Crypto Society Ama Recap with Anomus, 4th November 2021

10 min readNov 8, 2021

Anomus is a 100% decentralized news protocol providing the world access to fairly distributed news. Every content piece is tamper-proof and minted as an NFT on the blockchain.

Bilo | Crypto Society

@MrAnomus we are all set sir

It’s our pleasure to have you with us today. I would like to welcome you here on behalf of our entire community.

Could we begin with a brief history of yourself and your team, and your roles at Anomus and what you were doing before Anomus ?

Mr.Anomus

Hey glad to be here! 😉

I am CEO at ANOMUS and have been working in the crypto space since 2017. As most of our core team, I am a developer and manager in one 🙂

I started as developer around 12 years ago and moved into management.

I’ve been working with Enterprise resource management systems.

I’ve also been working with multiple ICO’s back in a day.

I’m currently running ANOMUS as I want to give back to the world by fighting corruption and the fake news.

My team and I are creating vendetta against modern media that is corrupted.

Bilo | Crypto Society

I raise my hat to you sir. You have many hats 🎩

Mr.Anomus

And a mask. Hehe 😉

Bilo | Crypto Society

Hahaha

Mr.Anomus

I want to share this mask to everyone!

Bilo | Crypto Society

Can you tell us about why you thought Anomus needed to be built and what problem it solves?

Mr.Anomus

In our democracy that is more like illusion we have a lot of fake news.

All centralized owned media companies are pushing their agenda. They are funded by corporations that always have a purpose to make money.

For example: Back in the day media was advertising that smoking is good… “Your doctor smokes Malboro”! What the hell that means?

Mr.Anomus

This is agenda that is being pushed.

We believe by introducing open-source system that is owned by DAO we can solve that. We just require tools and here we are talking about ANOMUS.

Bilo | Crypto Society

Very cool. Thanks.

How did Anomus start?

Mr. Mr.Anomus

From an idea about 4–5 years ago. After Trump was elected and started shouting out about fake news, I started thinking how to solve this.

And about a year ago (or a bit less) I gathered people that are like minded and we started solving this issue 😉

Bilo | Crypto Society

Thanks for that.

How would you describe Anomus (The Blockchain project) if you were talking to someone unfamiliar with digital assets?

Mr. Mr.Anomus

A tool to fight corruption that allows every community member to dig deep into the fact and express their opinion with money staking.

Bilo | Crypto Society

Tell us about your token. What is the Anomus token used for? Can you describe the Tokenomics?

Mr.Anomus

Token will be used in multiple ways in the ANOMUS.

For publishers:

- receive donations

- receive bonuses for truth

- sell content on various models (subscription based or paid)

- receive ads placement incentives

For users:

- to donate

- to become a fact-checker

- some additional benefit (NFT’s will be introduced)

For companies:

- to buy Ads placement (if publisher picks them)

For fact-checkers:

- to stake on their opinions

- to flag content

And of course, in our Governance.

Bilo | Crypto Society

Does NFT stand for No Fact Tchecking? 🥸

Mr.Anomus

hehe no 😄

Non fungible tokens 😉

Bilo | Crypto Society

That’s clear and precise. Thanks for this great explanation.

Bilo | Crypto Society

Are there any incentives to holding Anomus tokens?

Mr.Anomus

Yes, there will be staking we will introduce burning that will be governed by community. Holding itself will be incentive.

👀

Bilo | Crypto Society

There seems to be more crypto adoption amongst those who have little trust and faith in institutions and governments. This can lead to confirmation bias type of validation. How do you circumvent the possibility of having a majority of Anomus users being biased towards one thing or another?

Mr.Anomus

Yes, that’s fair point! For that we will use marketing.

Our goal is to keep community 50/50 and we believe in common sense of a people and that if enough facts are provided people can change their opinion. Without belief in the society, we would be doomed.

That’s why AMONUS is a tool to fact-check & challenge other people opinions.

Bilo | Crypto Society

The truth can be a complicated matter to decide on… That’s for sure!

Mr. Mr.Anomus

Yes, it is big issue and there are many ways to solve an issue. We take the path of community. There will always be questions unanswered, yet we can try

Bilo | Crypto Society

Are there some kind of statistical sampling/models and methods that try to incorporate that attempt at a 50/50 balanced pool of people that you use to assess the validity of the polling criteria to ensure a lack of bias? Or is it simply done by the amount of tokens staked?

Mr.Anomus

Of course, we will be tracking activities taking place and user “tag’ing” upon their opinions. These numbers will be published into DAO. We will be corresponding to these numbers to keep marketing on side that is required.

Bilo | Crypto Society

Excellent. Thank you. I realize these may be tough questions to answer but feel that it’s important to seek some sort of confirmation of a “decentralization of confirmation bias” (If I may phrase it that way).

How does individual Authors content get verified? Is this again through decentralized staking methods above?

Mr. Mr.Anomus

Yes, though the fact-checking itself. We believe that only community can decide what is true and what is not.

For example: Sky is Blue or Black?

just a simple question what do you think?

Bilo | Crypto Society

Nice and simple but I guess it depends on if its day or night 🤓

Mr.Anomus

Good approach. But if it is day and a sunny one?

Bilo | Crypto Society

Hahaha — I was about to stretch this out.

Blue sir

Mr.Anomus

And yet it is black — just bending of a light makes it blue so we are both right 😉 depends on the way you look at it

Mr. Mr.Anomus

community decision is correct because if as society we call it blue that means it is blue.

Bilo | Crypto Society

Very true.

Explain your Fact Checker criteria? How does this work? Who can become a fact checker and how?

Mr. Mr.Anomus

To become a fact-checker you must stake “collateral”. Collateral is used if we catch you arranging or doing malicious actions.

The fact-checking itself is quite simple — True / False.

Fact-checking can be initiated on every piece of content — Article, paragraph, source, publisher, or fact-checker.

We allow to question everything 😉

Bilo | Crypto Society

Nice — Thanks

I read the following in one of your medium articles: “Auditors must determine if published content contains any malicious or inappropriate content that goes against “The Principals of Anomus.” They will be required to flag those contents, which the system will then remove.”

What are the “Principals of Anomus”?

Mr. Mr.Anomus

Principals we will be set up by community and can be changed as everything changes. We will allow flagging inappropriate content.

For example, “Guide to make gun”

“or porn”

Bilo | Crypto Society

Don’t worry everyone. He’s only kidding.

Mr.Anomus

hehe

😄 😄

Mr. Mr.Anomus

These types of articles would be moved to “Quarantine” state as we are not able to remove. We would be moving them into “Quarantine” away from search results, homepage etc.

Bilo | Crypto Society

Nice feature. Thanks for the explanation

What chain is Anomus built on and why did you make that choice?

Mr.Anomus

Minting of $ANOM will be done on ETH network due to its adoption, yet $ANOM will be crossed to BSC and Poly.

BSC is required for accessible trading and Poly for minting NFT.

Bilo | Crypto Society

Very nice feature.

Mr.Anomus

And because ETH is way too expensive at this moment.

Mr.Anomus

True Story

it. Bilo | Crypto Society

What are you currently working on, and can you describe your future roadmap?

Mr.Anomus

Currently we are developing platform for initial release which is planned for early December.

Then we will work on the decentralization part to bring every Smart contract required to be fully decentralized.

We will move on to bring in DAO structure to govern all the processes of ANOMUS.

Also 2022 Q1-Q2 ANOMUS App for Iphone & Android will be released.

Bilo | Crypto Society

That’s awesome. Thanks.

Can you please give an overview of your governance protocol, and how it works?

Mr Mr.Anomus

Everyone community member that participates in Governance by staking their tokens will be able to create AIP — Anomus Improvement Proposals.

Commit their code for release,do changes for “fees”

Everything will be based on community decision because we believe that community knows best what they want. People just need guidance.

Bilo | Crypto Society

Nice — so people will be above to submit proposals for DAO voting and then the community can stake and vote? Is that correct?

Mr.Anomus

Yes, that is correct. We want to be fully open.

If any company buys “Advertisement” in ANOMUS it will be published in DAO. If the community decides against it they can remove that company from being able to “Advertise”.

News Protocol is for the people and people should own

Tell us about Anomus NFT’s

Mr.Anomus

ANOMUS NFT’s — will be for people to have additional votes on a platform and also in governance.If you own NFT your vote will have more power.

Those NFT are for True believers in this cause and there will be limited supply of them. And those people owning them will have a tag of “Governor”.

Bilo | Crypto Society

Could you please provide us with some challenges Anomus has faced but overcome?

Mr.Anomus

Basically, at this very moment we are solving all challenges.

The biggest ones will be in the future, let’s say if any government decides to ban us. But we see it as opportunity as we are available via peer2peer network, and we will still be available. It would be the best marketing possible.

Bilo | Crypto Society

If there was one thing you could hope to see Anomus achieve next year, what would it be?

Mr.Anomus

Mass adoption!

Or Joe Rogan starts using it.

Joe Rogan would bring mass adoption quite quickly.

Bilo | Crypto Society

Hahaha — Good one. He just might.

Mr.Anomus

He is the best definition of Fact-Checker.

We already see potential road to get to him 😉

We got Advisory from a person that is being follow by Joe Rogan in Twitter.

Bilo | Crypto Society

We all know that privacy is important. What does privacy mean to you? And How can Anomus help people who are concerned with privacy? And why would they look towards your project with interest?

Mr.Anomus

Privacy must be a choice in the democracy of our community. It is currently not available.

We want to provide a mask for a people if they want to use it and many people require it. There are many discussions around if Edward Snowden did the right think or not? I see it as good thing. And having to run away from homeland is wrong.

With ANOMUS mask you will be able to share information without concerns, and it is a community decision what to do with data. In my opinion to dig deep into it and fact-check everything.

Bilo | Crypto Society

Do you wish to let us know anything else that was not covered in the questions above?

Mr.Anomus

Just to share some of my insights.

Freedom is a modern right of ours. Never trade it in for anything.

Fight for your freedom!

Fight for your own right!

And join us on this vendetta against corruption!