With everything going on in Ukraine, a lot of companies, organizations, and governments are acting with anti-Russian approaches. The founder of DFINITY, however, suggests that there could be another approach and this is through incentivizing Russians to know what is going on in Ukraine.
DFINITY Founder Expresses Sentiments on Ongoing Russian Invasion
The founder of DFINITY, Dominic Williams, recently made a post on Medium expressing his sentiments regarding what is going on in the world. He likewise gave with his two-cents on how there could be changes.
Williams suggests that in order to "hasten the end" of what is happening, an approach that can be taken is to directly communicate with the people of Russia, who he has described as "ignorant of the real goings on in Ukraine." This is through incentivizing them to watch videos regarding what's really happening in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladmir Putin Still at High Approval Ratings
According to Statista, the approval ratings of Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, was at about 70% in February of this year. Williams also mentioned in his writing that "support for Vladimir Putin across Russia remains very high, possibly in the range of 60-70%."
Williams eventually said in his post, "I now propose a way that blockchain and smart contracts can potentially help further, by getting millions of Russians to watch an entire informational video(s) about the war."
Williams's Three-Step Plan
Williams detailed his potential plan in a three step process starting with the use of "people parties," which helps combat cheating through bot use. Through the use of "people parties," the DFINITY CEO aims to incentivize Russians to watch informational videos to get rewards in crypto.
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The second step would be to give Russians crypto in exchange for watching informational videos. This is through the use of a personal identification number (PIN) that unlocks a unique crypto account with either Bitcoin (BTC) or Ethereum (ETH) once they finish watching the video.
In order to avoid skipping the video, the PIN will reportedly be overlaid. This means that Russians would be required to watch the whole video to get the crypto reward. Williams said that the video to be streamed "will tell the truth about the war in Ukraine."
The last step in William's plan is to use a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) to help finance the participation incentives. Williams notes that the target amount of $250 million-worth of crypto should be disbursed to 5 million people while paying $50 each person.
William also made it clear that this scheme could also stop working should Russia completely cut off access to the Internet. This, according to Williams, would also be a win-win situation since Russians would also learn their government's "true nature" as he put it.
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Written by Urian B.
