I think I got it...
https://cointelegraph.com/news/life-after-official-currencies-lessons-from-auroracoin-scotcoin
nope that's not it...I remember it was a real Bitcoin article, nothing about blockchain or anything, it was an economic example of how states could never create a copy of Bitcoin and put national borders around it.
Or maybe I'm hallucinating and I need to write it myself 😂