Blockchain Project Bitnation Marches Pangea Beta Forward
One of the earliest blockchain projects, Bitnation, wants to aggregate all of the values of government into a distributed software platform, from identity and contracts to resolution services. Bitnation seeks to promote the idea that government can be a service, “geographically unbound, decentralized and voluntary.” Bitnation founder Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof aims high when it comes to the project at hand: retooling the nation-state. “People tend to take the nation-state model for granted, like it’s something that’s always been there and always will be there,” Tempelhof said, speaking to....
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