How would I start up blockchain project and gain community for our Non-Profit

[Deadheadpasta]

Hello everyone,

My girlfriend and I have recently started up a non-profit in the Seattle area. We aim to provide job training and resources for disenfranchised and marginalized communities in our area. The pandemic has seen a major amount of unemployment rise in just about every area in the whole world but I am sure you are all well aware of this. I am currently on a hiatus from community college but I am studying to get my A.A.S. in Computer Programming and have a relatively decent amount of knowledge about computers and coding. I'm nowhere close to being good at it, but I can make basic programs in C#, can maintain a database with SQL and am currently learning JS at home. We particularly want to help out the LGBTQ+ community starting with transgender women and men who find it hard to find a workplace that will be inclusive and equitable to their lifestyles. We already have a doctor and a lawyer on our board who specialize in helping transgender people so we have plenty of knowledge on where to go and what to do. We are trying to find companies that would be willing to join us and provide us with the knowledge and requirements needed to train people to get hired. We want to be completely inclusive and not just help one community in need we want to help as many people as possible. That is just a little rundown of our INCforce's (the non-profit) mission. We will be making all of this available to everyone under a certain income bracket we just want to help out with current issues in our area as we have seen an influx of transgender women since our state has provided health care and has listed gender identity disorder as a mandated health issue since escorting was the primary source of income to get procedures done for that community and the pandemic has exacerbated the issue and we have seen an upsurge in this kind of work. We want to provide the proper knowledge to get this community to at the very least start to professionalize their area of work through modeling or caming to disencourage unsafe activities and to empower them to move forward in achieving their life dreams and career ambitions not having to demoralize themselves or to put themselves in harms ways. We feel its time to look forward and to give equity and inclusion to the communities that lack the courage or knowledge to become their best selves. Lots of the stuff here is controversial and treading through these areas legally is going to be hard but I believe its possible to do and that it is the only viable next step in actually creating a system that can help us rebuild this economy while also empowering these individuals instead of making people feel ashamed for being poor and needing help. I want to create a leveling system for both the consumer and retailer so that it can be a somewhat entertaining to use

I have been following cryptocurrencies since about 2010 but only recently have I invested my time in buying, mining, and learning about blockchain technology in its entirety. I wish I could have done this before but I myself was homeless and was not in a place to do any of that economically until recently when I started working on bettering myself instead of blaming the world but that story is beyond the point of this post so we wont go into detail but I feel like its necessary for you all to know the jest. I started to think about making a blockchain of my own that could be used to create a real world economy for our nonprofit but I'm not sure how to go about it in a way that it would be able to get not only adopted and trusted by everyone but also to benefit the space by providing a form of tax relief if that is possible without conflicting with our non profit status which I believe it is I just want to gather some feedback from others who might be interested. We envision having a token that can be purchased from anyone needing services that will be provided by people we are helping that want to be sole proprietors as well as for use with our donated money in a separate Dapp or sdk for our donated money so that we could create a transparent ledger that can be verified by anyone to prove of how and what our transactions are used for but also to allow the various hairdressers, stylists, jewelers, and other various gigs that people startup in their free time to supplement income which could could be viewed and purchased through a a Dapp as a webpage or a full blown application for ios and android and through qr codes in a wallet that could read transactions and be able to identify the person in need and show everyone statistics on their progress    the business licenses and certifications needed to actually better their lives. We want to be apart of the entire process from homelessness to independence, so that the transparency can be tracked and seen by donors and the community. We of course would have each individuals choose the percentages of what they are reinvesting back into themselves and with a part of the income which will also be chosen by them they will be able to cash out and live off without transparency if needed as to give them some privacy and not be too intrusive into their lives as that alone would drive off many people and its just wrong to do in my opinion.I hope to utilize various contests and hopefully start to gather contracts with other organizations who would be interested in hiring/helping out the person. As a person who has spent a large chunk of their life growing up in poverty and being homeless in my ancestral land I have seen and been through the systems that are currently available for people and I can tell you that its not efficient but it is also very bias and is filled with many organization who reap government contracts but do only the bare minimum and barely if at all actually help empower people to better their situation for the long term leaving a lot of people without the proper knowledge or resources and community needed to not be dependent on the government or on anyone but their own hard work and labor. the barriers to start a business are absurd and makes it so that people in those situations cant get a foot up to actually compete and we hope to change that but creating a place that not only provides the community and knowledge but also gives them full freedom over their destiny allowing them to pursue their dreams and to contribute to our society instead of forcing them into the meat grinder so they have to barely scrape by with no time for school or proper training cause of the low wages and lack of experience. It will will allow them to work at their own pace and and to show the world that they are doing well and that they are not lazy they are just disheartened by the mountains and barriers they have to climb over just to get by. that is just one part of what we will be doing we are also going to be be doing career training, workshops on healthcare and maintenance and I am going to be teaching about coding and blockchains as well as how to build and maintain hardware. We are hoping to one day be able to provide some certification which I will be talking with my professor at SPSCC about how to go about that with Microsoft and other organizations that are needed to make that happen in the future.

I have been learning a little bit of how to create a blockchain using the sha256 algorithm in concept and am hoping to learn how to bring that concept into code and learn which algorithm would be best as I am new to this part of cryptocurrencies. I am hoping to find knowledgeable people who can explain some of these things, point me to trusted sources  or a mixture of the two. I really would like to help out the space and I feel like this might be a great way to introduce cryptocurrencies to the everyday person in a way that shows them the fundamentals of how distributed ledgers works and how they can also be used in ways that will be beneficial to society. A lot of people associate crypto with scams, crime and drugs which is holding back a good chunk of our population and this will show them that it can be used in a way that will be just as transparent and would not allow for such activities as the only way to spend the currency on goods would be through our application and of course exchanges once that becomes a possibility but I would like to in a centralized sense disallow that from occurring by essentially forcing someone to swap the currency for fiat or for other coins but that feel like a slippery slope and I don't want to make anyone upset and have a way for those activities created out of spite. I just want to discuss how I could implement these concepts and what types of algorithms would be best and what model would/could work best for creating a decentralized network and ways to incentivize the miners or stakers in a way that doesn't conflict with our nonprofit status


I really love this space and what cryptocurrencies have done as a whole for our society and I am extremely grateful to have been able to actually invest from a fluke of luck I went from barely getting by before the pandemic this time last year to now where I'm still struggling but the unemployment I received was invested into ORN and ETH and it has kept me afloat. I sold my ORN in December to get Christmas gifts for my son in Texas and I could have made 10x the money if I waited until today but I am still grateful that this winter I was actually able to not only do that but also pay my rent and not have to worry to much. I still have a little bit of crypto left that I am unstaking to get caught up on my bills and my new girlfriend started this nonprofit and hired me as the director of communications/webmaster and this is the first white collar office job I have ever had. I was an installer of office furniture before all this and never would have thought last year at this time of the year that I would not only be writing this out but also am working at a job that I believe in. I couldn't have done any of this without this community, I was around 19 or 20 when I stumbled onto a webpage on StumbleUpon.com that exposed me to what Bitcoin was and reading about how it would render the banks obsolete and how it creates a trust-less decentralized network was mind blowing and pivotal I was homeless then and was learning how to take care of myself. I had an opportunity to buy btc in 2013 and wish i was have grabbed the almost 10 BTC I could have purchased for around $37 but lacked knowledge of storage and was convinced to buy booze by my girlfriend then, which has now become the most regrettable decision I have made. I am excited for the future of blockchain and am now exactly where I want to be in life I just have to figure out how to implement the steps necessary to do things proper as I am meticulous and compulsive and want to do this the right way. We also have some seats available on our board and we will need a couple devs when we start to build the app front end and back end if you have any skills or ideas you can PM me or even just post here and we can figure out what we all can do next.

Our board meetings will be publicly held on Zoom anyone can attend you just wont be able to cast a vote but feedback and ideas will be considered when the procedural method of problem solving about that issue is discussed by our team. I will be updating this as much as I can I can get busy but will be able to take some time to check back in as I just started coming to this website and wish I would have done this earlier but all thing come in due time. Thank you for reading my post I hope to hear from any interested party. We will be gathering funding locally and will be holding a fundraiser in person not sure of all the details cause it has to be discussed at a board meeting and voted on. I will be holding an online fundraiser as soon as our blockchain is created and a decentralized network is established so there will be no lapses in transparency and we will be applying for grants as soon as next year as to up our chances for obtaining them when we have a foothold in the community and data to back our claims. We have some friends in high places and we have everything we need at the moment but if you can help with ideas or donations we will have an incentivized means for that as soon as we figure the legalities and system out.

Sincerely,
Chad Hansen  

[Deadheadpasta]

Wrote a small mission statement for my echo chamber but as the native guy says to Wayne and Garth about making a concert with a full lineup without actually signing the contracts in Wayne's World 2 "If you build it, they will come" I will not relent as I feel passionate in bringing blockchain technology into philanthropy in my own way. The tokenized economy I want to build would help anybody as we are fully inclusive but aim to start with the hardest hit communities where we would receive the best responses that would help people in need. Our economy needs help to solve issues with the lack an open market for services that also provides training and certification for various real world goods and services that will be run by and for the clients kinda of like how arcade city is doing with driving but for small business and people who want to start a small business aiming at working with our local government to provide everything in the app for someone to get start with a proposal and making sure to guide them through the visible process showing donors their potential and giving them a fighting chance on the market where everyday people can actually have a fighting chance at making a living through the decentralized autonomous organization  INC.Force. Once the framework is in place I would like to organize as many willing other non profits and organization with the knowledge and ability to connect to this DAO's blockchain utilizing the layer 2 solutions that are rolling out in one of the various contenders in the Defi space. This would be a great way for people to donate and get back governance tokens that can be staked with our token solving liquidity and incentivizing donors though liquidity pool mining and if at all possible to get them a tax break as it would essentially be a donation which will be controlled by the donor either through NFTs or a pool mechanism like ocean's marketplace that would each represent an organization or individual that they want to help giving them direct access to communicate and witness in real time the progress that is being achieved but as I said this is a legal grey which I am not knowledgeable in and I want to tread as lightly as possibly to further increase the incentives and I hope to get feedback on how to solve this issue so I can run it by our attorney and get the proper steps that could be taken so they can be voted on by board members which any one can join and give feedback and possibly be on the board themselves if they would like to contribute and help build this much needed infrastructure. We aim to create the framework for other organizations to do the same and if there is an exodus from traditional means or some sort of merging it could help build the case for why this is needed so much. As an ex homeless teenager I have witnessed time and time again the corruption and favoritism that the organizations today get away with because of the lack of transparency which does nothing to solve the underlining issues that people face it only lines their pockets and in turn helps exacerbate the hopelessness that many people in those situation use as a catalyst  in their self destructive behaviors. I don't know to much about what other forms of creating a decentralized network are beside POS and POW. If I could get pointed in the right direction would be awesome or every just had a quick rundown I would appreciate it very much at the very least a link or so to the right info as it is hard to find the right knowledge without a knowledgeable person as I only know a small amount of fundamentals but I see the big picture and the potential of what this could become I honestly just want to get by and have something fun to create that I can give back to society for all the years of taking and loathing while being on the streets. As I stated yesterday I don't want donations as of this time until we can prove ourselves and get feedback on what that looks like. We already have access to some software devs in our close community that has said they will help us but we want to establish ourselves first and connect to other non profits and start the community from the roots of the grass. We have already been in contact with 2 organizations today and it went well. That is the jest of what was done today the mission satement is below tell me what you think if at all possible.

INC.force
A non-profit focused on tackling the misrepresentation of equity and inclusiveness in our society by uniting organizations with certified and trained able-bodied marginalized communities and individuals regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, race, religion or socioeconomic background.  

Bringing about a transparent autonomous tokenized economy to the real world that will help empower individuals to become the person they know is inside of themselves.

Linking organizations with the knowledge and power of decentralized autonomy helping to foster them through our blockchain with layer 2 solutions to bring blockchain technologies to the forefront of philanthropy as to maintain decentralization and complete transparency over every donation and purchase while simultaneously giving people a chance to live their lives and not just survive.

[Deadheadpasta]

Doing more reading about different algorithms I would really enjoy it if I wasn't just talking to myself but I dont know where else to go to get the information that I need on how to go about creating a one and I figure if I post here as a blog/incubator of ideas around the creation of what I am pursuing eventually it will reach the right people as I have found lots of great information just scrolling around. I notice that most coins have their own algorithm or they use a variation of an existing one as a hard fork or just modded but I don't know if there is a difference between a modded one and a hard fork my gut tells me no its synonymous but I honestly do not know and would like to find out. So I know eventually I will find the information I need but time is of the essence and help would be really neat even if that help is just a reference to a book or website that I have yet to stumble across.

I specifically want to know what it takes to create an algorithm,
what are the differences of the multitude of variations that exist,
as well as the upsides and downsides to those differences
and suggestions as to what are the most important ones for my specific use case.
Is the sha-256 based in hexadecimal as that would make more sense for the computer to process?

When I stated I understood blockchain I only meant a rudimentary understanding from the laymen terms I have heard over the years. I understand that the sha-256 algorithm can contain an infinite amount of information within the 256 bits that any alteration even a space added at the end would completely change the  randomized 256 bits so that it can be verified by the protocol or network(or both?)  that it cannot been altered thus creating a trust less solution to be used as a ledger that then can hashed into its own 256 bits and stored in the next hash when the number used only once is solved by what I figure as just randomized guesses done through computation but only to a difficulty level that will average out at 10 minute intervals no matter how many PC's are lending their computational power until essentially forever or until incentives dry up. I think I got that correct please correct me if I am wrong. I am tired and am going to go lay down ill be back to the ghost town tomorrow to fix my spelling and logic mistakes.

[Deadheadpasta]

Well, I may just abandon hope for finding some knowledge from anyone here as it seems that no one really cares to give any feedback... I thought this would work but I guess I will check back periodically but I am going to focus on finding a place to discuss or learn about what I need to know. I don't understand why no one wants to talk. I was sure some of you would at least be as bored as I am from time to time.

[semobo]

Literally, no one is going to read your wall of texts, because this is not a conference, this is just an online forum so you need to know how to make it brief explanation of what you are asking not like a 5000 character wall of text. Even I don't get interested to read all those paragraphs but saw some of the key points like you wanted to provide jobs for the people who hit by pandemics and it was for LGBT and transgender community.

So better plot the key points to understand what you are actually looking for.