There needs to be a nuclear power that embraces an open internet with open finance.

Imagine a nuclear power that hosted an open #cashu mint, #fedimint, or crypto exchange that anyone in the world could access. Anyone in the world can connect to their servers. If a country like the United States requested that these servers be shut down, limit access, or that developers were extradited, the hosting country would just say "Bugger off".

Once a nuclear power hosts and defends a free internet, we are really off to the races, as it would require other countries to maintain a North Korea style firewall to contain its own citizens.

United States - 3,708 warheads

Russia - 5,977 warheads

China - 350 warheads

France - 290 warheads

United Kingdom - 190 warheads

Pakistan - 165 warheads

India - 156 warheads

Israel - 90 warheads (Israel has never publicly confirmed or denied its nuclear status)

North Korea - 60 warheads

An obvious answer here is Russia. They are already sanctioned by the west, and don't have much more to loose, and to gain, they could become the new financial center of the world.

I would think that the main hindrance here is that the nuclear country would not want it's own citizens accessing open finance.