Crypto Village Newsletter #9 - 2/29
Welcome back to our News Letter!
Huge thanks to all the new subscribers! This is produced by Crypto Village and we’re writing this newsletter with the latest news of the Nishikigoi NFT project and Japanese local NFT projects and more.
The News of the Week:
A New Candidate for Local DAO
Yamakoshi Junior High School Exchange Meeting in Kobe
The 27th National Bullfighting Summit in Yamakoshi
■ A New Candidate for Local DAO
Nishikigoi NFT is a project that supports diverse cultures by connecting art and technology with local communities, embracing the concept "empowering the locals”. We started with Yamakoshi village to try to increase the number of people involved, and most importantly to protect the identity of the community.
To this day, there are about 1700 digital villagers in the community. We define this community as "Local DAO" and practice democratic governance where the Nishikigoi holders vote on important decisions of the project. We plan this Local DAO to be not only in Yamakoshi, but also in other regions globally.
We have recently announced "Shiiba Village (Miyazaki)" and "Tenryukyo (Nagano)" as candidates for new Local DAOs. We just posted a blog post by Kenta Murakami of the Shiiba Village team, who has been working on population decline for many years. We’re now working on the translation.
Should be shared in the next newsletter!
■ Yamakoshi Junior High School Exchange Meeting in Kobe
On February 20, students from Yamakoshi Junior High School in Niigata Prefecture visited Kobe as part of their school trip. As this year is 20 years since the Chuetsu Earthquake, the students shared and gave a presentation on the situation of Yamakoshi village at the time of the earthquake.
<What is Chuetsu Earthquake>
Occurred at 5:56 pm on October 23, 2004 with an epicenter in the Chuetsu region of Niigata Prefecture. For about a month, tremors above 5 occurred intermittently, and the entire Yamakoshi village was evacuated. A total of approximately 100,000 people were evacuated, 120,000 houses were damaged, and 68 people died. One of the biggest earthquakes in Japan.
Kobe had a major earthquake, Great Hanshin earthquake, killing more than 6,000 and making more than 45,000 people homeless. The quake had a moment magnitude of 6.9 and cost more than $100 billion in damage. The Kobe government spent years constructing new facilities to attract back the 50,000 people who left after the quake.
Both places had a These actions are very important as we pass the lessons and learnings from the earthquake on to the next generation, and never forget.
■ The 27th National Bullfighting Summit in Yamakoshi
As said earlier above that it has been 20 years this year since the Chuetsu Earthquake, the 27th National Bullfighting Summit will be hosted in Yamakoshi. Bullfighting is another precious culture and tradition of Yamakoshi, and this event will bring bullfighting friends from all over Japan.
＜27th National Bullfighting Summit＞
Date: Sunday, May 26, 12am-3:30pm
Place: Yamakoshi Bullring (Google Map)Also, we had a side project in the community that digital villagers built called “Yamakoshi bullfighting Fan Club“. The website gives competition reports as well as various information about the bulls and their activities. Please follow X account!
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Japan / Global Local Crypto News
Event Info including IRL
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