Alexei Konashevich
Thank you for your comment. I bypassed the issues of the political arrangement of the system, and the presented concept is described in the language of the current system. But the architecture is much broader. I developed these protocols with fervent crypto-anarchists who saw the idea of a “filter as a jurisdiction” as their advantage. They are applied to self-organized communities, meaning that central governing bodies are not needed; delegative democracy can be abolished, for example, and direct e-voting can be implemented on the same blockchain.
One of the problems I pointed out is that it is mistaken to believe we can do without third parties. It’s just that right now the main third party is the state in the form of a registry holder. But the registry itself no longer needs to be “held.” Blockchain performs this function. All that remains is to replace registrar officials with a decentralized system of validators in various fields. But the most important thing is the resilience of this model to all kinds of oppression. In my scientific work, I describe how it is possible to resist a potential digital dictatorship.
At the blockchain level, a digital dictatorship will not be able to prevent anything. People can write anything into blockchains, whether it is legal or not—it doesn’t matter, it is simply a repository where all facts are recorded. As I explained, above the blockchains, we have a system of “filters,” meaning that what we consider legal goes into the general pool—into the current registry of property rights and civil status. But no one holds this database. Since the protocol is the same for everyone, anyone who wishes to look into the database (there may not be one general one, but many specialized ones: civil registry, land cadastre, etc.) downloads the bundle of blockchains and applies this protocol on top of them.
As long as we trust the authority, we use the protocol, apply it on top, and all of us, independently of each other, receive the same database locally on our PCs. Legitimatization occurs through the voluntary acceptance of the protocol. Elements of the protocol (smart laws and court decisions) are also recorded in the blockchain. But if the authority oversteps, this entire superstructure can be demolished, and the data in the blockchain will not be affected in any way (all facts, whether legal or not, are recorded there, including illegal decisions by officials and courts). And as a result of a reboot of power, a new image of justice and law can be applied to all those old records. If official Bob seized land from Alice, then after the overthrow of the authority, the new government simply wipes out the old database, creates new filters, and rescans the blockchains with the new filters. Under the new rules, Alice is restored to her rights by simply declaring the record of the seizure of the plot invalid.
Continuing the theme, here is a short video about CBDCs and central bank cryptocurrencies, which are not cryptocurrencies at all, but a complete lie.