LESSON 01
Open lesson →The investor boundary
Before you inspect the coin, define what you are actually being asked to underwrite.
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Investor course · case study
Fund the help, not the fantasy.
A first-principles course on Mincoin as a proposed funding mechanism for projects that need human help. Learn to separate capital, work, information, ownership, and return before you let a compelling story make the decision for you.
Hard boundary: this is educational analysis. It does not recommend buying Mincoin, issue a token, accept funds, connect wallets, custody assets, or verify a live investment opportunity. The examples are proposed mechanisms and public-safe project artifacts.
The course
LESSON 02
Open lesson →Why bring human help in?
Capital is not the only scarce resource. The mechanism must explain why people, not merely money, are needed.
LESSON 03
Open lesson →What does Mincoin fund?
Name the accounting object before naming the market.
LESSON 04
Open lesson →Map money, work, and information
Three flows can reinforce each other. They must not be mistaken for one another.
LESSON 05
Open lesson →Diligence before conviction
The investor’s job is not to admire coherence. It is to look for the break.
LESSON 06
Open lesson →Treasury, caps, and allocation
A funding mechanism needs a stop rule before it needs a growth story.
LESSON 07
Open lesson →Receipts are the trust substrate
A receipt proves a bounded event. It does not prove the future.
LESSON 08
Open lesson →Risk is not a disclaimer
A risk list is useful only when it changes the decision path.
LESSON 09
Open lesson →Make the decision legible
A good memo makes a no easier, not harder.
LESSON 10
Open lesson →The Mincoin case study
Now combine the pieces: a project, a bottleneck, human help, capital, receipts, and a stop rule.
Capstone: the investment memo
Choose a hypothetical project that needs human help. Map its useful change, proposed Mincoin mechanism, capital classes, work receipts, treasury cap, risks, and first offchain falsifier.
Open the local memo worksheet →Source trail
This case study draws on public-safe artifacts from the BIPU/PVE course, the Mincoin marketplace boundary, the Hitchhiker’s Guide payment-rail design, the Beamline synthetic treasury receipt model, and the local-first story.markets prototype.
PVE Markets case study →Hitchhiker’s Guide repository →Mincoin marketplace boundary →Identity and payment rails →