AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - More than 800,000 apply for citizenship in self-proclaimed crypto micronation built on a Danube floodplain
A Czech libertarian politician claims more than 800,000 people have applied to become citizens of a blockchain-based microstate he founded on a muddy, disputed island between Serbia and Croatia, and no recognized government on earth acknowledges it exists. The self-proclaimed Free Republic of Liberland sits on Gornja Siga, a seven-square-kilometre patch of heavily forested floodplain […] The post More than 800,000 apply for citizenship in self-proclaimed crypto micronation built on a Danube floodplain appeared first on American Almanac .
A Czech libertarian politician claims more than 800,000 people have applied to become citizens of a blockchain-based microstate he founded on a muddy, disputed island between Serbia and Croatia, and no recognized government on earth acknowledges it exists. The self-proclaimed Free Republic of Liberland sits on Gornja Siga, a seven-square-kilometre patch of heavily forested floodplain along the Danube River, roughly the size of Gibraltar. Vít Jedlička, who styles himself president, claimed the territory in 2015 under the legal principle of "terra nullius," arguing that neither Croatia nor Serbia had formally asserted sovereignty over the land after the Balkan wars of the 1990s left the border in dispute. A settlement on the island became…Open