Hi James ;-) (*_*) On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 1:53 PM, <jam...@echeque.com> wrote:
> On 2020-10-21 05:49, jim bell wrote: > >> I called myself a "minarchist libertarian" 1975- January-1995 ONLY because I >> couldn't figure out how to solve what I knew, independently, to be a >> problem. I hadn't thought about it much. While trying to figure out how to >> get rid of ONE free-spending officeholder (Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who >> I never named in my AP essay), I applied conceptually the ideas of good >> encryption, digital cash, and anonymity, to come up with the idea that I >> turned into my Assassination Politics essay in January-February 1995 > > For assassination politics to work, you are going to need a crypto > currency, whose currency is proof of stake, and which supports end to > end encrypted messaging concerning financial transactions, messages that > can carry money and commit to contracts. > > A proof of stake currency is a sovereign corporation, and its currency > is shares in that corporation. > > A normal corporation derives its identity and corporateness from a grant > of identity from the sovereign. A sovereign corporation would derive > its corporateness from the fact that everyone uses the same > cryptographic protocol because everyone else is using that protocol. > > A sovereign corporation is something that I am sure that Bat Soup would > regard as suspiciously like a state.
