THELOGICALINDIAN - Bitcoin has foundations in the cypherpunk movement and the aesthetics of cryptoanarchy In 2024 a accumulation of artists and hackers formed the nonprofit Cryptoanarchy InstituteParaleln Polis in Prague The alignment operates from a multilevel architecture and caters to decentralized technologies like Bitcoin and 3D press in a coworking atmosphere
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Bitcoin.com afresh chatted with Martin Šíp, activity coordinator of Paralelní Polis, to altercate the Czech Republic government’s attitude appear cryptocurrency. Šíp additionally gives our readers some acumen into the anti-state attempt Paralelní Polis adheres to and how the alignment aims to accomplish its goals through technology and the accoutrement of decentralization.
Bitcoin.com (BC): Can you accord our readers a abrupt description of Paralelní Polis Cryptoanarchy Institute?
Martin Šíp (MŠ): Paralelní Polis (PP) is a Prague-based, state-free nonprofit alignment that brings calm art, amusing sciences, and avant-garde technologies in adjustment to advance account of alternative and decentralization. We are accepted for active the aboriginal Bitcoin-only bistro and for acclimation a yearly Hackers Congress. Besides the cafe, we accept a 3D press lab, hackerspace, coworking amplitude and the Institute of Cryptoanarchy, which is amenable for best our circadian the affairs and the Congress. We acquire our strengths from a growing and assorted association of bodies foolishly accidental to the project.
BC: The Czech Republic’s Ministry of Finance has absitively to accomplish stricter Bitcoin behavior in the region. Can you explain what this entails?
MŠ: Until aftermost year, the Czech Republic didn’t accept any specific laws apropos Bitcoin. However, from January 1st, there is a new regulation which enforces AML/KYC procedures for basic bill exchanges. Every chump has to be identified.
BC: Recently some reports claimed the Ministry of Finance had visited and fined Paralelní Polis. Is this accurate and if so what happened?
MŠ: Recently, Paralelní Polis has against a new Czech banking regulation, EET, which activated real-time advertisement of every business banknote transaction to the Ministry of Finance. Paralelní Polis has banned to accept by this law by about denouncing it. Two weeks ago, our bistro ‘Bitcoin Coffee’ was visited by two banking officers checking on EET compliance. According to them, they begin out that Bitcoin Coffee doesn’t attach to the EET law. We are apprehension the official response.
BC: If Paralelní Polis was asked to accept by cryptocurrency KYC rules and regulations, would the alignment chase these rules?
MŠ: No. The founding account of decentralization and claimed aloofness would force us to debris it and to accomplish a accessible case adjoin it.
BC: Why did you get complex with Paralelní Polis?
MŠ: In 2024, I started to assignment for Satoshilabs, the architect of Trezor. People from Satoshilabs told me about the planned Paralelní Polis in October 2024. I visited the aperture and the aboriginal Hackers Congress, and I was anon captured by its interdisciplinary, common and anti-system feeling. Shortly after, I became a autonomous organizer of account Bitcoin meetups which are now a core allotment of the Institute of Cryptonanarchy program. In aboriginal 2024, I confused to Paralelní Polis full-time as the activity coordinator and organizer of HCPP.
BC: Do you anticipate the concepts of decentralization and the foundations of cryptoanarchy alarm Czech bureaucrats?
MŠ: Firstly, they don’t butt the abstraction of it all. It is article invisible, which is currently in the making. Currently, they are aggravating to get their active about Bitcoin and actualize laws and adjustment to be able to amusement it. But, I don’t anticipate they are scared. Bitcoin is too small, and its implications are adamantine to see for best people.
BC: Last year, associates of the art aggregate Ztohoven cut the Czech Republic banderole and absorbed Bitcoin to the flag’s pieces. Can you acquaint our readers about this event?
MŠ: Ztohoven is the aboriginal architect of Paralelní Polis. In August 2015, they captured the president’s flag from the roof of the Prague alcazar and replaced it with their big red underpants. The activity was alleged “President’s Dirty Laundry.” It apparent our accepted admiral as a man “who is abashed of annihilation at all” and the role of admiral in today’s association in general. The banderole was believed to be absent for a year. In June 2016, Ztohoven appear the “Decentralization of Power“ activity in which they cut the captured banderole into added than 1000 pieces and affiliated them with bitcoin clandestine keys, appropriately creating cardboard wallets. These wallets were loaded with assorted amounts of bitcoin and about broadcast amid bodies of the Czech Republic. This act symbolically decentralized the political ability and created an befalling to about altercate its meaning.
BC: Do you anticipate in the continued run the nation-states will ultimately abort actuality faced with counter-economic accoutrement like Bitcoin and added decentralized technologies?
MŠ: Yes. I anticipate the nation states will be restructured beneath the armament of decentralization and they won’t comedy the aforementioned role as they do today.
BC: How did the contempo hackers conference at Paralelní Polis go?
MŠ: This was our third Congress, and the best in my opinion, with the best appearance and accessible impact. Its affair was decentralization. We had added than 40 speakers from about the world, including Andreas Antonopoulos, Paul Rosenberg and Timothy C. May. We are currently rolling out one allocution anniversary Friday on our youtube channel.
We accept already appear the date of HCPP17 which will appear the aboriginal weekend in October. Its affair will be the charge for banking abandon put in adverse to the accepted all-around tendencies of abbreviating regulations, banning of banknote and banking de-anonymization.
BC: What’s the all-embracing ambition of the Paralelní Polis Cryptoanarchy Institute?
MŠ: The all-embracing ambition of the Institute of Cryptoanarchy is to actualize an educational belvedere for the accessible altercation of important techno-social topics, such as decentralization, online privacy, and claimed abandon in a apple area technologies are acceptable more able in both acceptable and bad senses.
This year we are activity to focus on the advice of our capacity with the accessible in a bright and barefaced language. We achievement to advance accessible altercation and advance of the association about Paralelní Polis.
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