🔒 Paid Article (Dec. 16, 2025): The Bitcoin Chronicles - 1.B.14 - The Covenant Councils: Why Free Societies Still Need Structure
Paid Article (Dec. 16, 2025): The Bitcoin Chronicles - 1.B.14 - The Covenant Councils: Why Free Societies Still Need Structure
Pure decentralization carried Luna only so far. When human consensus fractured and exit hollowed shared spaces, the settlers faced a paradox they had hoped to avoid: freedom without coordination decays into fragmentation. This chapter explores the birth of the Covenant Councils — not as governments, but as voluntary coordination layers — and why even sovereign societies must eventually choose structure without surrendering liberty.
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