jakiro
Author: larri
“Decentralization, DAO, public goods, creator economy, cyber city-state, interoperability, token economy, consensus mechanism, creator basic income, sovereign individuals…”
How many of these web3 concepts you have heard of are translated from English?Today, like our predecessors more than 100 years ago, we learn the language of the Latin department, group the “people” and “master” in Chinese characters to think about society, and combine “science” and “learning” to understand knowledge.?
Are we creating or still translating?Among the Chinese web3 information that can be retrieved publicly, a very high proportion are hard-core technical translations, popular English projects introductions, and Chinese speaking to V God himself (this part does not even need to be translated).
Subtracting these ratios with 100% is what this column wants to write about.
I have seen a new Chinese-speaking world like a kaleidoscope.
Its scope is far beyond the mainland.Beyond this land, there are also a large number of experiments that we can easily understand because of language communication, but do not communicate much because of lack of communication channels.
In Taiwan, you can see comics published in newspapers that popularize blockchain knowledge to children, and the government promotes the application of decentralized technology in local governance. Some people study the significance of the “Tao” idea for decentralized organizations in the white paper.There is a DAO that clearly says that we don’t want the Western DAO system, and if we can, we won’t vote.
In Chiang Mai, or from Dali to Chiang Mai, people are creating the “Chinese web3”enclave[1]“. Unlike Taiwan, they have the cultural genes of the mainland, but in a foreign country, they try to graft into unique things that cannot be achieved by any native culture.
In America and Europe far away from East Asia, the second and third generations of Chinese are organizing themselves and establishing connections with their parents’ culture in a completely new way.I am in Paris, so I know the situation in France is that although these native French Chinese are a bit awkward to speak Chinese, they develop groups on discord, decentralizedly, and set up grants to support bottom-up Chinese cultureproject.Most people do not understand blockchain, but their spirit has been injected with “freedom, equality, and fraternity”.No matter how the previous generation left their hometown, they formed a new form and regained the Chinese culture.This group has tens of millions of people around the world, almost the population of France.
I have to add all of this to find out what the Chinese-speaking world is contributing to the crypto-thrilling trend.
I want to write the idea of creating in Chinese.
Those thoughts that cannot survive in a vacuum; these thoughts are related to how to live better. They are not codes that transcend culture, concise and beautiful, they sprout from the culture of the language users.There is no white paper telling us how to live. Every web3 builder and navigator in the crypto world cannot only face code. They must face life that is neither black nor white and face each other with vivid emotions.
Encryption technology and decentralized ideas bring us enlightenment, and enlightenment tempts us into moral dilemma.I will write these dilemmas in the column: “Do you want to reveal your key to your marriage partner?” “Use tokens as barriers to create public goods that poor people can no longer share?” “Can you love Web3 andIs your own national government? ” “Does crypto organizations give women more rights or magnify the social gap?”
The ideal world is that Chinese speakers will give unique answers, unlike any other culture.Because moral choice is not a technical issue, it is the compass to use technology.Different cultures give different choices, which is the beauty of diversity.Even Chinese culture is not a monolithic piece. Encryption technology has given mainland pioneers a fire of anti-censorship, but in Taiwan, people regard it more as a new tool for social innovation.I want to write about the crypto-change that is surging in the Chinese-speaking world. It is not a Chinese package of English thought, it is an important branch of diversity.
This is not over yet.There are many non-encrypted but punk practices in the Chinese-speaking world.
Workface[2]Born before Ethereum,706[3]More decentralized than any DAODali Creator Basic Income Plan CBI[4]It is a UBI more friendly to the creator economy. Many people may not have imagined that the temperament that is closer to Anji Digital Youth Community DNA or Dali Digital Youth Community NCC may be the Beijing Gulou Community ten years ago.So, I would write in the column ““Chinese people’s UBI changes” and “Is there a generation gap between 30 and 20 crypto punks?”,” “What can encrypted self-organization learn from non-encrypted self-organization”…
Some practices have developed to a stage where they are silent or hibernated.They are also worthy of being written. It is these practices of formal decline and evolution and spiritual relay that allow us to grasp the essence of Chinese narrative.Even if a project or a DAO is about to die, I will write it well. Isn’t this a kind of Burning Man Day in words, solemnly and passionately burning out a sincere creation, and later creators can stillBorrow the fire and light the cigarette.What do crypto punks want to read when they smoke?I think I should write “How to euthanize a DAO” or “kill a Shijiazhuang DAO”.
I am very concerned about how encryption technology, together with AI technology, will culturally change people’s concepts.The emergence of trains and train stations makes people pay attention to the “accuracy of time”. The Internet has implanted the concept of “free” for people. What about blockchain?
It does not obviously bring importance to “privacy” and “freedom”.If people want to take the train, they will arrange their schedules around the departure time. It is unimaginable to appear at the “approximate time” at will; living on the Internet, it is default to obtain information or services for free, and charging becomes an option that needs explanation.It was unimaginable in the past.Is blockchain making something that is accustomed to today unimaginable?I really don’t know yet.This answer is scattered among blockchain players, public goods builders, and encrypted digital vagrants, so the column is actually a puzzle game with unclear drawings and unknown blocks.
The crypto movement should not be an industrial revolution, but an enlightenment movement.Become a part of enlightenment.
