【無國界的遊牧：那些數位流動者的落地生根實驗】

當工作可以遠距、資產能夠存在鏈上、社群在線上形成，人與地方之間的關係似乎也變得前所未有地鬆動。在哪裡生活，亦開始被想像成一種可以自由選擇的決定。

近年，越來越多人帶著電腦離開原本生活的城市，在不同國家之間移動。有人藉由遠距工作與較低的生活成本，暫時逃離現實，像是高房價與高壓職場，在異地尋找另一種生活節奏；也有人因政治環境被迫流亡，或基於對自由、隱私與去中心化的信念，帶著加密技術、社群網絡與自治實踐一路遷徙。看似相似的「數位遊牧」背後，其實存在著截然不同的出發點，既有「躺平的遊牧」，也有試圖尋找另一種社會可能的，即可稱之為「有意識的遊牧」。

然而，人可以相對輕易離開一個地方，卻很難真正輕裝上路。我們帶走的不只是行李與電腦，還有關係、資產、工作方式、組織經驗，甚至曾經生活過的社會留下的政治記憶。當一群流動的人在新的城市相遇，短暫的聚會開始變成固定空間，朋友成為合作夥伴，社群逐漸發展出產業鏈、內部衝突與治理規則，「遊牧」也不再只是移動，而成為一場又一場關於如何落地生根的實驗。

本次分享，黃豆泥將從自身對密碼龐克與數位遊牧社群的觀察出發，帶我們走進一群穿梭於不同城市與國界之間的數位流動者：他們為何離開，又在尋找什麼？當網路上的理念真正進入一座城市，人與人的關係如何重新組織，數位平台又如何反過來塑造地方社群？

而在所有關於「無國界」的想像背後，護照決定我們能去哪裡，簽證決定我們能停留多久，國家管制與地方社會也從未真正消失。當數位世界許諾自由流動，身體卻依然必須落在某一片土地上，所謂「無國界」或許並不是逃離所有邊界，而是在一次次移動、聚集與落腳之間，持續試驗我們能如何生活在一起。

Borderless Nomadism: How Digital Nomads Experiment with Putting Down Roots

As work becomes remote, assets can exist on-chain, and communities take shape online, the ties between people and place seem more fluid than ever. Where to live, too, is increasingly imagined as a matter of personal choice.

In recent years, more and more people have left the cities they once called home, laptops in hand, moving between countries. Some take advantage of remote work and lower living costs to temporarily escape the pressures of everyday life, including high housing costs and demanding workplaces, and seek a different pace of life elsewhere. Others have been forced into exile by political circumstances, or migrate in pursuit of ideals of freedom, privacy, and decentralization, carrying with them cryptographic technologies, community networks, and experiments in self-governance. Behind the seemingly similar phenomenon of “digital nomadism” lie very different motivations: on the one hand, a kind of “lying-flat nomadism”; on the other, a search for alternative ways of organizing society, what we might call “intentional nomadism.”

Yet while it may be relatively easy to leave a place, it is much harder to truly travel light. What we carry with us is not only our luggage and laptops, but also relationships, assets, ways of working, organizational experience, and even the political memories left by the societies in which we once lived. When groups of mobile individuals meet in new cities, temporary gatherings can grow into permanent spaces; friends become collaborators; and communities gradually develop their own economic networks, internal conflicts, and systems of governance. “Nomadism” then becomes more than movement,it becomes a series of experiments in putting down roots.

In this talk, Yen-Lin (mashbean) Huang will draw on observations of cypherpunk and digital nomad communities to take us inside the lives of people moving between cities and across national borders. Why do they leave, and what are they searching for? What happens when ideas born online take physical form in a city? How are relationships reorganized, and how do digital platforms, in turn, reshape local communities?

Behind every vision of a “borderless” world, however, passports still determine where we can go, visas determine how long we can stay, and state regulation and local societies have never truly disappeared. While the digital world promises freedom of movement, our bodies must still come to rest on a particular piece of land. Perhaps being “borderless” is not about escaping borders altogether, but about continually experimenting, through movement, gathering, and settlement, with how we might live together.