Short The State: How Bitcoin Enables Jurisdictional Arbitrage

Short The State: How Bitcoin Enables Jurisdictional Arbitrage

Bitcoin lets anyone live and thrive wherever they want, ending government monopoly on our jurisdictions.This is an opinion editorial by Katie The Russian, CEO of Plan B Passport and co-host of the “The Bittersweet Podcast.”Because you are born into a nonconsensual monopoly brought upon you by the government, you have no real options — no real choices to pick the services that you want to receive from the State, the taxes you are willing to pay for it or the regulatory environment under which you decide to operate. Unless, you decide to enter the game of jurisdictional arbitrage and limit....


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