Hi #nostr it's Nate of earth here again. I just thought I'd post a sneak peek of the #pheun tx UI. This tx just has some text no media payloads, but you can see the tx full view, payload view which is open, comments view which grabs comments and shares from the global network. Governance, so if it's a proposal or a comment to one it will be able to vote directly from someone else's vote. And lastly the raw tx, this shows the full tx hex and all 31 byte metadata tags positions. We also have 3 buttons next to the x, which are share, view profile and send P2P message directly to profile that posted the tx. Let me know what you think about the UI and follow for more. I'm almost ready to release the white paper for my platform, I'm so excited to release it. Peace Nate ✌️

I've been designing a next-gen blockchain platform and made some controversial choices. Looking for honest feedback from the crypto community. ## Core Design Principles: **What's DIFFERENT:** - ❌ No blocks (individual transaction propagation) - ❌ No mining (Byzantine consensus via random node verification) - ❌ No cryptocurrency tokens (zero economic incentives) - ✅ Quantum-resistant signatures (future-proof cryptography) - ✅ ONE account per human (enforced for democracy) - ✅ Direct democracy governance (citizens vote on platform changes) **The Goal:** Create a social/governance platform where 5 billion humans can participate in direct democracy with true "one person, one vote" - no plutocracy, no mining pools controlling consensus, no whales manipulating votes with tokens. ## The Trade-offs I'm Wrestling With: ### 1. **Privacy vs Accountability** To prevent vote manipulation, all transactions are PUBLIC (like Bitcoin). You get a pseudonymous username, but your voting history is transparent. - **Pro:** No secret vote buying, provable democratic consensus - **Con:** Your political views are permanently public **Question:** Is radical transparency worth the privacy loss? Or does this create a surveillance dystopia? ### 2. **One Account Per Person** To achieve "one person one vote," I enforce ONE identity per human. You can't create multiple accounts to spam votes. - **Pro:** Prevents Sybil attacks, enables true democracy - **Con:** Can't separate work/personal identities, no "burner accounts" **Question:** Is enforcing single identity too authoritarian? Or necessary for democratic integrity? ### 3. **Permanent Immutability** Once you post something, it's permanent. Forever. No edits, no deletions. - **Pro:** Historical truth preserved, no censorship or revisionism - **Con:** Youthful mistakes haunt you forever, violates GDPR "right to be forgotten" **Question:** Should people have the right to erase their past? Or does democracy require permanent accountability? ### 4. **No Economic Incentives** Nodes run altruistically (like Wikipedia editors or Tor volunteers). No mining rewards, no staking yields, no token speculation. - **Pro:** Pure democratic participation, no profit motive corrupting governance - **Con:** Will people actually run nodes without financial gain? **Question:** Can a blockchain survive without economic incentives? Or am I being naive about human nature? ## What I'm NOT Building: - Not a DeFi platform (no smart contracts) - Not a currency (no tokens to trade) - Not a corporate project (open-source, community-governed) - Not trying to compete with Bitcoin/Ethereum (different purpose entirely) ## What I AM Building: A democratic social network where: - Governments can't censor you - Corporations can't ban you - Wealthy users can't buy more influence - Your vote counts exactly as much as anyone else's ## My Questions For You: 1. **Privacy:** Would you use a platform where your votes are public forever? 2. **Identity:** Is "one account per person" too restrictive? 3. **Incentives:** Would you run a node altruistically (costs ~$50/month)? 4. **Governance:** Would you trust direct democracy over representative democracy? I know this sounds idealistic. Maybe too idealistic. But I'm genuinely curious if there's a community that wants this, or if I'm solving a problem nobody has. **Honest criticism welcome.** Tell me why this will fail. I want to stress-test these ideas before building something nobody wants. --- **TL;DR:** Building a blockchain with no blocks, no mining, no coins - just direct democracy and radical transparency. Is this revolutionary or just naive?

Discussing privacy and blockchains, I have a new type of social and data blockchain currently at 90pc development and any to get your thoughts on privacy. All tx's are stored open and transparent on a blockchain each tx is a complete block itself unlike #bitcoin and other #crypto blockchains. Example flow. Alice creates a profile genesis tx she includes a description and 2 pictures, first picture is permanent profile picture(avatar or real photo of self) and a verification picture with a piece of paper with date and id (16 letters and numbers) for example nate123456789000, 2 other users have to verify your profile by posting a comment to your profile linking it through the linkage key. Once two people verify you are a real person and not a bot(enemy of all democracy platforms) then you have full access to post in all parts and become a verified voting participant. Now with a verified profile you are able to vote and post. So Alice finds a proposal that people are voting on and submits a "yes" vote and posts her thoughts about the proposal for example "I read the proposal and agree with Bob we should have free internet for all citizens" This is both her concensus vote AND opinion of what she thought, now this is a tx like all others so if John is subscribed to Alice in Johns feed he sees her yes vote, initial proposal details and her opinion, this makes John agree with the proposal and Alice and in the same interface John votes yes aswel and the linkage continues propergatimg votes and discussion automatically throughout the system ,personal feed. Now if Tim isn't that interested in democracy he can customise his feed to exclude vote tx's and proposal tx's from his feed entirely we have over 512 customisable tags PER feed! Democratic transparency is the price of privacy. Since all users are verified and their profile is law. Technically if the real world identity is exposed then users or governments can trace all tx's and punish for illegal content but that's what we have a digital constitution for people vote on completely new rules and regulations from scratch and users agree on the platforms new rules, so if you people vote on content policies you need an majority 75pc to agree to modify the constitution. This is a complete revolution as we have never had Any system of governance like this before. Think of each proposal as a referendum that all participants vote on and discuss in real time and the backend takes care of concensus automatically approving and denied proposals. So, what do you all think about #privacy what's the pros and cons of true privacy let's discuss while I'm still developing my platform and would you leave old legacy platforms behind like #nostr #x #facebook for true decentralised transparent blockchain based governance and blockchain based platform all in one. Peace and harmony to all who read this. Peace Nate ✌️