I was recently asked this question by a potential investor. Here is my answer:

Nation State Governments have failed to keep up with the technologies that are transforming our lives. The Internet has radically interconnected our world and decentralised technologies allow us to choose to govern ourselves for the way we want to live now: peer-to-peer, more locally and more globally.

Decentralised governance prevents genocide and persecution on the basis of ethnicity, religious or political identities, skin colour, gender or sexual orientation. Governments collect data on individuals when they access services. That same data can be used to identify people for persecution, even genocide. Pangea enables people to access governance services without revealing sensitive information to authorities who may use that data against them. So Muslims in Myanmar, Christians in Iraq, LGBT people in Uganda and refugees in Europe can live normal lives without fear of violence and expulsion.

Bitnation's Pangea software provides access to basic services and legal protections for stateless people. More than 10 million people are refugees or stateless, and are systematically denied access to governance services; Pangea enables refugees to obtain verified identity documents, register births, marriages and deaths, enter the workforce, make business agreements, receive basic income and access essential services such as healthcare and education, direct from their mobile ‘phones.

Bitnation provides global mechanisms for providing legal protections and basic services to two billion people reliant on the System D informal economy for their livelihoods; Over a third of the world's population, mostly in developing and transitional economies, are engaged in the unregulated economy; Pangea enables them to access peer-to-peer the legal protections and governance services denied by their status, and support their families while avoiding the bureaucracy, corruption and persecution which is now a normal part of their everyday lives.

Bitnation heralds a long-term reduction in the incentives for political violence. In today’s world citizens have to compete with one another for governance services or submit to ‘the tyranny of the majority’ - this is the key incentive for political violence, and creates divisions which can lead to persecution and even war. Even in developed nations such as the USA and UK, political divisions can lead to violence, in places like the Middle East and Africa the outcome has often been catastrophic (Syria, Iraq, Israel-Palestine, Sudan and Afghanistan are examples). A free market for governance services will reduce political competition among citizens which can cause violence, but increase competition among service providers to gain citizens and meet their needs with appropriate and affordable services.

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