What is a nation?
According to Wikipedia a nation is: "...a large group or collective of people with common characteristics attributed to them — including language, traditions, mores (customs), habitus (habits), and ethnicity. By comparison, a nation is more impersonal, abstract, and overtly political than an ethnic group. It is a cultural-political community that has become conscious of its autonomy, unity, and particular interests."
One can certainly say that Steemit inherits many of these properties already. On top of that Steemit has its own currency and system of government.
But can blockchains evolve into full fledged nations?
Yesterday I read the white-paper for a project called Tezos. I am illiterate when it comes to code, but from what I gathered Tezos is aiming to be a smart contract platform like Ethereum, except with some wild democratic system that automatically updates the code for all of the users if a majority wants to change the code. The link just under this paragraph leads to a Youtube video attempting to explain what Tezos is:
/watch?v=7m7EU4JWI88&google_comment_id=z13lydg55xfvip52023jir1zuqimzt2nj (type www.youtube.com in front of it)
The point is that Tezos is trying to become an economy with its own currency where the holders can exchange goods and services to each others... All represented by contracts and tokens on the blockchain. To me this sounds like a country on the internet. There are also projects like Swarm City running on the Ethereum Blockchain. As I am sure you know Ethereum is also a smart contract platform. Swarm City wants to be a peer to peer sharing economy.
@Dantheman, the co-creator of Steemit is currently working on a smart contract platform called EOS. Smart contract platforms allows for cool stuff like having a deed exist on the blockchain so that people can buy and sell them over the internet, or your car registration documents and formalities. This means that you can probably sell all of your property and assets and buy... whatever you want to buy online, without middlemen, in the future. All thanks to services like Steemit and EOS.
Are we witnessing the birth of the first internet nations? Will what blockchains and communities you belong to, like this one on Steemit, define you the same way your birth nation does today? It is really up for us to decide.
Once no one controls our money, no one controls our future.
(Also, this is my first article. Welcome to @DatChannel. I much appreciate the time you gave me.)
The Diamond Age
Society in The Diamond Age is dominated by a number of phyles, also sometimes called tribes. Phyles are groups of people often distinguished by shared values, similar ethnic heritage, a common religion, or other cultural similarities. In the extremely globalized future depicted in the novel, these cultural divisions have largely supplanted the system of nation-states that divides the world today. Cities in The Diamond Age appear divided into sovereign enclaves affiliated or belonging to different phyles within a single metropolis. Most phyles depicted in the novel have a global scope of sovereignty, and maintain segregated enclaves in or near many cities throughout the world.
The phyles coexist much like historical nation-states under a system of justice and mutual protection, known as the Common Economic Protocol (CEP). The rules of the CEP are intended to provide for the co-existence of, and peaceful economic activity between, phyles with potentially very different values. The CEP is concerned particularly with upholding rights to personal property, being shown to provide particularly harsh punishment for harming the economic capability of another person. The role of the CEP in the world of the novel could be seen in comparison with the roles of real-life international organizations such as the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund.
That sounds really interesting!
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