Sovereignty in the 21st Century | The Balaji Series | Episode 1 (WiM115)

Balaji Srinivasan joins me for a multi-episode series exploring sovereignty in The Digital Age, geopolitical game theory, the future of statism, and how Bitcoin/crypto fits into the picture.

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Transcript:

OUTLINE
00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro
00:00:08 Defining Sovereignty in The Digital Age
00:07:00 Property Rights and Individual Sovereignty
00:10:41 Examples of Market Failure
00:14:29 Externalities: Construction Shadows and Warfare
00:17:00 The Non-Aggression Principle vs. The Aggression Principle
00:21:19 Tribalism and The Principle of “No Internal First Strike”
00:27:25 NYDIG
00:28:33 The Importance of Defensive Technologies to Peace
00:33:08 The Nation-State is Born from Natality
00:38:52 The Homeless Problem is Not a Housing Problem
00:42:00 The Future: A Centralized East and Decentralized West?
00:47:41 A Transition from “The USA” to “America”
00:51:10 Bitcoin: A Force of Supranational Sovereignty
00:55:16 Chesterton’s Fence and Price Stability
00:59:02 Order Books, Price Makers, and Price Takers

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