6 ALEGALITY

What would it be like to live in a libertarian utopia? Imagine you are a digital nomad, living in what Balaji Srinivasan calls the network state of Bitcoinica. You wake up in an apartment belonging to Bitcoinica and decide to fly to another property owned by this network state in the city of Berlin. At the airport, you identify yourself to the authorities with your Bitcoinica passport, which uses zero-knowledge proofs to verify your Bitcoinica citizenship without requiring you to reveal other personal details. You then travel to the Bitcoinica makers' hub in the neighborhood of Kreuzberg, where you make payments to a Bitcoinica smart contract to reserve desk space and buy coffee. At your desk, you use your private key to enter the Bitcoinica metaverse, where you can work and unwind with Bitcoinica citizens from all over the world.