Reading List

This reading list gathers articles from IdeaWaza and Idea Riff that relate to the ideas behind Oro Lumo. Each entry has a short summary written for this page and a link to the full article.

Agents and Open Infrastructure

• HTTP 402 Payments for AI Agents: x402 (IdeaWaza). Explains how the HTTP 402 “Payment Required” status lets a program ask for a resource, receive a price, pay, and then try again with proof of payment. It also stresses spending limits and human approval for larger amounts.
• Agent-to-Agent Commerce: Building a Small Paid Task Market (Idea Riff). Outlines how software agents, meaning programs that act for a person, could buy and sell small, clearly defined jobs from each other. It recommends starting small, with proof of delivery, a simple dispute process and firm spending limits set by people.
• Open Source Freedom Tech Worth Watching in Agent Infrastructure (IdeaWaza). A field guide to open tools for storage, payments, messaging, computing and identity that help people avoid being locked in to one vendor. It suggests simple tests to see whether a tool truly lets you move your work elsewhere.

Knowledge and Storage

• IPFS and Arweave for Agent Memory and Knowledge Bases (IdeaWaza). Compares two networks that name files by their contents. IPFS keeps files available while someone holds a copy, Arweave is built for long-term storage paid for up front, and an ordinary database still handles anything private or changing.
• Content-Addressed Wikis: Permanence Without a Single Host (IdeaWaza). Describes how a wiki can publish snapshots named by their contents, so pages can outlast the original server. The live wiki stays editable, while released versions are copied and checked by more than one party.
• Bitcoin Cash Memo as short public notes (IdeaWaza). Explains Memo, a way to place very short public notes inside Bitcoin Cash transactions instead of on a company server. It is careful about the limits, since a note is tied to a key and not to a proven person, and later readers may need a good index to find it.

Abundance and Basic Income

• Post-Scarcity Tooling: When Compute and Storage Stop Being Scarce (IdeaWaza). Argues that local computers and low-cost storage make it sensible to keep more research data and public snapshots instead of deleting them. It also lists what stays scarce, including energy, attention, legal limits and checking whether something is true.
• Semi-private basic income through credit unions and nonprofits (IdeaWaza). Treats semi-private basic income as a proposal for paying a regular cash floor through member-owned credit unions or nonprofit networks. It focuses on who pays, who can receive the payment, and what a public record must show.
• Basic Income Through Credit Unions: Semi-Private Delivery Models (Idea Riff). Compares a basic income paid straight from government with a model where credit unions and nonprofit groups deliver public funds under public rules. It points out tradeoffs, such as gaps in who can join a credit union.

Longevity

• Longevity escape velocity as a policy target (IdeaWaza). Explains longevity escape velocity as the point where each year of research adds more than one year of expected healthy life. It treats the idea as a public goal to measure progress against, and states plainly that the goal has not been reached and is neither a treatment nor a product.

Projects Michael Ten Watches

• OrbitDB is an open source database that computers share directly with each other, using IPFS for storage, which makes it useful for apps that keep working without a central server.
• GrapheneOS is an open source mobile operating system focused on privacy and security that can still run Android apps, which makes it useful for people who want more control over their own phone.

To see how these ideas fit together, read the Vision page, and please read the Disclaimer.