I wish to eat. I imply I like creating wealth. I’ve additionally had two-minute noodles out of starvation as a result of I could not afford the rest. It’s not enjoyable, nevertheless it’s the truth for many individuals within the Southern Hemisphere. It is a actuality NoOnes plans to alter.
I need to make some huge cash, and I am not ashamed to say that. It is good to be actually wealthy, nevertheless it would not really feel so good if everybody round me is poor. In the event that they had been reasonably profitable, it would not even really feel good. The one approach I can really feel good is that if everybody round me is wealthy too. That is why one in every of NoOnes’ values is “Eat for All”, which is so essential that I’ve made it a part of our enterprise mannequin.
There’s starvation at NoOnes, however that starvation is to ensure we do every part we are able to to ensure everybody has meals to eat. First we promise to return 50% of the corporate’s earnings. You possibly can’t make that promise to a financial institution — as a result of who’s going to imagine them? – however you may take a look at my report and ask your self if I take this critically.
Ever since I joined the dots concerning the monetary system and realized the way it oppresses these with out energy, particularly these within the International South, I’ve made it my mission to assist create a brand new system. There have been many obstacles positioned in my path, however I used to be satisfied that we may create a brand new monetary ecosystem, and that’s why I received up each morning. I am making a alternative, and I am fortunate sufficient to have the ability to make a alternative as a result of I’ve a talent set that allows me to do my job.
My imaginative and prescient of a world South the place everybody has meals to eat would have been realized way back had we not been hampered by the disastrous post-decolonization insurance policies of the World Financial institution (WB) and Worldwide Financial Fund (IMF). I say decolonization, however the truth is that army regimes are merely changed by financial regimes. Now now we have the instruments we have to work to beat the system and produce us one thing higher.
We have executed a number of issues at NoOnes, like our accomplice program and money again, to reward prospects who assist us develop. For instance, our customers are our biggest ambassadors, so we offer jobs for them and assist them with academic applications each on-line and within the subject. All these initiatives are a part of our “Eat for All” mantra, however there are numerous extra to return.
There’s extra than simply monetary reward for everybody consuming. The imaginative and prescient we’re working in the direction of is definitely a brand new monetary structure, an ecosystem, all about motivating individuals to work. We already do that by creating jobs – letting our residents generate content material and getting individuals into the cryptocurrency area, reminiscent of displaying others how one can earn cash, making academic movies on how one can purchase or commerce Bitcoin, or working with Teams chat in particular person and on-line. The very best half about all of that is that it is natural and cyclical, a steady loop that feeds again into the system.
Cryptocurrency customers throughout Africa are studying how one can use the content material we construct, and they’re constructing layers on prime of it. They hack it in methods we by no means imagined, after which put what they realized again into the ecosystem by educating others. That is how everybody takes their place on the desk and has a plate in entrance of them with some meals on it.
We wish everybody to develop, so our aim is to develop this ecosystem to turn into a really people-centered, trustless, absolutely clear instrument to remodel the International South right into a powerhouse. This idea of “everybody eats” fully subverts your entire Western enterprise mannequin. Moderately than blocking the potential of hundreds of thousands of individuals within the International South, our mannequin is designed to create, to construct – and it really works.
Once I first began speaking about Bitcoin on-line with potential customers in Africa a couple of years in the past, I attempted to draw many individuals by giving freely Bitcoin as a result of I knew my funding would come again to me. I took it a step additional and based the Constructed with Bitcoin Basis and established 13 faculties within the Southern Hemisphere to assist educate native individuals. We’re displaying individuals on the bottom that peer-to-peer markets utilizing Bitcoin as a common foreign money container cannot solely enhance their residing requirements but in addition remodel the livelihoods of future generations.
“Everybody eats” means all of us have meals, now we have a pleasant place to stay, all of us have jobs – nevertheless it additionally means now we have free time, and we are going to present the world that this mannequin works. As a P2P platform, we should make a revenue as a result of we can not advocate a good society with out sources. Nonetheless, it’s completely essential that we don’t overly pursue earnings until we are able to feed that again into the ecosystem to generate extra development.
We wish bizarre individuals to know that regardless of the obstacles they face, the dearth of schooling, sources or the “proper” nationality, there are nonetheless many alternatives for them to develop. I used to be only a nerd from an immigrant household who failed quite a bit till I realized how one can succeed. Now, I’m working to offer a shortcut to prosperity for my brothers and sisters within the International South. If it means I’ve to donate 50% of my earnings to ensure everybody has meals to eat, I’ll do this. We want revenue, however we put individuals first, and that is what makes NoOnes so particular. The duty now could be to unfold the message.
It is a visitor put up by Ray Youssef. The views expressed are completely their very own and don’t essentially mirror the views of BTC Inc or Bitcoin Journal.
