Upgrades to PonyXPS/PonyUPS
This remains the same:
PonyXPS is a Public Resource Commons for the Common Good.
PonyXPS is User Owned and controlled…
PonyXPS asks the question “ Is your participation in this exchange worth 2 cents?”
If the answer is “Yes”, then you purchase or use “seeded” postage to send your message, listserver post, emoji, comment, pizza order, whatever.
To get your Postage Seeds you purchase them from the PonyUPS network which
- provides user security,
- accounting,
- encryption,
- a range of anonymity, and
- preserves and tracks viability of public commons investments.
This is what changes:
Previously the proposed model split the 2 cents postage credit between the service provider (PonyUPS) and the person you are communicating with.
I amend to propose that
First:
the entire 2 cent “seed” goes to the recipient in the form of a crypto, as the seed has been purchased.
by answering that you believe your participation in this exchange is worth 2 cents, you have set the value of the crypto in a Public Commons at 2 cents. (ie, you have “seeded” the currency and its value)
the value of the 2 cent “seed” remains intact and immutable forever
more resiliently than a minted quarter
and
the value follows that seed wherever it goes equal to any new seed purchased through PonyUPS.
as each crypto seed circulates within the system from person to person, the overall value of the commons grows and is tracked by PonyUPS, each person self proclaiming the value of their own participation is worth at least 2 cents.
In other words, each purchased seed is a legacy, designed to circulate and serve humans and the planet – forever.
This follows the Community Land Trust Model of “once invested, forever in service”.
It is the Primary Objective of the PonyXPS and PonyUPS to see that no seed ever leaves the system and continues to circulate for the common good.
Second:
the number of seeds a person accumulates is accounted for by PonyUPS
and can be
used to send social media communications, or
combined for purchases by the holder of locally produced goods and services (defined by Zip Codes, Area Codes, etc.,) only.
Third:
there SHALL be limits on the number of seeds a user can purchase in a quarter year,
as the objective is that this system is meant to be used to favor the lowest income and most disenfranchised.
there MAY be limits on
the time that a user may hold any specific seed (example: 5 quarter years) afterwhich
the seed is moved to scholarship in
Regeneration of Natural Resouces which enhance, improve, or expand the community commons,
including the education scholarship opportunities of the most poor, most discriminated against, and the at-risk.
Such as student research projects that sequester carbon through improvements in soil health
or scholarship purchases of locally grown foods for improved health (farmers market purchases).
Local Health Clinic services.
Fourth:
This system requires that there be no less than three types of users.
- A broadcaster
who purchases the seeds from PonyUPS and then disperses them through the use of PonyXPS - A conduit
who recieves the seeds through the social media services provided for by PonyXPS and scholarship options provided for through PonyUPS and then passes the seed(s) on. - A combination of the two above.