Sovereign communities in North America

A community-supported bitcoin campus in Nashville, open since 2022, with a second location on Congress Avenue in Austin. It hosts BitDevs, policy and mining summits, and daily coworking for bitcoiners — arguably the densest grassroots bitcoin programming in the US. Privately operated and membership-funded, so its direction follows its operators and sponsors.

A network city of coliving neighborhoods founded in 2021, connecting 20-plus independently operated properties across the US, Europe, Latin America, and Asia under shared culture and tooling. It began as a DAO; the broader neighborhood-organizing work has since spun out into the Neighborhood Village Project. Useful infrastructure for nomads, though smaller than its early hype suggested.

An organization running month-long popup villages — temporary live-work communities for researchers, builders, and families — descended from 2023's Zuzalu experiment. Its flagship, Edge Esmeralda, returned to Sonoma County from May 30 to June 27, 2026, with 500-plus participants, en route to a planned permanent village. The gatherings are real; the permanent town is still a plan.

A movement founded in 2001 to concentrate libertarians in New Hampshire. Roughly 6,000 have moved — well short of the 20,000 pledge target — yet enough to elect dozens of state legislators and shape policy, including some of the most bitcoin-friendly laws in the US. Decentralized by nature: there is no headquarters to visit, just towns where free staters cluster.

A venture-backed network state project founded in 2019, which raised $525 million in 2024 and claims over 150,000 online citizens. After years of criticism that it was marketing without a city, it announced a California site called Atlas in 2025. As of mid-2026 nothing has been built; treat the citizen count and the timeline with skepticism.