Topic: Gordi World: Your Bitcoin is Virtual Land (Read 108 times)

This is a really important question, the high-level answer is that we are attaching actual meaning to a Bitcoin (the same way Ordinal inscriptions attach information and therefore meaning) to Bitcoins.

But I'm not exactly happy with this answer right now, at least the way it is explained above. Let me work on that and report back.


Thank you for the reminder again. I'm taking away two here things. One is that having Bitcoins anchoring a virtual world is different from building the virtual world itself. Therefore the right approach is to partner with one (or even multiple) virtual world systems, who will supply everything they've built on top of a new foundation (or a new section a user can transport to). This is super valid and let me chew on this.

The other takeaway is that, other virtual worlds have built so much more capabilities, which I have not built and also don't want to build, and why is that? Perhaps the significance of Bitcoins having unique locations on earth isn't meant for a virtual world in the traditional sense. It might have a much more mundane and simpler purpose, such as simply incentivizing contributors to the Open Street Map project so that it exceeds other commercial vendors in content richness and quality.

Thank you again for the questions, they give me quite a bit to think about. Will report back soon.

What would attract the normal bitcoin user to use this service?  Anything they could create would be dwarfed by the big bitcoin holders.   You have to provide value other than having bitcoin.

I suggest again contacting Linden.   If they can see financial benefit in this, they may give you their virtual moon to divide as you suggest.    Or a user could step into a transporter and appear in your world.   The point is, your idea is 1% of the work involved, and the other 99% has already been done.   If you spend a million on advertising and are successful, they can launch something better in a few months.  :/

This is an excellent question, and before I answer it, please allow me a moment to ramble a bit.

There have been multitude of virtual worlds projects in the past, even before Second Life which was created 21 years ago! This shows the strong interest in this category, prompting various projects, including blockchain-based ones such as Decentraland and The Sandbox, etc. While many of them gained some traction, none of them really achieved ultimate success. I just checked Coinmarketcap.com, and both of these projects have fallen out of the top 100.

Why is that?

The answer is, in my opinion, that all these projects think that a virtual world is something that they create, not something that exists already, like the Earth we are on today. Of course, by doing this, the company (or project team) gets to create all the virtual land and reap all the monetary benefit for selling the land. In the end, all participants are essentially playing with/against the house, and are basically customers of the product/service provided by this company (or project team). The DAO structure in these project are not too much more than incentives to attract more customers.

Such thinking is very much counter to the Bitcoin/blockchain spirit, where decentralized management and fair creation/distribution of assets are essential principles.

From this angle, I'm working on this Gordi World project to perhaps try to bring to the world the very first native virtual world project to Bitcoin, where nobody gets to create or reserve any land for him/herself, everybody is able to participate for free. Also importantly, the land in virtual world map directly onto real locations and areas on Earth. How  cool is that? as I don't see any virtual world projects in the past have accomplished these. Attached below is a quick comparison:

I was just phishing for your age.... lol. 

Rather than create another virtual world, why not partner with sites like Second Life?

OMG this is too funny. I wrote the whole thing and only this last bit caught anybody's attention?! But still thank you for reading to the end! I'm here to gather some feedback to the idea and the prototype, now matter how half baked they are. But if you must know, I'm a bit past my youth, male (and thus should not tickle anybody's fancy here in this forum, at least I don't think), and located in a country too heavily regulating crypto that I'd rather not disclose (but you can guess).

BTW, forgive me for peeking into your profile a bit dear Vod. I wasn't looking into your ASL but did see a Bitcoin address you listed. It has not been active, but if the last transfer was when you moved some coins to yourself (to address 1ANh...PhL), congratulations you are now the proud owner of 0.67 acre of land in Indonesia! see below:


Is there anything you can do at all with this piece of land? for you perhaps not, unless you live there or somehow has an affinity to that area. But to some other people, today or way into the future, perhaps this piece of virtual land would be invaluable. Of course, I might be totally deluded, do let me know what you all think.

ASL?   

Hi guys, I'd like to introduce to you all a project that I've been working on for a while, and would like to look for your valuable feedback.

The Idea

The idea is simple, your Bitcoin is virtual land.

You see, the Ordinal theory (which gave us BRC20, Runes, etc., for better or worse) has basically stamped each Bitcoin santoshi with a serial number (called a sat number). The serial numbers don't change when you transfer your holdings to to another person.

If we divide the 360 degrees of the earth's longitudes into 7000 equal segments, and the 180 degrees of the early latitudes into 3000 segments, we'd have exactly 21M patch of the earth's surface, each of them corresponds to a single Bitcoin. Then if we further divide each of such patch into 10,000 x 10,000 small squares, each of them will correspond to a single santoshi, which is about 4 sq. ft. (or 0.38 sq. m) at the equator.

The Project

I've been tinkering with this concept for a few months and have built a prototype, and I've made it available at https://www.gordi.world. Here are the things I've built into the prototype today:

• Enter any Bitcoin address and see the corresponding locations and areas covered
• Connect a Bitcoin wallet (only Unisat wallet supported for now) and see the same
• Fly to major parts of the world and observe virtual land for sale, from the Unisat market place

That's about it for now. Moving forward, I'm thinking of building these additional capabilities:

• Virtual Land as NFT: any Bitcoin UTXO is effectively an NFT, with a virtual land attached
• Landlords! The display of the map (color, POI, etc.) can be controlled or at least influenced by land owners in the area
• Happenings: People should be able to perhaps read local news off the map. While the news stories should not be censored by the landlords, but perhaps landlords can attach stars or flags to news stories in their areas

Coinomics and Business Model

This project does not issue any coins, and does not have a business model. Not yet anyway.

The Ask

I'd love to have your feedback, and perhaps help me realize that this is dumb idea and project so that I can cut my losses and go back to watch Netflix all day.

I'd of course love to get potential interest of funding too. If you think this have the potential of turning into a fundable project, do let me know.

I'd also love to get fellow enthusiasts to join the team. While the project is not open source at this moment, there are ways that we can still work together. I used the NextJS/Node/TypeScript stack, so if you are familiar with those, and have time to contribute, do hit me up.

Oh if you get any errors when visiting the prototype (again: https://www.gordi.world), would you please kindly simply report it here?

About Me

I'm a coding enthusiasts residing on the west coast of a country that is heavily regulating everything in the crypto world. I took up interest in crypto about 10 years ago but haven't done much. I enjoy long walks on the beach, but find going to the beach quite the hassle.

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