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I sens ideology here. If we d'dn't have states to enforce the power to kill and imprison, wouldn't we have anarchy ? Hasn't anarchy proven to be bloody and unjust ? I get the sovereign individual claim regarding btc and think it acts as a great balance of power but I'm not sure I want to live stateless yet. It's true that states are dividing us though, especially now. Whether in the US or in the EU the waves of migrants are deliberately organised by our gvt and bringing social disorder. But don't you think the main issue there is the lack of democracy with a ruling class that has stopped working for our interests. Yes BTC is empowering on an individual level but we are yet to see what it will do to society as a whole with more adoption.
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Entropy 1y ago

I honestly think that we've discovered technology that shifts our incentives. I don't know what that means for the future - maybe eventually statelessness will make the most sense. Maybe not and it evolves into a different equilibrium with more power resting with I dividuals and smaller collaborative groups. But the way that we interact with and depend on each other will shift along with those incentives over time, and I think it will be overwhelmingly for the better.

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MineBTC 1y ago

I've heard that viewpoint before, of course it's shared amongst the cypherpunk mouvement and it comes mostly from the US because of it's history and it's appetite for cessation when the state becomes too big. But I can't help seeing an ideology which like all ideologies overlooks second order effects. It seems to me that anarchy has never been very peaceful whilst most humans now aspire to a peaceful society. So I'm not sure this ideal of statelessness will become very popular.