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Jack Dorsey Contributes $1M to Kickstart Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot in St. Louis
13.10.2023
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and current CEO of Square Inc., is contributing $1 million to support the launch of a pilot program for guaranteed basic income in his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri. According to the city, applicants will be selected on a first come, first serve basis “for...
Income Movement Rightfulshare Says It Has Launched ‘First Unconditional’ Crypto UBI in South Africa
15.2.2023
Rightfulshare, an income equality advocacy movement, recently said it has launched what it describes as the “first unconditional” crypto universal basic income (UBI) transfer. According to Karen Jooste, the crypto UBI not only expands the possibilities for unemployed South Africans...
How cryptocurrency could help tackle global income inequality
31.8.2022
A look at the many ways that cryptocurrency can help to solve the problems associated with global income equality
Jack Dorsey on UBI: Bitcoin encourages transparency, long-term thinking
5.2.2022
Dorsey's Start Small initiative has invested over $55 million across the United States and overseas to experiment on universal basic income
Iris Scanning Worldcoin Idea Fuels Objections From Privacy Advocates — Snowden Says ‘Don’t Catalog Eyeballs’
25.10.2021
During the last few weeks, a project called Worldcoin has been the subject of numerous headlines and speculation. Worldcoin launched on October 21 and aims to be a universal basic income (UBI) crypto asset that gives free tokens to accounts that are verified with a biometric eye scan. The project...
Missouri mayor suggests giving residents up to $1K in Bitcoin
20.8.2021
Jayson Stewart hinted Cool Valley residents could be required to HODL the funds for five years
The Problem With Painting Blockchain With a Crypto Brush
21.4.2021
Blockchain’s underlying decentralized ledger technology has many practical applications, yet, the value of the technology itself has in practice become secondary to token capitalization. Speculation in Coins and Tokens Routinely Overshadows Promising Developments and Initiatives As major...
Etoro’s Gooddollar Basic Income Initiative Aims to Fund 1 Million New Users With New Referral Program
9.2.2021
An incentive of 100G$ will be given to registered users for new referrals, and 50G$ to new users as a ‘welcome bonus.’ Etoro, one of the world’s leading social trading platforms, has announced that it’s funding rewards for the next one million users of its Gooddollar...
Project gives away 14M tokens in digital universal basic income experiment
2.12.2020
GoodDollar believes that "digital basic income can work at scale, while effecting positive change on a global level.”
A Guide to Circles, the Project Bringing UBI and FOMO to Ethereum’s xDai Sidechain
22.10.2020
Circles has had its glitches in the early going. Here's what you need to know to get into the newest crypto-powered universal basic income (UBI) project
Your Wallet in 2030 Will Be Full of Free Money
13.10.2020
Real freedom will come when monetary stimulus goes directly to the people, writes Yoni Assia, founder and CEO of eToro
DeFi Meets Universal Basic Income With Just-Launched Project From eToro
8.9.2020
eToro's GoodDollar initiative will provide a universal basic income for some of the world's poorest by incentivizing people to yield farm on its platform
Money Reimagined: Designer Money for a Machine-Run Post-COVID World
22.5.2020
The pandemic is likely to accelerate a shift to automation, putting people out of work and raising the need for new types of money
USV’s Albert Wenger on the World After Capital
18.5.2020
A blueprint for redesigning society as the world shifts from the Industrial Age to the Knowledge Age
$2K per Month for Every American: Andrew Yang Begs Congress to Pass Basic Income
26.4.2020
While most of the U.S. remains on lockdown, a few states across the nation are starting to open up businesses and lift restrictions. Meanwhile, politicians on the left have been trying to push a universal basic income (UBI) package through Congress, in order to give Americans in need a monthly...
Andrew Yang Says Current Stimulus Payments to Americans Aren’t Enough
15.4.2020
Andrew Yang, ex-presidential contender and friend of crypto, says today's stimulus won't get Americans through the crisis. (Also, he might run for NYC mayor.)
How to Get Money to People In An Emergency, Fast
7.4.2020
How do you get emergency dollars to Americans fast? You use smartphones, not checks and bank accounts
How Central Banks Could Use Digital Cash to Deliver Universal Basic Income
30.3.2020
Central banks are well placed to deliver regular, no-questions-asked monthly payments to everyone, and to manage any ensuing inflation
Minting Basic Income – US Lawmaker Asks Treasury to Issue Two $1 Trillion Coins With No Debt
22.3.2020
The U.S. is now facing the onslaught from the coronavirus outbreak. During the last two weeks, bureaucrats have shut down multiple industries while the Federal Reserve has injected trillions into the hands of private banks. Bipartisan members of Congress have been penning a 2020 stimulus plan,...
You Are the Product: A Three-Step Plan to Take Back Control of Personal Data
20.2.2020
Personal data is monetized, giving us, the providers, nothing of the pie. Entrepreneur Jennifer Zhu Scott has a three-step plan for taking back control