The propaganda is transparent. 
It's true that US corporations advocate for censorship at home and a free hand abroad. They have no moral authority.
But the solution isn't to give up on either sovereignty or free speech. It's to embrace both national stacks and neutral protocols.
balajis.com/add-crypto-to-…
But the solution isn't to give up on either sovereignty or free speech. It's to embrace both national stacks and neutral protocols.
balajis.com/add-crypto-to-…
NATIONAL STACKS
What’s a national stack? It’s a suite of services, either government or private or both, that make a country digitally independent of American or Chinese companies like Facebook or WeChat. balajis.com/add-crypto-to-…
What’s a national stack? It’s a suite of services, either government or private or both, that make a country digitally independent of American or Chinese companies like Facebook or WeChat. balajis.com/add-crypto-to-…
NEUTRAL PROTOCOLS
National stacks work for domestic trade and communication. But to protect human rights and facilitate international trade, we'll need neutral protocols. That's where crypto comes in: it's a third paradigm outside both US & PRC control. balajis.com/add-crypto-to-…
National stacks work for domestic trade and communication. But to protect human rights and facilitate international trade, we'll need neutral protocols. That's where crypto comes in: it's a third paradigm outside both US & PRC control. balajis.com/add-crypto-to-…
Together, national stacks and neutral protocols can do what neither can alone.
They allow countries to get out from under the thumb of American & Chinese corporations, while building a new code-based international order that constrains even the US & PRC. bariweiss.substack.com/p/is-bitcoin-a…
They allow countries to get out from under the thumb of American & Chinese corporations, while building a new code-based international order that constrains even the US & PRC. bariweiss.substack.com/p/is-bitcoin-a…
Btw, this may be hard to see today, but @jack's heart is in the right place! He recognizes that Twitter needs to decentralize. But he's balancing many constituencies, some invisible to us. So: we should cheer on @bluesky, but also build Bitclout, Koo, etc.
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1349510779033174016
Many founders don't like what's been happening recently. Zuck & Jack don't want to be censoring.
But rather than futilely trying to bring back 2012, they're focusing on privacy, encryption, decentralization.
I know this is not obvious from the outside!
But rather than futilely trying to bring back 2012, they're focusing on privacy, encryption, decentralization.
I know this is not obvious from the outside!
https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1376554832769601537
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