Thank you for the good news.
Thank you for taking the time to read it! We're still around, and we've been busy.
I'd like to add something that one of our devs,
chenstyle, created after a virtual meeting we had a few days ago. It's based on what turned into a 2.5-hour lecture he delivered, which belongs on YouTube alongside the likes of Feynman. It was seriously awesome.
What is the meaning of value? What gives a currency its value? Is it a matter of necessity or perception? What if it’s both?
Ohm is something different. The premise behind Ohm that is different than other currencies is two-fold. The first, is that it is used as the official currency for an augmented reality game (ARG) called SVV. The second is that the only way Ohm is rewarded without a direct purchase, is through acts of kindness that are oriented toward positive change in the world.
The value of Ohm is not just determined based on supply and demand like other currencies, both crypto and fiat alike, but is determined based on the value of an act of kindness, which for some, that act could be perceived as necessity. An elderly woman who doesn’t have the strength to carry her groceries to the door, has a need for assistance, whether it’s out of kindness or incentivized with a reward, she would be willing to reward someone for their assistance.
There are two ways to look at how this woman will meet her need - she can offer a monetary reward in advance, or she can hope that someone offers their help for free. In either case, whether someone helps because of the money being offered up front or because they feel compelled to do it out of kindness, the end result is the same - the elderly woman had her need met, and the person doing it did so out of kindness and perceived the value of the act of helping without the need for reward, or they did so because their perceived value was in the monetary reward.
This represents two different types of mindsets that hold true for everyone - “service-to-self” and “service-to-others”. Some people are motivated by how they feel rewarded by helping others, including acts of kindness, and others are motivated for self gain, and we see this all the time within the pillars of humanity, in finance, law, medicine, technology, politics.
We have learned that money in its current form is also used as a tool for manipulation and provides a path to corruption. Ohm, SVV and LAMB all have a goal of changing the world, and changing how currency is valued.
The SVV has a focus of improving self through learning, meditation, spiritual exploration, math, music and other positive actions through an ARG. For those who don’t want to take part in that aspect of self-growth but enjoy the idea of being rewarded for acts of kindness, there is LAMB. For those who want to hold a currency where the value of it is supported by making the world a better place through genuine, experiential acts that have been recorded with evidence, they can buy Ohm directly.
The purpose of all of these methods is to improve the world through actionable means and give a different meaning to the word “value” while simultaneously moving to a decentralized monetary system that is backed by people’s actions.
^^^ This is the best expression of what it is that we're trying to do that I've seen yet. Having it put this way actually galvanized a lot of people into higher levels of involvement; there were a lot of people who'd been looking for a way to express what it is that they were trying to do, but they'd had trouble putting it into words themselves.
Can we get more people to sign up or donate?