Bitcoin Sovereignty Research Framework

A professional research repository for the legal and policy treatment of Bitcoin as sui generis bearer property and adjacent currency.

Canonical Repository: https://github.com/MoloBTC-Org/bsrf
License: Bitcoin Sovereign Open Source License (BSOL) v1.0
Steward: Jacques Strydom, PMP

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Purpose

This repository serves as the single source of truth for the Bitcoin Sovereignty Research Framework. It provides a structured, high-fidelity body of work that combines jurisprudential foundations with practical operational guidance for self-custodied Bitcoin.

The framework is designed to support researchers, legal practitioners, policymakers, and organisations working on Bitcoin sovereignty, self-custody rights, and regulatory clarity.

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Core Positions

• Bitcoin is sui generis bearer property — it cannot be coherently forced into traditional legal categories of currency, capital, commodity, or security.
• Bitcoin functions as an adjacent currency to state-issued money.
• Self-custody and the Right to Sovereign Private Compute are fundamental rights.
• Sound policy must maintain a clear distinction between Bitcoin and issuer-dependent crypto assets.

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Repository Structure

The repository is organised to move from high-level principles to detailed analysis:

• Root — README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, LICENSE.md, PUBLISHING_BASELINE_v1.md, SOVEREIGN-KNOWLEDGE-DECLARATION.md, Open_Letter_Bitcoin_Separation.md
• begin_here/ — Core Principles, Global Framework, Ecosystem Index, Master Collation Database
• foundations/ — Tier 1 papers and foundations/supporting/
• operational/ — Tier 2 papers
• jurisdictions/ — country legislative and regulatory notes (law track)
• tax_track/ — charging, reporting and capital-flow notes, plus filed South African tax and FinSurv instruments
• education_track/ — instructional material
• .github/ — CODEOWNERS, PR template, governance notes

Supporting analyses live in foundations/supporting/ and tax_track/supporting/. There is no top-level policy/ or supporting/ folder.

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How to Navigate

Audience	Recommended starting point
Policymakers and legal researchers	begin_here/01_Bitcoin_Sovereignty_Core_Principles_v1.md and the relevant file under jurisdictions/ or tax_track/jurisdictions/
Board / executive leadership	begin_here/02_Global_Framework_Document_v1.md and operational/
Technical and security teams	operational/
Self-custody practitioners	begin_here/ and education_track/

The reading map is begin_here/03_Bitcoin_Self_Custody_Research_Ecosystem_Index_v1.md. Status of papers is begin_here/04_Master_Collation_Database_v1.md.

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Publishing Standards

All documents must comply with the Bitcoin Sovereignty Publishing Baseline.

See: PUBLISHING_BASELINE_v1.md

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Governance

This repository operates under the Bitcoin Sovereign Open Source License (BSOL) v1.0.

• Read CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guidelines.
• The Publishing Baseline is a protected document. Changes require explicit maintainer approval.

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