Scott MacLeod's Anthropology of Information Technology & Counterculture: Aquatic plant: Mine Pi - from FAQs ... "What is Pi? Pi is a new cryptocurrency for and by everyday people that you can “mine” (or earn) from your phone" ... This is how it works, and even re above hypothetical Stockton, California, UBI recipients receiving their basic income experiment in the form of a cryptocurrency like Mine Pi ... "hit the lightning button" ... * * * Per what we discussed (single cryptocurrency backed by some number of countries' central banks distributed via UBI experiments planning conceptually for all 7.5 billion people on planet, each a Wikidata Q-item number), a student in the first matriculating class at MIT OCW-centric World University and School just emailed me the following invitation to Mine Pi, a new cryptocurrency one can mine . . . How would questions of law in Oregon, and Washington (where your licensed to practice law), for example, eventually play out? And in Poland and Russia too? And in the US? * * * WIKIDATA - Dear Denny Vrandecic, Hearty congratulations on your new role at Google. Am excited too that Wikimedia and Google are growing collaborations via this great development. And thanks so much for founding Wikidata! . . . brainstorming-wise, a Wikidata Q-item for each of all 7.5 billion people on planet earth, in 3 ways: 1) Facilitating a single cryptocurrency with blockchain, distributed potentially via Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments (partly to alleviate poverty) 2) 'Avatar bot electronic medical records' for all 7.5 billion people. 3) Free-to-students' highest quality universal education with online major MIT OCW_centric universities in ~200 countries' main languages, and wiki schools for open teaching in each of all 7,111 known living languages

Friday, September 20, 2019

Aquatic plant: Mine Pi - from FAQs ... "What is Pi? Pi is a new cryptocurrency for and by everyday people that you can “mine” (or earn) from your phone" ... This is how it works, and even re above hypothetical Stockton, California, UBI recipients receiving their basic income experiment in the form of a cryptocurrency like Mine Pi ... "hit the lightning button" ... * * * Per what we discussed (single cryptocurrency backed by some number of countries' central banks distributed via UBI experiments planning conceptually for all 7.5 billion people on planet, each a Wikidata Q-item number), a student in the first matriculating class at MIT OCW-centric World University and School just emailed me the following invitation to Mine Pi, a new cryptocurrency one can mine . . . How would questions of law in Oregon, and Washington (where your licensed to practice law), for example, eventually play out? And in Poland and Russia too? And in the US? * * * WIKIDATA - Dear Denny Vrandecic, Hearty congratulations on your new role at Google. Am excited too that Wikimedia and Google are growing collaborations via this great development. And thanks so much for founding Wikidata! . . . brainstorming-wise, a Wikidata Q-item for each of all 7.5 billion people on planet earth, in 3 ways: 1) Facilitating a single cryptocurrency with blockchain, distributed potentially via Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments (partly to alleviate poverty) 2) 'Avatar bot electronic medical records' for all 7.5 billion people. 3) Free-to-students' highest quality universal education with online major MIT OCW_centric universities in ~200 countries' main languages, and wiki schools for open teaching in each of all 7,111 known living languages

Mine Pi

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Tanya Tomato
6:03 AM (4 hours ago)
to me

Hi Scott,
It’s Tanya!

Pi is a new digital currency being developed by a group of Stanford PhDs. For a limited time, you can join the beta to earn Pi and help grow the network. To join Pi, follow this link https://minepi.com/tanyatomato and use my username (tanyatomato) as your invitation code.

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Scott MacLeod
9:50 AM (31 minutes ago)
to Larry, Tanya

Hi Tanya,

Thanks so much for your Mine Pi invitation to me -

https://youtu.be/MsOaC61cR3U. And how are you? And where are you with World University and School coursework toward your Bachelor degree? As you may have noticed in the WUaS Agenda & News, WUaS is seeking funding for CA's BPPE for licensing. It would be great to explore doing this through a cryptocurrency even, but I don't think either the state of California's BPPE or WUaS is ready for this. And how did you learn of Mine Pi?

That said, and per WUaS Agenda and News re WUaS seeking to facilitate a single digital currency via UBI experiments, this Mine Pi cryptocurrency is interesting with its Stanford PhD and California origins, and re UBIcs.org (UBI catalyst systems . org) which I just learned of too - for infrastructure and as idea re distribution of single cryptocurrency via UBI.

I'd like to learn more about MINE Pi. Brainstorming-wise, building on the state of California's Stockton Basic Income experiment ($500/month over 18 months to 130 adults - with studying academically its effects) - https://amp.sacbee.com/news/local/article226280230.html & https://time.com/5667715/stockton-california-universal-basic-income/ (picture of bank card re distribution), in what ways could WUaS collaborate with Mine Pi and the state of California to make this become a single cryptocurrency in a large number or percentage of 200 countries' languages (backed by their central banks, a little like the 19/28 Eurozone countries & their central banks in Brussels in the European Union) and through universal basic income experiments?

Would Stockton UBI experiment recipients be able to 'mine' a cryptocurrency on their smartphone like MAKING A WITHDRAWAL from a bank? Am curious what mining entails in the 'Mine Pi' App - and also for computer scientists' algorithm-wise. And what it could mean for Stockton residents - IF they had smart phones, and could get their CA basic income from the state of CA in Sacramento (legally too - like central bank approval / authority) that way.

I may explore teaching about both this Mine Pi as example of cryptocurrency, as well as Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning newly in my "Society, Information Technology, and the Global University" - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html - next year in 2020.

I'll seek to bring up Mine Pi per the WUaS Agenda tomorrow - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/xerochrysum-bracteatum-agenda-news-for.html.

Thanks so much, Tanya, and will check it out further with your name code,
Scott

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/UBI

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Here are the Mine Pi FAQs ...
https://minepi.com/faq

This is how it works, and even re above hypothetical Stockton, California, UBI recipients receiving their basic income experiment in the form of a cryptocurrency like Mine Pi ... "hit the lightning button" ...

"How does this app work? How do I earn more Pi?

This app allows you to earn Pi by making simple contributions to Pi’s community. The more you contribute, the more Pi you earn. Read less ...

To start earning Pi, check in every 24 hours and hit the lightning button to start mining. Once you are mining, you can boost your hourly rate by inviting trusted friends and family to join the community. After 3 days of mining, you can boost your earnings more by building your security circle, which contributes to the overall security of the network. Keep in mind, earlier members of the network mine at a higher rate than those that come after them. ..."

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Hi Darlene,

Thanks for your email, gmail, and nice to talk with you at Reed College's FAR. Per what we discussed (single cryptocurrency backed by some number of countries' central banks distributed via UBI experiments planning conceptually for all 7.5 billion people on planet, each a Wikidata Q-item number), a student in the first matriculating class at MIT OCW-centric World University and School just emailed me the following invitation to Mine Pi, a new cryptocurrency one can mine. I blogged about all of this here today - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/aquatic-plant-mine-pi-from-faqs-what-is.html - and thought you might be interested. How would questions of law in Oregon, and Washington (where your licensed to practice law), for example, eventually play out? And in Poland and Russia too? And in the US? Let's stay in touch about all of this.

Very nice to meet you at Reed FAR.

Best, Scott

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/UBI

- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/09/agenda-news-for-21-sep-2019-world-univ.html - and - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/xerochrysum-bracteatum-agenda-news-for.html.

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[Wikidata] Personal news: a new role

Denny Vrandečić vrandecic@google.com via lists.wikimedia.org
Thu, Sep 19, 9:57 AM (1 day ago)
to Discussion

Hello all,

Over the last few years, more and more research teams all around the world have started to use Wikidata. Wikidata is becoming a fundamental resource [1]. That is also true for research at Google. One advantage of using Wikidata as a research resource is that it is available to everyone. Results can be reproduced and validated externally. Yay!

I had used my 20% time to support such teams. The requests became more frequent, and now I am moving to a new role in Google Research, akin to a Wikimedian in Residence [2]: my role is to promote understanding of the Wikimedia projects within Google, work with Googlers to share more resources with the Wikimedia communities, and to facilitate the improvement of Wikimedia content by the Wikimedia communities, all with a strong focus on Wikidata.

One deeply satisfying thing for me is that the goals of my new role and the goals of the communities are so well aligned: it is really about improving the coverage and quality of the content, and about pushing the projects closer towards letting everyone share in the sum of all knowledge.

Expect to see more from me again - there are already a number of fun ideas in the pipeline, and I am looking forward to see them get out of the gates! I am looking forward to hearing your ideas and suggestions, and to continue contributing to the Wikimedia goals.

Cheers,
Denny

P.S.: Which also means, incidentally, that my 20% time is opening for new shenanigans [3].

[1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=wikidata&sort=relevance
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedian_in_residence
[3] https://wikipedia20.pubpub.org/pub/vyf7ksah

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Dear Denny Vrandecic,

Hearty congratulations on your new role at Google. Am excited too that Wikimedia and Google are growing collaborations via this great development. And thanks so much for founding Wikidata!

Will explore in CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric wiki World University and School's monthly business meeting tomorrow, brainstorming-wise, a Wikidata Q-item for each of all 7.5 billion people on planet earth, in 3 ways:

1) Facilitating a single cryptocurrency with blockchain, distributed potentially via Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments (partly to alleviate poverty)

2) 'Avatar bot electronic medical records' for all 7.5 billion people.

3) Free-to-students' highest quality universal education with online major MIT OCW_centric universities in ~200 countries' main languages, and wiki schools for open teaching in each of all 7,111 known living languages (plus wiki schools for all extinct languages as well)

- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/09/agenda-news-for-21-sep-2019-world-univ.html - and - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/xerochrysum-bracteatum-agenda-news-for.html.

Thank you!

Best regards, Scott

- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577

- http://scottmacleod.com

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Scott MacLeod
11:20 AM (1 minute ago)
to Lydia, Denny, Peter, Larry, Stephen, Katherine, Léa

Thanks Léa for your email, and glad to learn who's moderating these.

As you may know, wiki World University and School donated WUaS to Wikidata for co-development in 2015, and received WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017, but they're not yet interoperable. Per my previous email to Denny, Lydia, Peter Norvig and Larry Viehland (chair of the WUaS Board), WUaS is seeking to plan coding-wise for 7.5 billion people each a Wikidata Q-item for wiki teachers and learners in all 7,111 known living languages re https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University (where this is WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki). See, too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/aquatic-plant-mine-pi-from-faqs-what-is.html.

Glad too to be in communication with you as Wikidata Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lea_Lacroix_(WMDE).

Will bring up these communications in wiki CC-4 MIT OCW-centric World University and School's open monthly business meeting tomorrow. WUaS seeks to be a growth story for the internet and the Wiki Movement as well - in creating major online MIT OCW-centric universities in ~200 countries official / main languages, with parallel educational services' stores in all 7,111 living languages. WUaS also seeks to hire 2.2 million people (as big as Walmart) in all 200 countries in the process (on both wings). And WUaS has created 2 parallel legal entities in the state of California and the US for this (https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html).

Thanks so much for your email, Léa. Besides with you as Communication Project Manager, how best to further communicate about all of this with Wikidata, as well as the Wikimedia movement?

Best, Scott

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Scott_WUaS

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Scott_WorldUnivAndSch

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President
- World University and School
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577
- http://scottmacleod.com

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.