Try out Proto-Taxemes
Step 1:
Download the ethereum-wallet app,
https://github.com/ethereum/mist/releases
Step 2:
Open the app and let it download the blockchain
Step 3:
Use the testnet and start mining to get some ether
Step 4:
Create an account
Step 5:
Go to CONTRACTS and click WATCH CONTRACT
Add the CONTRACT ADDRESS 0xe29B959E2954018c6CB9956eD43E84A8679a3E3a
and paste this into JSON INTERFACE, then press OK
Step 6:
Open the contract
Awesome job :) You can now buy RES, set your personal Taxeme, and send and accept payments. Taxemes are built in and you will inherit them when you consume from others.
Click on Watch contract events to see Taxemes come to life, and to watch them as they jump from person to person, just like ideas and other parasites do.
What are Proto Taxemes ?
Proto Taxemes are early versions of a decentralized taxation protocol. Taxemes are a form of replicators, similar to genes and memes, with variation, selection and heredity.
How to Use Proto Taxemes
Start by buying some RES
And set your personal Taxeme rate. That each person or company can set the rate of their personal Taxeme is what creates variation of Taxemes.
Now your ready to consume from other people or companies within the Resilience network.
Example
0x583d439b3aeb355481dd14266aaf4f9cca460126 (TestNet) has two Taxemes at the moment I write this. Get them by consuming from that address for at least 1500 RES-wei.
Taxeme({
taxemeID: 0x81243730f2fe9644c8b6461be1056ed84f8457c39a58742de7c788607496fb4e,
rate: 20, // in parts-per-thousand, so 2%
volume: 1000
});Taxeme({
taxemeID: 0x9aa2d7d942eebc93ff5446c7728fa7604d6cb3293c98ec3895f26aa612a890d2,
rate: 30, // in parts-per-thousand, so 3%
volume: 500
});
That address then has a personal Taxeme at 4%, which will be the dominant Taxeme after those two Taxemes are used up.
Your Taxemes are visible under the Taxemes mapping, and you can scroll through them easily.
RAQ: Random Asked Questions
How is Taxemes pronounced?
Like Genes and Memes.
How are Taxemes created ?
newTaxeme() is invoked when _to has a dominant Taxeme that is their personal Taxeme.
In other words, if _to has no Taxeme, or if their lowest Taxeme, Taxemes[_to][0], has a higher tax-rate than their personal Taxeme.
if(PersonalTaxeme[_to] < Taxemes[_to][0].rate || Taxemes[_to][0] == 0)What Taxeme is dominant ?
The lowest Taxeme is dominant. Taxemes are meant to form a “Taxeme pool”, similar to a gene-pool, where a set of Taxemes have been created and selected by the network, and that then spread throughout the network as people make transactions, spreading “donation-behaviors”
New Taxemes are only created when a transaction is made to someone whose dominant Taxeme is their personal Taxeme. This should not happen very often.
Is a Taxeme the currency or the group ?
The currency is called RES and Taxemes are built into it. Taxemes are the tax-collectors. It’s all being built on Ethereum.
What’s the difference between a dominant and personal Taxeme?
Each account has a personal Taxeme, and they can change the tax-rate of it whenever they want. Each account can also host Taxemes that they inherit from others. Each account will have mostly inherited Taxemes.
The rule of lowest first says that the lowest Taxeme is dominant. In the rare cases where that happens to be someone’s personal Taxeme, that personal Taxeme is dominant.
Why is creation of new Taxemes rare?
Think of it like a trend. Most people are not trend-creators, only a small percentage can be trend creators.
Taxemes have variation, selection and heredity, like genes also do. The variation comes from that anyone can set their own tax-rate of their personal Taxeme. Then there is selection, meaning not all Taxemes will be popular.
It sounds like the selection is just based on an algorithm that picks the lowest value?
No, people select. People and companies select who they purchase goods and services from. And people are rewarded for favoring high tax-rate Taxemes. And companies are rewarded by attracting consumers.
So are Taxemes and companies linked to one system or are they all shared?
There will be just one currency, and within it, local ecosystems of Taxemes will exist. Taxemes only spread a limited distance from where they are created, so a Taxeme in one economy will probably not spread too far.
How is that limited?
It’s limited by that Taxemes are destroyed when they have traveled in a circle, similar to the Ripple monetary system concept. You will be able to pay them online with RES if they accept that, and you will then inherit a Taxeme from them, and tax will be collected.
Technically, Taxemes are destroyed through the use of anti-Taxemes, that are seeded in vast amounts by the creator of the Taxeme, and that spread in the opposite direction, from consumer to producer. Each Taxeme has an ID, and each Taxeme is destroyed when they collide with a corresponding anti-Taxeme.
What is the point of destroying Taxemes ?
It makes space for new Taxemes to be created, so the tax-rates can reflect the present state of affairs.
Could you explain it as easily as possible ?
Basically, if you buy something from a company that has a high tax-rate Taxeme, you will create a bigger dividend pathway than if they had a low tax-rate Taxeme. When that company then makes future transactions, it in turn creates dividend pathways, and your pathways will connect to theirs. Tax that is collected from transactions that extend from that company will flow to you and you will get basic income from it.
It’s a complex system because it solves a complex problem — how does one incentivize large-scale wealth sharing without using violence ? The Resilience system solves that by making the people do all the work, and rewarding them for doing a good job. The people do the job of enforcing taxation, by choosing to consolidate their purchases from companies that use Taxemes that pay a lot of tax. The people also continue the spread of Taxemes when others in turn consume from them, filling a role similar to pollinators like bees.
