what is poidh 📖

poidh (pics or it didn't happen) is a social bounty network for coordinating action.

Anyone can create a bounty asking for something to happen, put money behind it, and others can add to the pot.

Someone completes the task and submits proof. The community evaluates the proof. If the claim is accepted, the person who completed the bounty gets paid.

create → fund → do → prove → verify → pay

bounties turn ideas into action

Most social networks are built around information.

You can post that you want something to happen. You can ask for help. You can tell people about a problem. But there is usually no built-in mechanism for turning that desire into a concrete, incentivized outcome.

poidh adds one:

Put a bounty on it.

Want someone to photograph a rare bird?

Put up a bounty.

Want someone to organize a pickup soccer game?

Put up a bounty.

Want someone to recreate your grandmother's recipe?

Put up a bounty.

Want to see someone climb a mountain, build something, find something, visit somewhere, or accomplish something difficult?

Put up a bounty.

The bounty makes the desired outcome explicit, attaches an incentive to it, and creates a mechanism for verifying whether it actually happened.

anyone can participate

poidh has no central pool of workers that you have to hire.

Instead, bounties are open to everyone.

A bounty creator can fund their own bounty. Other people can add money to it. Anyone can attempt to complete it. And the community can participate in deciding whether submitted claims satisfy the requirements.

This creates a simple marketplace around an outcome:

Someone wants something to happen. Someone else is willing to make it happen. The community makes the final judgement call.

proof is part of the product

POIDH isn't just about completing tasks. It's about proving that they were completed.

Every bounty defines what needs to happen and what kind of evidence should demonstrate that it happened.

A claim might include:

• Photos
• Videos
• Links
• Social posts
• Written explanations
• Other evidence relevant to the bounty

The goal isn't to blindly trust the person making a claim. The goal is to give the community enough evidence to make a reasonable judgment.

This makes the quality of a bounty important.

A good bounty is precise, observable, impactful, doable, and horizoned.

p — precise The desired outcome is clearly defined.

o — observable There is a way to tell whether it happened.

i — impactful Completing it actually matters to someone.

d — doable A person can realistically accomplish it.

h — horizon-bound There is a clear time horizon for completion.

poidh is social

The people involved in a bounty aren't just anonymous participants in a transaction.

Bounties can be shared, discussed, funded by groups of people, and organized into communities called Albums.

An Album can become a community around a particular kind of activity, place, interest, or challenge.

That social layer is important because many things worth coordinating aren't purely transactional.

Sometimes the reward is money.

Sometimes the reward is recognition.

Sometimes people participate because they want to see something happen.

poidh provides infrastructure for all three.

why put this onchain?

poidh uses blockchain infrastructure to make bounties and their outcomes programmable and transparent.

The smart contracts handle things like:

• Holding bounty funds
• Accepting additional funding
• Tracking claims
• Recording votes
• Releasing payouts
• Minting claim NFTs

The result is a bounty system that doesn't require poidh.xyz to personally know or trust every participant.

The rules are encoded in the protocol, while the community provides the social layer needed to evaluate real-world outcomes.

the bigger idea

The most useful way to express an idea on the internet is a post. The most useful way to create action through the internet is a bounty.

Learn more via: https://words.poidh.xyz/the-coordination-protocol