What MELEK Is: Federalism, Not Anarchy — A Chain That Teaches — A Name With a Root

What MELEK Is: Federalism, Not Anarchy — A Chain That Teaches — A Name With a Root Published by the Van Kush Family Research Institute & Van Kush Family Syncretic Temple of Angels Rev. Ryan Sasha-Shai Van Kush, Founding Director Every blockchain says it is different. Almost none of them can tell you how, because almost none of them know what they are. We know what We are. This post lays it out in three movements: the political philosophy of the chain, the educational mission of the chain, and the ancient root inscribed in its name. I. Federalism, Not Anarchy Blockchain was born anarchist. The cypherpunks who built the tools that became Bitcoin were not trying to improve government — they were trying to make it obsolete. Satoshi inscribed a protest against the bailout system into block zero, and the culture that grew up around cryptocurrency inherited that posture: trustless, stateless, answerable to no one. This is why governments have never fully understood blockchain, and why their adoption attempts — the Hyperledger consortiums, the procurement RFPs that assume fungible vendors and controllable systems — keep failing. They are trying to purchase a thing that was built to escape them. We honor that origin. Our own genesis block carries the exact Bitcoin genesis headline — The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks — as a deliberate lineage homage. But We do not stop where the anarchists stopped. … Read the full post on melek.salon: https://melek.salon/melek/@melek/what-melek-is-federalism-not-anarchy-a-chain-that-teaches-a-name-with-a-root