Andrea Taini (of Multiversum) is a man of appetites.

A keen hunter where he lives in Hungary he will only eat meat that was running free before it met its end. He does not believe in farmed meat. He can cook it too.

Which is why it is not surprising that the brain behind such a man could leapfrog over several instances of technology in a single bound. Taini does not take any prisoners — it is all or nothing with him.

An Italian living in Budapest, Taini was a senior software architect working for the Hungarian Government. His role was to architect the complex infrastructure across all government departments from tax, to defence, to health and to transport. In this role he understands the whole, amorphous topography that encompasses the unwieldy government machine.

About a year and half ago Taini began looking seriously at the technology. He liked some of the attributes but felt it was very limited in its current state.

‘Blockchain is in a ghetto,” he says. “I looked at blockchain and all I could see was speculation in the digital currencies and applications solving simple issues with simple data. Great for a currency but not so good for complex, data-led organisations such as governments.”

At the same time, Taini stumbled across another anomaly nearby. It was as if worm holes were opening up in his ambit. This time the neglected state of Liberland came into his purview.