Goal: to establish a physical sanctuary and intentional community located in international waters for individuals committed to:
- Environmental and marine stewardship
- True democratic governance (one person one vote) with a modified consensus (decentralized) decision-making process.
- Individual freedom and autonomy
- Cryptography development and activity
Location: there are over 4000 oil platforms located in the Gulf of Mexico,alone, that will be decommissioned over the next couple decades. Often, these platforms are available for sale and occupation for adventurous individuals. One such platform was sold in 2010 for $85,000.00 and retrofitted for residential use for $100,000. Other oil platforms, former defense/research facilities, and other marine structures can be found throughout the world, many of which can be purchased and occupied for residential and commercial purposes with significant upgrades (depending on the owner's standards).
Objectives: The overall objective is to purchase such a platform or structure and retrofit it for community member use. We will also acquire a suitable vessel to shuttle people and resources.
Objective 1: 1000 FOUNDER tokens have been created on the Counterparty platform. They are locked (no additional tokens are possible) and cannot be divided into units less than 1.0. They can be traded. These tokens will be sold for 1.0 BTC. As the original "benefactor", I am reserving one of these FOUNDER tokens to be auctioned off at a future date on the LTB auction site.
The holders of FOUNDER tokens will have lifetime "Citizenship" in each physical sanctuary that is created. More importantly, it will be the FOUNDERs that develop the policies, procedures, etc. consistent with the above-mentioned Goals that govern how the Sanctuaries are initially operated, including whether additional individuals are invited to participate at a later date and how that participation would take place.
FOUNDERs will jointly decide how funds raised will be invested and used; how additional funds will be raised; what properties/assets will be purchased, etc. Multiple tokens can be held by a single individual, but each individual will have only one vote.
Those FOUNDERs that exist on 1/1/2015 will determine the name of this adventure and make related initial decisions (e.g. Whether to establish a legal entity such as a non-profit corporation).
In the meantime, I am looking for other motivated individuals to whom this idea "speaks" and who are interested in getting it off the ground. Ten FOUNDER tokens are being reserved for individuals who make substantial contributions in this regard during this critical time.
The FOUNDER tokens have been created in a new wallet that will be used exclusively for this purpose. We will pursue multisig type authority once it is available.
About me: A long time ago, I worked in the commercial diving (underwater construction) industry. I still have useful ties to that and related maritime industries. Currently, I am an attorney that used to practice pro-environmental law in the non-profit sector. I am now a member of a rural intentional community on 160 acres. I am interested in diving (pun intended) into both maritime and crypto-related law to facilitate this and other projects.
This sounds like a dream. It is. But, it is one made possible by cryptography, the blockchain, Counterparty, and you!
Join me on this adventure!
See:
http://io9.com/the-luxurious-afterlives-of-abandoned-sea-forts-and-oil-1227566417
for a glimpse of the possibilities.
