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134 sats \ 8 replies \ @OneOneSeven 10 Nov 2023 \ on: Balaji Srinivasan’s “Network States” bitcoin
Interesting, here is their "One Sentence" summary:
The Convention on the Rights and Duties of States is an international treaty signed in Montevideo, Uruguay, on December 26, 1933.
The convention establishes the definition of the State, its rights and obligations.
In Article 1 it establishes four characteristic criteria of a State that have become part of customary international law.
They have been recognized as confirmation in International Law, establishing that a State as a person of International Law must meet the following requirements:
ARTICLE 1
The State as a subject of International Law must meet the following requirements:
- Permanent population.
- Determined territory.
- Government.
- Ability to enter into relations with other States.
Under these guidelines, any entity that meets these criteria can be considered a sovereign state under international law, whether or not it has been recognized by other states.
ARTICLE 3
The political existence of the state is independent of its recognition by other states.
Even before being recognized, the State has the right to defend its integrity and independence.
ARTICLE 7
The recognition of the State may be express or tacit. The latter results from any act that implies the intention to recognize the new State.
In other words: my body of a living man can be a State, wherever am I, with the "territory" inside my body. If I travel around, I am just a simple ambassador of my own state in that visited state.
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Thanks for this,
What do you think about how Michael Malice describes anarchy "Anarchism is a relationship, not a location", I feel like you two might get along well
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I agree. In 1933 people could not conceive of a "state" that spans geographic regions. Like minded people will self sort, as we've seen in places like Texas and Florida, but I don't think chopping up geographies is a requirement, as long as property rights can be protected across a network state's realm. The financial infra is being setup to help protect people's claims to Bitcoin with Federated Chaumian Mints which turns multisig, privacy and UX to 11.
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Physical properties, like land, house, car etc are all protected by UCC (the universal contract law). We don't need any gov or constitution to "protect" our properties.
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I want to believe this. Bad people will always try to steal, and bad people will always exist. If not bad, just desperate. Instead of government I'm thinking a decentralized monopoly of violence in order to protect property rights, because they will always need protecting. Basically, own a gun and know how to use it.
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That doesn't mean you need a gov to that for you.
The myth of authority
Here is a very good debate touching this aspect
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ircn5bJfTEU
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Never said you did
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to me, this sounds a lot like F.A. Hayek’s 1984 quote about sound money, just applied to states…
"I don't believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can't take it violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can't stop."
IMO forming a strong community online first is the “sly roundabout way” to build a new state. It only enters the physical world once it has a critical mass of people and resources behind it.
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