Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry. In this episode, Balaji Srinivasan discusses his latest book, “The Network State, how different digital tools like crypto will help empower network states, and analyzes how crypto fits into the current political environment.

Show topics:

why Balaji wrote a book and why he is so enthralled with a digitized future
what a “network state” is, and what components of crypto are embedded into the idea
why Balaji is interested in “re-centralization”
why Balaji believes that networks states need to be recognized by real nations
what makes a network state better than a physical nation or digital community
why Balaji thinks a community of people who eat a keto diet could be the first network state
why Balaji thinks the network states will be a good thing
where Bitcoin maximalism fits into the left vs. right political divide, woke culture, and Christianity
what the overlap between politics and crypto will be going forward
what is the best way to learn, read, and debate “The Network State”
where crypto tools and communities have gone wrong so far and how the industry can improve going forward
what lessons Balaji learned from the tech bubble in the early 2000s
what Balaji’s over-under is for when the first network state will arrive
Balaji’s pitch for a 50:50 BTC/ETH portfolio (note: not investment advice)

Hosts

Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital
- https://twitter.com/hosseeb
Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital
- https://twitter.com/tomhschmidt
Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures
- https://twitter.com/tarunchitra
Robert Leshner, founder of Compound
- https://twitter.com/rleshner

Guest: Balaji Srinivasan

Twitter: https://twitter.com/balajis

Episode Links

The Network State

https://thenetworkstate.com/

Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital

https://www.amazon.com/Technological-Revolutions-Financial-Capital-Dynamics/dp/1843763311

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