In the deadly race between politics and technology, they are deplatforming, censoring, surveilling, and seizing on an unprecedented scale. Meanwhile, we are building, funding, driving, and reviving liberty worldwide.
No matter how dark any given moment looks, 'coin ain't dead 😁
Like Korea, India went through tough times on Bitcoin and web3 over the last few years.
While there's still a ways to go, thanks to the faith and hard work of many people on #indiawantscrypto, it is being fully legalized.
Capitalism is for equals, equal partners in the deal.
The ~80% of the world that is neither American nor Chinese is more than willing to trade with anyone, collaborate on science, work in a positive-sum way.
India & Israel should go hard into BTC/web3. Promote decentralized protocols that protect sovereignty, that make money, and that allow all to align behind neutral, globally fair rules.
The new non-aligned movement is economically aligned.
- They have a critical mass of founders
- They already cooperate on counterterrorism & tech
- The combined diaspora has a presence all over the world
- Neither wants to fully rely on the US
- Neither wants to be beholden to China
All the pieces are there.
I wrote about this at length last year, and I think these points still hold up today.
Crypto gives a third paradigm outside either US or Chinese control. It's thus suitable for every country that prefers sovereignty to becoming a colony. balajis.com/tag/india/
The problem of nuclear blackmail is not a trivial one. It occupied the thought of early Cold War theorists like Herman Kahn. And with more players, if one grows desperate, the dynamics could become unstable. warontherocks.com/2017/02/blackm…
@NarangVipin has a new book out on an allied topic: how do states acquire nukes?
1) sprinters: get it fast, like China 2) hedgers: keep the option, like Japan 3) sheltered pursuit: use support of a patron, like North Korea 4) hiders: totally clandestine, like South Africa
The topics are related because in the event a desperate Putin decides to (say) nuke an iceberg to show he is serious, then a number of countries that were previously on the cusp of going nuclear may do so to deter him from trying something.