The Digital Sovereign Blockchain Project – Whitepaper Draft

I have spent several months thinking about the path forward for American, Russian, and Chinese citizens who are fed up with the lies and conspiracy theories from their governments designed to create wedge issues and divisive politics all with the intention by politicians of gaining and maintaining power; the destruction of wealth via inflation of fiat regimes, punitive taxation, and fiscally irresponsible spending; and the funding of geopolitical conflicts, wars, and murdering of millions.

I have absolute sadness when I think about millions of Sri Lankans, Argentinians, Turkish, and Sudanese people who have had it far worse than I have in their lives, with their governments and currencies literally collapsing in the past 20 years.

The Ukraine war, the collapse of the Boris Johnson government, ongoing challenges within the US democracy, the problems are not going away.

I have come to realize that our species is still so young, and our systems so fragile.

I have been hoping for 10 years that eventually Bitcoin and blockchain based systems could start to offer an alternative path for humanity.

At the same time, watching all of the stupid, useless scams within the blockchain space come unravelled over the past few weeks (3AC, Celsius, BlockFi, Voyager), I see it isn’t getting any better. Greed on its own won’t get us anywhere as a species.

It will take empathy, vision, and leadership as well.

I am left yearning for a high quality Web 3.0 project that actually uses the potential of the blockchain technology to establish informal institutions at scale, to support interdependent order, in a way that can solve the most basic problems confronting billions of people within the human species.

I have had several brainstorming sessions with friends in the space, and, feel like the core ideas of a new blockchain network designed to actually help people around the world with their most basic needs is coming together.

Here is a summary of what I have in mind: A new charter/declaration of rights & values. A hybrid system of identity with on-chain identity and also a passport that can get you through airports. A pathway to opting out of national government taxation. A pathway to aggregating resources of millions of people at scale for voluntary common good initiatives. A pathway to having a retirement plan/social security without need of a national government sponsor.

Rather than continuing to write at a theoretical level, it will be more productive if I move to the beginnings of the outline for a white paper. Here it goes — the TOC:

  1. The problems of the modern nation state & problems of the modern blockchain industry–why I feel we need to take action as a Web 3.0 community.
  2. Founding Charter of Rights & Freedoms for Digital Nomads.
  3. Public Services Protocol / Common Good Initiatives Protocol.
  4. Host Country to Issue Digital Residency & Authorize 1M Passports on Transitional Basis – contractor
  5. Passports Issued to our Specification – contractor
  6. Social Security Program – contractor
  7. Federation of Lands – contractor

In terms of sequencing of implementation, here are a few provisional thoughts (note to self: need to come back to this and clean it up):

  1. Intellectual Work Product 1: Publication of A New Charter of 22nd Century (Web 3.0-?) Rights & Freedoms for American, British, Russian, and Chinese Citizens who are Fed Up with the Political Leadership; Argentinian, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Sri Lankan Citizens who have Lost it All due to Failed Political Leadership; and Digital Nomads more Generally, with inspiration of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, the UK Bill of Rights, Libertarian Philosophy, and Mohatma Gandhi’s Non-Violence Principle.
  2. dApp Project 1: Influence Protocol to Enable Individuals to Pool Resources into an Escrow Contract to Fund Common Good Influencer Tasks & Initiatives w/ Execution Milestones.
  3. Influence Project 1: Community Proposal to Aggregate Funds from Millions of People into an Escrow Contract Set Aside for Any Government who Will Step Up and Give the Group Members an Identity Card, a Digital Residency Program, and Annual Tax Rate of 1%. Note: The Protocol once created can be used as a system for the community to pool resources to procure other kinds of public goods according to the Libertarian philosphy of voluntary participation in each common goods initiative.
  4. dApp Project 2: Identity System and Wallet (perhaps fashioned off of Terra Station) with a Hybrid Blockchain Identity and an Optional Physical Identity Card from the Country that Wins Influence Project 1. Applicants are guaranteed a 30 day processing time for the Physical Identity Card.
  5. dApp Project 3: Special NFT and/or Status for any Member to Hold in their Wallet if they Opt out of their National Governmental Citizenship & Pledge Allegiance to the Digital Nomads Bill of Rights (ie. Libertarian Ideals, Non-Violence Principle).
  6. Influence Project 2: Community Proposal to Canadian Pension Plan or a Similar Large Western Pension to Manage the Voluntary Contributions of The Membership Base so that All of the Members will have a Professionally Managed Retirement Program.

In summary, I am envisioning an ecosystem that would provide humans with the basic public services of identity card and social security, a way to opt out of punitive taxation, and a way to participate in voluntary common good initiatives to deliver public services. I am envisioning a network of millions of people forming within a few short years, given how the entire world seems to be in turmoil now, and national governments are failing us everywhere.

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