Verifying a Network State

• Making the Map Real: the Crypto Checkin and the Verifiable Census

Making the Map Real 

• Problem: how do we materialize a cloud community into the real world?
• Solution: a series of intermediate structures
• Background
  • Recall this gif: thenetworkstate.com/networkstate.gif
  • Concept: there is no upper bound to the scale and duration of cloud formations
  • Include the Software is Reorganizing the World article, and the citation
  • Show several examples of building up the table, and update it to 2022
• How do we apply this concept?
  • The person funnel: book, readers, applicants, members, organizers. Each new network state should probably have a book, movie, or similar document that justifies its reason for existence.
  • The place funnel: the intermediate structures — the meetups, community centers, and then more complicated buildings. The exact sequence of these is yet TBD, but this is the concept — meet up in person until it seems worth it to get something more serious.
  • The map — here’s what a theoretical map might look like with simulated data
  • The goal is to make the map real
• Call to action: click to do a simulated action that’s viewed on a simulated TNS map — then apply to make the map real

The Crypto Checkin (6) 

• Problem: at some point when we get to 1000 or 10000, people will start to doubt the photos are real
  • Example: “this person does not exist”
  • Example: Trump crowd size dispute
• So, we introduce the concept of the crypto checkin (solo) and the hashed handshake (pairwise)
• Crypto checkin
  • daily login
  • Individual KPI: you get 1/365 towards the citizen number NFT
  • Community KPI: checking the status of the network state (coinmarketcap for the state of the network state)
  • Could be a network state dashboard with actions you can take to improve the network state (recruiting, evaluating, etc)
  • contributes to the census
  • often 1, could be N people at same time
  • what is the daily activity?
    • task
    • comment by the community
    • post proof of workout
    • TBD
  • ideally you come back because these are your people and this is the long-term purpose outside of work (or it becomes your work)
• Hashed handshake
  • pairwise verification
  • writes the social graph on chain
  • also contributes to the census
• Operationalizing cryptohistory
  • Compare to the history of Bitcoin: from the history of a currency to the history of a country
  • The history of a country on chain
  • From the blockchain to the John Hancock-chain
• Auditable citizenship
  • The Network State Verification Script
  • Here’s source code for how it works
• Call to action: execute a crypto checkin in the app

Social Proof (7) 

• Problem: how do we show that network states are real to the world?
• Solution: show 140 second videos on Twitter with both social proof and cryptographic proof
• For each meetup, we want social proof and cryptographic proof
• Here’s dos and don’ts for videos
• Dos and don’ts
  • Film with a vertical video (do: vertical, don’t: horizontal)
  • Make sure the lens is wiped clean (do: clean lens, don’t: dirty lens)
  • Put yourself on 4K mode (do: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209431, don’t: default)
  • Get shots lasting at least 1 minute, with at least 10 minutes of footage (do: videos: don’t: just photos)
  • Film people, people interacting, reactions, the meetup setup, the app, and narrate a little to tell us what is happening (do: several shots, don’t: just one shot)
• The desired output
  • Theory: positive, gender-balanced, sunshine, friendly. Not cyberpunk.
  • Practice: a video like this of a single place
  • Theory: make the map real
  • Practice: a video that knits the various events together
• Call to action: upload a vertical 4K selfie signed with your ENS at a meetup

Cryptographic Proof 

Chainlink talk on the census