Marthinus Grobler
Marthinus Grobler is a South African architect with a particular interest in economics and dedicated to advancing liberty.
Throughout his career, he has worked on and investigated many disciplines of the design scale and is mostly concerned with the networks of the city and its manifestations in urban form and culture.
Together with various groups, he is developing mechanisms allowing neighbourhoods and cities to evolve as a result of voluntary human actions. This is based on studies into the processes of emergent order found in nature’s distributed systems and the principles of Austrian Economics.
He is also campaigning for multiculturalism through political decentralization. He is currently the chief architect for Tipolis, a company establishing free private cities across the world.
Session
This talk aims to introduce the concept of FreePrivateCities (FPCs) and the far-reaching synergies with Bitcoin and Bitcoin projects to bring about a future of liberty. The talk will also expand on the current developments in establishing FPCs and the implications for Bitcoin adoption. FPCs are established within a host-nation and has extensive legal and regulatory autonomy. It is a legally recognized jurisdiction and can therefore offer substantial protection to many endeavours furthering the cause of liberty, that might be unwelcome in authoritarian states. BTC and FPCs share the same core values. BTC’s eloquently solved governance is a great example for governance in FPCs. FPCs can accelerate transitions towards hard money (BTC adoption). Synergy between financial sovereignty and localized, autonomous and contractual governance is the next frontier for individual liberty.