[liberationtech] BitNation, blockchain id, new year, Fwd: 2015 In Focus: Partners, Products, and Potential

[Jim Whitescarver]

The recent work of BitNation.co is impressive.  I think we all should
collaborate with them.  Joining makes a statement supporting voluntary
governance.

Freetrist.org is seeking collaborators on a grant on blockchain identity
R&D, Please email i...@freetrust.org if you are working in this area.

Happy new year all!  Together we will change the world.

Best,

Jim
-- Forwarded message --
From: BITNATION 
Date: Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 3:59 AM
Subject: 2015 In Focus: Partners, Products, and Potential
To: jimscar...@gmail.com


A summary of all the amazing things we've done this year, and a look at
what we'll be up to in 2016. View this email in your browser

Partnerships
BITNATION has announced three major partnerships in the last two months
alone in what has been the culmination of a year of hard work, close
collaboration and - on the whole - glorious success. This brings our number
of key partners to 5: Estonia, Horizon, Blocknet, Swarm, and Exosphere. We
have built a distributed, talented, highly motivated team from every
continent on Earth bar Antarctica. These amazing individuals have
demonstrated what can be done with a little self-determination, elbow
grease, and a united sense of disillusionment with nation states juxtaposed
with the kind of optimism blockchain technologies (and distributed
consensus protocols more generally) have brought to this wide and wonderful
world. However, our biggest thanks go to you, our interested, interesting
netizens. Without your support, engagement and input, none of this would
have been possible. We hope you stick around for the ride; 2016 is going to
be epic! BITNATION In The Media

We
would like, in particular, to draw your attention to The Atlantic's

must-reads in science and technology, to a beautiful Spanish blog-piece
about the extinction of democracy

in Europe, and an amazing (and entirely unsurprising) summation of the state
of blockchains

by none other than payments giant, Visa. Put together, these show that we
are gaining traction, that the world needs desperately the innovative
governance structures we're experimenting with, and that the blockchain
trust machine we rely on is about to come into its own. Products You must
have heard of our partnership with Estonia's e-Residency program by now.
It's been literally everywhere, from Bloomberg, to the WSJ and CNN. We are
making waves in the statist world, and recognition by a legacy nation state
as a formal partner capable of offering services normally reserved for
governments is a really big deal. One small step for BITNATION, one giant
leap for virtual sovereignity.

Anyone, anywhere can use our notary which is - for now - free of charge.
While the partnership with Estonia strengthens our position as a nation, it
has little effect on the actual legality and acceptability of our notary
system. It stands on its own two feet: a timestamped proof of existence in
an immutable and public ledger and a secure digital signature algorithm. We
don't know of a more better notary service anywhere. Joey Krug recently
used it and this is what he had to say:
​
"At Augur we own some short term bills through a brokerage in the UK and
had to submit a notarized copy of our founding docs (we're an Estonian
entity) and I did it through BITNATION's notary service (and it was
accepted). I honestly didn't think it would be accepted, but it was, and is
way way way easier than actually meeting a notary in person." Use Our
Notary Now

As
a special New Years' treat, please take a moment to get yourself a World
Citizenship ID. The ID generates a key pair that you can use in the notary
system (for added security and proof of identity) and will be further
integrated with some of the more exciting and intelligent pieces of our
Pangea platform.

We are also in the process of putting together a worldwide network of
embassies and consulates. If you would like to be a part of this historic
expansion into the meatspace and are willing to provide a place for fellow
netizens to work or stay, please sign up here. The more the merrier! Become
a World Citizen Today

Register
an Embassy

We
recently announced

[liberationtech] Time to Donate to CfA ... Fwd: 24 hours left

[Steven Clift]

I am a huge fan of the local Brigade program. We need to step up to build
it out and deeper.

I am personally in for $100. Will you join me?

You can even dedicate your donation to a local Brigade in the form!

See:
https://secure.codeforamerica.org/page/contribute/default?source_codes=email&mc_cid=9ac9c295e6&mc_eid=b7d7688cd6

Steve
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From: "Jennifer Pahlka" 
Date: Dec 30, 2015 7:17 PM
Subject: 24 hours left
To: 
Cc:

Last chance to give a tax-deductible gift to Code for America. [image: Code
for America Brigade]



Dear Steven,

We have an ambitious goal: $10,000 of urgently needed funds raised by
December 31st at midnight.

Will you make a gift of $50, $100, or $250 today?
Donate now


A gift of any size will help:

   - cover the core operating costs of local Brigades so that the
   volunteers can focus on important projects with their government partners
   - support fellows in building technology to address key outcomes in
   health, safety and justice, and economic development

Combined, all of this helps us continue our mission of a government that
works for the people, by the people, in the 21st century.

If you haven’t yet given, please consider a tax-deductible gift

to Code for America today.

with gratitude,
Jennifer Pahlka
Founder, Executive Director
Code for America
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