Hello everyone - My name is Michael and I am the founder of Bywire.news.
Tell us how you found out about eden?
I have been following Eden since its inception and I have been part of the EOS community since the beginning. I interviewed Dan at B1 June in 2019, so I have always followed his projects, so that is how I heard about Eden.
I also read Dan’s book and I love the concepts/theories. We are going to integrate the fractal voting system into our executive council at Bywire.
What is it about the community’s vision/values/ideas that attracted you?
I come from a political background, working on many elections in the UK, including the world’s largest decentralisation project (Brexit). I started Bywire because the media, cooped by big corporations and billionaires have made democracy undemocratic. I have wanted to redefine how society, governance and community could work, but I didn’t have the capabilities of Dan. Thankfully, Dan did all the hard work, so now we get to test, develop and improve these theories. This is literally the most exciting project in the world, and I can’t believe I get the chance to join at such an early stage!
I am very interested in how we can balance democratic outcomes. How democracy can be that of equals, and how leaders can be safely chosen, with the correct safeguards for ascension.
I want to help build a new world. The old one needs a hard fork.
Why do you want to become a member?
I think my company and I can add significant value to the community. I also want to help shape the new vision for how census can be achieved and maintained.
I also am keen to find a whole community of like minded people who can share in this project, and see what we come up with.
In what way do you see yourself contributing to the community?
We are a decentralised news organisation, who previously worked on national elections, PR, digital marketing and professional video production. (Our head of video has worked on the Crown, Peaky Blinders, Black Mirror etc). Our dev team is proficit in blockchain, AI, front-end, UI/EX, professional design, SEO, content creation, WordPress plugin > blockchain integration, Angular, React, Python, and community development. Also some leadership from me.
We see ourselves as being part of the media revolution, because the media plays a critical role in knowledge dissemination. Why not take these same voting mechanisms and governing models proposed for Eden and use them to safeguard how news is reported, how our network and company is managed and run and help set a new content standard.
Eden could help redefine not just governance, but also communications, and one of the gravest threats to our society is the breakdown of our shared language. Politicians, journalists, pundits, commentators; they all play a part in destroying the meaning of words, of language, and they do so for short term political and financial gains. It is frankly sickening
If you were to become an elected Eden Genesis representative with a budget, how would you spend that budget?
We would hire more reporters to cover the Eden community, EOS, Blockchains and crypto in more depth, and with a unique storytelling angle. We would also offer rewards/remuneration for citizen journalists.
I would be up for running for election and testing out the voting systems.
Please provide your Telegram username so that Eden members can contact you to learn more.
Here is the elevator pitch for Bywire News (which is just one product in our suite)
“Bywire is a unique and convenient news network/portal, aggregator and app that provides Readers with the most trusted, accountable, censorship resistant, decentralised news and opinion from the very best independent news publishers, who earn the majority of revenue generated by the platform.”
Summary of what we do:
Bywire is a decentralised news network that is the home to the very best independent news publishers. Offering the readers the convenience of a platform like Apple or Google News, yet differing with a clear and distinct, exclusive focus on independent news and a host of unique blockchain services such as resisting censorship, providing immutable accountability and transparency, and building trust through our unique AI, trust index (fake news detector).
In addition, Bywire offers a range of blockchain services via our unique EOS crypto token, Wirebit, including Reader rewards, democratic participation (coming soon), a universal basic income for all publishers, and the ability to exchange Wirebit or other tokens to boost content, giving it greater prominence in the Bywire news feed. (Coming soon.)
Readers and Publishers earn tokens for consuming content. The more tokens they earn, the greater their influence on the platform.
Bywire has developed a unique WordPress plugin, which is already in use today and that directly publishes WordPress content to the IPFS blockchain and a hash of the content to the EOS Public Blockchain. Content stored centrally is then verified with the EOSIO hash, if correct, the Reader is served a certification of verification.
We also are building tons and tons of other ground breaking tech!