Bitnation Announces a Decentralized Application for Basic Income Based on Bitcoin 2.0 Technology and Voluntary Fees
The Decentralized Application (DApp) basicincome.co will be hosted on the Bitnation core platform - Bitnation Pangea - after its release in 2015. Basicincome.co will be a first experimental attempt to provide a system for a crypto based Universal Basic Income (UBI), entirely based on voluntary 'taxes' (e.g. transaction fees). Basicincome.co is the brainchild of Swedish student Johan Nygren, who invites the crypto community to engaged in the project and visit the basicincome.co GitHub repository. Bitnation leader Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof said to CCN: "As an entrepreneur, I know money is....
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A new decentralized app, or 'DApp', is aiming to challenge the idea that we need government taxation and welfare to take care of the poorest and most needy members of society - through an ambitious project to provide a basic income for anyone who needs it. The Basic Income project was announced this week by so-called 'Governance 2.0' service Bitnation, and is being developed in partnership with Johan Nygrenm of Reslience. Me. The idea behind the project is simple - to provide welfare support to people who need a little extra help during the tough times in their life, funded through....
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