# 17 - A Bankless Nation (Part 1)

*Author: Ryan Sean Adams, David Hoffman*
*Published: Jun 15, 2020*
*Source: https://www.bankless.com/de/-a-bankless-nation-part-1-639070caed39286b1232326c*

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An alien visits earth. He sees our cities, our governments, our moral codes. He's curious, "What's are you trying to do here?" he asks the humans.

The humans respond: "We're trying to get coordinated".

Coordination is how humanity rose above the animals. Built the pyramids. Put a man on the moon.

We've coordinated as hunter-gather societies in tribes. As agrarian societies in kingdoms. As industrial societies in nation states.

And now...as information societies in digital nations like Ethereum and Bitcoin. This. Changes. Everything.

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### TOPICS
Uh...why are we here? What's the point?

- A nation is more than a nation state!
- How do we coordinate? Why?
- The thing that makes humans special
- Getting past Dunbar's number
- The rise & limits of nation states
- The next evolution of the nation
- How you become a citizen of Ethereum
- Frameworks: how to learn about cryptocurrency and how to study cryptocurrency

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### RESOURCES
- (Article) [A Bankless Nation (part 1)](https://bankless.ghost.io/a-bankless-nation-part-i)
- (Podcast) [Episode 12 talks about Settlement Assurances](http://podcast.banklesshq.com/11-settlement-assurances-and-the-protocol-sink)