Topic: Bitrustica - The new virtual democratic country that governs bitcoin (Read 3104 times)

I think your Latin is a bit... well... rusty.

I just read the name and all that came to  mind was bitcoin + bitcoin savings and trust + bitcoinica = bitrustica

so is are there any requirements such as renunciation of citizenship? Was this thread created in jest or is there anything actually happening?

I'm on board. (bored and feel like trolling)






...Excellent. Now that I'm God-Emperor of all matters here:

My first act is to eliminate any and all opposition, including anyone who thinks voting against me will be treated as anything more than an attempted coup. By eliminate, of course, I mean that you have been written down in my +7 secret ledger of blackisting and/or reported to the nearest oppressive dictatorship regime for your geographic locality.

Sorry sorry sorry. Is this a real thing? How does it work?

There aren't any states or countries I can compare this to, so I have no frame of reference beyond various people whom I've encountered, similarly joking along the lines of the (obviously trolling / in jest) silly paragraph I just posted above.

http://shiresociety.com/ I like the constitution they came up with.

So is BItrustica going to get itself a seat on the Bitcoin Foundation board or anything like that?

-MarkM-

Sometimes I get the feeling that people protest reactively and simply want a revolution. I even sometimes find myself hoping that the global economies crash.
 
I see social networking like Wirtland as a niche, but not a substitute for participating in local community development. Global networking is fine, but I find myself losing touch with my neighbors. Bitcoin is attempting to redress the need for a global currency when we probably don't need one. I'm not saying that it's here to fix a problem that doesn't exist, because there really is a global financial crisis. I'm just saying that the solution may not need to be a global one, but a local one instead. If people participate in governance instead of fantasizing about it, we may not have an economic crisis tomorrow. It's not fiat money that is the problem, it's corruption and greed.

Bitcoin may be the "antibiotic" that will kill the infection of greed that has spread across the globe, but having global solutions to finance may cause us to overlook our own community. I hope Bitcoin development will give us tools to take our community assets out of the 'globalists' control, (i.e. land contracts, small business loans, purchase agreements, etc.) without worry of having them sold off and dealing with overly complex terms and conditions designed to mislead consumers.

Hopefully a common money will lead to developing and following examples of good business practice. If Bitcoin can do all that some folks claim it can then great, but if not then that's okay too because it's a lot easier to fix local problems than global ones. If Bitcoin stays as a niche tool, then hopefully it will be useful to prevent future global crises while we focus on problems at home.

not sure what you mean

It's probably no more fantastic than out-competing the world banking system.

lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX4GdIttJ_Q

we can do better!

This is probably how the Distributed Republics and Phyles in the Neal Stephenson universe got their start.  This is a great idea and I would love to see something like CryptNet become a reality 

the representative of the imaginary country would be appointed by the populous. so i would hope he would have the peoples full support.

Sigh... I suppose a guy who calls himself king of an imaginary country is a better representative than a pedophile with a history of mortgage fraud...

I'm guessing your talking about this -> http://wiki.solidcoin.info/wiki/SolidCoin_Foundation

So bitcoin is lagging behind on this issue?

Would this kind of foundation be desirable for bitcoin users?

Solidcoin has what you speak of...

http://solidcointalk.org...

Decentralization puts the trust in Bitrustica.

Bitrustica should be funded by the people for the people.
Bitrusticans rights / duties have not yet been defined. in fact bitrustica is just a wacky idea this point.
The basic idea of bitrustica would be to give everyone in the community a change to vote on bitcoin related issues.
ex.
 It could be in a few years their will be many different bitcoin clients. So who's to say what is the official client? bitrusticans could vote on this kind of thing.
 In time it might be necessary to elect a official representative of bitrustica. right now people might thing B Wagner is the bitcoin community's representative (is that what we want?)
 "Great men do not seek leadership. leadership is thrust upon them" - Kahless of the Klingon Empire.  


Maybe having a real sovereign country, backing bitcoin could have legal and/or social benefits that we can't see yet?

So you (bitrusticans) claim some kind of right to govern bitcoin? And if you claim it ? How will you enforce it?

Im fine with it, specially since I dont have to learn another anthem!   Go Canada!

No! Let us not fight out of fear nor greed.  That is the way of defeat.  Let us stand our ground.  If Wirtland moves beyond threat to action, we shall defend our land with all the fury of Hell.  If Bitrustica becomes a tyrannical aggressor, she will die along with her soldiers.

I. On board for this initative, it must be done for the greater good. Virus primed, Trojans on stand-by, may our ISPs forgive us...