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Noting that TW’s web3 culture is a bit cute (literally cute), it was the hat I saw Vitalik wearing when he participated in ETHTaipei, which read “Ethera True Beauty Temple”.
In TW, this kind of hat is called “Ming Temple Hat”.During the incense activity, the temple sometimesDistribute vests, clothes and hats with the temple name to facilitate identification of believers in which temple[1].It’s so punk to wear a religious hat on the leader of the crypto world!It is hard for me to imagine a similar picture appearing in the mainland: Vitalik came to the mainland to discuss encryption issues, and the organizer’s employee suggested that he wear Hanfu or a hat of the senior group. The organizer’s boss must feel that the employee’s head is in.
Encryption represents the future and technology, and underground temples represent history and religion, but when they appear happily in TW web3 culture and spread it, I see a deep layer of cuteness – the loveliness that blends thoughts and trends.From a “cute” perspective, seeing the wood and the forest, I gradually realized that when TW embraces web3 culture, his mentality is easier, his methods are smaller and fresher, and he pays more attention to communication with the public.
The conclusion of this article is, in a sense, that the ultimate trick to embrace diversity is precisely localization.
“TW allows you to rediscover your inner high school student”
The palace hat is just a small clip. Vitalik is also singing “Only Fighting in Love” in Taipei.Obtained TW Foreign Employment Residence Card[2], I received a pack of puffed snacks called “Good Guai”, saying that they could be placed on a computer device to make it “Good Guai”.
Vitalik isYour own blog[3]I wrote my opinion on TW:
What impressed me the most was the self-organizing ability and willingness to learn from (TW) people there.Whenever I write a document or blog post, I often find that within a day there is a study group formed independently and excitedly annotates every paragraph of the post on Google Docs.Paul Graham wrote that every city conveys a message: In New York, “You should make more money”; in Boston, “You should really read those books”; in Silicon Valley, “You should become stronger”.When I visited Taipei, the message I was passed on was “You should rediscover your inner high school student.”
The atmosphere of high school students – even elementary school students – comes from the visual style of TW web3. I rarely see these in the mainland web3 culture, so they are very conspicuous.
This was four years ago, TW was for childrenIntroduction to Bitcoin by Mandarin Daily[4].
The key points of the Bitcoin White Paper are explained with one page, two cartoons and metaphors that children can understand.When bankers say “Secretly changing some numbers without realizing them”, there are evil little faces behind them, and emotional values are subtly transferred to the children’s minds.Although ten-year-olds can’t do something right now, they don’t have to wait too long. These children who have been implanted with the concept of “centralization is risky” will be the age when Vitalik founded Ethereum.
In addition to educating children, Pictorial also educates adults.The first comment below this electronic poster is:
If a parent bought a bitcoin for his child the day he saw this pictorial, he would spend less than 9,000 US dollars, but his child would have nearly 70,000 US dollars in assets today.
Cute comics are not limited to facing children, TW gov’s “Digital Business Development Department/Digital Development Department” isOfficial Account[5]On the top, a poster was released to take a look at the diverse changes brought by encrypted thoughts to democratic society.There are 9 2D images on the poster, which represent different roles participating in the digital society, such as civic technicians, connecting ferrymen, online nomads, etc.If a person who doesn’t understand Chinese looks at this picture, he is more likely to think that this is a level-breaking strategy for a certain anime game.
I gradually discovered that these cute visual elements such as temple hats, comics, and two-dimensional are actually fundamentally an effort to communicate with the public.The most enlightening ideas have been elaborated in the Bitcoin White Paper and the Ethereum White Paper, but they are far from the public.And it is the elements close to ordinary people’s lives and the behaviors that are connected to the real world that have become the entrance to the spread of cryptographic ideas.
Localization of decentralized thoughts
The spark of social change may be new technological innovation, but the huge force of change must be the people’s thoughts.Encryption technology has set off a wave of practice in people’s decentralized society, but practice does not have to be bound by encryption technology itself.The idea that transcends technology is like a dandelion that is separated from the mother body, and its meaning is to go further away.
TW Citizen Technology Community g0v has incubated two projects, one is called “Real and False” robot, and the other is called “Gov Total Budget Visualization”.None of them achieved it directly with encryption technology, but the former “created public goods through decentralized collaboration” and the latter “give ordinary individuals the tools to fight against complex eras.”Crypto thoughts have planted fruits in a wider area of soil.
“Real” Robot Cofacts
Cofacts is a robot on the chat software LINE. Anyone who receives messages from friends or groups on LINE can forward them to the robot for verification if they don’t know the authenticity.There is no centralized auditor behind the robot, and it depends entirely on the independent verification and editing of netizens.In addition to providing verification information, netizens can also evaluate other people’s verification information, like or dislike it; ideally, more realistic verification information will emerge on their own.
Surprisingly, Cofacts specifically marked in the instructions for use can help elders query information.They try to take care of every group of people in society who are prone to being deceived by false information.In the recent verification directory, I saw the following news of the establishment of the new fund, which was marked as “error” and “with personal opinions”, specifically, it was a fraud.Imagine the middle-aged and elderly investment groups who are exposed to this information. Now you only need to forward the message to the LINE robot to get more information. This is really great!
The name of Cofacts refers to the meaning of “everyone picks up the truth”, which is similar to the Community Notes that Musk tried after he acquired Twitter.Take the ruling of the truth from the centralized review agency, let the community help trace the source and provide information, so that everyone’s mind can judge for themselves.Both mechanisms depend on other community members’ ratings for verification information, but Twitter goes further algorithmically: Musk wants to avoid simply calculating the sum or average of user ratings, and focus more on those from different ideologies.All of the people received high ratings; that is, if people who usually have differences in the ratings of the ratings end up reaching an agreement on a certain rating, the ratings for that rating will be particularly high.
I don’t know what Vitalik thinks about Cofacts, but he wrote about community notes:
Even if less than one percent of misleading tweets get background information or corrected notes, community notes, as an educational tool, still provide extremely valuable public services.The goal is not to correct all mistakes; it is to remind people that there are multiple perspectives that certain individual posts that seem convincing and attractive are actually very incorrect, and that you, yes, are you, usually through basicsInternet searches to verify its incorrectness.
Like community notes, Cofacts is not only to distinguish the authenticity of specific messages, but to explore a mechanism for “acquisition of decentralized truth” that is suitable for decentralized society.Twitter is more engineered in this direction, while TW’s practice is based on local usage scenarios.
“Gov total budget visualization”
This project looks simple, but also beautiful.They visualize the gov budget into icons of different styles, allowing citizens to see at a glance how much each department costs, where it is spent, and how it compares to other departments.In addition to the chart, there are more intuitive options to help understand: Citizens can click “Daily Expenditure” to understand “What has the taxpayer paid every day?”, or choose “Unit Conversion” to understand how much money can be purchased for each part of the expensesCup of milk tea, how many bowls of braised pork rice, or how many iPhones.
The idea of doing this is,Through information transparency, it is easier for the public to supervise gov and discuss based on facts.Information transparency is not limited to the political field. Information transparency in the field of people’s livelihood education can also help us shorten the time for collecting information and find the solutions we need more quickly.[6].”
Understanding civil society as a community and gov as a community operation team, the connection between the two suddenly became closer.More and more decentralized autonomous communities (DAOs), and more and more individuals will participate in the construction across communities. How to spend money in so many communities, the basis for budget approval, and the evaluation of the effectiveness of spending money, for participants,It’s hard to grasp intuitively.Therefore, the role of “visualization of the total budget of gov” is not limited to traditional gov. In a complex decentralized society, community members need more effective tools to understand the community they live in.
The crypto community emphasizes information disclosure, and any member can see almost all the information in the community; but just like the national gov can disclose budget data, massive amounts of information will hinder citizens from understanding the meaning of the data, so “openness and transparency” is not enough.’—Maybe the most important in an era of information asymmetry—but in the era of massive information, what decentralized communities need to explore is the mechanism of “making information meaningful understanding”.
The meaning of “visualization of gov total budget” is the same as cofacts. It is not only to solve the problem in front of you, but because of the existence of such a solution, those who use it will realize the lack of related solutions in other fields.If it is difficult to determine the authenticity of a message on a platform, and without community notes helping me, I would ask who is holding the power of verification?If a community is hard to see at a glance where it spends its money every day, and there is no visual information to support me, I would like to ask who is judging whether it is worth it?
I have always been unafraid of speculating on centralization with the worst malice, but I didn’t expect that, and I didn’t believe that it would be so cruel.
——Lu larri · Xun
Enter gov, surpass gov
The crypto-thinking trend in TW has become a different look than in the United States, which means TW has added some of its own seasonings.
My TW designer friend Peng said, “TW is the most open society in East Asia. We can accept new things, the trends and culture of the world faster than Japan and South Korea.” That being said, he himself saw the new digital developmentWhen the minister’s long hair was still stunned.
What’s more exciting than long hair isAudrey Tang calls himself a conservative gov-free man who ultimately wants to abolish all govs to establish independent and free public spaces[7].Strictly speaking, he is a Trojan horse in the centralized GoV system – and he also openly told the Trojans about this!
The decentralized forces in most societies are in opposition to the centralized forces, but in January 2023, the Department of Digital Development joined the W3C in the name of an institution to participate in the formulation of standards for the digital world, one of which is to establishDecentralized digital identity (DID).
Yes, a centralized force spends taxpayers’ money, and studies the need to help taxpayers establish “identity services that do not rely on gov”: through various documents issued by various sectors (enterprises, institutions, groups and natural persons),To construct the daily de facto identity of citizens[8], complete the required basic digital identity services and achieve the purpose of “personal identity autonomy and data authorization and self-determination”.
In a sense, the Ministry of Digital Development pursues “on the basis of individuals, let nationality and enterprises become part of their actual identity. No matter how the country or enterprises change, they cannot deprive a person of the fact of existence.” This idea and geopoliticsInseparable, there are not so many regions in the world like TW face the problem of “what will the impact of changing the ID card overnight on me?” It is this problem that prompts them to pay more urgent attention to individuals and explore beyond the concept of nation-stateIdentity concept.
From gov to the market, you will find that TW web3 culture has less pursuit of grand narratives and more attention to ordinary people.What impact does it have on children, the elderly, ordinary taxpayers, and individuals in the “post-nation-state era” are real changes they are more willing to see.
The technology and philosophy from the crypto world will ultimately fall on the benefits to local residents, which I call this cute idea.
