the journey began 2,863 days ago on a sunny day in Oakland
through long troughs of sorrow and hard-won triumphs
we arrive at the beginning
the Tari genesis block
the genesis block is heavy it’s full of love, beauty, promise, and ambition of countless fraught decisions and long nights of a desire to build something that lasts for generations of a dream to build a better system than all those that came before
Tari is a multi-layered system the base layer is the foundation for a new network state one that is pro-human and pro-freedom its strength comes from the people who choose to do the work of securing the network they are the trailblazers. the revolutionaries
for mining Tari is an act of rebellion
a rebellion against a world that increasingly steals our humanity as we sit in the comfort of our homes, doom scrolling away our time in an intimate embrace with our favorite device being milked of our deepest desires and thoughts and manipulated by saccharine interfaces and slippery algorithms the devices we love unconditionally are watching us
every click. every stroke watched by cunning eyes we’ve accepted this fate in the name of convenience this journey towards oblivion it’s tragic, and yet, there is something even more insidious at play: the endless, irrevocable surveillance of our financial affairs
a panopticon where every transaction is a scarlet letter
it wasn’t supposed to be this way this new financial system isn’t supposed to take away our agency or safety our transaction history shouldn’t be a cudgel beating us into obedience our wallets aren’t a window into our souls
enough
in this block. in this moment. we choose another way
Tari is a sanctuary for the enlightened who need refuge from the piercing gaze of endless secret eyes for the visionaries who learn of its magical powers and use it to bend the will of the world in their direction and for those who benefit from it unknowingly because, for them, it’s a cog in a greater machine
welcome
Tari is a boundless paradise where we all receive a sacred gift: a mythical cloak of invisibility wrapped in our cloaks as if they were a second skin we are finally free like all humans that existed before us to live our lives in joyous anonymity to protect ourselves and our families from the eyes of infinite jackals stalking our every move, waiting for the perfect moment to pounce to live our imperfect lives without every moment becoming an immutable snapshot to be human
from this moment until the last node is silenced Tari is ever-changing we define its culture we define its traditions we have the power to shape it, to fix it, to contribute to etch our code in stone
to become immortal
one day, we pray that Tari will earn everyone’s trust
and become a part of everyone’s daily lives
when that day comes to pass, it will be because of us
The text above is the manifesto that ships with the Tari source code, reproduced word for word; TariTalk did not write it. Source: Tari.Manifesto in the tari-project/tari repository. The repository carries the notice “Copyright (c) 2019, The Tari Developer Community. All rights reserved.” and is published under the BSD 3-Clause License.