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This Week in Startups · 2025-06-30 · 64 min · 13,192 words

Rebuilding Civilization from First Principles: Inside Balaji's Network State Vision | E2145

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Actually, you wrote, or at least launch, wrote one of the best I wrote it, yeah. Okay, it was my article. That was honestly one of the best early articles on Bitcoin. I know you troll people on Bitcoin, but we should we should put that up on screen, yeah, where actually there are a lot of things that that were it was I said it's the most dangerous open source project I've ever seen because it could destabilize the entire world. Because the sovereignty of countries is, you know, military and their uh currency, and this could change history forever, yeah.

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