Topic: Structural design of the Bitcoin protocol most similarily matches.... (Read 1070 times)

This is IMHO. (Edit: I guess I'm the only one with an opinion?)


1) To some extent:  Maximum freedom/Minimum government.

Libertarianism * - a political philosophy that upholds liberty as its principal objective. Libertarians seek to maximize autonomy and freedom of choice, emphasizing political freedom, voluntary association and the primacy of individual judgment.

Being mixed with:

Conservatism * - common sense and actual facts being taken into account. No bleeding hearts. No fake poles or statistics. No group mentality "mob" decisions made because the majority of the current "disciplinary society" politics are based on emotion, hate, fear and greed rather than fact. No million dollar corporate lawyers to run circles around government low wage lawyers. No corporations running the government through political donations.

Answer: Fusionism (Due to restraints of op's guidelines I can not go into detail any further)


2) Yes. Bitcoin, anonymous decentralized p2p by design, allows people to solve social problems in a novel way: Instead of the ancient formula of “the strongest wins and then beats the crap out of the loser” we all can achieve a peaceful society where both rich and poor, strong and weak can protect their property and freedom on more equal grounds without relying so much on violent institutions like governments.


3) Smart contracts could change the ideological motivations of politicians for the better of people. When successful they can reduce dependence on law enforcement as well as losses to fraud and cracking.  Political smart contracts could enable protecting and enhancing the freedom of the individual to be the central problem of politics. Certain political decisions of elected officials could even be included in a smart contract. It could prevent the loop holes that politicians use to lie and hurt the common people. Example: If the politician states "elect me and no new taxes" the smart contract could monitor the tax figures for change and print out a "pink slip" for the politician if he does indeed raise taxes.

This topic isn't about the historical legacy, politics, and personalities of Satoshi, or any of the crypto-anarchists and cypherpunks which gave birth to Bitcoin. There is enough documentation to keep the revisionists from re-writing history and anyone who cares to do a bit of research can find answers. Additionally, this topic is not intended to suggest that Bitcoin cannot be inclusive; A protocol is simply a tool that can be used by anyone despite their background or politics.

This topic intends to address the fundamental design aspects of the protocol of Bitcoin initially and how it has evolved.

What form of political and social structure does it most closely resemble or combination thereof?

Does Bitcoin undermine certain social structures of politics because of these inherent design properties?

How do you wish Bitcoin to evolve to change these design principles in order to benefit certain ideological of political motivations?


I understand this topic may be challenging to peoples interests as we are a diverse group of people and all have many different motivations and aspects that attract us to Bitcoin. We may be tempted to avoid this topic because we believe that the discussion of controversial topics will slow mainstream adoption and hurt the community. We may be tempted to project our own politics and ideologies onto the bitcoin protocol. Some may have an aversion to labels because they don't want to be pigeonholed(fine than discuss the design aspects and social implications without using labels). Lets try and resist these inclinations and have an honest conversation about the facts and realities supported by evidence.