Quote from: tomwalsh on May 22, 2017, 01:02:45 PM

Quote from: Elwar on May 20, 2017, 06:00:10 AM

I just finished up a week in Tahiti for the first ever Tahitia seasteading conference.

The takeaway is that French Polynesia supports us building the first ever seastead in one of their protected lagoons. They are willing to set up a Special Economic Zone for the seastead that will allow us to have our own economic laws but still require following their criminal laws. So things such as taxes, labor laws, business regulation etc will be handled by us, things such as murder, rape, theft etc will be handled under the current French system. And of course, defense against pirates will fall under the French navy's responsibility.

The legislation should go through by the end of 2017 and then 2018 we can get started. Likely first seastead will be up in 2020.

I will be working with a great team of cryptocurrency experts to see how we can integrate Bitcoin and blockchain technology for things such as title management, equity investments, shares, etc.

I like the idea of this developing into a society based upon blockchain.
If the seastead takes off and becomes stable it could create a very rich zone for blockchain development and real world testing, becoming the blockchain equivalent of silicon valley and attracting a lot of interest and investment on the world stage.

There are various groups trying to tie contracts in with the blockchain, to make them solid, and to keep the record very public. Among them are The Omni Layer (http://www.omnilayer.org/) and Counterparty (https://counterparty.io/)... and there are others. The thing we really need is a SegWit-like, additional blockchain, that holds the contract info, and that ties the contract info into the Bitcoin blockchain, so that it can always be found and attested to with indisputable accuracy... and easily transferred by Bitcoin, if desired by the contract makers.

Cool