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Minimum Viable State: Building a Nomad Internet Country
The first thing I’ve come to learn is that pursuing something as open-ended as internet reform requires intentional scoping and goal-setting. The New Internet was never a single thing. It was fractured and messily connected from the jump. This messiness was used as feedstock to accelerate its consolidation under what became the crypto industry. It ... See more
#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
open.spotify.comThe Network State in One Sentence In one informal sentence: A network state is a highly aligned online community with a capacity for collective action that crowdfunds territory around the world and eventually gains diplomatic recognition from pre-existing states. When we think of a nation state, we immediately think of the lands, but when we think
... See moreBalaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
Most of the people who talk about user ownership of networks are focused on creating new city-states based on blockchain technology and egalitarian ideals, but comparatively little attention has been paid to reforming existing networks based on these same principles. I think this is a mistake.
every.to • Twitter as a City-State
Stated differently, if you’re a citizen in one, you’re a tourist in another1Paul T. Kidd. But how can we become constant travelers within a border-free, and lingo-legible ‘intellectual Pangea?'