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#547: Balaji Srinivasan — Centralized China vs Decentralized World, The DeFi Matrix, Ascending vs Descending Trends, Bitcoin Mining as Energy Storage, Reputational Civil War, and Maximalism vs. Optimalism

The Tim Ferriss Show

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What Is Scarce Is Leadership?

acology is a kit of 30 open sorce machines that, if you build them from scratch, you could rebuild civilization. In some ways, what's happening is there's a cycle of centralization decentralization that just happens. The thing about this is, when you know a system is centralized, people chafe at the control and they want sovereignty. But seen from another standpoint, it's like a helix. It's a cycle in the x y plane but we are progress instead of this ascending cycle over many generations. So your saying you believe in atlantis? Well, if not, im getting outgetinke.

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