#506: Balaji Srinivasan on The Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum, How to Become Noncancelable, the Path to Personal Freedom and Wealth in a New World, the Changing Landscape of Warfare, and More

Financial independence is a requirement for individual and ideological independence - If you’re in debt and have high expenses you can’t help but be a conformist to survive

We are moving back towards nomadic lifestyles

Cities and communities could be started and run like startups. Mayors would act more like CEO. CEOs tend to do a lot more convincing than coercing

1729 pays people in crypto for doing tasks that involve Creating online content, Learning skills, Working out

Using pseudonyms online, in social media, and crypto transactions. If the governments’ databases get hacked, all our private online information could be made public. It will become less common to have your real name publicly online. You can still build up a reputation with a pseudonym. But your physical person can’t be canceled or damaged

-It is collective in a way that libertarians are not

-It is positive-sum in a way that progressives are not

In traditional journalism, there are strong incentives to act maliciously. Journalists are incentivized to optimize for views and clicks. The answer is not to reform the industry. We can change media through radical decentralization. Everyone becomes a journalist. Each person writes about their local issues or areas of expertise

With cryp to graphy, with digital signatures, not going in to  all  the  details, that  of fers not a perfect set  of  checks, but a much greater set  of  checks  on  this comes much harder  to  falsify his to ry. You can’t delete  the  tweets as Twitter can do.  The

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With remote work, increased mobility, and technology digital nomads are moving back to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle