> Something like an actual currency w/ basic income dividends, and identity/fraud management
Proof of Humanity is trying to do that with $UBI tokens and their method of proving who you are (basically a video of you with your wallet address saying a specific script, and putting up a collateral that could be lost if a court can provide evidence that you've signed up for it before). After you're signed up, you get one $UBI token every hour. $UBI tokens are currently worth $0.12 apiece, so it's roughly $1200 USD per year (at least for the moment, it's inherently very inflationary and seems to kind of rely on people like Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum, to buy a bunch of tokens and burn them).
It does have a complex onramp, though, and will be difficult to get non-tech-savvy people onto it without some help, most likely.
We'll see if it continues to work. It's only been around since March 2021. It's an interesting idea, though.
Proof of Humanity is trying to do that with $UBI tokens and their method of proving who you are (basically a video of you with your wallet address saying a specific script, and putting up a collateral that could be lost if a court can provide evidence that you've signed up for it before). After you're signed up, you get one $UBI token every hour. $UBI tokens are currently worth $0.12 apiece, so it's roughly $1200 USD per year (at least for the moment, it's inherently very inflationary and seems to kind of rely on people like Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum, to buy a bunch of tokens and burn them).
It does have a complex onramp, though, and will be difficult to get non-tech-savvy people onto it without some help, most likely.
We'll see if it continues to work. It's only been around since March 2021. It's an interesting idea, though.
https://blog.kleros.io/introducing-ubi-universal-basic-incom...
https://www.proofofhumanity.id/