Balaji Srinivasan

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Why did Stu Woo of the Wall Street Journal Follow Me to Singapore? 28 Jul
Law is tied to geographic location, so the ability to easily change one's location is the ability to change which laws one lives under. 12 Jul
An organization that demands trust ends up with less of it than one that shows its work instead. 12 Jul
Digital finance has become a weapon of war, as shown by the financial deplatforming of groups like Canadian truckers and Russians. 12 Jul
A government is legitimate internally if the governed have consented to it, whatever form it takes. 12 Jul
Movements built around a shared moral cause outcompete purely profit-driven ones, in practice as well as in theory. 12 Jul
Micronations like Sealand fail because they start from territory and government rather than building outward from a people and shared culture. 12 Jul
Two-sided marketplaces show that not all economically relevant knowledge is local, contrary to Hayek's calculation argument. 12 Jul
The Bitcoin Maximalist premise that Bitcoin is the only legitimate coin and all other digital assets are illegitimate is mistaken. 12 Jul
The US federal government has lost the capacity to build basic infrastructure, let alone advanced military hardware. 12 Jul
Most institutions that predate the internet will not survive it. 12 Jul
Satoshi Nakamoto and Vitalik Buterin are substantially more capable than the officials at institutions like the Federal Reserve, a fact the US establishment fails to recognize. 12 Jul
Bitcoin creates more upside and downside than traditional money because it makes users power users with no system administrator to fall back on. 12 Jul
Establishment journalists claim to speak truth to power but never investigate themselves or each other. 12 Jul
The world today is dividing into three poles: the American establishment, the Chinese Communist Party, and the global Bitcoin/crypto network. 12 Jul
The primary global political axis has shifted from capitalism-versus-communism to ethnomasochism-versus-ethnonationalism. 12 Jul
Producing moral, not just technological, progress requires introducing new moral premises that invert what people previously believed. 12 Jul
Technology cannot let people escape politics, because politics arises from the existence of people who disagree with each other. 12 Jul
Before the internet, most Americans had no practical freedom of speech unless they owned or worked for a media corporation. 12 Jul
It is hard to name a country that is better off after a recent US military intervention. 12 Jul
The US establishment is not more ethical than the CCP on civil liberties, it is just less competent at exercising the same kind of power. 12 Jul
Private networks like Uber, Lyft, email and SpaceX already outperform their state counterparts — taxi medallions, the USPS and NASA. 12 Jul
The blockchain is the most important development in history since the invention of writing, because it is a cryptographically verifiable, highly replicated, unfalsifiable, complete digital record. 12 Jul
The Network is becoming the next Leviathan after God and the State, because on key dimensions it is growing more powerful and more just than the State. 12 Jul
Strong encryption limits what governments can do in ways that legislation cannot. 12 Jul
New laws often get enacted the way untested code is pushed to production: unread, poorly monitored, slow to show results, and hard to opt out of. 12 Jul
Popups are the new startups 12 Oct 2025
Network State Conference 2025 28 Sept 2025
AI is polytheistic, not monotheistic 3 Aug 2025
All Property Becomes Cryptography 28 Jul 2025
The Network School Fellowship 18 Apr 2025
Network School Curriculum 2 Feb 2025
Network School 2025 2 Feb 2025
The Network School 16 Aug 2024
America's $175 Trillion Problem 25 Jul 2024
California Is Not A Democracy 10 Jun 2024
Gil Duran Faked A Quote For the New Republic 1 May 2024
All It Takes Is All You Got 29 Mar 2024
The Men's Party 28 Jan 2024
Prompts are Tiny Programs 24 Jan 2024
The Bitcoin ETF is the spiritual reversal of Executive Order 6102 11 Jan 2024
Only Newsom Can Go To China 12 Nov 2023
Crypto Twitter Found SBF's Fraud 6 Nov 2023
The Network State Conference 15 Oct 2023
Network State Conference 2023 15 Oct 2023