Summary of Balaji Srinivasan's The Network State

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#1 The most obvious unconventional approach is when an eccentric plants a flag on an offshore platform or disputed patch of dirt and declares themselves king of nothing. If the issue with elections is that too many people care about them, the issue with these so-called micronations is that too few people care.

#2 We should proceed cloud first, land last. Rather than starting with the physical territory, we start with the digital community. We create a startup society, organize it into a network union, and crowdfund the physical nodes of a network archipelago.

#3 The seventh method, network states, straddles the boundary between practicality and impracticality. It uses the most robust existing tech stack to route around political roadblocks, without waiting for future physical innovation.

#4 A new country is defined as a political entity that has been established through its own efforts and is recognized by other countries as a legitimate polity capable of self-determination. cryptocurrency fits this definition. It was initially ignored, then mocked, but within five years it had attained a billion-dollar market capitalization and was listed on CNBC and Bloomberg.

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