Today's internet concentrates identity, payments, communication, and content hosting under a small number of corporate intermediaries, creating single points of failure, enabling censorship, and extracting economic rent from participants. We present BitSov, an architectural framework for sovereign internet infrastructure that composes existing decentralized technologies (Bitcoin, Lightning Network, decentralized storage, federated messaging, and mesh connectivity) into a unified, eight-layer protocol stack anchored to Bitcoin's base layer. The framework introduces three architectural patterns: (1) payment-gated messaging, where every transmitted message requires cryptographic proof of a Bitcoin payment, deterring spam through economic incentives rather than moderation; (2) timechain-locked contracts, which anchor subscriptions and licenses to Bitcoin block height (the timechain) rather than calendar dates; and (3) a self-sustaining economic flywheel that converts service revenue into infrastructure growth. A dual settlement model supports both on-chain transactions for permanence and auditability and Lightning micropayments for high-frequency messaging. As a position paper, we analyze the quality attributes, discuss open challenges, and propose a research agenda for empirical validation.

翻译：当今互联网将身份认证、支付、通信和内容托管集中在少数企业中介手中，由此形成单点故障、催生审查行为，并从参与者手中攫取经济租金。本文提出BitSov——一种面向主权互联网基础设施的架构框架，通过将现有去中心化技术（比特币、闪电网络、去中心化存储、联邦式消息传递及网状连接）组合为基于比特币基础层的八层统一协议栈。该框架引入三种架构模式：(1) 支付门控消息机制——每条传输消息均需提供比特币支付的加密证明，通过经济激励而非审核机制遏制垃圾信息；(2) 时间链锁定合约——将订阅和许可证锚定于比特币区块高度（时间链）而非日历日期；(3) 自维持经济飞轮——将服务收入转化为基础设施增长。双结算模型同时支持用于永久性与可审计性的链上交易，以及用于高频消息传递的闪电微支付。作为立场论文，本文分析了质量属性，探讨了未解决的挑战，并提出了实证验证的研究议程。