The world will be changed not by the technology, but by the idea of blockchain

Was Satoshi Nakamoto an anarchist?

The revolutionism of blockchain consists in the philosophy which underlies it. The main thought of the founders of blockchain was that all information in the world should be protected and thus belong to all. Nobody can ­­do anything without the others being aware of this­­. ­ No ­­­information­ can­­­­ be fabricated, hidden or removed­­­­.

This idea gives the chance to return to the direct democracy of ancient Greeks, only instead of speeches at an agora there is access to the network, equal access to information, so that everybody can make a weighted decision.

At present, the idea of decentralisation is much more comprehensive than the technology. If we go deep into technical details, it becomes obvious that the blockchains of Bitcoin and Ethereum are not decentralised and this is only the beginning of decentralisation.

Blockchain as a prototype of the decentralised states

According to some futurologists, the technology of blockchain will change modern state and financial institutions and will be capable to cardinally reform the concept of the state in the future.

The modern concept of the state is based on the violence and currency emission monopolies. This idea was developed long ago, by the philosophers of Enlightenment, while the constitutions of the USA and France, which laid down the basis of modern western­­­ democracies, were written ­when steam locomotives were not even invented. It is surprising that this system has existed for more than 200 years and is not surprising at all that it will change at last.

In this regard, different blockchains can be considered as certain models or prototypes for decentralised states, because every network solves the questions of “public contract” and regulation its own way.

Take, for example, the Bitcoin blockchain

According to Elaine Ou, the blockchain engineer of Global Financial Access, the idea of Bitcoin can be called anarchical. Inspired by the ideas cypherpunks, its founders aspired to realize the idea of decentralisation in the pure state. But, in practice, not everybody has taken it kindly.

In due course, because of the impossibility of a consensus and accord within the system, part of the community broke away and moved to other blockchains with other, sometimes much less decentralised models of regulation.

Here it is important to notice that decentralisation does not mean anarchism at all.

The absence of an ideal blockchain cannot be considered a problem. After all, there are tens of political systems built on the model of western democracies, they are absolutely different and none of them can be called ideal.

Thanks to the appearance of the blockchain technology the modern society has found itself on the threshold of deep changes. Whatever the destiny of the technology itself, the changes in the consciousness of people, started due to the appearance of cryptocurrencies, are already irreversible.

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