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23-07-01 11:31

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In recent months, some people have been joking that you should never use cryptocurrency peripherals when you go out. Those conspicuous T-shirts, sweatshirts or suitcases may make the user the most obvious target, and personal safety is easily threatened.

In contrast, under the influence of policies and previous epidemic experiences, Internet and cryptocurrency groups are increasingly inclined to escape from work and life in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

And people immersed in the concept of Decentralized should be more eager for freedom.

Although the term Digital Nomad is not widely discussed in the currency circle, many people have been practicing it for a long time. Ideally, they can get the income of first-tier cities or even super-first-tier cities, enjoy exotic customs or low prices, human touch and natural resources, and realize geographical arbitrage.

Jarod Zhang of the Digital Nomad Tribe said that the ultimate goal of digital nomads is neither to travel nor to get rich, but to a greater extent represents a pursuit of higher quality of life and freedom.

But leaving big cities may make people anxious. In 2008, Paul Graham, the founder of Y Combinator, wrote an article titled "Cities And Ambition", the first paragraph of which is:

Great cities attract people with lofty ideals, and you can often feel this atmosphere when walking in such cities. Such cities often try every means to convey to you the message that you still have unlimited possibilities and should continue to work hard.

However, nowadays, even as high-end and noble as Silicon Valley, its appeal seems to be declining, because the Internet has completely become the fertile soil of this era, giving people with lofty ideals a broader space. At this moment, it makes more sense to gather talents together.

The Internet City Cabin relies on the original cabin and extends infinitely to the two dimensions of reality and the Internet, which seems to have given the possibility of "Silicon Valley" being scattered all over the world.

What exactly is Cabin? How to become a citizen of Cabin? How is it governed? bypeerbase has answered all the questions you want to know.

Last month, the world's first online city Cabin was officially launched.

1. Cabin was launched in 2021 as a residency program. The initial community launched a crowdfunding round where members could sponsor creators to live in the cabin.

2. 101 people donated around 18 ETH, and over the next few months they collectively voted on which creators would receive residency. Since then, the project has grown into a DAO (CabinDAO), and now, after two years of development, has evolved into a cybercity.

3. What exactly is a cybercity?

Networked Cities are a set of globally distributed communities with shared culture, economy, and governance systems. It is a subset of the entrepreneurial social movement that has recently received attention with the release of Balaji Srinivasan's "Networked Nations".

Note: Balaji S. Srinivasan, formerly Coinbase CTO and a16z GP (General Partner), self-published "Networked Nations" in July 2022.

4. So Cabin, as a networked city, provides a global network of natural properties where citizens can come together to live together, protect nature, and build new things. This community is mainly composed of creators and remote workers who love nature.

5.Each community has three main characteristics:

Access to beautiful nature;

Fast and reliable network;

Strong and consistent community.

6.Become a Member

Cabin has built a social platform where communities manage citizenship and profiles, list directories of shared living spaces, and build reputations, identities, and relationships. To become a free member, simply go to cabin.city and sign up.

7.What is Citizenship?

Citizenship is a subscription membership that allows remote workers to live in a network city and receive various rewards and benefits.

8. To become a citizen, you must be recommended by an existing citizen. Once the recommendation requirements are met, citizenship can be obtained by paying 0.2 ETH per year, holding 1,000 governance tokens CABIN, or participating in the Cabin community's Build Week.

9. Benefits of Citizenship

You will receive 25 CABINs, which can be used to participate in the on-chain governance of the network city. You can also obtain Cabin products that only citizens can obtain. For example, "Welcome Home" surroundings.

10.Join Citizen-only channels: Join the founding citizen channel to experience new features early in town halls and have the ability to influence the roadmap. Thousands of dollars in partner benefits: discounts with brands like SafetyWing and Hipcamp.

11.Citizens will receive a chip-embedded passport and citizen NFT.

Enjoy exclusive shared living and residency in Cabin communities around the world, including Costa Rica, France, India, Japan, Puerto Rico, Slovenia, and a dozen locations in the continental United States.

12.Reputation

As members participate in online and offline gatherings, they can earn role identities and seals, which will be added to their profiles. Anyone can create their profile and start building their reputation and identity within the community.

13. Roles and Guilds

Roles are represented on-chain as Hats @hatsprotocol, and may be required to participate in certain community services such as residency programs.

Administrators: those who run the community and are responsible for the residence;

Builders: those who actually make things;

Collectors: those who build containers and culture in the place where they live;

Naturalists: those who grow plants, animals and natural environments;

Creators: online producers of art, content and experiments;

Residents: remote workers who live in the community network.

15.Each role has 3 states

Apprentice: self-selected by members to express interest in becoming a guild member;

Craftsman: awarded to those who complete the guild's requirements;

Manager: responsible for managing the guild and assigning roles.

16.City Directory

A registry of shared living communities in a city. Citizens can add new outposts to this directory, and members use CABIN to vote and govern which outposts become communities.

17.When outposts with at least 4 bedrooms and internet speeds over 20 mbps receive 1,000 votes, they officially become a community in Cabin CyberCity.

18. Community Zero

Created from the ground up by community members, it includes 8 bedrooms and bathrooms spread across 3 cabins, an outdoor spa, community gathering space, and a truck area. Community Zero is nestled on 28 acres in the Texas Hill Country.

19.Governance

As of the time of writing, Cyber Cities collectively manages approximately $3.5 million worth of treasury through the governance token CABIN.

20.CABIN is the governance token that represents the voting power of members in community decisions. Anyone who holds or is delegated 1,000 CABIN can submit governance proposals to the DAO. Proposals are selected through quadratic voting to increase fairness among token holders.

21.Legally, the DAO is structured as a non-corporate non-profit association (similar to a community association) consisting of a series of other independently operated organizations and people who govern on-chain.

22.There is no liquidity trading pool yet.

They don't want any stranger on the internet to buy CABIN without really understanding the vision.People who hold CABIN should unite to further the mission of building distributed cities and developing shared living spaces.

23.How to earn CABIN

Citizenship: First, 5040 citizens earn 25 CABIN;

Community Referrals: People can also earn CABIN by recommending communities and outposts to join the city directory;

Gifts: Other members may give CABIN as a thank you for contributions.

The Cabin community continues to grow under the leadership of Jonathan Hillis and has laid the foundation for other entrepreneurial communities.

Note: Jonathan Hillis is also an advisor to Seed Club Ventures and Hydra Ventures.

So maybe you can replace the city and the qualifier, Web3 will attract ambitious people, and you can often feel this atmosphere in such an industry. Web3 often tries every means to convey to you such a message: you still have unlimited possibilities and should keep working hard.

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