Decentralized blockchain functionality, rules and principles guarantee basic rights, such as property and freedom of contract, globally. In this presentation I explain the relationship between: 1. Local knowledge 2. Individual security 3. Basic rights 4. Blockchain principles 5. Our coordination strategies 6. Coordination 7. Scaling 8. Our goals as a species Credits, Suggested Reading, and Videos: The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto by Timothy C. May: “And just as a seemingly minor invention like barbed wire made possible the fencing-off of vast ranches and farms, thus altering forever the concepts of land and property rights in the frontier West, so too will the seemingly minor discovery out of an arcane branch of mathematics come to be the wire clippers which dismantle the barbed wire around intellectual property.”: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/crypto/cypherpunks/may-crypto-manifesto.html B-money by Wei Dai: “It's a community where the threat of violence is impotent because violence is impossible, and violence is impossible because its participants cannot be linked to their true names or physical locations.”: http://www.weidai.com/bmoney.txt Bit Gold by Nick Szabo: “In summary, all money mankind has ever used has been insecure in one way or another. This insecurity has been manifested in a wide variety of ways, from counterfeiting to theft, but the most pernicious of which has probably been inflation.”: http://nakamotoinstitute.org/bit-gold/ Declaration of independence by Thomas Jefferson: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript My previous videos on these topics: - 10 Principles for Blockchain Governance by Donald McIntyre: https://youtu.be/2Se97PBrMj4 - Scaling and Blockchain Governance by Donald McIntyre: https://youtu.be/DJCnUrrgKzs