The line-up for our Bitcoin conference UNCHAIN, full of controversial speakers, has triggered some interesting discussions about the political role of cryptocurrencies. Some media have claimed that conservatives or even right-wing extremists would take on this topic. In my humble opinion, this is complete and utter nonsense.
Bitcoin‘s mission is not to conserve the existing financial system, but to revolutionise it. Bitcoin was invented to disrupt the power of banks and governments. I cannot think of anything less „conservative“ than this.
Bitcoin's Declaration of Independence
In Germany, „right-wing extremism“ is first and foremost associated with National Socialism, an ideology that lifts the state and its „Volk“ above anything else and brutally violates individual human rights.
Bitcoin‘s political basis, however, is Libertarianism, a school of thought in which individual liberty is seen as the highest asset. Libertarianism is therefore diametrically opposed to National Socialism and other totalitarian ideologies. Most Libertarians see government as a necessary evil which has to be strictly limited.
National Socialism and Libertarianism are on opposite sides of the political spectrum
Some even go as far as questioning the need for any form of government. They want a society which is free of coercion and solely rests upon voluntary agreements. Libertarian masterminds like Murray Rothbard, David Friedman or Hans-Hermann Hoppe have expanded on such new models of society.
Murray N. Rothbard
We will discuss this interesting topic extensively at UNCHAIN. One of our most prominent speakers is Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof from Bitnation. She plans to offer services that have been in the governments domain up until now. Land titles, passports, marriages etc. can today be realised via Blockchain technology. This radical approach may facilitate the founding of new „nations“ which are not based on geography, but rather on the voluntary association of like-minded people.
Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof
No less radical, but more focussed on business, is the approach of Titus Gebel from Free Private Cities. He would like to create a free market alternative to today‘s states ruled by politicians. The citizens of a private city voluntarily obtain and purchase services from a company that manages the city. An example of such could be security services to protect the lives and properties of its inhabitants. Should the city management not meet its obligations one can sue it, withhold payment or cancel the contract altogether. Customers are free to move to a different private city with a more efficient management, if so desired.
Titus Gebel
Our speaker Sterlin Luxan from Bitcoin.com even calls himself an „anarchist“. I personally would not use this term, as most people think of anarchy as chaos and the absence of any rules. As a matter of fact, rules for social coexistence exist even in anarchy, but they are reached by voluntary agreement, not by compulsion. I am looking forward to Sterlin’s talk about the connection between cryptocurrencies, Blockchain technology and a society without governments.
Sterlin Luxan
Initially we had planned to also give German politicians the opportunity to take a stand on the political impact of cryptocurrencies and Blockchain technology. We invited politicians of different parties, even though we knew that very few have any expertise in this field. Two of those candidates, Frank Schäffler (FDP) and Alice Weidel (AFD), initially accepted our invitation, but later had to cancel due to time constraints. Therefore we finally decided to dispense with party politicians.
Alice Weidel
The main focus of UNCHAIN lies on the practical use of cryptocurrencies and the Blockchain. Our main target group are decision makers in companies who want to learn more about this new technology. Smart industry leaders sense that a revolution is underway which will massively change economy and society.
Thus our event is highly political indeed. There is hardly a more delicate political topic than revolutionising the financial system and overcoming the nation state. Our name UNCHAIN already expresses that the most important topic for us is individual liberty.
We are looking forward to highly controversial discussions with our speakers and guests!
We've build a society on centralising power and big daddy government has thrived on that dependency and anything that threatens that is going to be met with resistance
The fundamental principle of cryptocurrency is to put the power and onus on the user to handle their finance which is a utopian ideology at this point but something we shoudl apsire to
In ihrer Wahlkampftour 2017 in Leipzig hat Weidel sich positiv zu Bitcoin geäußert. Ihre Aussage: "Der Euro ist so beliebt wie Sondermüll."
Gibt es bereits pre-Sale für Unchain? Vor 2 Wochen konnte man sich noch nicht anmelden.
In Kürze. Wir müssen erst das Unternehmen gründen.
Schade dass Rick Falkvinge nicht dabei ist. "We are all Satoshi" ist ein sehr wertvolles und provokantest Format.
Oder einfach nur Altpapier, von dem 60 mrd pro Monat neu gedruckt wird.
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Nice post!
Thank you @aaronkoenig for sharing this information.
Schade das Schäffler und Weidel nicht teilnehmen können.
Wenigstens ein paar Politiker haben das Thema Kryptowährungen auf dem Schirm und die sollten es in die Parlamente tragen.
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Excellent post!
Thank you @aaronkoenig for sharing!
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The conference looks great. Viel Erfolg damit!
This is really big question that why btc is highly political
Nice Post Sir
I agree with your opinion sir and going to resteem it.
I don't quite agree with you @aaronkoenig. I see myself has quite a conservative and am all for crypto-currency.
I think politics should be taken out of the blockchain, in other for a lot more people to embrace it.
Awesome post aaronkoenig! I'm really fascinated about private cities! Imagine how cool it would be if you could just travel to several private cities, or even become a citizen, without all this bs around passports etc. yeah!!
Bitcoin can't be stopped. All the continuous FUD will begin to not work anymore, people will become more and more desensitized to the FUD. It's all getting priced in and yet the price is still higher than just one year ago. We are in a bear market and the price is going lower right now but it is still way ahead of jan 2017 levels. You couldn't say the same if stocks crashed 70%, or the dollar.
@aaronkoenig it's high time we disrupt a system that only serves a few.
"conservative"... well, it is all about what you are trying to conserve.
If the thing to conserve is "The american dream", then bitcoin is the ultimate conservative tool.
The FED and The american dream are polar opposites. They destroy each other. And that is what we are seeing bitcoin do. Power to the people, is what bitcoin brings.
But then again, conservative and liberal have really lost their meanings. And will become meaningless in the upcoming paradigm where change will be embraced.
That's what I've seen on Steemit. In late '16, some folks posted alt-right content. The ones I saw hardly got any votes; none I saw got more than pennies.
I think they got the hint.