Although, in his essay “Resistance To Civil Government” Henry David Thoreau posits “that government is best which governs least” and in his next sentence by extension embraces the anarchistic endpoint “that government is best which governs not at all,” it is his third statement, a practical plea “I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government” that brings Bitcoin Satoshi Vision into the discussion. The technological innovation of the immutable ledger provides the antidote to Thoreau's lament that as all governments mature they suffer an inevitable erosion of integrity. Not only does a write once read many blockchain put a lock on the Pandoran door to anarchy, it offers a homeostatic mechanism to automatically self restore government’s inevitable loss of integrity constraining the powers we yield to it to continuously refocus on its purpose, namely of protecting life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
