Do you believe in UBI? Do you want crypto?
Then give me your government ID, your mobile number, your address and your email and no worries I'll make...good (and...secure) use of them all the while giving you hot air!
What a recipe:
UBI (Universal Basic Income) is getting more and more popular every day. Crypto currencies are on the same trend (actually even hotter).
How about if we put both ingredients in the recipe? Wouldn't that be great?
I guess that is what the people (or should I say person, as in singular, as in 1) of SwiftDemand thought of, when introducing it.
So what do we have here?
A promise to receive 100 Swift per day as long as you register with SwiftDemand and then visit the website each and everyday in order to click a button and claim your Swift.
Then, when (and if) Swift is ICOd and listed on an exchange and and and, all real people registered with their absolutely true legal identity, will get a coin worth something...maybe.
So whats the problem? It couldn't hurt anyone to create an account and receive Swift in order to have an Unconditional Basic Income, could it? What is there to loose anyway?
Well it depends on what you consider “it couldn't hurt”!
Lets look at the “not so details” details:
Detail A.
In order to register with SwiftDemand you must give your:
- Legal First Name,
- Legal Last Name,
- Legal Address,
- email address and verify it,
- Mobile Number and verify it,
- Government issued ID (passport, ID, etc.)
- A selfie, cheek to cheek with your Government issued ID.
Detail B.
In order to claim your Swift you need to:
Log into your account on the website everyday and click on the “claim” button.
What we have here is quite interesting:
In detail A, you have given your identity to someone you do not have any reason to trust, in order to receive something of zero value and keep it until some point in the future when, if all promises come to pass, will have some value...maybe. However, if the private information you provided is not 100% true you get zero, nothing.
In detail B, you have entered into a procedure through which you create loyal traffic, pageviews and clicks for someone you have no reason to do so, because you are obligated to logon to the site and click to claim your Swift everyday of your life for the next months or years (until the verified unique per person accounts reach 5.000.000) thus, creating a lot of value for the website and zero value for you. The Alexa global ranking of the site is around 18,000.
Here you can see the relevant statistics such as current number of accounts etc: https://www.swiftdemand.com/stats
Isn't this just a collection of people's identities?
Especially of people who believe in UBI and who most likely need it?
There is a plethora of ways to gather people's interest without compromising their identities (by gathering them in some server, in someones “garage”) and when time comes for an ICO or to get listed on an exchange, connect each account to a real person by asking for identification.
If the one account per physical person is clearly stated from the beginning, it would turn off most (if not all) efforts to create multiple accounts because only one would link to a specific individual at the end. The rest would be redistribute to new individuals. The only thing that would have to change would be the ability to give and receive Swift pre-ICO.
What a despicable way to take advantage of a wonderful and global idea & necessity, such as Universal Basic Income all the while compromising (if not parasitizing) on other human beings identities.