ive just been through a costly and shitty legal battle and i can assure you that consensus, reputation and public ledgers create an environment of much stronger accountability than the legal rackets.

as a bigga i have come to realise that an absence of courts, governments and complex laws is a good thing not a danger.

Vitalik and crew are thinking beyond "hyper-financialization" of crypto and unlocking the social good machine that we can build next.

The dream of network states is a tiny bit closer with what are essentially long term, decentralised conferences.

"So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state."

Include Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Pakistan, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, and Afghanistan.
If there is a fundamental right to wrong for crypto this is it.

A brilliant podcast that describes the future from fascinating trends beginning now.

Thia project creates a parallel voting structure based on zero knowledge identity checks.

a superb analysis of the mass protests of the 2010s and why they failed.

Promiscuous nationalism is a start.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a 19th century French politician that was the 1st person to declare themselves an anarchist. His basic message was to stop fighting the state and simply ignore it.

My bigga.

FDR literally confiscated every American's gold. Will this be government's ultimate move with crypto?

In this podcast Robert Breedlove explains what a historic change bitcoin is. For 1 it finally fulfills the Magna Carta.

while the general public has got tonnes more privacy conscious tor remains unknown

With cryptographic networks the fundamental activities of a peaceful society have been freed from government control:

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Yet physical violence remains a government monopoly. It's threat is considered the source of human order.

It's not hard to see how technology can decentralise violence too. Robots and a.i. are great equalizers of this terrible power. An army of 1 program could perhaps be enough to bring us back to the violent instability of our human past.

And that's what makes right now the best opportunity for peaceful and global evolution.

What our ancestors thought was only achievable through guns (or rocks), freedom from an exploitive ruling class, is becoming feasible through technology.

This revolution would look more like a pilgrimage for some, and for others a chance to improve the old game.

Are we as humans (and maybe our early successors/partners) able to do this? Or is it too late to avoid the old kind of revolution?

The founder of Ethereum weighs in on the idea that networks hold the potential for government.

It seems to be gaining a lot of ground worldwide. Is this the beginning of the end for the Crypto Rebellion?