Memperkenalkan Fedi, Teknologi Adopsi Bitcoin Global

This is an opinion editorial by Obi Nwosu, full-time Bitcoin advocate and board member for ₿trust, a not-for profit organization originally conceived by Jack Dorsey and Jay-Z to fund the location, education and remuneration of Bitcoin developers from untapped parts of the world, starting with Africa.

Who knew that a plane ride could change the future of Bitcoin?

There I was, on the way back from Lofoten in northern Norway, after an incredible and exhausting few days discussing how the Bitcoin community could support the objectives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), charities and human rights defender groups from around the world, and I was knackered.

Most people on the plane were fast asleep — justly so — but I couldn’t get any rest, such was my excitement reflecting on the last three days. I noticed a few people at the front having a conversation and I decided to join them. Jeff Booth, Lyudmyla Kozlovska, and Leopoldo Lopez were excitedly discussing how Bitcoin could be rolled out in the regions that their human rights defender groups operate in at scale.

I listened in on the conversation. They were explaining that with the right app, they could grow adoption of Bitcoin exponentially and in so doing help the people that they cared so deeply about.

LSM, badan amal, pembela hak asasi manusia, dan aktivis telah menyadari bahwa banyak tantangan yang mereka hadapi mempunyai akar permasalahan finansial. Masyarakat yang mereka coba bantu dilarang mengakses perekonomian keuangan global dan dilarang menggunakan mata uang rezim mereka – seringkali dengan inflasi sebesar dua, tiga, empat atau bahkan lima digit – sehingga mustahil untuk menabung, merencanakan, atau melepaskan diri dari belenggu moneter.

By having simple, safe and private access to Bitcoin, anyone anywhere could have access to a currency that can’t have its inflation manipulated by any regime for their gain and to their citizens’ loss. Having access to the Lightning Network would enable these people to quickly and cheaply receive money from NGOs, charities, their relatives in the diaspora or transact with international merchants and each other — all while protecting their privacy. However, existing options were too restricted such that the target users could not access them, or they were too complex and expensive or they were not designed to scale globally while protecting privacy.

With the right solution, these highly effective operators already had the facilities, knowledge and know-how needed to get hundreds, thousands, even millions of people in some of the most oppressed countries in the world to learn about Bitcoin and adopt a wallet. And if this wallet was easy enough to install and use then it would simply be a matter of letting the power of network effects do the rest. What would start with one million users would quickly become 10, then 100, and beyond. It sounded audacious but it was feasible that within a very short period, we could have one billion users on Bitcoin.

Memperkuat sarana keuangan yang tersedia bagi komunitas tertindas dan LSM yang memperjuangkan perjuangan mereka pada akhirnya akan memperkuat demokrasi. Hal ini pada akhirnya menciptakan masa depan yang lebih baik bagi negara-negara yang berjuang di bawah rezim yang menindas, dan membuat dunia menjadi tempat yang lebih baik dan adil.

Ever since meeting Elsirion at the Hacker’s Congress in Prague nearly a year earlier, and discovering Fedimint for the first time, I had dedicated my time to promoting, sponsoring and ensuring its growth. Now, what was crystal clear to me was the realization that Fedimint was the technology purpose-built to make the vision of rapidly getting to a billion Bitcoiners a reality.

One of the biggest challenges to bitcoin adoption today is custody — it’s daunting for people to do self-custody, and custodial solutions pose issues including unclear and ever changing regulation or risk of loss. We need only look at some of the cerita terbaru tentang regulasi pertukaran kehilangan, membelanjakan, atau mempertaruhkan aset pelanggannya untuk contoh peringatan. Kebutuhan akan solusi seperti Fedimint kini lebih besar dari sebelumnya.

I’ve explained what Fedimint is in a previous Artikel Majalah Bitcoin Dan selama my talk at Bitcoin Miami 2022 tapi secara ringkas, Fedimint adalah:

– A form of community Bitcoin custody.

– It utilizes federations, a Byzantine fault-tolerant multisig wallet technology similar to Blockstream’s Liquid Network).

– It’s run collectively by groups of trusted community members we call “guardians,” for and on behalf of their communities.

– Has privacy through Chaumian Ecash.

– And is closely integrated with the Lightning Network.

(detail lebih lanjut dapat ditemukan di situs web fedimint.org dan FAQ)

The result is a system that is simpler and more private than using an exchange or hardware wallet and that allows communities anywhere to take control of their bitcoin. Put simply, Fedimint is a form of bitcoin custody that is designed from the outset to work at global scale, enabling billions of people to receive, hold and spend bitcoin.

Saya berbagi solusi saya dengan Jeff, Leo, dan Lyuda dan dalam diskusi berikutnya, ide tersebut lahir Fedi, the world’s simplest, most secure and private bitcoin wallet.

Kami akan menggunakan protokol hak asuh Fedimint sebagai inti yang aman, sederhana, dan terdesentralisasi yang dapat dihubungkan dengan semua hal lainnya. Sama pentingnya, diperlukan antarmuka pengguna yang sama kuatnya. Saya akan bekerja dengan orang-orang penting yang terlibat di Fedimint untuk membentuk perusahaan komersial guna mempercepat pembangunan. Untuk pertumbuhan global yang pesat, kami akan memanfaatkan pengalaman dan keterampilan sekelompok LSM, badan amal, aktivis, dan pembela hak asasi manusia untuk membawa Fedimint ke komunitas mereka.

When I got back to my hometown of Lisbon, Portugal, the work began. Until this point Fedimint had been progressing as an open-source protocol project with a long-term plan to build a company around commercializing the user interface. Oslo changed everything. I described my experience to Elsirion, the inventor of Fedimint and Justin Moon, the founder of one of the largest Bitcoin meetups in North America, explained the desperate need and the bold new vision. They quickly saw the key role that the Fedimint protocol would play in helping those most in need around the world and agreed to join me as cofounders.

We then reached out to every Bitcoin-focused VC in the quest for capital partners who would understand the vision and were ready to come along on the journey. The response was phenomenal. We started with Kingsway Capital, a prolific investor in technology companies serving the Global South and more recently, Bitcoin companies. I reached out to Ten 31 VC who had been long-time supporters of Elsirion, the Fedimint protocol and me. And of course, I talked to ego death capital, as Jeff Booth was a key reason why I had come up with the growth strategy that catalyzed the project. Within a week not only had we raised our target seed, we had exceeded it and had to increase it twice. Within a month, we had closed the round. Beyond our lead investors, we were also fortunate to have investments from Trammell Venture Partners, Hivemind VC, Timechain, Recursive Capital and Steve Lee.

Ini bukan hanya pendanaan ventura. Proyek protokol Fedimint yang bersumber terbuka telah menarik dukungan dari berbagai organisasi. Blockstream adalah pihak pertama yang menyadari potensi ini dan telah mensponsori proyek ini selama bertahun-tahun dan baru-baru ini memperbarui komitmen mereka. Jauh sebelum melakukan investasi ekuitas, Ten 31 VC telah memberikan hibah BTC yang memberi isyarat kepada tim bahwa kami sedang melakukan sesuatu. Baru-baru ini, Spiral, yang merupakan bagian dari Block, setuju untuk memberikan sejumlah hibah bagi pengembang yang bekerja penuh waktu pada proyek tersebut. Yayasan Hak Asasi Manusia (HRF) telah dengan murah hati menyumbang kepada Fedimint dan saya harus berterima kasih kepada Alex Gladstein dari HRF karena telah mengundang saya ke Oslo Freedom Forum, tempat semua ini terjadi. Dan akhirnya, saya memberikan sumbangan kecil untuk proyek tersebut.

The reason for the rapid response — even in this period of bearish sentiment — was simple. Everyone could see that this was Bitcoin’s missing link — decentralized, privacy-preserving, Bitcoin custody. Furthermore, it solved a problem for a group of people who needed it the most and it solved it in a way that would send a signal to the rest of the world and prove once and for all that Bitcoin was not only useful, but essential for making the world a better, freer place.

Saat ini mitra saya yang luar biasa, Elsirion dan Justin Moon, bekerja dengan semakin banyak insinyur dan perancang protokol sumber terbuka berbakat, bekerja keras sepanjang waktu untuk mewujudkan Fedimint dan Fedi. Setahun yang lalu, Elsirion memperkirakan bahwa ia memerlukan waktu sekitar 24 bulan agar prototipe pertama Fedimint dapat berfungsi. Namun dalam beberapa bulan setelahnya our combined talk at Bitcoin Miami 2022, dan masuknya pengembang yang berdedikasi dan berbakat sebagai hasilnya, kami memiliki prototipe yang berfungsi. Mereka terus berupaya dalam pengembangan, dan pendanaan serta dukungan yang kami miliki akan mendorong kemajuan protokol Fedimint dan aplikasi Fedi lebih jauh dan lebih cepat.

Yang terakhir, saya akan mendapatkan hak istimewa dan kehormatan untuk bekerja dengan beberapa aktivis yang paling produktif dan berprestasi di dunia. Ini termasuk Lyudmyla Kozlovska, yang memiliki rekam jejak sukses membela hak-hak masyarakat di Ukraina dan Eropa pasca-Soviet

presiden Buka Dialogue Foundation. Kami juga punya Leopoldo Lopez, yang selama bertahun-tahun telah membela kebebasan rakyat Venezuela dan negara-negara Amerika Latin lainnya di bawah rezim yang menindas, bahkan ketika hal itu mengorbankan kebebasannya sendiri; Farida Nabourema, the founder of Afro Bitcoin 2022, the first West African Bitcoin conference, who speaks eloquently on the challenges of places like her home country of Togo suffering under the weight of monetary colonialism due to the colonial franc; and Fadi Elsalameen, yang telah membantu meningkatkan kesadaran akan tantangan masyarakat yang tinggal di Timur Tengah. Saya akan bekerja sama dengan mereka untuk merumuskan strategi peluncuran yang disesuaikan dengan tantangan masing-masing wilayah, dan menggunakan kekayaan pengetahuan dan pengalaman mereka untuk memastikan bahwa Fedi dirancang untuk memenuhi kebutuhan mereka.

Over the coming months we will all be working in parallel to complete and roll out the first version of the Fedimint protocol, launch the Fedi app — which to our knowledge will be the first Bitcoin wallet to be built using the metode desain yang berpusat pada manusia yang dipelopori oleh IDEO, and to plan, test and implement our rapid global growth strategy — powered by freedom-loving people around the world. Bitcoin has been waiting for a technology for global Bitcoin adoption and Fedi, powered by Fedimint, is it.

Ini adalah postingan tamu oleh Obi Nwosu. Pendapat yang dikemukakan sepenuhnya merupakan pendapat mereka sendiri dan tidak mencerminkan pendapat BTC Inc atau Majalah Bitcoin.