British media thinking: Can you "establish a country" on the Internet?

British "Guardian" July 5th article, original title: Can a new country be established on the Internet? The former chief technology officer of the cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase, Srinwanan, envisioned the use of social networks to "establish a country." However, problems such as poverty, disease and aging will hinder his conception.

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Establish from a computer

Srinovasan put forward the idea of ​​running and managing new digital countries in the new book "Internet State". He wrote that the formation model of the Internet country was gathered on the Internet and decided to build a country. With cryptocurrencies that connect their social networks, unite their leaders, and protect their assets, a country with legal and social services can be born. Unlike companies or decentralized autonomous organizations, the Internet country is "anyone can be established on their own computer and starts with the first follower." Srinwanzan asked: In a world where billionaires can manage companies that are larger than the country, can the Internet country be recognized by the United Nations?

Like all Utopia ideas, the idea of ​​establishing a country online is also the thinking and answers of more and more social issues, such as economic stagnation, political polarization, and conflict between major powers. Srinvasan said that when we need leaders to solve the problem, they failed because they were not only corruption or incompetent, but also related to technology.

The Internet has technological advantages. For example, the Internet makes the geographical location less important, and the national borders seem to be more and more casual. And cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have proven that if there are enough people to believe in the value of a certain idea, they can create trillions of dollars. In the era of social networks, millions of netizens can integrate into the group and act together.

Can vote and buy land

Srinwanan believes that people can build a new institution on the Internet. It works like this: a person on Twitter decided to establish an online country, then promoted the idea to friends, and began to recruit people. They proposed a statement statement and value list, and soon someone joined and told friends. It was like a social network from the beginning.

Everyone has made a group strength, develops social services, and produces its own small culture, which theoretically provides medical care, insurance, passports, and carnival party services. With a mixture of Twitter and Discord (free network real -time call software and digital distribution platforms designed for the community -editor -in -chief), they can contact, exchange ideas, and vote (vote for the favorite legislation). With currency like Bitcoin, they can control their currency supply and even buy small pieces of land. In the end, they will start to move to the selected city. These cities need to compete to win these brave new digital citizens.

Srinwanan believes that to do this, there is no need to war or violate the law. As the "star" leaders open up roads and negotiate on the international stage, these new countries will receive their rights and recognition. Srinwanzan wrote that when this model is successful, it will "eventually become a template, perhaps the modern version of the Jefferson Natural Noble" (the natural nobles proposed by Jefferson are opposite to the British man -made nobles, emphasizing work, not to achieve work rather than not. Family spectrum allows people like Benjamin Franklin to succeed -editor's note). In such a vision, a new romantic trend will appear -scientific and technological personnel fled.

Improved "small things"

"Internet State" is likely to cause some fierce reactions. Some people will say that the idea of ​​"Internet State" is fascism, and some people, such as those liberal rights, may be called far -sightedness. They will say that Srinwanzan is a prophet and a person who tells the truth. But there is still a lingering question: Is it possible to achieve all this?

Srinwanzan said that the population of many countries recognized by the United Nations is about 5 million to 10 million, and the scale of economic workers with a economic scale is less than the same scale. Therefore, a group of cryptocurrency "brothers" associate their destiny with "weird" leaders.

Srinwanan wrote in 2015: "The future is a nationalist confrontation. , I want to change my heart. "This is romantic, but in his ideas, there are still some less perfect" small things ", such as death, aging and disease. How should online countries solve poverty? What do those people who only want to work stable?

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