More than 800,000 have applied for citizenship to new microstate aiming to become ‘utopia’ for crypto billionaires, founder claims

More than 800,000 people are hoping to move to a self-proclaimed crypto micronation called ‘Liberland’ that is on a patch of muddy floodplain along the Danube River. 

The uninhabited seven-square-kilometre land on the border of Serbia and Croatia was founded by Czech libertarian politician Vit Jedlicka who claimed the territory in 2015.

There, Mr Jedlicka said he founded a new country with the aim of creating a libertarian state founded on the blockchain technology underpinning cryptocurrencies – or, as a haven for crypto billionaires. 

According to the self-declared president, the small ‘nation’ has received 804,000 citizenship applications – enticed by the eradication of tax

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