Gitcoin Glossary
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Anon: Anon is short for Anonymous. On the internet, we all have the right to be anonymous if we choose
Blockchain: Blockchains are places information gets recorded on the internet. As groups of people and computers come to agreement about what information they believe to be true, that information gets solidified into an unchangeable block. That block then gets added to a chain of blocks people already added to the chain. Each block is from a unique moment in time.
Contributor: Someone who adds value to the DAO through the work they do and usually receives compensation
Cryptocurrency: Money backed by the idea that the invention of the internet is more important to homo sapiens than any pre-internet organization (including governments and banks). Cryptocurrencies are built using blockchain as a place to store information or data about the movement of money.
Cyberpunk: An imagined future for the earth where nature has been conquered by technology. We live virtually as much as we do in reality and the planet has decayed under our regime.
DAO: A group of people who work together toward a shared mission. Within the group, each person has the ability to make their own choices.
dPopp: A Moonshot Collective project which is building a sybil-resistance tool that can be used across Web3 to verify that the user is a real person with a single account.
FDD: Fraud Detection & Defense Gitcoin workstream which defends gitcoin (grants, DAO, and future products) from threats to its legitimacy, credible neutrality, and sustainability. Includes sybil resistance, fradulent grants investigations, and DAO health-checking
Game B: The idea that the world is shifting from playing an adversarial game to a cooperative one. If we all helped each other win, then we could all win. https://www.gameb.wiki/index.php?title=Game_B
gm: good morning
Governance: the process of how decisions get made. Involves determining who, what, when, and where those decisions are made
Grants: Gitcoin grants provides a way to crowdfund public goods projects. Project members can post about their project and recieve funds from contributors in the communitty. Projects will further receive quadratic funding from gitcoin proportional to who received the most contributors.
Greatest LARP: The Greatest LARP featured Gitcoin Comic 2 and had an auction that raised $500k for public goods greatestlarp.com
Greenpill: This term nods to the solarpunks in the room & is general shorthand for crypto for Public Goods. Someone who has “taken the greenpill” believes in crypto’s ability to create better economic and social systems to benefit the planet and people.
MMM: The MMM-Workstream has the goal to use Merch, Memes, and Marketing to promote public goods with unique projects that generates curiosity, hype and engagement around GitcoinDAO and its core mission.
Moloch: Moloch is called "the god of coordination failure". Moloch is a system which no one wants to be in but everyone is trapped in and contributes to. Imagine a prison where you are both a prisoner and guard.
MSB: Moonshot Bots. A massively successful Gitcoin PFP that raised $3.5mm for public goods https://bots.moonshotcollective.space/
Moonshot Collective: An innovation machine rapidly protoyping coordination tools. The product-building arm of Gitcoin
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Ops: Operations workstream work on anything that helps operationalize the DAO. This would be legal, accounting, onboarding, the community experience, tooling, and of course the governance of the DAO by our stewards.
OSS: Open Source Software is software which is publicly accessible by anyone. Unlike most code written at companies which is kept secret for profit, OSS is usually developed by volunteers. A lot of OSS makes up the foundation of software today (like linux, python)
PG: Public Goods are those which everyone can benefit from and no one can keep anyone out. The idea that everyone can take from the good is called 'non-rivalrous' and the idea that no one can keep anyone out is called 'non-excludable'. A good example is the planet is a public good: everyone lives on and it and no one can keep anyone out.
Quadratic Funding seeks to provide projects more funding if they have more unique contributors. In other words: more people, more money. Gitcoin accomplishes this by having a supply of money called a 'matching fund' for each funding cycle or grant round. Money from this matching fund is paid to grants by Gitcoin proportional to the number of unique contributors of the grant. wtfisqf.com
Scaffold-Eth: A starter-kit for building decentralized applications on ethereum quickly. Also provides a fantastic learning tool at speedrunethereum.com
Schelling Point: a) an event being hosted by Gitcoin at EthDenver on Feb 17th 2022. b) a place where cooperation and coordination can happen without communciation https://nav.al/schelling-point
Solarpunk: An imagined future for the earth where nature and technology have achieved symbiotic harmony. In this world, we avoid climate disaster and instead create technology which allows humans to be benefits to the environment instead of only benefiting from the environment.
Steward: Stewards have increased voting power and decision-making ability within the DAO and are key-players in governance.
Sybil: Sybil was the name of a woman with multiple personality disorder. Sybil is when a single person creates multiple accounts. This is a problem for gitcoin grants and other systems which rely on scaling funding proportional to the number of real people.
UG: Universe Guide. A written guide being developed by RaidGuild to help guide future Gitcoin metaverse projects.
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