was previously impossible. cyber~Congress, is a sovereign self-funded community of scientists, developers, engineers and craftsmen who create on its mission the foundation for a new kind of existence.
The most difficult thing about a freedom manifest is making it not sound like a manifest.
The great John Lenon once said:
Imagine there's no countries
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
You may say I'm a dreamer
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Those words are not kept to their original order, but they still carry the same message that we share.
We have goals and values. Most of our goals we recreate into general issues on our roadmap. from there, you may follow any of these and see how they break down into tasks and overgo an evolution until there is a result.
Most of our goals and values overlap. Some of them can be expresses as a reference to movies, songs, poetry, academic research. Some are easier listed:
- Security: We do not work with fiat and avoid bureaucratic paper hassle. We prefer to work with digital signatures
- Anonymity and privacy: If someone chooses to stay anonymous or private, it is their right to do so. We respect it
- Open-source software: Everything we release into production should be open-source and auditable
- Open-source hardware: Every piece of hardware that goes into production, should be open-sourced and auditable
- Transparency: We believe that transactional transparency is fundamental to building decentralized communities
- Informational freedom: Local laws should not prohibit data flow and information
- Economic freedom: Nobody should prevent or block public transactions
- Free will: We reject corporate slavery bullshit, such as conflict of interest or NDA
- Capital, not salary: Helping to switch from dragging to the bottom salary to a capital-based, passive income for species
- Engineering is marketing: We would rather spend our resources on engineering than on marketing
- Physical liberty: Limitations to physical liberty can be economic, but not authoritative
- Automation: Everything that can be automated, should be automated
- Intelligence: An entity can be treated as intelligent if they can provably communicate
- Decentralization: Everything that can be decentralized, shall be decentralized
- Always on the edge: We try to offer alternatives to outdated technologies such as emails
By sharing those values we want to show what drives us. What makes our inner clocks tick. Those values unite us. If you check out the project roadmap, you will find a list of episodes, ranging from I - V. These episodes, as already mentioned, include our goals.
They can be grouped into the following categories:
- Science: building a strong scientific foundation, space exploration, technologies that can transfer human conciseness, extend living capabilities, improve ecology (thermoregulation)
- Development: improving consensus computers, developing interfaces, integrating post-quantum cryptography, independent robots, open tools for biological engineering, develop metaverse
- Economy: achieving an incentivized system for all types of actors, self-sustainability, access to equal economics to all species, creating incentives for AI
- Transparency: providing access to transactions, lack of censorship, demolishing borders and states
- Privacy: a possibility for private communication
- Governance: finding replacements for control, open unified registries
- Social: abolishing fear, freedom of choice, bringing sociology and anthropology back to natural ways
Below is one of the most important quotes ever said on Earth by Carl Sagan:
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.” ― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
We share this vision, but we look forward and even beyond it.
We understand that technicalities are boring, but we want to be transparent. To achieve our goals we will utilize any type of appropriate to our values technology that either exists or create it ourselves. More details on cyber~Congress technicalities can be found here.
May the code be with you. Don't believe. Don't fear. Don't ask!