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(Update: This essay has been chosen as one of the winning submissions. 🏆) I. John Palmer first published this essay in 2016. Read that first, for context, and then read this essay. In this essay, I want to explore some of the ideas that John laid out in his piece 5 years ago. I’ll alsoContinue reading “Decentralized Nations and the Future of Governments”
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(Update: This essay has been chosen as one of the winning submissions. 🏆) I. This is a review of Jon Stokes’ post here. Read that first for context, and then this post. If you have read it, you now (mostly) understand how DeFi works and have an idea about how decentralized commerce might be possibleContinue reading “Cryptocurrency- Thoughts on the great unbundling”
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(Update: This essay has been chosen as one of the winning submissions. 🏆) I. Soona Amhaz, the founder of Volt Capital, posted this set of predictions on December 24th, 2020. 44 very intelligent people had chimed in, giving their predictions on what they think would happen in the crypto space in 2021. As always, someContinue reading “On Predictions and the 2021 Crypto Crystal Ball”
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(Update: This essay has been chosen as one of the winning submissions.🏆 ) These are my thoughts after reading Balaji’s post. Read that first, and then come back to read this. I’ll first talk about online communities, what makes them special and what we can do to make our network unions more immersive than traditionalContinue reading “The Network Union”
(Update: This essay has been chosen as one of the winning submissions.🏆) I. These are my thoughts after reading Balaji’s post. Read that first, and then come back to read this. I’ll start and end this discussion with India, the world’s largest democracy. Indians are divided by class, and the society usually revolves around statusContinue reading “Founders vs Inheritors”
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I. Is it possible to create a country? Balaji Srinivasan thinks that it is. But why start a country? Balaji writes- We want to be able to peacefully start a new country for the same reason we want a bare plot of earth, a blank sheet of paper, an empty text buffer, a fresh startup,Continue reading “Cloud Countries”
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Abhisek Basu