The Genesis (of Mr.) Block
Introduction
Driven by a passion for decentralized business models, efficient capital markets, and equal opportunity for all, the Mr. Block founding team is building a technical ecosystem for the content and gig economies.
The Mr. Block Platform enables research & education for applied economics and bilateral access to the global knowledge-worker talent pool.
We envision a world where access to valuable information and marketplace services are democratized for all and historical barriers to entry are eliminated.
Join us! As we scale Mr. Block from grassroots to mainstream and capitalize on this fantastic opportunity to advance society’s most precious assets: our people and our data.
Current Situation
Society is rapidly developing as we write. This is a broad-scale evolution of perspective from emerging and egressing generations alike, fundamentally changing the way society perceives and realizes commercial value between intermediaries.
One of the economies most ripe for disruption is the freelance or “gig” economy. This vertical offers incredible value to society by promoting cross-functional collaboration and bilateral value contributions; however it is victim to massive inefficiencies that present themselves as a painful tax on those who are contributing most to the economy. Furthermore, high costs are borne by the consumers of the marketplace product and services.
A truly decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) has the potential to address these business and technical challenges in a way that delivers bilateral value to both service-provider (SP) and service-receiver (SR). The DAO proposed here is enabled by a Bitcoin-based platform that enables education, participation and collaboration amongst traditionally untrusted parties to achieve the following outcomes:
- Reduce or eliminate transaction and participation fees, thereby returning a higher margin to SPs and a lower total cost to SRs;
- Drive market efficiencies through economies of scale and peer-to-peer participation
- Improve security, privacy and trust compared to traditional consumer-to-consumer marketplace platforms
- Create and leverage novel monetization channels through establishment of Bitcoin-based token economy
Contributing Factors
A global pandemic event has dramatically accelerated the pace of change for economic and societal dynamics. These dynamics have existed for some time; although, current conditions have brought to light these underlying themes in a way that impacts the average Joe and Jane’s everyday life-experience and disproportionately impacts certain demographics.
Global COVID pandemic
- Accelerated adoption of virtual products/services
- Transitioning interpersonal trust model from “face-to-face” to “identity-to-identity”
Net-new intra-market opportunities in Blockchain Development and Tokenization
- Creative Arts Market
- Data Market/Data Economy/Data-as-an-Asset
- Freelance Market i.e. “gig economy”, “passion economy”
Future of Knowledge Work
- Passion Economy — an evolution in behavioral economics whereby knowledge workers are aligning with desired contribution models vs. demanded/expected contribution models
- Productivity implications
Increased Globalization and Democratization of the Global Talent Pool
- Platform-based services delivering exponential value to user communities through low barriers-of-entry for participation and contribution
Status Quo Disruption
- In general, there exists major unrest for the way current day-to-day systems are owned, operated, managed, and delivered to consumers. Consider the federal position on social media censorship and ensuing saga
Web 3.0
- Intensified focus on using a machine-based understanding of data to provide a data-driven and semantic web. The ultimate goal of Web 3.0 is to create more intelligent, connected and open websites.
Enter: Mr. Block
Mr. Block Addresses challenges faced by rate-of-innovation in the blockchain industry and the plethora of indicators that currently serve to track activity; overcoming the fundamental challenge of task switching and attention spanning by interacting with 10–15 different content sources per day to consume important areas of interest. This platform then extrapolates below-mentioned features to facilitate a meaningful economy behind and around it.
- Useful and user-friendly platform to facilitate increased communication, efficiency and economies of scale between knowledge worker participants in the freelance/gig economy.
- A decentralized ecosystem of talent services delivered in a reputable, reliable and cost-effective manner.
- Community-driven technology system architecture that delivers bidirectional value contributions to both contributors and consumers (maker/taker model)
Benefits
- Bolster value proposition of Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) model
- Deliver cost efficiencies to the knowledge worker economy
- Mitigate constraints on intellectual property development
- Deliver exponentiated marketplace productivity
- Offer more secure marketplace interaction
What is Mr. Block Research?
Mr. Block Research is a platform that encompasses the best of on-chain analysis, TA, fundamentals, and macroeconomic news for users to quickly and easily receive the most pertinent information related to Crypto, Blockchain, and Finance. Mr. Block combines high quality content tailored to your needs from content feeds and channels of your choosing. The platform is meant to educate not only blockchain and fin-tech communities, but lower the barrier to entry for the entire population as many enter the world of cryptocurrencies.
Mr. Block leverages API data from reputable selected content providers whereby users can track content and research regarding personally relevant topics and interact in a meaningful way through a community of mutual interest. We allow users to contribute and monetize research on any given topic, with the goal of enabling networks within these micro communities to further foster innovation and collaboration on any given topic.
Our mission is to simplify capital markets education, while enabling new users to participate in the blockchain economy.
What is Mr. Block Marketplace?
A decentralized marketplace (DAO) empowering the Gig Economy and thereby democratizing access to businesses, artists, traders, and more for the monetization of creative content, data and talent services.
Mr. Block Marketplace introduces decentralized applications to mainstream audiences to make accessible the future of labor contributions. This subsequently enables free market efficiencies for the exchange of value in content and talent services. Leveraging our bitcoin-based token (MBLK), users can tokenize assets and freely exchange these assets in a peer-to-peer manner while avoiding costs associated with legacy models. This leads to tremendous economic benefit for both the employer and freelancer (maker/taker) unlocking previously dormant value contributions across industries. Why not an ERC-20? Read more on why we decided to build our dApp on the bitcoin ecosystem HERE.
In closing,
The Mr. Block Foundry believes there is a major trend underway towards the “decentralization and tokenization of everything.” We see a world where blockchain will disrupt platform service models like Upwork, Shutterstock, Fiverr etc. These companies traditionally serve as an unnecessary and inefficient intermediary, capitalizing on power-and-position dynamics to extract grossly exorbitant fees from those who contribute the most value to society in the first place. We aspire to a world where ethical incentives, sound protocols and hard money dictate how parties perceive value and exchange goods/services to the maximum benefit of all user/contributors within any given economy or sub-economy.
