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Hi there, I'm enthusiastic about the idea, but after digging in a little more, I have some concerns about security / development of this project...

The wallets page does not seem to mention Open Source, GitHub, compiling yourself, etc. I found the source code on GitHub, but it hasn't been touched for almost a year.
The website does not use https, so literally everything users see / download there could be replaced by a MITM effortlessly.
The Android wallet is not on Google Play. Instead it is just an APK file to download from the website (see item above).
Did not find GPG keys or digests for the files, so installing any of these is really dangerous (especially for anyone who might have another cryptocurrency on the same system like people here).
The Linux binary on the website has no file extension. Not a big deal, but makes me wonder if anyone has ever downloaded and used it.

I have some questions about the economics / distribution, but need to read & think more. :-)

I have looked into this coin myself and had these concerns as well as the business model of the coin itself. The idea is nice and all but i'm not exactly sure how the execution is going to work, perhaps i'm not fully understanding how it all will work. That being said, I do actually want to see this one succeed because well, the cause seems noble and can actually help some very poor people in their lives.

people and institutions. A second and equally formidable challenge will be changing the mindset of the masses in some countries. In the USA for example, the concept of income is very tightly bound to "earnings" or "holdings" - many people would argue that UBI equates to money for nothing and would promote laziness and/or idleness. Changing deeply ingrained mindsets can take a very long time.

However, there is a storm on the horizon that may force societal change and almost everyone to rethink UBI. The advancements in AI and automation will displace millions of workers globally and ballooning debt levels/fiscal crises will devastate many fiat currencies in the years ahead. This trifecta of upheaval may spark widespread discussion and ultimate acceptance of UBI (hopefully) or civil unrest/state collapse/failure of national governance (bad times for all involved). Let us all hope that viable UBI such as Manna comes to fruition in the near-term to prevent widespread catastrophe in the long-term.

This is an interesting take on things. What makes you so sure that UBI in particular is the solution to the issues you pointed out? What good is UBI if it is easy to manipulate the value of that income as well? I don't think the richest people in the world would allow such a thing to rise to power ahead of the old ways though, do you have a perspective on how that's possible?

With people like Mark Zuckerberg and Richard Branson talking about UBI I think the trend is already headed in that direction. Some of the stuff being said is along the lines of: UBI is the patch for the economic problems of everyday people.

Some of the wealthier crowd are already huge proponents of UBI such as Pierre Omidyar the founder of Ebay, Andrew Ng cofounder of Coursera and chief scientist at Baidu, Sam Altman president of YCombinator, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk, Bill Gross co-founder of pacific investment management, Ray Kurzweil co-founder of Singularity University, partner at Union Square Ventures Albert Wenger, CEO of O'Reilly Media Tim O'Reilly, Facebook Co-Founder Rick Hughes.