Have you forgotten what I, Jim Bell, did, or why I am here? Was: Re: USA 2020 Elections: Thread

[rooty]

Hi James ;-) (*_*)

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 1:53 PM, <jamesd at echeque.com> wrote:

> On 2020-10-21 05:49, jim bell wrote:
>
>> I called myself a "minarchist libertarian" 1975- January-1995 ONLY because I couldn't figure out how to solve what I knew, independently, to be a problem. I hadn't thought about it much. While trying to figure out how to get rid of ONE free-spending officeholder (Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who I never named in my AP essay), I applied conceptually the ideas of good encryption, digital cash, and anonymity, to come up with the idea that I turned into my Assassination Politics essay in January-February 1995
>
> For assassination politics to work, you are going to need a crypto
> currency, whose currency is proof of stake, and which supports end to
> end encrypted messaging concerning financial transactions, messages that
> can carry money and commit to contracts.
>
> A proof of stake currency is a sovereign corporation, and its currency
> is shares in that corporation.
>
> A normal corporation derives its identity and corporateness from a grant
> of identity from the sovereign. A sovereign corporation would derive
> its corporateness from the fact that everyone uses the same
> cryptographic protocol because everyone else is using that protocol.
>
> A sovereign corporation is something that I am sure that Bat Soup would
> regard as suspiciously like a state.
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