news.ycombinator.com• Jul 25, 2026• 1 min read
Programmer GovernmentHey I had an idea. What if we created the bitcoin for government?So like a king sucks because it's the equivalent of one GPU.A republic is better because it's like a big GPU cluster of hundreds of GPUs.But what if we made like a bitcoin like distributed governance system that was like, I don't know, a million GPUs?We have the internet which is like infinite bandwidth compared to human needs, so we have the bandwidth to link all our minds together.So what if we did this. We had a simple program that essentially each person could host a node and get 5 random people's data, so like we would store data on numerous nodes for redundancy.We have enough gigabytes, we could store a routing table for everybody's data in America since there's only like 300 million people, if each person had a kilobyte of data, it could be stored in 300 GB which is a lot but actually still doable on consumer level hardware.So then we would have a routing table of which nodes has which person's data, and then we co