BREAKING THE SHACKLES INHERENT IN NATIONALITY THROUGH BLOCKCHAIN SOVEREIGNTY

It is no doubt that this disruptive technology which we have all come to know as the blockchain technology a door of limitless possibilities and opportunities, and just like the emergence of some recent technological advancements have either rendered the pattern of doing some things obsolete. Going by this fact it is there needful to say that the blockchain technology will affect the way things would be done especially over the internet in a few years to come.

Countless violence and a lot of civil unrest which have occurred as a result of bad governance in some developing parts of the world such as Africa easily comes to mind when the issue of terrible leadership comes up, countries such as Nigeria in particular that experienced a civil war popularly known as the Biafran war which lasted from 6 July 1965 till 15 January 1970 and consumed many innocent lives at the time, this war was fought between the Nigerian government and the state of Biafra which was also the southeastern part of Nigeria that hoped to gain sovereignty of the entire southeastern Nigeria, this unrest occurred as a result of the fact that the Biafrans as they preferred to be called at the time felt marginalized by the rest of the country and for that reason could not coexist anymore. The feud which lasted between the two parties was majorly as a result of political, cultural, economic and religious tensions which had built up over time after the decolonization of Nigeria. The aftermath of this war included a military coup, a counter-coup and further marginalization of the southeastern Nigerians who were predominantly the Igbos living in the Northern Nigeria, these events led to further ethnic violence and loss of more lives as it recorded over 2 million casualties who were lost both in battle and as a result of the famine that ravaged that region at the time. There have also been other forms of civil unrest which have troubled the African continent, cases such as the genocide which took place between the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rwanda that was also responsible for claiming the lives of many, this is not to mention the retrogressive effect this violence, had on the people all these and many more are the issues that have posed as a treat to the peaceful coexistence in some developing countries. All of these happenings could be attributed to the fact that there is a poor level of governance which exists in these parts of the world and this leads to the waste of innocent lives who could have had no power to change what happened to them as a result of the fact that they were born into such places.

THE POWER OF SOVEREIGNTY THE BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY HAS PRODUCED THROUGH BITNATION.

Bitnation's vision is a global free market for governance services. A post-nation-state world voluntary nation, Cities states and autonomous Communities which compete for citizens by providing a range of opt-in governance services. In our world of sovereignty shifts decisively from the states to the citizen, and humanity reclaims freedom of choice when accessing governance services.

Source: white paper

To a large extent, the vision of this project is focused on utilizing the power of the blockchain technology to eliminate the challenges citizens face due to the fact that they are being compelled to contend with each other. The Bitnation system believes that all citizens are at liberty to choose for themselves how they choose to exist and who they choose to associate themselves with and are free to do so in any way they deem fit to express themselves, one of the major advantages of this is the fact that it is a great contrast to the present world order where citizens are put in a position where they compete with each other for what is rightfully theirs form the government, a position which often leads to civil unrest and conflict. This platform gives the power to become a citizen of any nation with the use of a smartphone application, and the fact that there exists a genuine competition for citizens eventually leads to low cost and an improved quality of services. In the future of Bitnation there would be no need for violence or loss of lives as everything that could possibly lead to feud would be settled through arbitration on the blockchain platform, all of these are hope to be achieved through a feature the platform refers to a Decentralized Borderless voluntary Nation (DBVN) which would have the following functionalities

• it would rely on a smart contract be able to successfully govern community interactions

• all the rules and the transactions that would take place on the platform would be maintained on the Etherium blockchain (for now)

• the creation of the constitution which could consist of rules governing membership which are basically how to enter, how to leave, the responsibilities, benefits and core principles etc.
  *The choices of legal codes such as common law, land law etc.

• There would also be the choice of model of the economy to be used e.g. socialism, capitalism, communism etc.

• A DBVN scales

• The definition of services to be rendered by the government
  *Choice of jurisdiction to be covered

• Decision making models to be used e.g. theocracy, democracy, autocracy etc.

• We are the Birth of a New Virtual Nation We are a Future for Our World and Humanity
  We are Sentinels, Universal and Inalienable
  We are Creativity and Visionary
  We are Rights and Freedoms
  We are Tolerant and Accepting
  We are Polity and Entity
  We are Privacy and Security
  We are Openness and Transparency
  We are a Dream and a Reality
  We are Bitnation*

Source white paper

Considering the fact that Bitnation which is the first Decentralized Borderless Voluntary Nation (DBVN) that has already achieved hut some major milestones it is noteworthy to say that this platform would introduce limitless possibilities to what the future holds for the blockchain technology.

Bitnation website