Central banks, the BIS and the IMF all have a shout here as well.

Yes, the separation of money and state brings us ever closer to peace and prosperity.

Absolutely. The right of secession is crucial

Violence is real. You dont have to like it, but it is. The sole purpose of government should be to monopolize violence for the purpose of defending citizens from it. The problem is when people ask government to do more. They then use that violence because that's what they are for. They're meant use a gun when necessary to protect you from violence, but that mentality will always creep in when enforcing other things they never should have been involved in. People keep expecting more and more and give them power to wield violence against other citizens.

I never understand this argument. Do you think it would be better if violence was just dispersed to every citizen? We just shoot each other to solve disputes? Because that's what no legal monopoly on violence looks like.

And if you say no, that we should have courts instead of shooting each other for contract violations, then how are those decisions enforced? What happens if someone refuses to listen to a court? Prison? Who puts them there?

Anarchy isn't a real solution to people asking or allowing government to do too much.

nation-state governments have often been both a boon and a burden. The Digital Age offers a chance to rethink governance through decentralization, fostering transparency, liberty, and collaboration. It’s time to innovate for a freer, fairer future.

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"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Different churches with centuries of religious wars was pretty bad also

💯. Fortunately in the US, the founders realized it was the individual who has a true right to violence to defend their property and lives. Government only has a right to violence because we agree to allow them to aggregate the right of violence to defend citizens property and lives. I’m hopeful a bitcoin standard will help re-establish the proper view that it is decentralized government implementing the authority of the people that results in less human suffering rather than central government claiming to own the monopoly on violence to force some outside will on the people.

Bitcoin separates state and money which is a great start. How do we decentralize the rest? I’m worried that’s where the crypto narrative will try to go.

central banks would be a close second or are we counting them as one in the same haha?

No. Specifically the collectivism created by statism gives morality over to the tragedy of the commons.

Yes please

The concept of the nation-state can be interpreted as a successful psychological operation.

The Mongols