Chad Ostrowski chadoh

Carbon Coin: A UN Tokenomics Design Conversation

An exported conversation exploring the design of a UN-administered "Carbon Coin" — a digital token intended to incentivize decarbonization and reward climate mitigation/resilience. Turns are presented in order; headings inside each response have been nested under that turn's heading so the document reads as one coherent outline.

1. @chadoh — Initial concept and open questions

I lead a Special Projects research team at the UN. We are exploring developing a Carbon Coin. We can peg supply to the amount of atmospheric carbon. If global actors work toward decarbonization, the token becomes deflationary like Bitcoin, intentivizing long-term holding and providing tremendous upside to early holders. In the carbon-intensive present, spending is incentivized. Using our power as the UN, we can award Carbon Coin to those governments, corporations, and NGOs that take the most meaningful actions to mitigate climate change impacts, as well as to the countries and co

Thu 2021-03-12

docs: update near-sandbox README with info removed from docs
meeting: Sprint 0 demo & retrospective

Wed 2021-03-11

runner: pass accounts to runner.run, publish v0.3.0
runner: move repo to near/runner-js; explain higher-level, multi-language vision in near/runner
docs: start thinking through what info belongs in docs.near.org, solicit input from JoFo & DaPa

Image

In decentralized version

Given an image, in any file format, when you add it to IPFS (ipfs add), you get a content ID like "qm1"

In centralized version

Exploring Defi

He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the money-changers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became banal.

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

2020-06-26

I think men mostly have to learn to be anarchists. Women don't have to learn.

There was always a kind of psychological clear space around Mitis, like the lack of clouds around the peak of a mountain. The absence of all enhancements and enforcements of authority left the real thing plain. There are people of inherent authority; some emperors actually have clothes.

To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.

Letters! Letters to propertarians, to subjects of governments founded on the inequity of power, to individuals who were inevitably exploited by and exploiters of others, because they had consented to be elements in the State-Machine. Did such people actually exchange ideas with free people in a nonaggressive, voluntary manner? Could they really admit equality and participate in intellectual solidarity, or were they merely trying to dominate, to assert their power, to possess?

Below is my proposal for the near.org home page. Each main heading corresponds to a section of the site.

The first section, as I explain it below, requires significant legwork:

A refactor of near-shell & near-api-js
The creation of conventions & suggested patterns that don't exist yet, so we can extract them to a new tool I'm calling near generate

While I think this legwork will pay significant dividends, I want the rest of these suggestions urgently enough that I don't think it's worth waiting all that time to start implementing. The second and third sections outlined below could be implemented much more quickly; let's start there.

And maybe there's some version of the first section that we could implement more quickly. I'm open to suggestions.

	const links = [
	{ name: 'pablo', category: 'cat' },
	{ name: 'harper', category: 'cat' },
	{ name: 'phyllis', category: 'dog' },
	{ name: 'derp', category: 'snake' },
	]

	// option 1: "oops, forgot the snakes"
	const catLinks = []
	const dogLinks = []

	class Owner {
	storage: string

	get_owner(): string {
	return this.storage
	}

	set_owner(account_id: string): void {
	this.storage = account_id
	}

	core ⮀ master ⮀ make sandbox
	CARGO_PROFILE_RELEASE_DEBUG=true cargo build -p neard --features sandbox
	Compiling unicode-xid v0.2.1
	Compiling proc-macro2 v1.0.24
	Compiling syn v1.0.60
	Compiling libc v0.2.86
	Compiling autocfg v1.0.1
	Compiling cfg-if v1.0.0
	Compiling serde_derive v1.0.123
	Compiling serde v1.0.123

	struct Token {
	id: u64,
	metadata_id: u64,
	}

	let metadata_vec = vec![];
	let metadata_map = HashMap::new(); // String to metadata_vec index of this String
	let creator_id_to_metadata_ids = HashMap<String, Vec<u64>>::new();

	fn fetch_token(id: u64) -> Token {