Topic: Anarchist direct-democratic governance and resource management platform - Antok (Read 973 times)

Interesting, I will certainly look into it. Thanks.

Nice.. I will be keeping an eye on this for sure, goes hand in hand with what SDC is building you should check it out.

Project summary redefined!!

It might be too early to launch any serious fund raising efforts but I think its fair soliciting assistance with running costs on an intended collaborative and non-profit project. All financial details are documented and can be checked on forums. Its not necessarily the case that I'd be in a position to maintain this myself.

I think it is far too early to ask for donations from strangers on bitcointalk

Your objectives seem overly broad. Perhaps you should narrow your focus

Thanks for that Aleix. Had a fun time discussing tech n politics. Its great to meet others who appreciate the more radical aspects of blockchain based apps and are also politically aligned. Hopefully catch you up again soon! Ciao.

Yesterday I had a very interesting afternoon chatting with @antokproject dev and @bitsquare dev after one of our btc meetups in Barcelona.

We talked for hours about politics, anarchism, bitcoin, bitsquare and this project.
 
We need projects like antok and people like this dev in the crypto ecosystem. The dev have all my respect and support.

I will follow this closely.

@ Liquid71 - Since its anarchist communism, there is no state, and personal property is respected. I guess you mean American libertarians (which is a hijacked term with different meaning in rest of the world) who advocate "private" property rights. The difference being, a car might be personal property, but the factory that produces them, is private property. I believe this should be under workers and community control instead, and no one persons priorities should outweigh those of an entire community.

This a really good documentary for the uninitiated, about the anarchist reign during Spanish civil war - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0XhRnJz8fU

@ YarkoL - Thanks a lot, very interesting, will look into that when I have some time.

Good luck, will be following this project with interest. 

You might want to check out decentralized autonomous
organizations running on Ethereum

Here's a guide that has a great "Start your own country"
example

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6PIGfaQBkUzM3FPUldIRVhOS3M/view?usp=sharing

Libertarians believe in personal property, communism is state ownership of property. How the fuck do you combine the two?

It must be covered in feces as well for these idiots to take notice. Seriously... these assholes only like shit they can pump, not something that has value through blood, sweat, and tears. There are some decent folk here, but trolls like TaunSewer and others are running the asylum now. I had to become a disgusting troll, so they wouldn't rape me! When in Rome!

In regards to bartering using the blockchain, once we start linking all types of physical objects to it then it will certainly work. And don't be fooled, there are strong collective movements built around the globe, particularly in Spain, and their success will keep inspiring others.

I wish I could use that as the logo.

What good is a college project that isn't covered in piss!! Blood, sweat, tears and urine went into this. 

Not to piss all over your little college project, but I don't think there are a lot of  libertarian communist cryptocurrency anarcho-syndicalist Rock me Amadeus counter-clockwise DUDES left. Transgender issues seem to be popular! Katlyn, and now Gay marriage across all 50 states... Trannycoin? These folks need some crypto love too! Maybe just tweak it a little and call it MillennialCoin! Slogan: Hipsters unite and take what is rightfully ours from the old pasty white dudes!

Just invest in NXT! Omg! I have been assimilated.



"anarcho-communists support a currency-less gift economy where goods and services are produced by workers and distributed in community stores
where everyone (including the workers who produced them) is essentially entitled to consume whatever they want or need as "payment" for their
production of goods and services. A gift economy does not necessarily involve an immediate return (such as with remuneration); compensation
comes in the form of whatever the person decides is of equal value to their products of labor (what is commonly called bartering)".


No... that's just not going to work. When we get the CHIPS... then we will all be happy to give away everything, including our free will! I appreciate your push for a collective form of extreme individualism, but I am really not there yet. Good luck! I wish you the best! Take care! I love you! Wow... this gifting thing is contagious!

Aim:

To create a direct-democratic governance and resource management platform, based on anarchist non-hierarchical and libertarian communist principles.

Built upon an un-corruptable, un-censorable, free and global system.

How it works:

Antok is open-source protocol to setup local assemblies, autonomously formed by collectives and individuals. Members are assigned a non-accumulative token, acting as a secure ID, to grant distributed access to a shared database of resources, and allow digital interactions with offered services, and real-time usage and inventory monitoring. Be that enrolling in a school, or checking out groceries, using a mobile or a printed QR code. An interactive interface enables participation in assembly governance, and management and oversight of related community issues. Antok distinguishes between personal and private property (put under assembly control), provides anonymous but transparent and direct-democratic voting systems, organisational tools using be-spoke, bottom up and constantly accountable hierarchy structures, and abilities to pre-plan production and service requirements, as well as make resource allocation decisions. Fraud prevention largely comes down to registration and detection methods employed by assemblies. Which can range from traditional, to modern digital solutions. Collectives are expected to function in a non-profit, or anarcho syndicalist manner. Contributing any profits (segregated to external platform) to assembly control and utlising boycott and protest functions, directly implemented for all users, to further workers controls and anti-capitalist agenda. That can be used to simultaneously wage a war of solidarity against any cause or easily drop support for any exploitative and out of control currencies or assemblies.

A time-stamped and cryptographically verifiable, public ledger, forms the back bone to Antok. It's run by a de-centralised and peer-to-peer network and referred to as the blockchain. This also facilitates proposed gift and barter type, non-interest based counter-economies, on a global scale, not reliant on any capitalist systems, and promoted for all internal transactions. Smart contracts that self fulfill after meeting specific criteria enable swaps and trades, without lawyers or middlemen. Inventories are ratified by local assemblies or delegated persons and groups (constantly accountable), and accurately entered onto the blockchain. Assemblies can build trust and forge alliances or federations to scale nationally and internationally, to serve common interests. While maintaining grass-roots elements ensuring integrity. Councils (constantly accountable) can be created to delegate tasks and carry out assigned roles necessary for functional societies, which are not suitable mechanisms for collectives to lead. Antok by itself, could be integrally self-sufficient, but that requires a social revolution. Therefore, it aims to be an open breeding ground for all leftist experimentations and innovations or established marxist theories in re-defining value to be used on top of it.

Originally Antok was defined as an “Anarchist cryptocurrency”, due to being based on Bitcoin's underlying technology. A currency that's always free might be good marketing, but it's contradictory and distracting from project's intended case uses. Antok just seeks to be an independent organisational tool!

Requirements:

• Member and collective registrar.
• Property, inventory and services registrar.
• Direct democratic and optionally anonymous but transparent voting system and procedures.
• Organisational tools, providing be-spoke, bottom up and constantly accountable hierarchy structures.
• Options to form councils and delegate tasks or shared resources to specific groups, persons or collectives.
• Abilities to scale nationally and internationally by joining alliances as federations to serve common interests.
• Inventory database management, real-time usage and stock monitoring, and automated allocation, based on member decisions.
• Token system which acts as a secure ID, grants distributed access to resources and services, and serves as a part of governance platform login information.
• Global gift and barter economy, facilitated by time-stamped, public ledger.
• Segregated management section for external currencies, finance related matters, or labour credit schemes.
• Interactive governance platform for oversight and management of community issues. And to plan ahead production and services desires and undertake inventory allocation decisions.
• Boycott and protest platform, able to achieve mass-scale and organised by locality, cause, date, popularity, assembly, etc.. Allowing anybody to begin de-centralised campaigns which include profiles, related info, alternatives and discussion sections. Also to easily block interacting with other assemblies for any reasons.
• Detailed and interactive community notice board and integrated, end-to-end encrypted communication systems.
• Autonomous assembly control and oversight and management over all issues.

Project status:

This is currently a solo project in planning stage. Eagerly welcoming all contributions from experienced developers and any others with useful skill-sets and ideas. Please email me at [email protected] and join the GitHub project page. I have setup a discussion forum and will post social network and blog links below and update them with news and promotional content. Also laid some barebone functional requirements.

Donations:

Currently running this psuedo-anonymously and it's is my first open-source programming project, so a big learning curve. Any donations will be used to fund running costs and outlined project objectives. Transaction histories will be publicly documented. Should this project take off and other trusted developers come on board full-time, I will de-centralise control of funds using Bitcoin's multi-signature accounts feature. Who's public transparency and autonomy from banks provides a viable mass-scale option for transitional syndicalist financial operations. The final goal of Antok however is to make all currencies obsolete.

BTC address:

39r4bNRAMw8wm68T52zLNRxgBKq4pfDAdG

Convert other cryptos here: shapeshift.io

More info: bitcoin.org

If you require anonymity or government censorship circumvention then use live Linux operating system distribution Tails.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=I0XhRnJz8fU

Anarchist Communism Wiki

"Anarchist communism[1] (also known as anarcho-communism, free communism, libertarian communism,[2][3][4][5][6] and communist anarchism[7][8]) is a theory of anarchism which advocates the abolition of the state, capitalism, wages and private property (while retaining respect for personal property),[9] and in favor of common ownership of the means of production,[10][11] direct democracy, and a horizontal network of voluntary associations and workers' councils with production and consumption based on the guiding principle: "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need".[12][13]"

Heavily influenced by the CNT (Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo) and Anarchist reign during the Spanish civil-war. Solidarity with all left-wing anarchist and communist comrades fighting fascism and imperialism!

Project info - https://antok.co
Forum - https://antok.co/index.php
Blog - https://antok.co/blog
Reddit - https://reddit.com/r/antok
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/antokproject
Twitter - https://twitter.com/AntokProject
Google+ - https://plus.google.com/104056507392573812486/about
RSS - https://antok.co/feed.php?mode=topics
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqCAUg6TUuZmPwDIGfanSsQ
TOR - http://lu56sbidj5drwdux.onion