#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

Just like Hollywood once compared Netflix to the Albanian Army, the US establishment doesn’t yet understand how much better Satoshi Nakamoto or Vitalik Buterin is than every apparatchik they have in the Federal Reserve system. And they don’t understand that upward deviation is creating a more competent group of global leaders than the American esta

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What would it take to alter the foundational unit of account in web3, so that its bedrock comprises not just money and status (the “yang”), but is counterbalanced by the weight of good deeds, self-discovery and shared purpose (the “yin”)? Harmony lies in opposites, and for all the opportunity that the $2 trillion crypto market has enabled, the real... See more

From IPO and M&A to crypto? The tech M&A era may be ending. But the crypto era could be just beginning. Because the combined effect of new policies is to make it much harder for startups to IPO or M&A, but much easier to sell equity-backed security tokens on the Internet. Let me explain. 1) It's hard to IPO. First, for decades the SEC's Sarbox r... See more

Countries are viewing crypto as a risk to the government or an opportunityIndia is proposing a ban on private crypto wallets while El Salvador is recognizing Bitcoin as a legal tender-The lowest tax rate is the tax rate, exit power is becoming more affordable-Sahil believes the progress of the internet will make it virtually impossible for there to... See more