Bitcoin Forum

1. Could you explain us what Bitnation is?

Bitnation is the world’s first Virtual Nation, offering actual governance services. We’re currently building a ‘Blockchain Jurisdiction’ - a user-friendly dispute resolution application which will power a full range of 3rd Party Do-It-Yourself Governance applications.

2. We heard some rumors about your achievements in Estonia - what's happening there? Is your project related to e-residency project? If yes, then how?

Indeed, we’re collaborating with the Estonia e-Residency program to offer a blockchain powered Public Notary. You don’t have to be an Estonian e-Resident to use it, however. Please check it out here and let us know what you think of it! https://bitnation.co/notary/

3. Governments of states are traditionally hugely centralized services, how do you feel to interact with government bureaucracy? Do they get what you do or are there obstacles and walls everywhere?

We don’t really interact with government bureaucracy, because we’re a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), without central hierarchy, bank accounts, incorporation, etc.  The only time we talk with governments is when they ask us about our technology because they want to integrate it, and then they’re obviously trying to be friends with us, rather than making life difficult for us. So far it has been a peaceful co-existence.

4. What you do is obviously hard work - what's your super goal?

The nation state construct is currently the world’s most significant apartheid. Just because you were arbitrarily born in a geographic area, it will define your life, whether you live in war or peace, wealth or poverty, etc… It’s a geographic jail, for a large majority of people in the world. Confining people to a certain quality of life based on their passport is no more right than confining people based on the colour of their skin, or their sexual preferences.

I believe the nation state is progressively going away, anyways, due to globalisation alone. But the question is, what will replace it? Probably UN, or a UN like organisation - an even worse ‘one fit all model’ which will lead to perpetual bloodshed amongst factions who just want to carry on with their own way of life.

We offer an alternative to that. We’re coding blockchain nations, so everyone in the world can create their own nation, for their own specific need and culture, rather than being subject to a top-down model, imposed through the threat of violence.

In essence, we hope that through providing an open source model, offering cheaper and better Do-It-Yourself governance services, we’ll be able to make both nation states and organisations like UN obsolete in practice, because they _are_ obsolete — they're coercive bureaucratic dinosaurs that has to vanish.

We’ll replace the old legacy structures with a wonderful web of autonomous self-governing entities :)


5. Do you use blockchain solutions for Bitnation's internal work and procedures? If yes, then how exactly? What is automated and decentralized using software solutions?

We use our Blockchain ID and Public Notary to timsteamp agreements internally. But beyond that, what’s much more exciting going forward, is to integrate protocols such as Backfeed, and SwarmBot where the money that comes in (or at least a large chunk of it) get automatically distributed to people creating projects and submitting tasks on their own initiative. We’ve been testing it for a few months already, and are in the process to make it fully automatic, in the first months of this year.

But even more mind blowing than that, we’re very excited about launching Bitnation as the world’s first Decentralised Borderless Virtual Nation (DBVN) holacratic constitution on the Ethereum blockchain on January 15th, in Rio de Janeiro. It will be a 3 hours live event broadcasted on YouTube, where we'll live code the constitution onto the blockchain. As always, all code is open source and can be found on GitHub, and we encourage people to use it, fork it, and contribute to it.

Shoutout to Alexandre Van De Sande, Andrew Golightly and Dana Edwards, who contributed greatly to this process!

6.Do you know of two projects on blockchain for Ukrainian government? What do you think of them? Did you have any consultations with those projects?

I’ve heard the Ukrainian government is very blockchain friendly, but I’m not familiar with any of the specific projects they’re working on.