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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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Why Did China Do This?

Cindy: China is the exception to the sovereign individual thesis. If it's not made in china, they'd look at it with suspicion. They were very early on things like the great firewall,. Many years before politicians were getting de platform from twitter. Zijen ping denied face books attempt to come into china. And instead, basically they set up parallel social networks that could operate than china but which the chinese state had root access to. It's an interesting concept, and i think it's alise.

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