Author: Michael Ten

Self serve advertising is when individuals and organizations can log into websites and apps and purchase advertising that will be shown to users of such sites and apps, and this can be done without having to wait (in any significant way) on any response from any human agent in order for the ads to be served to users.

This is dedicated to learning, teaching, and researching about self serve advertising. Self serve advertising is related to areas of knowledge that include technology, software engineering, business, advertising, and marketing. It can even relate to politics!

Some of the biggest providers of self serve online advertising are Facebook, Twitter, and Google. These are for profit companies. Net profits from ads are given to shareholders. This system benefits the few at the expense of the many. YouTube and Instagram probably also use self serve advertising.

Facebook and Twitter earn money from advertising placed alongside original content created by members/users. Facebook and Twitter do not pay royalties to content creators/contributors. Minimum royalty laws should exist.

There has been controversy related to self serve advertising. In 2016 elections in USA, self serve advertising was used in ways that may have violated election regulations to spread political ideas.

Can a nonprofit or decentralized organization facilitate (DAO) the creation of self serve advertising platforms that accept cryptocurrencies? Can such an organization use all profits for social good?

Newman’s Own donates all profits to charities. Perhaps a nonprofit or DAO can exist that enables people to run self serve advertising on social media sites and also donate all net profits to charities or distribute most of back to content creators, and maybe even to viewers of ads. Is this a realistic endeavor?

In what ways can self serve advertising be utilized to benefit all of humanity, and not mostly just shareholders of large social media companies?

Will the basic income cryptocurrency Manna be successful? If many people really want basic income implemented then many relatively wealthy people need to buy Manna and donate to People’s Currency Foundation. This will increase the value of Manna. I have also contacted People’s Currency Foundation about setting up an endowment to back the value of Manna. This can help too. Basic income cryptocurrencies will only work if many people cooperate to make it work. Manna doesn’t need to be worth a lot to help those many millions of people on Earth earning less than $1 per day.

Some people do believe that there is no point to living on Earth. I don’t.

The point of living is to enjoy living, and to benefit self and others.

It will be good if we can reduce suicides to zero using persuasion, reason, and kindness. Suicide should be respected as a civil and human right for all adults when it is done in private. Nonconsensual psychiatry should be outlawed. That is, psychiatric coercion, force, and confinement should be outlawed.

Psychiatry wrongly medicalizes suicide. The decision of suicide is not a medical issue. It is a personal, moral, and ethical issue and decision.

Suicide prohibitions and the ability for psychiatrists to lock up law abiding citizens for trying to engage in suicide or for indicating that they will has a chilling effect on free speech, and prevents people from being able to have open and honest conversations about suicide in private in appropriate settings. This needs to change.

Read the book Suicide Prohibition: The Shame of Medicine by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz.

Consider emailing cryptocurrency exchanges and asking them to list Manna. I sent this email to Coinex today. Perhaps Manna can be listed on many cryptocurrency exchanges eventually. Feel free to adapt this email for your own use. Cheers!

Hello,
I possess some Manna, a basic income cryptocurrency.

How can Manna be listed on Coinex? Is there an application and fee? Will Coinex ever list a coin like Manna because it is awesome and has the potential to help lots of people?

Mannabase.com and Peoplescurrency.org are websites for Manna.

I hope Coinex eventually lists Bitcoin Cash/Manna pairs.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
[Your Name]

Can Bitcoin Cash effectively be utilized as a second layer scaling solution for Bitcoin Core? It’s quite simple actually. If many merchants accept Bitcoin Cash, then you can open up a Bitcoin Cash channel (wallet) for/in which you have already exchanged your Bitcoin Core to Bitcoin Cash. If you want to settle the layers and close the scaling channels, then you can close the second layer Bitcoin Cash channel by exchanging your Bitcoin Cash for Bitcoin Core, as long as you don’t mind the fees. If you cannot tell. See? Simple and elegant. I am half joking with this. Which is deployed more already Lightning channels or Bitcoin Cash channels? I’m using some metaphors here, if you cannot tell.