Verifying a Network State

• Making the Map Real: the Crypto Checkin and the Verifiable Census

Making the Map Real

• Problem: how do we materialize a cloud community into the real world?
• Solution: a series of intermediate structures
• Background
• Recall this gif: thenetworkstate.com/networkstate.gif - Concept: there is no upper bound to the scale and duration of cloud formations - Include the Software is Reorganizing the World article, and the citation - Show several examples of building up the table, and update it to 2022
• How do we apply this concept?
• The person funnel: book, readers, applicants, members, organizers. Each new network state should probably have a book, movie, or similar document that justifies its reason for existence. - The place funnel: the intermediate structures --- the meetups, community centers, and then more complicated buildings. The exact sequence of these is yet TBD, but this is the concept --- meet up in person until it seems worth it to get something more serious. - The map --- here's what a theoretical map might look like with simulated data - The goal is to make the map real
• Call to action: click to do a simulated action that's viewed on a simulated TNS map --- then apply to make the map real

The Crypto Checkin (6)

• Problem: at some point when we get to 1000 or 10000, people will start to doubt the photos are real - Example: "this person does not exist" - Example: Trump crowd size dispute
• So, we introduce the concept of the crypto checkin (solo) and the hashed handshake (pairwise)
• Crypto checkin
• daily login - Individual KPI: you get 1/365 towards the citizen number NFT - Community KPI: checking the status of the network state (coinmarketcap for the state of the network state) - Could be a network state dashboard with actions you can take to improve the network state (recruiting, evaluating, etc) - contributes to the census - often 1, could be N people at same time - what is the daily activity? - task - comment by the community - post proof of workout - TBD - ideally you come back because these are your people and this is the long-term purpose outside of work (or it becomes your work)
• Hashed handshake
• pairwise verification - writes the social graph on chain - also contributes to the census
• Operationalizing cryptohistory
• Compare to the history of Bitcoin: from the history of a currency to the history of a country - The history of a country on chain - From the blockchain to the John Hancock-chain
• Auditable citizenship
• The Network State Verification Script - Here's source code for how it works
• Call to action: execute a crypto checkin in the app

Social Proof (7)

• Problem: how do we show that network states are real to the world?
• Solution: show 140 second videos on Twitter with both social proof and cryptographic proof
• For each meetup, we want social proof and cryptographic proof
• Here's dos and don'ts for videos
• Dos and don'ts
• Film with a vertical video (do: vertical, don't: horizontal) - Make sure the lens is wiped clean (do: clean lens, don't: dirty lens) - Put yourself on 4K mode (do: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209431, don't: default) - Get shots lasting at least 1 minute, with at least 10 minutes of footage (do: videos: don't: just photos) - Film people, people interacting, reactions, the meetup setup, the app, and narrate a little to tell us what is happening (do: several shots, don't: just one shot)
• The desired output
• Theory: positive, gender-balanced, sunshine, friendly. Not cyberpunk. - Practice: a video like this of a single place - Theory: make the map real - Practice: a video that knits the various events together
• Call to action: upload a vertical 4K selfie signed with your ENS at a meetup

Cryptographic Proof

Chainlink talk on the census