11 April 2020, Easter

Dear World and Philanthropic Community,

Please find here attached the public call for philanthropic funding for the world's most groundbreaking and decisive work for decentralization and privacy:

Letter (2 A4 pages): http://www.asterisk.fyi/2020-04-11_-_Public_Call_For_Philanthropic_Funding.pdf

Appendix (3 A4 pages): http://www.asterisk.fyi/2020-04-11_-_Public_Call_For_Philanthropic_Funding_-_Appendix.pdf

Bitcoin address for contributions: http://www.asterisk.fyi/transfer.html


During this time of pandemic global lockdown crisis, when the need for both truth and trust could never be more obvious, I am humbled to bring you this humanitarian project for your consideration. We are confident it will have a lasting global impact and we hope you will find it worthy.

We're a small team committed to advancing humanity's rights and needs for privacy. I view the need for this non-profit major project as urgent and important for all of humanity. I am asking your help to please forward this work to capable philanthropists committed to making a meaningful and lasting difference in our world.

After devoting over 9,000 hours of work towards this humanitarian goal, we have reached the stage that philanthropic support will bring us over the tipping point we need to bring stability and scale. We are hopeful this quest for support will find its way to capable people who want to make a difference. Our main focus is for the work to have a lasting global impact, stretching decades into the future. We hope you will share our vision. Your support will make a historical difference that will serve future generations.

(Pseudonym)
contact@asterisk.fyi

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FAQ:

1. Why should I care?
Because you and your children and grandchildren are owned by Facebook, Google Mail, Instagram, TikTok, etc., forever. This is a work to offset and dismantle your digital slavery.

2. Is this an ICO?
No. In contrast with several blockchain genre organizations such as Ethereum and EOS, Asterisk does not issue a private, proprietary token or coin. I want to emphasize, again, that Asterisk is a non-profit team with a humanitarian mission. We have installed no trojan horses and there is no present or future proprietary 'gas' or 'token' that users will ever be required to own to enrich the creators. Please refer to the letter and appendix for further discussion.

3. Why are you making this call at this time and why are there not more details?
Asterisk is a work that is existential to not only us but our children and grandchildren. We like details of the work to remain inhouse for now since the work is pre-release. Asterisk is a public standard and the release process is expected to start about 16 months after this round of philanthropic contributions.

4. Who is this message for?
Someone who likes to make a positive difference through philanthropy by monetary contributions. Participation of other kinds will be greatly appreciated and if you like to help we ask you to please message us, and include your skills/CV/works. We will collect all of these and follow up in due course. Right now we have more than ten thousand man hours of formalization and software work inhouse ahead. Public outreach and community building is coming. We who are running this project are making the best of time available at this stage and various social relations will land more the next years.

5. What is the expected outcome?
Currently, that some seasoned philanthropists get in touch and contribute.

6. How can it be that the vision sounds so grandiose?
Because we are more genuine and have more expertise than blockchain projects have. We proceed with ethics to serve humanity, and this is why we do not make a greed-driven ICO but instead ask respectfully for philanthropist contributions to do this right and so really contribute altruistically and lastingly.