Hey!
As many of you are aware there has been a period of inactivity in the Northern community. This has been due to the fact that James(zabtc in discord), who has been the lead developer for NORT, has stated that he has limited time to work on the project, as well as other priorities. Following those statements for James there has been quite a bit of discussion in The community team on how to move forward. James has stated that he has been willing to transfer control of all key elements to the Community Team.
Therefore KingrichardDV(discord) has now received all key information needed to drive the project forward, and he will be our main developer going forward. I(emilio in discord) will also join him in The Core Team to drive things forward.
Going forwards we have given quite a bit of thought as to what we want to acheive in the crypto space. We have decided to leave the old plans for a masternode fund behind, as that was really James brainchild in the first place. Rather we will now move forwards with a new vision and new usecases. In the following text you will see a description of this:
NORTHERN (NORT) - VISION AND ROADMAP
The vision of NORT is to be a force for good in the crypto sphere and the world in general by offering useful services without any fees. These services/utilities are meant to facilitate a more organic way of creating useful work/tasks/transactions in the crypto marketplace of ideas, while simultaneously functioning as sound money and thereby a good store of value. In addition, NORT utilizes a proof of stake consensus mechanism which minimizes negative environmental impact.
Following is a list of NORT usecases and future plans. Note that this document is a work in progress and will be subject to editing and updates in the future.
1. Venture fundraising Q2 2019
The purpose here is to be a kickstarter/freelance option for anything(!). This will start of with a channel in Discord and where people can come in with ideas which will further be subject to fundraising in the NORT community. The goal is to build this out to the website or another platform as needed in the future. The concept is basically to have a free marketplace for ideas where people can search for funding for all sorts of things. For example this could be: a marketing campaign (for NORT or something else), reward for writing an article on a topic of interest, a charity cause, app development, an ICO where coins might be offered to funders. The person taking the initiative would have to pitch an idea to the community, see if it is possible to raise needed funds from the community, and then the NORT team will do an escrow service for this and do a payout once task is complete or at another agreed upon time.
2. Patreon-crypto service Q2 2019
The purpose is to offer a funding service for actors who offer various services online (youtubers, journalists etc.). We will establish a list of receivers and a small description of them on our website including donation addresses in NORT. The service will be free of charge in line with NORTs vision to provide good solutions for the crypto sphere at no cost.
3. Marketplace for items Q2-Q3 2019
The goal here is to create a low key trading market where used/new items can be traded using NORT. Payments will be peer to peer with no involvement from the NORT team. This will start out as a low key solution using a discord channel and further be built into our website. Payments will be in NORT, no fees attached.
4. Store of value Active
Low supply and low inflation means NORT will function as a sound store of value with the possibility of earning interest rates via staking or masternodes.
5. Use for payments Active
The goal is for NORT be used for payments in as many avenues as possible. Right now we have one actor accepting NORT as payment (Kulturmench in the Nort discord). We will explore more avenues for such activities.
6. Offering swaps Continuous
In line with NORTs vision of doing good in the crypto sphere, NORT is prepared to consider offering swaps to people who has been scammed and are holding dead coins. The benefit for NORT is exposure while doing good for the crypto-community in general.
Ideas to explore in the future
1. IOS wallet
2. Integration towards a cryptocurrency debit/credit card.