“Blockchain technology could allow for bonds selling at $5, $10 or $25 each, perhaps with tokenized interest payments, while simultaneously increasing transparency.”
Read more: https://www.coindesk.com/california-citys-blockchain-token-definitely-maybe-happening/
“With a phone pressed to the side of their sanctimonious faces, this army of volunteer state minions get to feel like their local police–tyrannical psychopaths.”
“From DIY guns to designer drugs, classic-car parts, and human livers, 3D printing promises a dynamic and uncontrollable world.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/06/12/you-can-soon-manufacture-anything/print
“Domino’s has already been working with four municipalities to help repair potholes on roads, including Bartonville, Texas, Milford, Delaware, Athens, Georgia, and Burbank, California.”
“No American is safer because Ross Ulbricht is in jail for life. He is just one more casualty of our futile war against drugs.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/02/07/government-threw-silk-roads-founder-in-j/print
“Redemption Camp has 5,000 houses, roads, rubbish collection, police, supermarkets, banks, a fun fair, a post office – even a 25 megawatt power plant. In Nigeria, the line between church and city is rapidly vanishing.”
“Tancítaro represents a quiet but telling trend in Mexico, where a handful of towns and cities are effectively seceding, partly or in whole. These are acts of desperation, revealing the degree to which Mexico’s police and politicians are seen as part of the threat.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/07/world/americas/mexico-state-corruption.html
“The Free Republic of Liberland wishes you a happy new year.”
Read more: http://liberlandpress.com/2017/12/happy-new-year-2018-liberland/
“The creators lauded the launch as establishing the first nation to have all of its territory in space, though no countries have acknowledged its statehood. For now, the primary benefit of ‘citizenship’ is being able to store data on Asgardia-1 while it’s in orbit. Only those who support the constitution will have the right to upload data to the satellite. Asgardia will have taxes, though only businesses will be forced to contribute. Individual taxes will apparently be voluntary. The website explains that ‘people can decide what amount of tax they would like to pay.’ The country will also have passports, IDs, a national bank, business regulations, and a cryptocurrency called SOLAR.”
Read more: http://theantimedia.org/new-space-nation-asgardia/
“Our nations are now undergoing a digital revolution, which will radically reshape them once again — this time into borderless online communities with services that can be accessed anywhere there is an internet connection.”
