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Episode-2907- The Virtual Nations Currently Developing in Real Time

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I did my Miyagi Mornings video as a live stream today.  One viewer when asked at the end about ideas for today’s podcast suggested say how to vet new people coming into things like “Freedom Cells”.  This is a valid concern, there are definitely operatives attempting to infiltrate groups and worse instigate bad actions of said groups. I will talk about some of that today but I want to have a more broad discussion about the virtual nation concept I have been discussing in one way or another since at least Sept. of 2014 when I did my first fully … Continue reading →

Episode-2009- A New Look at Virtual Nations

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In 2014 I first conceived of the concept of a “Virtual Nation” in episode 1428 and it was huge learning experience.  The most surprising thing was when I asked people what would they put in the constitution of a virtual nation, some of the first ideas were things like term limits and restrictions on elected officials. What?  Why would you have elected officials in a voluntary society?  That was my reaction and what I learned is even in the liberty community how entrenched the concepts of statism are. Not long after this, the first proclaimed virtual nation (BitNation) was launched.  … Continue reading →

Episode-1850- Getting Started with Bitcoin and Ether

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Today I am going to go into the basics of what Bitcoin, Ether and other alternative currencies are, how they work, why they work and how you can use them. I am not and I do not claim to be an expert on alternative currencies.  What I do have is an exceptional understanding of money and economics, and while Bitcoin and other alt coins are not “money” as defined by the US Government (which is good by the way), they are in fact money and every bit as legitimate as the US Dollar, in fact as you will see today … Continue reading →

Episode-1561- Another Look at the Future of Crypto Currency and Virtual Nations

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Today I received a question about something called BitNation you can learn more at bitnation.co. The crux of the question was, “what do you think of the concept”?  My view of the concept is extremely positive, so far though my view of the execution of BitNation is pretty much summed up with a meh. It seems the execution has not quite lived up to the story and well three of their critical founders quit right before they went to funding. There is a story there too though.  Many would look at this and say, see it doesn’t work, they failed.  … Continue reading →

Episode-1428- Libertas a Virtual Nation

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In Episode 1421 I discussed both the Estonian E-Citizen Program and Ecuador’s new Digital Currency and asked a simple question, could digital currencies and the concept of E-Citizenry be used to create a virtual nation. I think this is a valuable thought experiment and I have some ideas I want to share today.  The goal is to get a discussion going about what can be done, vs. what can’t be done.  What might work vs. why nothing can work. As part of this I created a forum thread to discuss a Virtual Nation’s Constitution would be like.  There has been … Continue reading →