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 ===== Mission Statement ===== ===== Mission Statement =====
  
-The Qortal Network will bring back individual sovereignty to a worldwide economy. Qortal will: 1) rebuild the Internet in an unhackable fashion, 2) provide a viable alternative to the devastation caused by exchange hacks and thefts, 3) build a new worldwide economic system based on honesty, openness, trust, democracy, and transparency, 4) implement a true-direct democratic system with a voting system where the individual's influence is weighted based on contribution, and 5) establish a fair system with room for everyone to earn their place in Qortal!+Qortal's mission is to create a new digital infrastructure that puts the power back into the hands of the individual. Removing centralized intermediaries from unnecessary portions of life, and providing means for viable digital freedom.  
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 +Qortal provides a method to directly trade cryptocurrencies without having to deposit coins, means to publish and host websites and applications without servers, domains, DNS, or continual fees, and an easy-to-use interface so that 'any normal person' may make use of the system.  
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 +Much of the rest of the platform, is up to the user to create. Qortal is a community built, community run project that relies upon contributions of the users in order to continue. Donations of time and effort into the platform from members of the Qortal Community, is the only way to create a system that removes the reliance upon large corporations and those that believe they can own individuals. 
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 +Qortal is NOT a platform built to 'compete' with anything. It is built to be a parallel network that provides freedom for users to express themselves, without concern of censorship. On Qortal, only the individual can prevent themselves from seeing any public data. As it should be, responsibility is on the individual user to provide an environment in Qortal that they wish to be part of, and that they can be proud of. 
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 +Qortal has already accomplished nearly every one of its original 'goals', including the ability to host and provide access to websites, applications, public and private data, and multiple types of communications. The only 'primary goal' that the project has not completed yet, is the 'Mesh Network', however, the protocol for allowing this mesh communication to begin, is currently in development and expected to be in initial testing phases within the next few months (As of May 2024). 
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 +Qortal provides a digital world that allows for every user to fully control their own lives. Without being unknowingly taken advantage of by background data harvesting and many other harmful practices currently in  play on 'the internet'. 
  
  
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 The Founders of the Qortal Project understand that in a picture perfect world, everything  would be 100% decentralized in all facets, although the reality is that limited governance is still needed as the world is truly full of bad actors. Therefore, Qortal’s goal is to focus on true democracy and as much decentralization as possible. Qortal’s core infrastructure has a codebase that is maintained by DevTeam Admins. This is strictly to ensure what code is added to the project’s core is truly honest and fair while combating the potential for bad actors to attack the codebase. With blockchain technology, the codebase is law and nothing can sabotage the laws written into the code! With that said, the focus of the development team is to develop a Voting System which allows the community to help drive the direction of the project.  The Founders of the Qortal Project understand that in a picture perfect world, everything  would be 100% decentralized in all facets, although the reality is that limited governance is still needed as the world is truly full of bad actors. Therefore, Qortal’s goal is to focus on true democracy and as much decentralization as possible. Qortal’s core infrastructure has a codebase that is maintained by DevTeam Admins. This is strictly to ensure what code is added to the project’s core is truly honest and fair while combating the potential for bad actors to attack the codebase. With blockchain technology, the codebase is law and nothing can sabotage the laws written into the code! With that said, the focus of the development team is to develop a Voting System which allows the community to help drive the direction of the project. 
  
-Qortal is intended to provide a Groups system where anyone can create a Group and have admin privileges over their members and content. So although there will be no direct censorship over the Groups by the Dev Team, the admins of individual Groups will be empowered to choose what content they wish to see in their sub-community. The same goes for each individual using the platform, it should be up to the individual to decide what content they wish to see or not see. This is a very strong fundamental principle of the Founders as the focus is to combat and remove all concerns with Big Tech’s overreach and politically biased censorship powers.+Qortal is intended to provide a Groups system where anyone can create a Group and have admin privileges over their members and content. So although there will be no direct censorship over the Groups by the DevTeam, the admins of individual Groups will be empowered to choose what content they wish to see in their sub-community. The same goes for each individual using the platform, it should be up to the individual to decide what content they wish to see or not see. This is a very strong fundamental principle of the Founders as the focus is to combat and remove all concerns with Big Tech’s overreach and politically biased censorship powers.
  
-The Dev Team Admins are a set of Founders and will eventually include hand-picked developers. These developers will be vetted for based on time and contribution, then propose to the community a vote for the developer to become a DevTeam Admin. A minimum of 60% approval is needed between the DevTeam Admins during a vote to authorize auto-updates to the chain. This is an important point to make in order for everyone to understand that the Founders aim to help direct the project in the proper direction, then ideally be able to elect more team members who can help further the project’s development with less need for the Founders as Qortal is designed to be a project that can outlive us all if done correctly.+The DevTeam Admins are a set of Founders and hand-picked developers. These developers are vetted for based on time and contribution. This is an important point to make in order for everyone to understand that the Founders aim to help direct the project in the proper direction, then ideally be able to elect more team members who can help further the project’s development with less need for the Founders as Qortal is designed to be a project that can outlive us all if done correctly.
  
 The Founders also pay homage to the founding concepts behind the original blockchain project which brought this technology to the world’s attention - Bitcoin. To briefly recap, the original concepts behind the white paper of Bitcoin were to:  The Founders also pay homage to the founding concepts behind the original blockchain project which brought this technology to the world’s attention - Bitcoin. To briefly recap, the original concepts behind the white paper of Bitcoin were to: 
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 The beauty of blockchain technology and Qortal is that the chain cannot be stopped and the project will carry on without hardware dependency of any single person! Qortal is intended to outlive the Founders and become an unstoppable infrastructure for the world to adopt. Qortal will provide an opportunity for anyone in the world to get involved and be rewarded for their contribution to the network regardless of technical expertise, geographical location, or financial status. In theory, virtually any type of ethical online service and operating system could utilize the backbone infrastructure of Qortal.  The beauty of blockchain technology and Qortal is that the chain cannot be stopped and the project will carry on without hardware dependency of any single person! Qortal is intended to outlive the Founders and become an unstoppable infrastructure for the world to adopt. Qortal will provide an opportunity for anyone in the world to get involved and be rewarded for their contribution to the network regardless of technical expertise, geographical location, or financial status. In theory, virtually any type of ethical online service and operating system could utilize the backbone infrastructure of Qortal. 
  
-With a vision of a platform designed to outlive us all, the current DevTeam Admins are merely that - the current DevTeam Admins. More qualified developers will be elected to join the Dev Team over time, and the Voting System will delegate a fair direction for the future team to move towards. Ultimately, Qortal aims to achieve a true-direct democratic system that is guided by the community members, implemented by the Dev Team, and not regulated by any outside government or third-party. Finally, a system that can be utilized worldwide that is built by the people, for the people!+With a vision of a platform designed to outlive us all, the current DevTeam Admins are merely that - the current DevTeam Admins. More qualified developers will be elected to join the DevTeam over time, and the Voting System will delegate a fair direction for the future team to move towards. Ultimately, Qortal aims to achieve a true-direct democratic system that is guided by the community members, implemented by the DevTeam, and not regulated by any outside government or third-party. Finally, a system that can be utilized worldwide that is built by the people, for the people!
  
 This is infrastructure we control as a collective worldwide. Peer-to-peer solutions with decentralized blockchain technology to rebuild the Internet, provide the crypto space with a platform to build on, and even internet service solutions - with mesh networking and satellite bridging.  This is infrastructure we control as a collective worldwide. Peer-to-peer solutions with decentralized blockchain technology to rebuild the Internet, provide the crypto space with a platform to build on, and even internet service solutions - with mesh networking and satellite bridging. 
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 +The overall goal is to be censorship-free, peer-to-peer, no reliance on third parties, and not able to be directly regulated by outside forces! 
  
 Think big! Think big!
fundamental_principles.txt · Last modified: 05/15/2024 13:58 by crowetic

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