#514 Book of science by AP--- US Supreme Court needs to outlaw Cryptocurrency before it destroys USA and Western Democracy// political science
Archimedes Plutonium
We arrive at the country by boat because Croatian authorities have stopped people from doing so by land. A few settlers in anoraks come out to wave to us from the shore and President Jedlička, communicating via megaphone, presents one of the settlers with an official medal.
In most modern democracies, everyone has an equal vote. But things are different in Liberland thanks to a purchasable crypto token called Liberland Merits. President Jedlička tells me a person is elected through Merits. "So the people that have more Merits are able to have more say in who is going to be in the leadership of the country," he says. This effectively means you can vote directly with your money.
Liberland is also entirely tax-free, something its interior minister, Ivan Pernar, a controversial Croatian former MP who was kicked out of parliament for spreading conspiracy theories, explains to me.
"Usually, people who believe in freedom, decentralised finances and so on, they tend to be from the upper class of society," Pernar tells me. "If you make zero selection and you say whoever comes on [the] boat is welcome, we would end up like [the] UK. We don't want that."
"So it's liberty, but... some people have more liberty than others?" I ask. One of the main ways to gain power and influence in Liberland appears to be through money, I suggest.
"Of course," says Pernar. He says that if you had "a bunch of bums in your country without anything", others would have to contribute to their benefits. He goes on to compare the poor to animals. "Don't feed the animals, because if you do, they will be accustomed to that and they will lose [the] ability to feed themselves. The same is with people."
To Liberland's wealthy backers, helping the poor - or indeed any form of taxation or centralised redistribution of wealth - is an affront to their individual liberty. This view is shared, unsurprisingly, by people in this world with far more money and influence than Pernar.
The banana billionaireOver the past year, I've been hanging out with Liberland's prime minister, Chinese crypto titan Justin Sun. With Sun's backing - and that of about 30 other tech billionaires, they claim - the Liberlanders may now actually have access to the money needed to start building the version of their micronation with gleaming towers.
Sun is worth an estimated $8.5bn (£6.4bn). He's perhaps most famous for purchasing an art piece consisting of a banana duct taped to a wall for $6.2m and then eating it. He has also been accused by US regulators of fraud and market manipulation. Sun denies the charges, and recently reached a $10m settlement to resolve them.
His company, Tron, is a blockchain, a global software network on which you can buy and sell crypto currencies. Unlike a bank, it isn't run by one single authority - it's decentralised, existing across many computers all around the world, making it harder to tax and regulate.
This same blockchain technology is being used to run Liberland's government and one day, if Sun gets his way, it could run ours too. Citizens vote on laws and referendums using digital tokens, and the voting itself is automatically tallied and enforced by code, rather than counted by officials. In reality, though, the technology is still in its juvenile phase, and human officials are still required to implement laws.
Getty ImagesAccording to blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs, Tron is one of the biggest platforms for moving illicit crypto - reportedly including funds tied to Hamas and Hezbollah, alongside those of drug cartels and mafia networks. Sun says Tron has innovated new collaborations with law enforcement to tackle illegal transactions on the blockchain, leading to huge declines in illicit volume on the platform.
The Trump family welcomed him as lead token investor in their own crypto business, World Liberty Financial. Sun invested more than $75m in the company, as well as millions more in Donald Trump's memecoin, which won him a dinner with the US president.
President Trump officially stepped down from the company once he took office but his family trust still owns and profits from it, selling a cryptocurrency coin called USD1. He has made more than $1.4bn from crypto in the past year, and stands to make much more.
A planet without borders?It's safe to say the Trumps have profited hugely from their relationship to Sun. But what do Sun and other crypto entrepreneurs who have cosied up to the Trumps want in return? Liberland may offer a glimpse.
In person, Sun is warm and friendly. Like other billionaires I met, I sensed that Sun rarely got to hang around people that didn't work for him or desire his money. Most of our conversations centred around sci-fi and video games.
Last summer, when Sun had just landed from space after paying $29m to fly there with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin company, he rang me to tell me about the experience. He had been struck by the idea that "the planet itself is boundaryless", without borders, and that "there's not even a concept of the country in the first place". The notion that the nation-state is outdated, and could therefore be replaced with blockchain technology, is one of the reasons he decided to run to become Liberland's prime minister.
Liberland isn't an outlier - it's one of several prototypes of such micronations, areas claimed as independent nations but not legally recognised as such. Prospera in Honduras, Peter Thiel's Seasteading Institute, and Tim Draper's Draper Nation, a fully digital country with Bitcoin as its currency, are all chasing the same idea.
I meet Draper, a billionaire tech investor himself, at Silicon Valley's Draper University, his boot camp for young tech founders, where students pledge to "promote freedom at all costs". Draper tells me he believes government provides "bad service at a high cost", and blockchain will simply replace it: "It's just a matter of time."
Many of these ideas can be traced back to the controversial thinker and tech founder Curtis Yarvin, who has been called the "founder of the Dark Enlightenment". He has won praise from figures on the US right, including tech billionaire Peter Thiel and some in the current Trump administration, including Vice-President JD Vance. His philosophy is notoriously confusing, but it essentially amounts to a criticism of democracy (which has failed, he claims, because immigration is still too high) and concludes we should replace it with an authoritarian structure that sits somewhere in between a corporation, a monarchy, and a blockchain-run micro-nation.
Despite the fact that he views the media as one half of "The Cathedral" - his term for what he believes is the repressive ideological power made up of journalists and academics that secretly runs Western society - he agrees to meet me in Berkeley, California. We go on a short hike while Yarvin, who looks like an ageing punk rocker, speaks in circuitous, long-winded yarns that reference esoteric texts and periods of history to prove his points.
In our conversation, he outlines his "Patchwork" concept, in which traditional nation-states are replaced with a global network of sovereign mini-countries owned by shareholders and competing for citizens like a business competes for customers. He believes blockchain can be used to bring this world about and that the result would be "corporate monarchies" ruled over by "CEO-kings". These corporate monarchs would be accountable to a hidden board of shareholders, who could potentially even control the military and police through something he called a "crypto dingus" that would allow them to essentially disable all guns.
Many of these tech billionaires see Trump, and his office, as outdated, something that will eventually be replaced with their superior technology. Throughout my time meeting tech billionaires, I increasingly got the sense that they saw themselves as the real holders of power.
The crypto lobby has now surpassed the fossil fuel industry to become the most powerful lobby in the US, having contributed $238m in the most recent election cycle, according to Fox Business analysis. Yarvin, Sun, Draper, and Liberland all give a glimpse into the future some of them envision for us.
From Justin Sun, to Liberland and Tim Draper, everyone told me how blockchain technology and cryptocurrency can free us - and our money - from government control. But who would we be handing the control to instead? Every example I've seen ends in wealth and power flowing to whoever controls the technology.
Archimedes Plutonium
Archimedes Plutonium
Yet here we have in 2025 and 2026, a corrupt president DonDolt raking in 5 billion dollars from a outside coin making organization in direct violation of the US Constitution. DonDolt Trump is so corrupt, that he steals 5 billion from world coffers.
Money by humans certainly does not follow Laws of Physics, universal laws. A universal law that gravity of Sun upon Earth works every moment of every day. Money is not a universal law of physics, but rather, money follows some rules, steadfast rules. And, money does follow rules and one of those Rules is like a River water that flows.
The Colorado River waters
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There are many farmers alongside the Colorado River with Irrigation allotments. Their life of farming depends on those river allotments.
When someone like DonDolt comes into the picture and takes out 5% of the Colorado River water to his own personal use, means directly, that such a diversion will cost thousands of farmers their share of water allotment. Thousands of farmers are directly affected when a dolt comes along and diverts 5%.
This is not physics conservation of energy, but rather a Rule of Science that when a corrupt fool takes 5% of the river for his own personal use, means that millions of other people down the line are deprived that amount. Say a loaf of bread, or medicines to keep alive. So when DonDolt gets 5 billion dollars from cryptocurrency sales, a business that should not even exist according to the USA Constitution--- the right to coin money and regulate it. So that when a corrupt jackarse has his fingers into the till of international money, means that downstream, millions of people are without a loaf of bread or medicine that they need all so that jackarse corrupt DonDolt takes out 5 billion from the system.
If all the world's despot dictators, every year took out 5 billion to enrich themselves, that every year we would have millions of humans starving or dying of deprived food or medicine, all becuase the jackarse despots corruptly enriched themselves.
The reason UK has a hard time of finding 5 billion euros to upgrade its defense spending
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It is easy to see, if you have a corrupt jackarse DonDolt in the USA dipping his fingers in stealing 5 billion a year, that not only will millions in Africa, Asia, South America be without a loaf of bread or without medicine in order to recoup 5 billion lost to the jackarse in the USA. Some will even starve when corrupt jackarses pull out 5 billion from international currency.
And no wonder that the UK finds it extremely difficult to raise its defense spending to the tune of 5 billion euros, when the USA corrupt jackarse pulls out 5 billion dollars from the system, to gain off the backs of millions of people working to make a living.
AP recommends:: AP recommends the USA Supreme Court call an emergency meeting and make null the stealing of money by Trump and abolish cryptocurrency as a threat to the nation.
AP recommends that DonDolt Trump give as a gift to UK, all 5 billion illegal gains of 2025 to the UK to pay for the increase in defense budget of UK.
AP, King of Science