Sovereignty - What Wilson Heard

Every year, Messari.io publishes its Crypto Theses, heralding in the Christmas holidays the same way The Economist’s December Double Issue once did. As the last of its 10 theses for 2021, author Ryan Selkis mentions the “ultimate exit”: how to rebuild a “crypto-inspired nation-state”. The potential for blockchains to disrupt the Nation State resonates with a talk I did back in May 2018 at EDCON in Toronto when announcing the Ethscape project (which has since suffered from severe parental negl...