Just Show Up

OMXUS Research Series — this paper of 33

The kitchen-table version of (Applebee & Combe, 2026, "Be In The Same Room")

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How do you prove you're real?

Worldcoin wants to scan your eyeball with a $5,000 metal orb. BrightID wants you to build a social graph. Proof of Humanity wants you to submit a video to a decentralized court. Every crypto project has some elaborate, clever, expensive answer to the question.

Here's ours: be in the same room as three other people for one hour.

That's it.

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How It Works

Four times a year — same hour, same day, everywhere on Earth — you stand in a room with at least three other verified humans. Could be your living room. Could be a pub. Could be a park bench. Doesn't matter where. Your phones confirm you were all there for the full 60 minutes via Bluetooth. Everyone signs off on the head count. Done. You exist for another quarter.

Miss the count? Your token goes dormant. Get verified again.

Vouch for someone who keeps not showing up? Your token degrades too. You vouched for a ghost.

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Why It Works

Because Fred can't be in two places at once.

That's literally the whole security model. If every human on Earth is being counted in the same 60-minute window, Fred cannot show up as "Fred" in Sydney and also as "Frederick" in Brisbane. He has one body. Physics handles the rest.

Every other system fails because it lets you verify at different times. Different times means one person can appear as many people. Same time means one person is one person. Full stop.

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"But What If—"

"I'm sick."
Call your neighbors. Press the emergency button on the mesh. Three people come to your kitchen table. Count happens there. If your neighbor won't come check on you when you're sick — that's exactly the problem this system fixes.

"60 minutes