Will Blockchain Eat The Current Establishment' Regime?

Daniel Coach -

Out of all the emerging blockchain tech this one is at the top of my watchlist. While there are many amazing projects and initiatives being deployed on chain, these ideologies are the most exciting to me.

Looking back through history empires have lasted an average of 250 years. Our current nation states are certainly on the cusp of a rework. We all know the system is broken, yet the vast majority of people cling to it for life and death. Despite the tyranny, manipulation and abuse the current powers are known for putting us through.

What if blockchain ate and replaced it all? Let's think bigger than DAOs. Yes, there's a consensus that some DAOs (and blockchains) are in a sense their own nation states and share many commonalities;

  • Have their own economy, or micro economies
  • Have their own currency
  • Currency is exchanged for other currency
  • Currency is exchanged for value (services, art, returns, and more)
  • Are governed by a set of rules established by a core group of people
  • Ideally rules are enforced on chain (with code) and we have varying degrees of accomplishment there

Yet there are varying degrees of separation;

  • Banks issues IOU's from the government, you don't own your money
  • Banks loan out your dollars in their custody in excess of 10x for profit
  • Require permission to access your funds
  • Blockchain enables ownership
  • Not your keys, not your coins
  • NFT projects (real estate, art, music, tickets)
  • Permissionless
  • Trustless

The projects  & technology in the space have evolved to the point that Decentralized Identifier Documents (DID) wallets are live on chain.

We effectively have new technology that can replace the default identity solutions, reduce waste, and put control back with the people.

With these DID solutions we the people have the ability to control where our information goes, who sees it, and what access they get. We have the power, not the establishments.

If we need to identify ourselves, instead of showing an ID card with all our information, we are simply signing a message which sends a YES or NO that we are who we claim to be.

Imagine the practicality when it comes to the portability of our health and other records, how much more protection we'd have against bad actors abusing our information!

Instead of the current headaches moving funds, physically moving counties, getting a new "citizenship" could be as simple as

  1. Creating a new wallet on a new chain
  2. Enrolling in their own DID solution
  3. Alternatively in the future cross-chain DID solutions may be available

To draw simple lines between the commonalities

  • Blockchain eats Government
  • Decentralized Finance (DeFi) eats Banks (Traditional Finance (TradFi), BoomerFi)
  • DID wallets eat ID cards
  • NFTs eat ownership certificates (property, vehicle), event tickets
  • DAOs eat corporations

We have a very real chance to change the state of the current default world.

These are no longer "fringe" concepts as they can possibly become a reality within a couple of generations.

Redundant work activities, invasive anti-privacy tactics, wage slavery, wasteful paper and plastic usage, lack of sovereignty are just a few of the problems that would be solved if we can successfully pave the way for the next generation or two to replace the current regime with our emerging technologies.

The conclusion: it is up to stay the course and not only fight for our beliefs, but fight for all of humanity to take their basic rights and freedoms to privacy and ownership back.

We can worry about the "NWO" or the "WEF" and complain all we want, and it's fucking useless unless we actually stand up to do something about it.

Blockchain, DAOs, web3 in general is our chance.

Will you take it?

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