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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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