Mobile makes us more mobile. Law is a function of latitude and longitude, so if you can easily change your latitude and longitude, you can change the law under which you live.

digital currency is a prerequisite for a digital country, but they are not equivalent.

it’s not a high-trust zone. That’s not a true community.

for certain kinds of technologies – particularly transformative biotech like life extension – we need new jurisdictions with fundamentally different levels of risk-tolerance, and clear-eyed consent by all who opt in.

Because unlike an empire, the end goal of a network state is not world domination; it’s world recognition.

they need a sense of national consciousness, of collective purpose, as provided by a network union. Now let’s discuss why we need recognition.

move away from the distracting entropy of social media and the news towards communities of conscious intent. And from these network unions and network societies, we will form network states.

Dimensionality.

But in a network state, everything physical is downstream of lines of code and enforced by cryptography, just as in a nation state, everything physical is downstream of pieces of paper and enforced by the police and military.