July 4th, Bitcoin And Sovereignty — Declaring Your Own Financial Independence...
This July 4th is an opportunity to think about how Bitcoiners reclaimed their own financial independence.Part One: A Declaration Of IndependenceThere is a lot of history one could survey when examining Independence Day. Some historians might reference the 1940s, or the 4th of July being recognized as a federal holiday; maybe BBQs or fireworks would find their way into the conversations. A military historian might dive into the American Revolution, 1776, the Continental Congress or the original 13 Colonies as an excellent place to begin boring their grandchildren. Bitcoin authors have also....
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We are living in a new world. As Andreas Antonopoulos put so eloquently, "now that we have crypto-currencies, it's not sovereignty that determines currency, it's currency that creates sovereignty." Bitcoin has helped declare independence for the Internet, and it appears it will continue to disrupt the status quo until that independence is recognized. If we've learned anything from P2P technology, it's that our rules bend around the tech, not the other way around. But if our rules bend around the tech, could we one day be living in a world where our borders do too? Take the concept of....
With some research and a little technical aptitude, distributed forms of money such as bitcoin can be used as the digital equivalent of cash, offering the potential for anyone to theoretically bank themselves without relying on traditional financial institutions. Additionally, innovative wallet technologies mean anyone can store vast amounts of value without the need to trust governments or banks. From brain wallets to paper wallets, multisig to BIP32 hierarchical deterministic technologies, the ability to store cryptocurrency value independent of a third party is becoming more....
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