Talk at @blockchaingers Deep Dive in Digital Nation’s Infrastructure

1. Blockchain & Digital
Nation’s Infrastructure
Without central control, shared by all?

2. Lykle de Vries

3. Bitcoinproperly.org

4. References this presentation is based on
● “Money, Blockchain and Social Scalability” - Nick Szabo
○ http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2017/02/money-blockchains-and-social-scalability.html
● “Before and after the nation state” - Chris Anderson
○ https://medium.com/@chr1sa/before-and-after-the-nation-state-857750aa5448?source=linkS
hare-552f7b08ccc2-1517995627
● Hernando De Soto’s view on “Dead Capital”
○ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_de_Soto_Polar
● And perhaps “The Sovereign Individual” - Davidson/Rees-Mogg
○ https://www.bol.com/nl/p/the-sovereign-individual/1001004000598736/

5. Why are we excited about
blockchain?

6. Blockchain defeats
Dunbar’s number

7. Dunbar’s number

8. 150

9. Maximum trust?
Limited group size!

10. Ancient Egypt

11. Medieval Europe

12. Current organisation/company

13. Lykle de Vries
Nation state

14. We minimize trust to make it
work

15. Centralized trust
scales badly
Especially beyond country borders

16. Unless we let computers do it

18. Institutionalized trust
via Trusted Third Party
Distributed trust
via
shared single source of
truth

19. Blockchain is
a paradigm shift
If you cannot think differently, you will not be able to
adjust

20. Can we do it?

21. Nation states might be
a
temporary (sub) optimization

22. 2 million years of ‘us’
6000 years of civilization
200 years of nation states

23. 2009-01-09 2018-01-09
(To simplify things: roughly 500.000 blocks in Bitcoin Blockchain)
Related to the history of Bitcoin...

24. 2009-01-09 2018-01-09
(Roughly 500.000 blocks in Bitcoin Blockchain)
Civilization 2017-12-30
Related to the history of Bitcoin...

25. 2009-01-09 2018-01-09
(Roughly 500.000 blocks in Bitcoin Blockchain)
Civilization 2017-12-30
Nation States started today at 06.20 AM
Related to the history of Bitcoin...

26. How do nation states help
us?
They provide (frameworks for) governance

27. Nation states are about:
Registries
● Identity
● All sorts of licenses
○ Driving
○ Medical
○ Professional
● Ownership
○ Property/land
○ IP
● Etc...
Monopoly on violence
To keep things orderly
To help citizens abide to the rules of society
To enforce those registries, if required

28. Blockchain presents a fundamental shift
in how we can organise trust

29. But can we really?
If we work from the old paradigm?

30. Use Cases

31. Land titles
Recording property rights

32. https://www.coindesk.com/bitfury-working-with-georgian-government-on-blockchain-land-
registry/

33. https://www.coindesk.com/sweden-blockchain-smart-contracts-land-registry/

34. https://www.coindesk.com/debate-factom-land-title-honduras/

35. Licenses
Maintaining licenses
Attestation

36. https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-gibraltar-regulator-blockchain/gibraltar-launches-financi
al-services-licence-for-blockchain-idUKKBN1E81JP

37. https://www.ethnews.com/zug-and-uport-see-first-citizens-identity-registered-on-the-ether
eum-blockchain/

38. https://www.coindesk.com/illinois-trial-blockchain-tech-bid-track-medical-licenses/

39. Dubai
Putting a city
‘on the Blockchain’

40. http://smartdubai.ae/dubai_blockchain.php

41. Estonia
Government as a Service

42. https://govinsider.asia/innovation/estonia-using-blockchain-to-secure-health-records/

43. https://medium.com/e-residency-blog/estonia-could-offer-estcoins-to-e-residents-a3a5a5
d3c894?source=linkShare-552f7b08ccc2-1517998308

44. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/estonian-government-partners-with-bitnation-to-offe
r-blockchain-notarization-services-to-e-residents-1448915243/

45. Changing the paradigm

46. Bitnation
Virtual/voluntary nation

47. https://bitnation.co/

48. Government or Governance
as a service?

49. Your value proposition now
is…?

50. Transform to an
oracle
And connect to arbitration
solutions worldwide

51. “the internet democratises
access to information; the
blockchain democratises
access to truth” - Peter Todd
Truth or lie, you cannot take it back or change it

52. Lykle de Vries/Ronald Mulder blockchainrealisten.nl

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