Hi guys, I'd like to introduce to you all a project that I've been working on for a while, and would like to look for your valuable feedback.
The IdeaThe idea is simple, your Bitcoin is virtual land.
You see, the Ordinal theory (which gave us BRC20, Runes, etc., for better or worse) has basically stamped each Bitcoin santoshi with a serial number (called a sat number). The serial numbers don't change when you transfer your holdings to to another person.
If we divide the 360 degrees of the earth's longitudes into 7000 equal segments, and the 180 degrees of the early latitudes into 3000 segments, we'd have exactly 21M patch of the earth's surface, each of them corresponds to a single Bitcoin. Then if we further divide each of such patch into 10,000 x 10,000 small squares, each of them will correspond to a single santoshi, which is about 4 sq. ft. (or 0.38 sq. m) at the equator.
The ProjectI've been tinkering with this concept for a few months and have built a prototype, and I've made it available at
https://www.gordi.world. Here are the things I've built into the prototype today:
- Enter any Bitcoin address and see the corresponding locations and areas covered
- Connect a Bitcoin wallet (only Unisat wallet supported for now) and see the same
- Fly to major parts of the world and observe virtual land for sale, from the Unisat market place
That's about it for now. Moving forward, I'm thinking of building these additional capabilities:
- Virtual Land as NFT: any Bitcoin UTXO is effectively an NFT, with a virtual land attached
- Landlords! The display of the map (color, POI, etc.) can be controlled or at least influenced by land owners in the area
- Happenings: People should be able to perhaps read local news off the map. While the news stories should not be censored by the landlords, but perhaps landlords can attach stars or flags to news stories in their areas
Coinomics and Business ModelThis project does not issue any coins, and does not have a business model. Not yet anyway.
The AskI'd love to have your feedback, and perhaps help me realize that this is dumb idea and project so that I can cut my losses and go back to watch Netflix all day.
I'd of course love to get potential interest of funding too. If you think this have the potential of turning into a fundable project, do let me know.
I'd also love to get fellow enthusiasts to join the team. While the project is not open source at this moment, there are ways that we can still work together. I used the NextJS/Node/TypeScript stack, so if you are familiar with those, and have time to contribute, do hit me up.
Oh if you get any errors when visiting the prototype (again:
https://www.gordi.world), would you please kindly simply report it here?
About MeI'm a coding enthusiasts residing on the west coast of a country that is heavily regulating everything in the crypto world. I took up interest in crypto about 10 years ago but haven't done much. I enjoy long walks on the beach, but find going to the beach quite the hassle.