Digital citizenship on blockchain
It is almost time. The failure of old style pseudo representative political systems with voting in the hands of corrupt parties needs to be removed. National identity and all related services should be done on blockchain. This would mean totally transparent voting systems with all citizens registered on blockchain and no means of voter suppression or intimidation. Using blockchain for national identity and citizenship tied certification of public knowledge would allow weighted voting for those with educational certification. This is known as epistocracy related to Plato’s noocracy. This has been elaborated by Jason Brennan of Georgetown University. This really only makes sense with certification test included in the documentation as a blockchain contract granting weighted voting. This is not really possible without immutable public records.
The process is very close but the limited transaction capabilities of the current technology with resultant huge electrical resources required needs to be corrected. There are strong indications that both problems have been solved using sharding.
The ability to move citizenship records and service documentation plus certifications for education and training out of human hands to immutable, completely visible records with no intermediaries is the most profound solution to our current historical bottleneck.
Standardization on these technologies may be able to reverse the political death sentence that we are facing in the collapse of the 18th century nation state model. Citizenship can then be tied to virtual groups as well as geographic entities. These virtual entities can provide citizenship services based on personal or family preferences. In a sense this could allow extraterritoriality on a personal basis tied to a blockchain citizen record including specific rights and universal rights. The citizen blockchain contract would include not only rights but routing for citizen taxes to be processed by any revenue source anywhere on the planet or human inhabited space.
We need to make this happen.
