Is there a place for love in blockchain technology? How can it help us find our ultimate goal in life?
In these dizzying times of intricate algorithms, virtual money and artificial intelligence, what place do we reserve for love? Does it make sense to love oneself and others in the new economic scenarios facilitated by blockchain and cryptography? Can blockchain help find a partner or connect with universal love?
«Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none».
William Shakespeare
Money is becoming virtualized, and not only as a result of the birth and expansion of cryptocurrencies. The fiat riches emitted by the States are already, for the most part, virtual, because they are numbers written on a computer. In some countries, banknotes and coins have almost completely disappeared.
The rules of the game are changing. Sooner or later, governments will have to start retiring in order to give way to the free evolution of the economy and markets. The slow, violent, inefficient and tremendously costly pyramidal structures that we call States will gradually be transformed into models of collective organization that are closer, more supportive and respectful of the freedom and privacy of their citizens.
We have created a transnational network of distributed nodes capable of creating, exchanging and transmitting value among equals. But not only that: it is also a planetary database that is practically impossible to alter and that acts as a witness capable of truthfully testifying to everything we decide to register. Beyond our control, we have designed a more robust digital jurisdiction than any national sovereignty. Money that no government in the world can take away from us. Powerful tools of individual sovereignty that already have the capacity to free markets and, with them, humanity.
Love is the ultimate goal of our lives.
Universal love
But they cannot do it alone. These technologies still need human supervision to be created, updated and executed, and in order to do so with precision it is necessary to carry out a scrupulous cultivation of the spiritual world, from any of its multiple paths, without dogmas or sins, but connecting with the ultimate goal of our existence in the world, the profound teaching shared by all religions, all over the planet, without exception: universal love.
Only from there will we be able to see clearly what is the next step towards liberation. The quickest and most powerful way to hack the «illusion» into «reality» is daring to see beauty in all that surrounds us and within ourselves, all the time: to love things and people for what they are, exactly as they are, and not for their appearance. Once we have done this, we will be free to decide what kind of things we would like to change.
«There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life».
John Lennon
Love yourself first
In order to maximize the love of neighbor and collectively finance affection, it is necessary to love oneself first. Thus, by cultivating narcissism with balance, we will be able to create tools in which the most selfish decisions constitute the maximum benefit for all. In the new game, if we design it clearly, an individual's fortune will have a positive impact on the wealth of the community.
«People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests. Neither love nor charity nor any other sympathetic sentiments but rightly understood selfishness is what originally impelled man to adjust himself to the requirements of society, to respect the rights and freedoms of his fellow men and to substitute peaceful collaboration for enmity and conflict».
Ludwig von Mises
Blockchain technology lacks morals. Computers simply execute the injected code, and they do so with mathematical precision, with no possibility of mistake, except for failures due to human error. Thus, cryptocurrencies, like any other tool, do not in themselves turn out to be good or bad. They can be used to do good, and they can also be used very badly, because what we do with them will ultimately depend on ourselves and on the purity of our heart.
As Emily Faria said in Criptonoticias on October 8, 2017, «although cryptocurrencies are accused of being used to finance criminal activities, the problem does not lie in the tool, but in the intention of the heart of the person or persons who use it, because if it is used to help others progress (attacking social problems from the root and not only their consequences) instead of damaging, this tool has undoubted transformative potential».
Cryptocurrencies to find a partner
Once we've done the work with ourselves, it's time to go out and share that love in the outside world. Blockchain technology offers total transparency and immutability to online platforms in order to link and meet people with similar tastes. This is a great help in verifying the identities of users, while maintaining privacy and allowing greater security. In recent years there have been widespread cases of stolen data on centralized platforms. With blockchain technology, this threat can be reduced to a minimum.
Amor is the frustrated project of creating a decentralized dating platform that offered for flirting the Amorcoin token on the Ethereum platform. Other initiatives that use blockchain to find partners on networks are LoveBlock, where you can win DDD tokens, or Luna, a dating platform based on incentives developed with blockchain technology and machine learning tools to facilitate the crucial task of finding the love of our lives.
«Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres».
(Corinthians 13: 4-7).
Love. Up to the marrow, from the viscera, until you can no longer love. Love, show the world the best version of yourself and let's create together new tools of collective enrichment for the mutual benefit of all individuals. Enough of swallowing the illusion that at some point you and I, or any of us, were separated. Love, kiss, hug, touch and caress, for that, and that alone, is the ultimate meaning of life. Amen.