Jarrad Hope
Jarrad came to Bitcoin in early 2011 through agorism, counter-economics & crypto-anarchy, seeing that Bitcoin could operate a monetary policy in a hostile environment, he began to view public blockchains as a voluntary social order, one that didn’t depend on a monopoly of violence. From there he participated in early attempts to generalise the bitcoin script to advance institutional libertarianism, ultimately becoming an early contributor to Ethereum. While Jarrad advances privacy technologies through developing an e2e and p2p private messaging client & super app, Status, he realised that privacy technologies are not enough and now is advocating for self-sovereign crypto-networks, the realisation of a latent cypherpunk dream, the crypto-state.
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End of Empire and Rise of the Parallel Society
We stand at the precipice and the end of the empire. From this will emerge political strains vying to define the next emergent era. (2024-07-08)
Crypto as a Revolutionary Power Centre
Crypto has spawned an entire industry. Today, we command $1T in the capital with which to pursue the depoliticization of money and the creation of a decentralized financial system. Fifteen years on, the political formula that underpinned crypto's rise – with its origins in libertarian, extropian, and cypherpunk ideals – remains largely unchanged. In the absence of political thought development, we.. (2024-07-08)
From Cryptocurrencies to Cryptostates
This talk is for those who are serious, a reminder of the political consequences of our movement. It began with currency, then smart contracts, now - we're coming for the Nation State. (2023-08-09)
Cypherpunk Suprajurisdictions against the Nation-State
The sanctions of Tornado Cash have implications for base layer neutrality & open-source developers which threatens the utility of crypto. I propose introducing a concept of sovereignty to crypto networks and outline and an approach in competing with the State. (2022-10-30)
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