Hello hello!
Hope you’re having a good day.
As the title said, Cryptolancing is where you can post about the new position that you have available, ask for a helping hand for your cool new project, or share your awesome skills with the rest of the world, and do all of that without the limitations that popular centralized services like UpWork, Fiverr, or PayPal impose on their users (Geographic restrictions, thematic restrictions related to works or services, profile restrictions, etc.).
If you fall into any of those groups, whether you’re looking for a job or looking to hire someone for your project, I’d love to help you reach your goals by having you in our community! :)
Don’t be shy, and feel free to give us a visit anytime.
Let the scamming commence!
Linux administration, Rust & Flutter programming (Bots, Web services, GUI programs, etc.), and general IT work @ $5/hour
No frickin doubt.
I hope not, and I’ll do my best to keep scammers away. The good thing about doing it on the clear-net and on Lemmy, is scammers are a lot more likely to leave traces of themselves that can be traced back to them, so if they’re smart, they’ll leave the sacmming stuff in the TOR network.
Anyways, that aside, I created this community as the post said, because of the restrictions that centralized services like UpWork, Fiverr, PayPal, LinkedIn, etc. impose on their users.
As an example, I have a few online friends who are artists and take commissions. All of them, without exception, have experiences with getting banned or limited because of taking commissions that included heavier/darker themes (suicide, self-harm, drug use, gore [scenes from a war for example], severe depression, etc.). They not only have gotten their accounts banned, but the funnier thing is, their account has been banned with all of their credits/money inside of it, that they had rightfully earned from their customers. Thousands of dollars of rightfully earned money, lost in an instant, just like that…
That is beyond scary and awful to me… It shouldn’t be acceptable at this point, and yet it is, because of the inhumane TOS that these services make you agree with before you get the chance to use them.That is one of the very important reasons behind why I created this community. Freedom from the greasy hands of such corporations. If you know anything about GNU and FSF, to me, it’s no different than being dependent on proprietary software with very, very limiting and inhumane TOS. Users should be in control, not multimillion dollar corporations.
The second reason, is the restrictions that these services have for the kind of users that they accept into their platform in the first place.
PayPal and LinkedIn for example, require identification before you can sign up for their services, and in the sign up process, they instantly refuse to let you proceed any further, if they find out that you’re from certain countries that they don’t provide their services to. For example, if you live in countries that are included in the list of countries that are sanctioned by the US by the US trade laws.
Needless to say, if you somehow manage to sign up for their services, you will always run the risk of them finding out and seizing all of your income that you depend on for your life, and that’s IF they decide to stop there and don’t follow you further.
Because of these geographical restrictions, so many creative artists, so many smart developers, and so many hard working people that can all benefit the world in a better way, are forced to do something else that they have no passion for, settling for a job that sucks the soul out of them and stifles their creativity, until nothing is left. It’s tragic and inhumane to let this happen to so many bright people around the world who can offer their seevices to society and make it better. It’s an accepted level of racism apparently by many people, to not let the people who happen to be born in these countries by fate, reach their dreams, and instead to stifle their creativity and turn down their solutions, simply because they are from a different part of the world than what is acceptable.
I know that the crypto currency world doesn’t carry a good name, but as it is, it is the only way to solve these problems. As far as I know, it’s the only way to trade services in a decentralized way, that doesn’t give all of this power to these centralized, multi-million dollar corporations that only have money in mind, and not their users.
Well, good luck to you, your goal seems noble enough, though I’ve seen a few noble crypto projects turn into a scam. Anyway, I (and a lot of other people) try to not touch anything crypto related with a 10-meter pole (except for Americans, they use a 10-feet pole).
It’s curious: most people on Lemmy fancy themselves “anti-establishment revolutionaries”, yet the mere proposal of a job market that breaks away from banks and the status quo causes them to downvote you like you are asking them to join some religious cult.
While crypto was a cool idea in theory, most of us have been paying attention since 2009 and can see what it’s become. An untraceable black hole for investors to shove their money into, free from it being touched by us poors. Do you think it’s “anti-establishment” that when I google bitcoin, the first thing that comes up is a stock market ticker? Or to fuel the climate crisis with unnecessary power consumption?
Not all crypto is Bitcoin, and not all blockchains are based on Proof of Work. Ethereum’s Proof of Stake consumes less electricity than all the power used by PlayStation consoles at idle.
Cool and that was, what, seven years too late for the whole, creating thousands of tonnes of CO2 thing? For that one coin? I’m sorry but at this point I’m perfectly happy to throw the baby out with the bathwater on the whole “Web3” thing. I care very little for the irreversible harm it’s caused to our planet at this point.
No, not “that one coin”. The whole blockchain. Thousands of different cryptocurrencies and smart contracts are secured by it. The whole network is holding tens of billions of dollars worth of value, and it takes an estimated 8M USD worth of electricity in a whole year to secure it. There is no way that any existing financial banking system will ever be as efficient as this.
Arguing based on “how long it took to get there” is at best just bad argument based on sunk-cost fallacy and at worst moving the goalposts. If you care about “irreversible harm” from CO2, it would be a lot more productive if you wrote to your local city council to abolish parking minimum requirements than hating on a project that from the start was focused on creating a consensus system that did not require PoW.
This is just straight up disinformation. Crypto uses somewhere between 0.4%-0.9% of all electricity used yearly. 120 to 240 billion kilowatt-hours. That’s more electricity than the entirety of my country of Australia. You’ve been duped if you believe the numbers you posted.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652623007308 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652623036995 https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2022/09/08/fact-sheet-climate-and-energy-implications-of-crypto-assets-in-the-united-states/
Edit: Adding this quote because I think it paints a clear picture:
…and is comparable to the annual electricity usage of all conventional data centers in the world.
You are talking about “crypto”, which implies that you are talking about different blockchains, including Bitcoin and all other blockchains that rely on Proof-of-Work.
My figures are specific to the Ethereum blockchain, which is used to control transactions in Ether and many other cryptocurrencies (look for “ERC20 token standard”, if you care to understand), including stablecoins that have its value anchored to different “real currencies” like USD, EUR, GBP… The Ethereum blockchain uses Proof-of-Stake and does not require “burning energy” to keep the network secure.
FWIW, I’m all for banning all blockchains based on Proof of Work, or at the very least adding a prohibitively expensive tax for every transaction done by a centralized exchange. This would be more than enough to kill Bitcoin or force them to clean up their act and switch their consensus system.
I dunno man, I just don’t consider Libertarians or AnCaps to be revolutionary. Sorry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What job proposal? This is a platform or a scam, any way you look at it is in no way different from what already exists, just with 0 protection for the workers, and using monopoly money that might make your work worth 20% less every month.
You are arguing against something I did not write and throwing around typical soundbites that are false and/or not applicable to all cryptocurrency. IOW, you are responding like a reactionary. Well done!
No, like you’re part of some tech-bro cult. Which is worse, I will point out. Rejection of the current status quo doesn’t mean we want a WORSE status quo.
And we already have plenty of people in the current establishment who want to pay their employees with something other than actual money. We call those people scumbags. At least being paid in exposure isn’t bad for the environment.
How do you handle escrow?
