~ 52,000 DNA are newly minted each day.
~ 1,800 BTC are newly minted each day.

You could as well just check in to validation dates and receive your validation rewards for solving flips - and leave constantly running nodes and receiving block rewards to others. It is all up,to you.

You register pseudonymously with your epass via nfc, please have a look here https://github.com/rgex/UBIC-android-wallet

Have a look at the block explorer at ubic.network: 51 passports are allready registered, no matter that it is a low profile project. UBIC might enable a lot of unique applications soon with its concept of sybil resistance, all independend from the idea of basic income. Sybil resistance is the key.

if you say that the access to International Civil Aviation Organization Public Key Directory is soon not mandative anymore for ubic to work, that may allow more countries to get a ubic-currency, right? Sounds exciting

So 5 Certifications neccessary for a "sans papers"-Account, but only 1 or two Certifications neccessary for a less secure but still legit E-Passport-Account. I love that idea

 

what about Passports from Brazil, Russia, India, Korea, Argentinia, Nigeria? I guess they all have likely less secure standards no matter that they are PKD-Participants?... What if you introduce currencies for each of them anyway, on the condition that their registered passports get only ubi when  ubic-participants holding secure passports validate and trust those registered accounts manually? Validation could mean approving how long those documents are legit and approving that the person on the passports picture was in private contact with them? So a participant for example from Russia would have a harder time to join and would have to ask for private validation and more intrusive private KYC in a telegram-chanel or discord-chanel, and would receive only UBIC when s/he is trusted by a legit UBIC-account (holding a passport of the current 28 allowed Countries). Trust could be limited to a few or even just one trust-connection each legit UBIC-Participant so that noone is able to trust multiple sybils.

Something like that could open up UBIC to a lot of additional participants?

As of November 2019 that list has grown to 70 pkd-members. Will ubic soon include other pkd-members as well?

i am proud that i finally found the time to make it three times in a row to the validation time window without beeing terminated  


Sounds good, but... - how can you be sure that those new PoP-Accounts dont concentrate all in the same fabric halls in china again?  Or - more likely when it comes to cost of human work - this time in nigeria or other countries known for their strong "airdrop mafia", monopolizing multiple accounts which are keeped alive by random third world workers from the street?

Those kind of bad actors allready seem to have killed mannabase.com (a centralized so called cryptoubi-project of 2016/2017, lacking sybil restistance) with thousands of fake-accounts, even while mannabase was worth nearly nothing on fiat exchange.

Ubic.network has different interesting approach to avoid sybil attacks, using proof of e-passport and thereby proof of nationality - maybe you could distribute your idena-PoP more globaly, using something like UBIC as an optional second layer?

Great, looking forward to it! 

I imagine a opinion poll on top of UBIC, where people can pseudonymously cast a reliable vote for example on future presidental candidates - or on the question: brexit yes or no.

It would create for the first time reliable internet polls - those on top of ubic cant be tricked that easy using bots or fake identity - and cant be faked by the instance itself that started the internet poll question in the first place.

People just need to register to ubic and every casted vote is expressed in a tiny transaction to a burning address, which is read out by the app as a vote for or against something, whatever question was asked.

Regarding anonymity against the state: people wont care too much about it if it comes to topics like brexit or presidency.

Thumbs up for Andrew Yangs first appearance at democratic debate in a few hours!

correct me if i am wrong but i guess your going to create that ios13-NFC-passport-reader as standalone-app first because you can do it and such a thing doesnt exist yet - without ubic in mind but open for everyone?

that kind of app might probably have a exponential higher userbase, i imagine 1.000+ or even 10.000+ downloads within few month after release, no matter that a few dozend competitors will produce similar apps as well.

What if you link ubic directly or build-in a link into that app to a webspace where people can find and discuss all known applications that use NFC-E-Passports at that time? That would for sure be the brexit-app in the first place, but could as well link to UBIC - and content could be build out continously?

I guess your ios13-ubic-app is allready in the pipeline?

uk home secretary announced few weeks back that Apple promised to enable the Brexit e-passport App finally to work with iOS in late 2019 .( More and more people will grow accustomed to use their passport with NFC due to looming brexit btw. ) https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/29/android-brexit-app-for-eu-citizens-to-work-on-iphones-says-sajid-javid

it may be off limits for years, but we need a decentralized organisation one day with enough checks and balances and a buget allowing to give out free "universal passports" to everyone - as self sovereign as possible and in compliance with https://www.icao.int/publications/pages/publication.aspx?docnum=9303 ?

another hint that people believe in your concept

Ubic stands for "Universal Basic Income" Currency, but a additional meaning like "Unique Blockchain Identity" Currency could be correct too?

I did digg once more into anti sybil projects and it is fascinating that there seems to be still no other competitor yet providing a automated and/or decentralizable solution for sybil resistance beside maybe duniter. I think brightID will face slow growth too for different reasons, it is unlikely that everyone convinces their real peergroup to join at the beginning and local seedgroups may be only at a close distance attractive to join. As long as web of trust doesnt grow into mainstream something like kyc with government IDs seems to be initially needed as kickstart nearly everywhere.

wow, gj! will there be a whitepaper update explaining it in detail, which we can share with people?