Blockchain in Technocracy

It becomes clear when you slow down for a second and look at the whole picture.

Blockchain was born as a heresy, an attempt to break the dependence on intermediaries and return custody to the hands of each individual. A distributed ledger, without permission, without intermediaries, p2p, verifiable by anyone, resistant to censorship and the whims of the powerful.

An architecture designed to multiply sovereignty.

However, current signs paint a different picture. States saw blockchain not as a threat, but as an opportunity. They discovered that an immutable record also serves as a means of surveillance. That total traceability is a wet dream for any bureaucrat. That a distributed network can become a panopticon if grafted onto KYC systems, digital identities, and algorithmic governance.

The irony is brutal: the tool created to liberate ends up enabling a model where governments and Big Tech merge into a single layer of control. The promise of sovereignty is transforming into the substrate of technocracy.

Technology is neutral, but power structures never are.