Cryptosovereignty: The Encrypted Political Philosophy of Bitcoin

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...digital gold is now a reality known as Bitcoin. Herein lies the power of cryptosovereignty: the cryptographic tools which let citizens blind The State to their identities, their patterns of actions, and the purchasing power under their control. Paradoxically, as a monetary technology that is agnostic to the politics of human affairs, Bitcoin is the most politically disruptive innovation in human history. Einstein once said: “We cannot solve our problems with same level of thinking that created them.” Applying this thought to the troubled domain of human social evolution, there can be no political solution to the problems inherent to political economy and statism. An economic system with fixed rules, totally agnostic to the arbitrary ebbs and flows of human affairs, offers individuals the highest degree of leverage in their contentions with The State: a non-productive and destructive institution that subsists solely on stolen fruits of labor. Cryptosovereignty is an apolitical solution to this present stage of human evolution; one characterized by zero faith in The State, an ideal exquisitely expressed by the bloodless revolution of Bitcoin’s monetization. In its most essential form, Bitcoin is an agreement among network participants; an oath taken by nodes selecting a common software to run, and reaffirmed in each block of transactions every ten minutes or so. 21M Bitcoin is the unbreakable promise energizing the rise of cryptosovereignty in the 21st century and beyond. — Robert Breedlove, March 2023