(Posting in Support Duniter v2 as the closest category – feel free to move it if there is a better place.)
Hello, I am Rolf-Thilo, developing Capita Money: an interest-free complementary currency issued equally to every verified person, as a small regular basic income.
Concept on one page: https://capitamoney.com
– code (AGPL-3.0): GitHub - CapitaMoney/capita-money: Interest-free per-capita currency: every verified person receives Capita continuously. Open source. capitamoney.com · GitHub
All your copyright and licence notices stay intact; any change to your code will be marked and offered back as a merge request.
Why something new rather than joining Ğ1? Capita aims at people who have never used a crypto wallet: sign-up in about two minutes, no seed phrase that can be lost for good (recovery through the verified identity), no need to find certifiers. Ğ1 has proven the idea works;
Capita tries to carry it to a mainstream audience with a simpler entry, and to people in remote places who cannot meet certifiers. This is a different target group, not a competitor – both can learn from each other.
Technical plan: a Substrate solo chain reusing your pallets universal-dividend, identity and membership. Instead of certification/distance (web of trust), membership would come from verifiable credentials (DID) issued by identity services – for newcomers in remote places who know nobody to certify them. Issuance stays claim-based, as in your universal-dividend pallet.
Questions:
1. Can identity and membership be used without duniter-wot, or are they tightly coupled?
2. Recommended way to depend on your pallets: git dependency on git.duniter.org pinned to a commit, or is there another channel?
3. Would you accept upstream patches that loosen this coupling?
Since I can’t speak French, feel free to post this on the french Monnaie Libre forum if you think this should be known there.
Developers who find this interesting are welcome to join.