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A Primer on Balaji’s “Network State”

The Breakdown

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The Seventh Method of Crowdfunding Cryptocurrencies

A network archipelago can connect a thousand apartments, a hundred houses and a dozen coldesacks in different cities into a new kind of fractile polity with its capital in the cloud. What we've described thus far is much like an ethnic diaspera, in which emigrants are internationally dispersed but connected to each other by communication channels. New recruits can visit either the virtual or physical parts of a network state, bata, test it and decide to leave or stay. It is now feasible to build million person online communities, start billion dollar digital currencies and architect buildings in vr then crowd fund into reality.

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