# PINT Network: Elements By [0xAdil](https://paragraph.com/@0xadil) ยท 2022-12-09 --- Originally published by Patron#1 on Nov 14, 2021 at pint.network/t/pint-elements/ #Foreword on people organization -------------------------------- A ground-up wholly decentralized mode of conduct is extremely difficult in present state of civilizations. Firstly, gathering supposedly a group of million people together cannot be done instantaneously for any given cause of value, unless it is for vanity, people will always trickle, in singles, couples, groups, at any point, there can and will be a significant bias. Someone or Sometwo, some single digit number of people have to lay a structure of organizing meta processes including the shortest, most sustainable ones for self-improvement of process specifications. This can only be executed in best of spirit and self-accountability of persons that are delegated control in early times. Patron#1 wishes there was another feasible way that has proven to work in the past, but there isn't. As we proceed, there will be structures built on informed assumptions, with a consideration of as soon as feasible and competitively possible, re-organization. As explained in introductory publication. **PINT Network is purposed to be transparent, yet that doesn't mean it is not competing.** It will compete by humanizing decentralization, the potential of which is so far locked behind branding of grandiosity and complexity. PINT is all about units, a conceivable, relatable idea. Following are early guidelines to work towards the purpose of PINT Network. #Definitions ------------ * On-chain: Attribution of something to provenance on a distributed, decentralized ledger, accessible and verifiable by any person. Public or private unto context of use. #Elements --------- * Texts: Body of natural language compositions that form guidelines of conduct for network, traditional systems label these as constitution, laws and regulations; At present, PINT Network does not use those nouns as neither define the Texts as a whole. Attempts will be made to regularize matters within Texts in form of specifications and subsequently implementation of processes on-chain. * Personage: Permissionless identification of an entity through on-chain verifiable links to its publicly claimable activities. A Personage is the smallest unit of PINT Network, represented as an asset on-chain. * Patronage: A status granted to, or taken away from Personage, identified as PINT Patron#{SERIAL\_NUMBER}. Always replaced if removed in singular, while inducted at any given point in even numbers, to maintain a total odd count. Eligibility may be with decentralized proof of following but not yet limited to i.e. the activity must be linked and verified to on-chain identity. * Financially funding the Network objectives * Doing any kind of laborious work for the Network * Milestone: A verifiable event occurring universally that meets all conditions defined and grouped on-chain in past by the Personage. On realization of milestone, the group-of-conditions is linked with proof-of-event on-chain. * Invention: A body of work carried out by the Patrons along with associated Persons, as a follow-up to realization of group-of-conditions on-chain, resulting in realization of Milestones that cover all group-of-conditions attributed together in the past. * Referendum: A vote where all Persons of Personage have the right to exercise vote. * Patronage Vote: A vote where all Patrons have the right to exercise vote. * Defection Vote: A vote called for defecting one or more distinct persons. All persons of the Personage have the right to cast vote except those included for defection. * Consensus: A state reached by a vote when at least three quarters of the eligible voters have exercised the vote. These elements are not exhaustive, since this is early work on PINT Elements. Changes can and will be proposed as we iterate and procee * * * [https://web.archive.org/web/20211115063944/http://pint.network/t/pint-elements/](https://web.archive.org/web/20211115063944/http://pint.network/t/pint-elements/) --- *Originally published on [0xAdil](https://paragraph.com/@0xadil/pint-network-elements)*