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ATTACK America Flash Crypto Sale
by professor rat 08 Sep '21

08 Sep '21

LONG Lingering Illness to Amerikkka! Invest in your future life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Buy Big Dog, AVAX, FIL, REP, ICP, NKN, SC, PHA(!) and MAID. Blue Horseshoe like Anarchopulco Steal! FEEL the POWER - LIVE the DREAM and WELCOME to the REVOLUTION!

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Batshit Crazy " Makhno ' & " Sir Einzige " need killing ( My 20 sats )
by professor rat 08 Sep '21

08 Sep '21

https://anarchistnews.org/comment/37016#comment-37016 are we all "volunteer state agents" every time we don't drive up the center of the oncoming lane on the highway?

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FOR a bounty system castrating rapists
by professor rat 08 Sep '21

08 Sep '21

"... emptywheel - 6h The obvious follow-up is to get him to agree, in principle, to a bounty system reporting rapists. Quote Tweet Ira Goldman @KDbyProxy · 7h NEWS: Abbot says Texas will "eliminate" rapists; when asked, if that was actually possible, why the state hadn't already done it, he said, "Before now, I didn't think rape was really a problem."* (* – not an actual quote) https://kxan.com/news/texas/gov-abbott-abortion-bill-wont-force-rape-victim…

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A spreading plague of Batshit-Crazed antisemitism
by professor rat 08 Sep '21

08 Sep '21

I blame Left Fascist scumbags on this list - rotten creeps like James A. Donald and John Young. https://www.reddit.com/r/CapitalismVSocialism/comments/7dwc4n/the_russian_l… Karl Marx, Capital, Volume One, Part II: The Transformation of Money and Capital CHAPTER FOUR: THE GENERAL FORMULA FOR CAPITAL: "The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews... "

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Authoritarian Pandemic of Tyranny Spreading Faster Than Corona
by grarpamp 08 Sep '21

08 Sep '21

Ron Paul Warns Pandemic Of Authoritarianism Is The Real Threat http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2021/september/0… Cook County, Illinois, Judge James Shapiro reached a new low in covid tyranny by forbidding Rebecca Firlit from seeing her 11-year-old son until she receives a covid vaccine. Judge Shapiro is not alone in abusing judicial power to force individuals to get vaccinated. Judges across the country have ordered defendants to get covid vaccines, sometimes as a condition of avoiding prison. This outbreak of judicial tyranny is a symptom of the authoritarianism pandemic that is the real threat to America. Corporations are imposing requirements, including that employees show proof of vaccination, pay more for health insurance if they have not had a covid vaccine, and undergo regular (in some cases weekly) covid tests. An increasing number of state and local governments are requiring their employees and even people working in some private jobs to take covid vaccines, as well as imposing vaccine passport requirements on people generally. President Biden has urged employers to implement vaccine mandates, and government is working with its big tech allies to develop “model” vaccine passports. Government approved model vaccine requirements combined with government officials encouraging their adoption send the message to businesses that imposing vaccine requirements on their employees, and maybe their customers as well, is a good way to stay in the politicians and bureaucrats' good graces. An effective way for the US government to “encourage” adoption of vaccine mandates and vaccine passports is denying federal funds to businesses, states, local governments, and other institutions that refuse to require employees, customers, or other people to prove they are vaccinated. This will result in vaccine requirements while enabling government to claim it is not forcing vaccines on anyone. President Biden is already planning for the US government denying Medicare and Medicaid funding to nursing homes that do not require their employees to prove they are vaccinated. This could result in staff shortages at nursing homes. A short-staffed nursing home poses a much greater risk to residents than a nursing home with a staff comprised of healthy, unvaccinated individuals. Texas is experiencing a nursing shortage thanks in part to hospitals firing unvaccinated nurses. Health care workers have good reason to resist vaccine mandates. Many individuals have died or suffered other adverse effects — including miscarriages — after receiving a vaccine. Some people try to justify vaccine mandates and vaccine passports by saying that, by risking infecting others, unvaccinated individuals endanger other people. However, the federal Centers for Disease Control recently admitted that covid vaccines do not prevent the spread of infections. In addition, the claim that we are having a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” relies on data collected from early in the year — before many Americans had taken covid vaccines. An important objection is that, if government can force people to take a potentially dangerous vaccine to protect against a hypothetical harm to others, the same reasoning would support the imposing of many additional liberty violations. These could include, for example, “red flag” laws and other forms of gun control, restrictions on access to “extremist” ideas, or a system of mass surveillance to prevent possible future acts of violence. The argument that government can use force to prevent hypothetical harms renders restraint on government power meaningless. It is imperative that we support the growing resistance to vaccine mandates and vaccine passports. We must also expand the resistance to covid authoritarianism to resistance to all forms of government infringements on liberty.

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Jeremy Hammond needs killing ( My 2k USD$ )
by professor rat 08 Sep '21

08 Sep '21

I have to let this contract stand for now since Hammond is not off the hook yet. "... Assange helped Hitlery Clinton LOSE the 2016 election. Whether or not Assange actually swung the election from Hitlery to Trump is an excellent question ..." Assume its somehow established, to greaseball, Jim Dumbells satisfaction, Mange played a key-role here and deserves our ( critical ) solidarity and support post 2016, that doesn't cover Hammond for the period 2010-12. The post heading describes what the post is about. Keep it going folks! ( Drop Dead Nazi Fag Moron Bell )

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Re: Jeremy Hammond
by professor rat 08 Sep '21

08 Sep '21

I LIKE TO SAY: PURITY IS A COFFIN some freedom some imprisonment - just like life we are free we just happen to be experiencing life in a very limited container so what about those pesky little undersea cables? umn without them we got nothin goin too fast anywheres life is a build and dualism has run its course ... good and bad boys do good and bad things and sometimes what they do that is considered bad ends up being overall good and vice versa happy winter solstice - when the sun is still - all the beautiful people on this listserve

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Anonymous's mask will fall
by professor rat 08 Sep '21

08 Sep '21

I'm looking forward to the day that Anonymous's mask will fall. Ignorant people think they're anarchists or saviors. ..." Cypherpunks are all about privacy for the poor and transparency for the powerful. ( Just ask Julio Assangista ) So all non-savior and non-anarchist c-punks will be progressively doxxed, ddossed and destroyed, I promise you. We're young - they're old - and that's life.

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SpyVeillance1984: Nothing To Hide - The Poorest of Excuses
by grarpamp 08 Sep '21

08 Sep '21

"Nothing To Hide" - A Poor Excuse To Justify Surveillance https://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2021/09/nothing-to-hide-poor-excuse-to-just… https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4980 https://www.rt.com/news/533836-italy-drone-covid-temperature/ Many people claim they have nothing to hide and use that as the reason they don't object to the expanding web of surveillance being weaved over them. These people ignore the fact we are surrendering our right to freedom when we as a society go down this path. The reality is that when someone knows all about you and your deepest thought they gain tremendous power over you. This is directly linked to the ability to control you. This weekend on a short trip I came across a couple of annoying examples of the government dirtying the waters and making our lives more difficult and less free. These include turning parts of the interstate system into a toll road then not taking cash as payment and so-called "photo enforcement" of traffic laws. While many states have gone to using cameras to some extent for enforcing traffic laws, the practice remains highly controversial. Whether it is incorporated in the notion of reducing labor, streamlining the system, or ending counterfeiting or money laundering, the above can complicate our life. Tech is not the gift of freedom many people think. It could be said we are being boxed in and many of our options are not being preserved. Some People Remain Optimistic The picture below is one of many that appeared when searching for images showing people stand up and fighting. The idea of resisting new rules and mandates placed upon us conflicts with the idea we should all try to go along with what we are being told to do. Some people have even suggested and claimed those resisting the changes fostered upon us be labeled terrorists. This has drastically increased the fear of speaking out, which, was at one time considered a mainstay of a free society. The more I know and learn, the more appalled I have become concerning the direction society is taking mankind. Rather than making us freer, modern society is slowly squeezing and tamping down our right to go about life unimpeded and with a minimum of barriers blocking our ability to, shall we say, "freely move about the cabin." This has gone to the point where our government thinks it should supply the poor and indigent with free computers and the internet to level the playing field. This in turn forces the rest of us to move in the direction of being "connected" or becoming irrelevant. Of course, being connected means it becomes easier for big brother to watch your every move and allows those in power to exert more control over those under their watchful eye. The number of forces limiting freedom is on the rise. A new bill has been introduced that would specifically ban all unvaccinated individuals or only one injection from flying. H.R. 4980 that has been posted on Congress.gov, directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to ensure that any individual traveling on a flight that departs from or arrives at an airport inside the United States or a territory of the United States is fully vaccinated against COVID-19 This comes at a time when many in mainstream media are calling for more restrictions on the movement of unvaccinated people. It also dovetails with other stories coming out during the pandemic involving drones equipped with thermal optic sensors and artificial intelligence to detect if a person was feverish. According to RT News, this dystopic technology has been deployed over Italian beaches. Local Italian media reports such "medical drones" will hover over the beaches of Ostia, a neighborhood of Rome, using thermal optic sensors to measure the temperatures of those on the shore to identify if they could who may be infected with COVID-19. Officials denied the pilot program which was scheduled to begin was part of an effort to hunt for infected visitors to the beach. Wrapping it in the clock of "this is all being done, for the greater good" Marta Branca, the head of the public health authority covering Italy's capital said, "It's just a way to make sure that an illness or an accident on the beach or at sea is detected immediately and not a single moment is lost in the rescue efforts." While we do not know if the drone had facial recognition software officials promised to respect privacy. In a recent article authored by CJ Hopkins via The Consent Factory, he characterized the so-called “New Normal” as a “global totalitarian ideological movement.” He claims that more and more people have come to see it for what it is, not “insanity” or “an overreaction,” but, in fact, a new form of totalitarianism, a globalized, pathologized, depoliticized form, which is being systematically implemented under the guise of “protecting the public health.” The problem we now face is, how do we close the Pandora's box that has been opened? A good place to start might be to focus on freedom. We must start by recognizing the claim you have "nothing to hide" is a poor excuse to justify surrendering your freedom to those that care little about you. Drones flying around with thermal optics or facial recognition powered by artificial intelligence are simply part of the growing surveillance state that is increasing worldwide. Making this even a greater assault on our freedom is that unbeknownst by many is that we are paying for this. Talk about absolute power, imagine the potential to control people down to their simplest movements. A YouTube video on why people hate Jeff Bezos delves into Amazon's huge surveillance network starting at around the 11:55 mark. This highlights just how pervasive this spy network has become. Mainstream media continues to condition people to accept public surveillance and a Big Brother state under the umbrella of COVID or the greater good. Tax money has and continues to be diverted from more important venues to fund spying on the innocent and taking attention away from the guilty. This has created a scenario in which the noose will only continue to tighten around the neck of mankind. We must consider all the little changes we encounter during our day as part of the powers to be chipping away at both our freedom and our ability to defend our rights.

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Cryptocurrency: Nation-States Vs Network-States Vs Crypto-Claves
by grarpamp 08 Sep '21

08 Sep '21

Nation-States Vs Network-States Vs Crypto-Claves https://bombthrower.com/articles/network-states-a-primer/ https://amzn.to/3yPJ57y Sovereign Individual, Rees-Mogg and Davidson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Information_Age:_Economy,_Society_and_Cul… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave_(Toffler_book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powershift_(book) https://axisofeasy.com/podcast/salon-6-the-hanseatic-league-of-decentralize… https://amzn.to/3l5eRsK Quantum Jump: A survival guide for the new Renaissance, Clement https://maitaly.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/brunelleschi-and-the-re-discovery-… https://www.namecoin.org/ https://handshake.org/ https://ens.domains/ MetaCops Unlimited is the official peacekeeping force of White Columns, and also of The Mews at Windsor Heights, The Heights at Bear Run, Cinnamon Grove, and The Farms of Cloverdelle. They also enforce traffic regulations on all highways and byways operated by Fairlanes, Inc. A few different FOQNEs ( Franchise-Organized Quasi-National Entities) also use them: Caymans Plus and The Alps, for example. But franchise nations prefer to have their own security force. You can bet that Metazania and New South Africa handle their own security; that’s the only reason people become citizens, so they can get drafted. Obviously, Nova Sicilia has its own security, too. Narcolombia doesn’t need security because people are scared just to drive past the franchise at less than a hundred miles an hour (Y.T. always snags a nifty power boost in neighborhoods thick with Narcolombia consulates), and Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong, the grandaddy of all FOQNEs, handles it in a typically Hong Kong way, with robots. MetaCops’ main competitor, WorldBeat Security, handles all roads belonging to Cruiseways, plus has worldwide contracts with Dixie Traditionals, Pickett’s Plantation, Rainbow Heights (check it out—two apartheid Burbclaves and one for black suits), Meadowvale on the river and Brickyard Station. WorldBeat is smaller than MetaCops, handles more upscale contracts, supposedly has a bigger espionage arm—though if that’s what people want, they just talk to an account rep at the Central Intelligence Corporation. And then there’s The Enforcers—but they cost a lot and don’t take well to supervision. It is rumored that, under their uniforms, they wear T-shirts bearing the unofficial Enforcer coat of arms: a fist holding a nightstick, emblazoned with the words SUE ME. - Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash A phrase which has been coming up more often lately on the podcast circuit is the ‘Network State’ and the idea that our current default governance structure, the nation state, is in the process of being obsoleted by them. In many ways network states will be more oppressive than nation states. But what is also occurring are variations of the network state, enclaves built on decentralized crypto-currencies and principles of individual autonomy. I think of this phenomenon as an emerging league of crypto-sovereignties or “crypto-claves”. In this piece I talk about how these three governance structures emerge, how they contrast with one another and how they will all compete for the future of governance. The idea of a network state isn’t an entirely new concept. There is the Manuel Castells trilogy which kicked off with ‘The Rise of Network Society’ in 1996. A few decades earlier with 1970’s ‘Future Shock’ by Alvin Toffler realized that the accelerating rate of change brought about by the microprocessor was sending society into something post-industrial. He expanded on that later in Third Wave which came out in 1980. By the time he got to Power Shift in 1990, the arc he had traced in three books, across three decades started refining his insights that the information economy would become the great leveller. Knowledge would be the ultimate democratizer, individuals would be able to attain wealth and power previously reserved for monarchs or nation states. The defining struggle of the future, as Toffler saw it, wouldn’t be between political factions or rival nations but between the information cognoscenti and those left behind in the remnants of industrial society. But the work which picked up the threads of these undercurrents and I think most presciently anticipated transformational shift we’re experiencing today was Lord Rees-Mogg and James Dale Davidson’s ‘The Sovereign Individual‘ from 1997. I first read this book shortly after it came out and have re-read it several times since. I have it on audiobook and sometimes listen to it on long drives. We used to talk about this a lot back in the AxisOfEasy Salon days. What Sovereign Individual did, which makes it a near holy tome among the Bitcoin and crypto currency space, was anticipate the rise of non-state digital money. It realized that when it happened it would be a complete game-changer. Digital money was going to ‘take away the punch bowl’ from nation state governments and it would force them to compete for fealty. “Inflation has the same effect as a tax on all who hold the currency… inflation as a revenue option will be largely foreclosed by the emergence of cybermoney. New technologies will allow the holders of of wealth to bypass the national monopolies that have issued and regulated money in the modern period.” We still don’t know who Satoshi Nakamoto was, and probably never will. But I can guarantee you this: Satoshi read The Sovereign Individual. What all of these works converged on was how the megatrends set in motion by the microchip, computers and networks would reshape industrial society. But what really changed the game not only industrial society but the governance structure that managed it was that emergence of decentralization, cryptography and non-state money. What I think Rees-Mogg and Davidson captured so well in Sovereign Individual was the recognition of where the levers of power were throughout recorded history, and how when technology moved those fulcrums, it reordered society itself. Dark Ages… Feudalism… The Church…. The Nation State, all arising and giving way to the next as agriculture, gunpowder, literacy, double-entry accounting created the power shifts of their day. As society moved through various stages of development, the prevailing form of hierarchy and authority evolved. There is a lesser known book by the Canadian W R Clement called Quantum Jump: A survival guide for the new Renaissance who ascribed this to increasing levels of abstraction. Each shift, every level-up in mental abstraction created a corresponding reordering in the fundamental architecture of society – from the Middle Age’s agrarian feudalism through to the industrial age’s monolith, assembly lines and cubicles, and then the microchip leading to computer networks. In the Age of the Enlightenment the heightened abstraction was the discovery of perspective (“God’s Space”) and the intellectual leaps that accompanied it, such as increased literacy and double-entry accounting. The abstraction component unfolding now is about cryptography and it’s about decentralization. Brunelleschi and the re-discovery of Linear Perspective circa 1400’s It’s this increasing abstraction element that helps us understand why this shift to a post-industrial age will not simply be digitized industrialism. What we have been calling “globalism” is an industrialist fantasy premised on a linear extrapolation of assembly line society into post-national super-states, with top down governance by a technocratic elite (although applied locally through “subsidiarity”). In other words, it’s industrialist society gone digital. But the digital age comes with an architecture of its own. Nation states don’t magically morph into network states after their leaders convene in Davos and come out of it with a framework and a catch phrase. Nation States get Supplanted by Network States If the near constant lurching from crisis to crisis over the last decade or more shows, nation states have become ill equipped to deal with the complexities of a networked world. The global crisis induced by the pandemic exposed policy-makers and the experts who inform them to be more tone deaf and beholden to institutional groupthink than rational, competent and innovative in their responses. Taking the obsolete nation state model into the digital age via simple linear extensions is not what we mean by “network states”, although that isn’t preventing world leaders (and the industrial era super-rich who pull their strings) from trying. Disruption, almost as a rule, originates from outside the wheelhouse of whatever is being disrupted. So too will network states disrupt the nation state from outside of the Westphalian context. Right now the front-runners for becoming the first recognized network states are Big Tech platforms like Facebook and Google. In Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen’s The New Digital Age, they more or less nominate themselves: “We believe that that modern technology platforms such as Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple, are even more powerful than most people realize, and in our future world will be profoundly altered by their adoption and successfulness in societies everywhere”. Once a platform like Facebook successfully launches their own digital currency, then a typical user’s Facebook account will become more central to their day-to-day existence than their state issued passport (especially in the coming era of increasing travel restrictions on the plebeians). These emergent network states will not simply brush aside nation states and replace them. In many aspects they will overlap and in some cases fuse, like if Facebook’s coming Diem stablecoin becomes a de facto FedCoin. The power structures of the nation states won’t go gently into the dustbin of history. They will go down swinging, over a transitional era that may span decades or longer, similar to the centuries long tensions between monarchs and the Papacy that shaped the transition from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance Left: King Henry II submitting to Pope’s Legate, 1563 Right: The First Zuck, grilled by US Senate committee 2018 Nor will these Network States, built almost entirely upon the fruits of surveillance capitalism, be a beacon of personal freedom and individual autonomy in the coming age. In this sense (the repression of the individual), Network States will be a linear extrapolation and amplification of current nation state trends. For a long time when I used to talk about how industrialist ideas like The Great Reset and Fourth Industrial Revolution would be transitory and ultimately give way to something else, I had lingering doubts in my mind. I worried that maybe I’d be wrong about all that and we really were headed into a system of Fully Automated Top Down Collectivism. A technologically driven dystopian dark age from which only a complete system collapse would make it possible to emerge. However, it was in writing this month’s Crypto Capitalist Letter that I finally realized that I hadn’t fully appreciated something very important about what I knew intellectually: It was that no amount of trying to force a linear extrapolation of the outgoing systems were going to work because the advent of decentralized cryptography and non-state money had already changed the architecture of power and the incentive structures around wealth preservation. Until even recently I was still thinking about this in probabilities, as something that appeared almost certain to happen, but not necessarily a lock. What I realized when I was writing the following, was that it’s now already occurred. For one thing, in my coverage of the US Infrastructure Bill and the months long battle to amend the crypto currency clause which was tucked-in to it, I wrote: the bill passed and the tax reporting clause on crypto was included without any of the amendments the crypto community was looking for (it was blocked by a single congressman, who is in his final term and was holding out for a $50B military pork allocation to his state, and he didn’t get it). But all that said, everybody with proximity to it understands that the provision as written is overly broad and unworkable, but the larger picture is this: This bill took the idea that “The US government will eventually ban crypto” off of the table. It’s over. The US will never ban crypto, it’s officially part of the system now. Further, in my monthly coverage of the development of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC’s or ‘EvilCoin’), and this is the part where it really kicked in for me, I wrote: “established policy makers are operating on the premise of a linear extension from their previous experience. Central Bank Digital Currencies are the purest expression of this assumption. Take central bank issued fiat currency, digitize it, add the ability to overlay ideological policy imperatives onto money (like social credit), and then everything just continues on as before. But the underlying architecture of the global power structure is phase shifting into something else entirely and the reason why is because decentralized, non-state, cryptographically secured money is already here. The smart money realizes that this is a superior form of money to preserve wealth and autonomy. Everything else is secondary.” Existing pools of capital are simply not going to select CBDCs to safeguard their wealth because CBDCs will be explicitly constructed to preclude capital formation: expiry dates on cash, negative interest rates, and policy overrides on how you can spend it? Versus unrestricted capital mobility, ultra-sound monetary policy and crypto-graphically secured self-custody? Nobody in a position to would choose the former and there’s enough wealth in the world to drive the latter that it made me realize the genie well and truly is out of the bottle. Crypto-claves become the bastions of individual freedom The emergence of what comes next, something I differentiate from network states by calling them “crypto-claves” isn’t something that will probably happen, it is happening. The monetary architecture that would drive something like that is already here and the proof is in it being the fastest growing monetary asset in world history. Where network states won’t be decentralized or very participatory (mostly subject to “take it or leave it” EULAs), and may grow to more closely resemble China-style social credit systems, crypto-claves will be decentralized, participatory enclaves of self-sovereignty. Crypto-claves are a type of network state that is decentralized and holds participant sovereignty paramount (I say ‘participant’ instead of ‘individual’ because the participants may be a person, or perhaps they may be a smart contract or other autonomous agent). The defining difference between network states and crypto-claves is the platforms vs protocols distinction we’ve been making for some time. A platform is a black box, top down walled garden. The rules may be spelled out in enormous EULAs that nobody ever reads but everybody is forced to accept before entering the space. The rules are applied capriciously and it’s clear to all participants that some are more equal than others and certain ideological mindsets are preferred and rewarded. Facebook and Twitter are platforms. Email and DNS are protocols. Anybody can stand up an email server and as long as they conform to the protocol laid out in places like RFC 2822, be able to send and receive email. Savvy marketers have been saying for years that in this era of cancel culture and deplatform attacks, the single most important communications channels with one’s community is email. While many are quick to point out that DNS is an inverted tree hierarchy under the purview of ICANN, the internet root is observed purely via consensus and convention. There are no technical barriers from anybody adding their own extensions onto the root or using a different one, other than somehow gaining market adaption. As an aside: before Bitcoin came along I was habitually declaring that a true P2P DNS was impossible. Then came the blockchain and I was proved wrong (it is worth observing that I’m considered a DNS expert, so what we saw happen there was an expert in the field was proven dead wrong by non-credentialed outsiders. There’s that disruption again, incessantly intruding from the outside). While it’s still in the early innings, with experiments like Namecoin, Handshake and Ethereum Name Service, it’s just a matter of time before the ICANN sponsored legacy root is seriously challenged or disrupted by a blockchain based root layer that extends the capabilities of DNS. But I digress. Platform-based network states will, in some ways simply be linear extrapolations of nation states, implemented in the digital realm. But in crypto-claves that are truly decentralized, protocol based systems, the rules will always be open source code that can be downloaded by anybody. They will apply across the board to all participants because they are baked into the protocol itself. That doesn’t mean equal outcomes abound or that participants can’t erect layer 2 filters and mechanisms that incentivize some actions over others. Just that the rules are clear, every participant’s rights under the protocol are inalienable because they are crypto-graphically guaranteed and that the rules are applied uniformly and require consensus to change. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, participation in decentralized protocol systems will be voluntary. Crypto sovereignties will be able to be exited or forked. If the recent past is any guideline, platforms tend to coalesce into quasi-monopolies much like their nation state antecedents, while protocol based claves will likely form more of a mesh network effect. Charles Hugh Smith once likened it to a modern age Hanseatic League of Crypto States. This is already happening with the emergence of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). Almost every single Decentralized Exchange (DEX) is a DAO and run by owners of that DAO’s governance token. And these are not just piddling little experiments. Aave has a $3 billion dollar treasury. That’s more cash than most publicly traded companies. Would you like to be a direct participant in the allocation of that treasury? Simply swap some of your ETH into AAVE and bingo! You’re a citizen of the DAO. More importantly, if some DAO I’m a member of decides to enact some policy I’m not entirely on board with, I can simply swap out. Where tech platforms like Google and Facebook insist and enforce true identity verification, crypto-claves will incentivize and cultivate pseudonymity. Participants in the latter will have membership in (citizenship?) in multiple DAOs, and guilds that suit their purposes at multiple times and from multiple places. Similar to how network states will not supplant nation states entirely, crypto claves will gather a momentum of their own and elbow out their own space amongst the network states. The future will be a chaotic interplay between these three organizing principles, a creative tension between overlapping nation states, breakaway states, local fiefdoms, network states and crypto sovereignties. 21st Century governance structure quick-reference Because basic human rights are hard coded into decentralized, open source crypto-graphically secured protocols, they will gather increasing gravitas over time. Once people figure out (as many have over the last two years) that when their inalienable rights, such as the ones recognized by the UN Charter of Human Rights or the US Constitution, are subject to interpretation and suspension by a thin layer of overlords and technocrats, the incentive structure will impel them toward systems and structures that mathematically guarantees those rights.

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