Teaching students to live in a decentralized world.

Recorded: June 17, 2023 Duration: 0:38:00

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Hello, can everyone hear me? So welcome in. We're just having a bit of issues with regards to Cameron getting onto the spaces. Collins, here brilliant.
Call it, come on now.
Yeah, pretty funny we're actually talking about our gaming.
Yep, we can hear you.
All right, I'll give Cameron a moment, but if anybody wants to start asking questions, we can go ahead and get started. Yeah, let me bring Zola up since he's already joined. Oh, if you're doing it, thanks, oh, by the way.
Pretty funny, we're actually talking about helping set up world bubble anoints for internet stability and here we have camera needing it already. Yeah, where we grew up, where he lives right now is it's out, it's out there in the sticks.
We were looking forward to something like this. I mean, it just shows how much it's needed actually. Oh yeah. 100%. Should, yeah, should we wait for camera and should we get started? What do you think we should do? Oh, I don't know. Well, it's kind of, it's kind of
flood. I mean, we'll move forward as much as we can starting this late. I'm going to view it mostly as practice. You know, I'm just going to throw out, you know, basically what, what Mav 100 is, why we, why we don't
decided to start it and then we just want to let other people kind of ask questions. The basic our basic goal as Mav 100. We want to start up student body clubs and schools. We want to help those student body clubs start up world mobile
World Mobile Nodes in their area and start a telecom service run by the school and then while they're doing that once we get to that point we want to help them start up stake pools in their schools and then both of those
Both those elements will start generating data. And after a certain amount starts building up for the school, then we start introducing them to wallets. And the data that builds up will start being distributed to students who start wallets. And then once
enough students in a school in an area in a town have Aida in their wallets. We send them out and they start going to the community and and stores in the community and saying, you know, we have this service, we have this Aida building up in our wallets, we would like
to spend this data at your business and we would like you to help you set up A to pay and it's kind of a step by step plan to build adoption in areas and
And if anybody has any questions on that, straightforward. See if we got Cameron here. Let me try. Yep. Bring him up. See what he meant with to this basis bugging us. Hello. Actually, I'm paying. So I just
We can hear you, Cameron. Alright, well that was a... Sorry about that, everybody. That was a little bizarre. I guess Elon doesn't like the idea of...
and able students to get involved in blockchain or something. That was frustrating. But anyways, thanks for showing up. And if you're listening to this in the future, thanks for giving an appeal. This is going to be a really, really interesting journey for MavWel
We're starting up a little movement here in our local area that is turning into something pretty big, pretty fast. I don't know what the intro that Colin gave here a little bit earlier, but just a brief synopsis is
were basically helping students in different schools set up telenet ASB clubs where they can essentially start their own stakeholders and start building up ADA for everybody in their
school district that can be used in the future for a variety of projects that are building on the Cardano blockchain. The first and most clear use case that we're going after is the World Mobile Network. I don't know if anybody here is familiar with that, but I imagine most people
But if you're not, it's basically allowing communities to set up their own telecommunications networks. And so we've been working with a variety of businesses around our community, churches, individuals, parents of these students, and everybody's really interested in
and building a network together with the schools. And so in a nutshell, what we're trying to do is with the stakeholders, they'll start building up ADA and they'll have a reserve of funds that they can use day one when the network gets live. And so
It will be really exciting. Everybody in the community is really fired up about it. We have about 17,000 students and families, I think the total is somewhere close to 50,000 people that are all going to be involved in joining this
that work and helping build it out. Yeah, that's a massive, massive ability by Cameron. But I'm going to say let's take a step back to this. I've been about half of 100 by why it is that you decide to farm the 4 minutes.
Well, there were two angles that we started with. First, we started with, I don't know if anybody is familiar with the Cornucopius, the Island of Wades. It's a pretty cool looking Metaverse project that we got involved with at the very beginning.
started getting involved with some of the different NFTs. One of them was a custom dome and we were thinking about use cases for these things and a lot of people have ideas for different types of businesses but one of them that we thought about was Alliance Campuses for schools and that kind of led us
into maybe using these building schools in the Metaverse, and then another project that really intrigued us was of course World Mobile and how we would set up a community network here. And the different ways of eliminating the different frictions of trying to set something like that
up how to drive adoption. And so when we started thinking about those two different projects, the schools was the obvious choice because here in the United States, one of the big things is raising money for the schools is a lot of it is done by students. You know, either they
go out door to door and they sell chocolate bars or they sell magazine subscriptions and that helps fund some of the different things that the students want to do, student initiatives in the school. And so when we looked at this, we're like, you know, people in the community, they're trained to accept these types of things.
They're like, okay, we're supporting the school. We'll buy these old chocolate bars that we're just going to throw away. And that's fine. But we were like, what if the students went door to door and let people know that they could support the school by signing up for this alternate telecommunications network that was less than half the cost?
I think people would be really, really interested in that. And so that's where it started building from and then all the pieces started coming together. Oh, how did the students get involved? How do they build reserves of resources to get things going from the ground up?
And it just, you know, each little piece, you know, the stake pools, the world mobile network, everything just started linking up. And it, you know, really shows how the Cardano ecosystem and a really well thought out blockchain like this can bring a lot of value to a community on a small scale.
And then we just thought, well, if we can do it here, we can set up a template and if we're successful, well, we could do this anywhere. You know, we have a chapter here in Washington State. We have about, like I said before, about 17,000 students are a little bit more than about to start earning data. We have done an Alabama for
Another chapter is about to be started and we have interest in New York, Mississippi and let's see here I think Oregon as well. So really exciting. If we can get to work here, the ramifications for adoption are just, they're pretty staggering.
Right, I fully get that. So basically, I ran from wanting to set up a small little type of metaverse telecommunication club in Cornucopia to bring it to a real world scale, but just leveraging the power.
of the cardinal blockchain to bring it to life really. Yeah, and it's just a little bit bizarre how the decentralization of all these systems just starts to bleed out. And they call it the sharing economy over in world mobile.
And it's pretty interesting just going around and talking to people and how quickly this concept of working together and sharing the spoils really just starts to take off.
I'm just trying to think like it's such a cool concept to help you know on RAM students not only into a decentralized world but it's crypto without them knowing it.
Now it's like why students in particular, like what brought students to the lab like before I do one second. Let's see. These old as sent an invite to speak. Let's bring them up. We'll hurry up. Hey, so he's thinking about me just now.
Oh, hope that dies.
Fantastic, before I post that question to you again, yes, so we have the floor. Hi guys, so I'm just gonna have to leave soon, so I'm gonna have to listen to this space again. It's a good that you are recording it. I just have a quick question regarding the air nodes, so how?
How would you go about setting up these air nodes? How would you get the funding and how many air nodes you would set up at a school or around the school or at the church? And would be those 17,000 students and their families obviously, would they have to
Sign up to the service. I'm not sure how it works yet. All right. So that's a great question. Essentially, we've personally in our community we've raised funds for about 20 of these error nodes that we're just going to donate directly to the school.
And then what we're doing is the students in the different teleneck clubs are going around to the different community members and talking about buying their own air notes. A lot of the businesses, like I said, churches, parents, we've had a lot of interest. An air note
One of the smallest basically they they come in three sizes from what we understand so far and the smallest one is about a thousand US dollars and So what the students are doing is they're saying okay, we're going to be we're gonna have about 20 of these for our schools and then we want to buy some more
and split the cost with different community members. And so somebody down at the local grocery store, if we've talked at Dan's Food Market, he's interested. He'd say, yeah, we'll put one up absolutely. I'll pay for half, the Maven 100 pays for the other half, and then donates that
have to the school and so now you have this partnership between the community and the schools running this network together. We have about 60 interested parties so far and that's just without even trying. We're about to send the kids out, some are jobs going out and speaking to different members of the community. I'd be really
If we have less than 500 to 500 or 600 by the time school starts, people signed up, white listed, ready to go. We have actually we're going to be speaking with Will Reed. He's the head of U.S. Rural Out for World Mobile here next week and he's going
to give us a few more details about what's available and how long, you know, timeframes, which is what everybody, of course, up here is really interested in. So yeah, we're going to start that. And then once the network gets going, we're probably going to be working with some
social benefit companies that will be essentially fundraising through the Cardano community, seeing if they want to be involved, if they want to own a piece of the network themselves. Out of all the ideas, pushing adoption, this
This seems like it could really, really do a lot of good. If the Cardo No Community say that people who want to invest in specific NFTs that will give a return from that network, we could set it up in a way so that a portion of the network proceeds all go towards holders of an NFT.
that supported the project from beginning. So we have a lot of ideas like that that we're pushing around, but yeah really exciting. We should be able to build out the network pretty fast. That sounds amazing. Guys, what you are doing is really cool and it will bring lots of people to Cardano.
I applaud you, you're very cool. Thank you. Well, and yeah, thank you and if you haven't had any kids, just a little more. We'll we'll we want to start adding, you know, different people to stay cool alliances.
different schools from around the world. Part of the idea there is it will help decentralize the ownership of these nodes. So if there's ever predatory regulation in a specific geopolitical area, then the node can just be sent to a different location.
So, you know, if we have, you know, a school here that's running a node and they're in partnership with say somebody down in the Dominican Republic, somebody over in Alabama and somebody over in the UK. Well, then we can move that around and it makes the whole system more resilient. We've seen some
Some interesting stuff going on in different parts of the world politically surrounding the whole space, the whole blockchain space. So we just want to be prepared and it's just a great way to keep decentralizing and keep things nice and resilient.
Yes, we know me the spreading it around the world is definitely a small play should have come to that. So is there anything else you'd like to add to the conversation by all means? Oh, no, thanks. That was it. I actually have to go so I can't stay on but
It was great to hear from you guys and good luck All right, thank you very much. Bye Yeah, brilliant cheers man, I work great day Yeah, so Cameron before we go
any further. So one thing I did want to just put across to our audience that does listen to the space later was what's the passion behind driving students to the blockchain per se and where did that stem from?
you know this whole concept you can really just be taken and be pushed to any age demographic but that seems to be a particular focus of Maev 100 which is a great one realistically but yeah let's speak to where that passion and interest came from. Well
I guess part of it comes from the fact it's actually kind of one of my what's making this a lot easier for me is I've been working in schools as a volunteer for about a decade now. I have six kids, 12 grandkids and
I've been in, you know, working in the Cardano space for about two years now, just absorbing all the information and you get hit from a lot of angles with a lot of ideas and how this can really help change the world as Charles said it a while back.
You see what's happening now with some of the larger blockchains, some of the more well-established blockchains and how a lot of the utility of those blockchains has been captured. And it's interesting, you know, you see, like with Bitcoin, how the map factor is going down and down.
been more and more concentrated by some of the big players around the world like the United States and then Ethereum, which is in a lot of very subtle ways being captured by some of the movers and shakers in the US government, you know, through companies like Consensus, Minimax,
wallet, different points of centralization, and then you look at Cardano and see how it's very resilient to these types of things. And there are so many benefits to distributing the value amongst a population.
of financial system of telecommunications network of a metaverse, all these things could be owned by everybody. And starting at the ground up with students, we have an opportunity for an entire generation to grow up understanding this technology.
and also owning a piece of it moving forward and understanding that they deserve to own a piece of it, right? This is something that's going to govern a lot of aspects of their lives in the future and the entire generation should have control of that, should have a piece
It shouldn't all just be sitting at the top, you know, in the .001%. We need to distribute it to most people possible so that we can see, you know, as a race, you know, we can just start to see the benefits of a lot of different people using this in a lot of unique ways.
Yeah, with students, it's also a really effective way of getting the token that allows you to process transactions on the blockchain data into as many hands as possible. Right now, how does a student get a hold of data?
how do they even use the blockchain? There's really no way for them to do that unless the apparent is involved directly, who uses a centralized exchange. But with the method that we're using, setting up a legal entity, an ASB club that is a not for profit and
entity within a school that is donated the equipment to start a stake pool and run their own notes and organically generate their own rewards. It completely bypasses all the issues with, you know, Chokpoint 2.0.
what the SEC is doing and really kind of shines a light on the fact that these digital assets are something new. They're not a security. They're not really even a commodity, to be honest. There's something different and it need to be treated differently. Does that make sense?
Here, now definitely it's uh...
I'll do wise students per se. A lot of denting for them, but no, definitely it's a good initiative in terms of a way to introduce students whilst they're still under the legal age of buying grotto per se to expose
them to this whole technology. That's a nice way of putting it. Yeah. I think we covered a lot of what Mav 100 is and now it started. Do you want to shed a bit of light on to what's the next step for Mav 100 in terms of the immediate future and what's that looking like?
Well right now the biggest thing on the block that everybody should be keeping their eye on is the the new stake pool that we've started up the MV 100 pool and It's just one of the most important pools right now
to delegate to. Every block that's minted, those rewards get distributed to thousands of kids. And it might not make a big difference tomorrow or in the next epoch, but over the course of a year, just imagine what could happen if there were 17,000 more kids in the world.
who all had 100 data sitting in a wallet waiting for them. You know, we're going to have the telnet clubs, they're going to have onboarding parties throughout the year starting in the fall. And so it just creates a pool of new users that can start getting
gaining all the value and propositions that are on the blockchain. And so delegate, delegate, delegate to the Mav 100 pool if you have a little extra eight or nine around. And that's, I would say the number one thing. And then on our side of it and the valley, the kids are going to start
heading out and they're going to start onboarding people as well. Getting people involved with world mobile, each person that sets up one of those air nodes, well they're going to be earning cardano native tokens in world mobile and they're going to find out a variety of ways to use that. You know most of them, they'll probably use it to
to pay for their internet services and telecommunication services. But some of them are also going to start using a store of value or trading it for ADA. ADA pay is a real thing. We actually have a few vendors in the value that are already interested in
getting it set up because they see the future right they see an entire generation of students that is going to start Accumulating this asset and so you know dance food market You know the ice cream shop down the road the state park there are people that are already interested in ecstasy
accepting it as payment because they know that there's a large population, a large demographic within the valley that's going to be able to pay in that with that method. And so it's just going to spread organically the use of this over the summer. And so yeah, just laying the foundations for that.
those are the those are the big things. And then probably in about within two weeks to a month, we're probably going to have our seed round NFT fundraising event where 100% of the proceeds
are going to be going towards student wallets. In order to interact with the blockchain, they're all going to need wallets. And so any money that we raise from that, all 100% of it is going to go into a fund so that whenever somebody is ready to onboard, they have that
somebody's there ready to show them how teach them the ins and outs and get them secure moving forward and ready to interact. So those are probably the three main points main activities they're going to be going on for the next couple of months.
Brilliant sounds, yeah sounds pretty straightforward and great visions. So er wraps up most of you know what Mav 100 is to the world introducing it to everyone listening to this space in the future. Is there anything else you'd like to add Cameron, Colin, anyone?
Yeah, I would I can add something The vision of decentralization covers a lot of different aspects of things that are currently captured by really large central
and the one of the main steps that we took coming along this, I was starting to think about how I was going to decentralize education because I wanted to create little nodes all over the world. This is one of the ideas that I had.
before we fell in, kind of just noticed that Mav100 was kind of the answer to a lot of our issues. And that was, I was going to create a small classroom in every school and have students go to it and then have teachers have their own
nodes that they could go to and Mav 100 will kind of bring that decentralization to education, telecommunications and to finance and you know people just need to think about
about how they can apply decentralization to really anything in our lives. And part of that is how we stand up and how we take these things over from these giant corporations that have stepped in.
So, you know, everybody out there kind of think, you know, how can I apply decentralization to this part of my life, that part of my life? And once you start doing that, you see how powerful the idea behind Mav 100 can become.
Yeah, I know it gets you fully. That's an element actually that's often overlooked but something that's now 100% say can bring to the table, especially to the students at this stage of their life for them to start seeing the bigger picture I guess more than
really on, which is beautiful. And it is. But yeah, Cameron, right? It's about. Yeah, sorry, Colin. No, it is, it is about that. It's like, it's about trying to get everybody to look at a different way of how our lives should work. You know,
We shouldn't be depending on some giant corporation to run our telecommunications network. We can do it ourselves. We shouldn't be looking at the government to organize and fund our schools. We should be doing it ourselves. We should be teaching our kids ourselves.
So, all of these things, you know, why do we need big banks to hold our money for us? We've seen what they do. They just go print off more money and make themselves rich. You know, we need to take control over our finances and decentralize them and
run our own financial network and we have the tools to do this now. That's the revolutionary nature of this movement. One hundred percent. Especially with the bank's part of
I will agree there fully, but even as you say to the communication as the whole, like there's so many industries and sectors that can be tapped into where we can just own the whole infrastructure ourselves. So great, great initiative to bring to the students at this, you know,
early, not only in the world of crypto and our development but also for them, and their life bringing it on early is what helps that adoption grow, which is I guess the point we are all about anyways. See Chris drawing this up here. Chris is anything else you'd like to add to the conversation.
Can you hear me now? There we go. I'm like, you know, just one thing that I had kind of been thinking about over the last couple days of doing different reviews and spaces and stuff, being a business owner myself.
I see such a great opportunity for these kids to have an experience where they start early on in knowing a little bit about business ownership and kind of creating their own, you know,
creating their own income to begin with. And I think starting, like you said, starting that at this point in their lives is so important because nobody is really teaching financial education. Nobody's really
hitting that mark without the kids going out of their way and looking for that. And so I think it's awesome for, you know, this is an awesome opportunity to just kind of show them what the power of you can do whatever you want. You can you can create anything
you want and then, you know, as far as creating your own income goes. And so once they get out there and start the journey and their lives are kind of hitting the ground running as opposed to, you know, giving them a little bit of a hand up as far as that education goes, you know, it's just hitting
It's a simple education, but obviously our main goal is the decentralization of Cardano and getting it out there and getting it secure. And in the same process, you're also teaching these kids the power of business ownership.
It's just kind of that's all I was thinking.
No, and I want to explain that because that's a really good point. Mav100 has two primary goals and the first one is obviously decentralization of all these networks and introducing students to
a decentralization, but our mission is to prepare students to live in a decentralized world. And that's one of the key things when you're talking about a system like this where
you have freedom, you have really no boundaries, you also have to be capable of living in that system. And this is going to require students to learn some skills to where they can be individuals who can take responsibility for
themselves. And there's a lot of skills there that aren't being taught because, you know, quite frankly, the powers that be do not want capable individuals in our society. So we need, we feel like that's one of the most important
things we can do, step in and help as many of the students become individuals who can live in a decentralized world without the walled gardens of our government and our financial system. And I think that's a really good point that Chris made.
He had read their so many angles to take it from and so about just bringing it together for the early generations such that they adopt the technology early on. Because I think that's one thing that a lot of the world forgets is that the concepts already exist, right? Telling communications networks already exists, financial,
that already exists for technology to own them yourself and to be decentralized in the owning thereof is something new to people. So, there are 100% of them up and getting students to adopt it early on. I'm going to ask if there is
anything else Cameron Chris caught on yourself would like to add and if not I think we should wrap this face is yeah Cameron do for it yeah I think that that kind of speaks to the movement so far it's been a really exciting
a few, you know, probably six, seven months getting things set up here and just getting this template created so that we can we can bring this to different places around the world. So anybody who's listening, I just really encourage you to reach out to us. Hit us up in the discord, hit us up in Twitter and we're happy to talk
about it, try to branch out and really help other communities around the world really just get involved and start building from the ground up. And like I said, delegate, delegate, delegate, if you have extra ADA, get it into these pools.
Let's start minting blocks for these kids. You know, you think about it. There's some great ISPOs out there and some great pools that are helping secure the network. But, you know, a little bit more of this token or that token, how does that compare to tripling or even quadrupling?
daily active users on the network. I think it's in everybody's interest to start getting these newly minted block rewards in as many hands as possible and starting with the next generation would make a huge difference for the entire ecosystem. So don't hesitate
It's a nice secure pupil. You know, we were guided and creating it by professionals, you know, over at Blade Pool Conrad, the co-founder of Aida Handle, he helped us out a lot. Yipple, huge shout out to them. They're the ones that sat down with us and talked us through it.
And yeah, we're looking forward to a great partnership with them as well. Fantastic. So bottom line is we're here to help students and adopt, help them adopt blockchain technologies. Always follow up with a rechargers in Discord if you'd like to learn more and just
support our mission, please do stay with MV 100 Steeple. I think that wraps most of what we need to discuss with the community up to everyone listening in the future as well. Please, if you'd like to support helping students get adopt this technology and unwrap them to Cardano,
to our site and we'd love to be a part of the journey. Cameron, if there's nothing else, I think let's wrap the spaces up. It's been a great productive discussion. Everyone listening, yep, give us a follow, stay with Mav 100, MV 100, and reach out to us over Discord if you'd like to learn more.
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