As everyone here knows, SmileyCoin has been used quite a bit for charity and education.
The Smiley Charity and Education in a Suitcase receive SMLY from every generated block, in the form of 10 income streams. We've talked about how to use it: The African Maths Initiative and UNICEF will receive some of it in sub-streams to be set up and automated.
We've also talked about possibly using one stream for Universal Basic Income. This could be really neat, but the problem is that you can't just print money for UBI -- it needs to be a part of a circular economy, something like UBI->purchase->tax->UBI, whatever "tax" means.
The SmileyCoin Fund receives applications for grants in SMLY. One grant has already been accepted: Refilling the tutor-web wallet for rewarding students for their studies.
It is time to consider the next step: Should we try to use (some of) the Transaction Fee to test a UBI economy, possibly supported by one of the 10 income streams?
Proposed implementation: Take a version of the wallet and modify it so that the TxFee is split up and sent to a bunch of UBI recipient addresses. Do this in a few iterations, starting with just a handful of addresses, then move on and have the addresses coded as UBI-addresses into the blockchain. Eventually figure out a registration mechanism.
This is neither a fork nor is it mandatory: It is just a subgroup of people who mine and send the TxFee out as a UBI. But this subgroup will probably insist on fees of at least 1 SMLY per Kb in their blocks and movements using UBI addresses
Comments are welcome as always.