balaji srinivasan

Peter McCormack, host of the What Bitcoin Did podcast (Provided)
Balaji Srinivasan’s $1M Bitcoin Bet Could Be Right, but I Hope He’s Wrong
Bitcoin podcaster Peter McCormack writes about the seeming return of bitcoin's inflation hedge thesis, and what it takes to get people into bitcoin.
Peter McCormack, host of the What Bitcoin Did podcast (Provided)

BD03-25-23
Safe Haven From Banks? Bitcoin’s New Narrative Comes Into View
Banks down, bitcoin up and, boom, a narrative is born.
BD03-25-23

Historic photograph of a German bank during a period of hyperinflation during the Weimar Republic. (Bain News Service/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)
A Sudden Onset of Hyperinflation: What Will Happen to Bitcoin?
If the world is thrust into hyperbitcoinization – as Balaji Srinivasan predicts – before the ecosystem is ready, then even bitcoiners might not be in a position to use bitcoin.
Historic photograph of a German bank during a period of hyperinflation during the Weimar Republic. (Bain News Service/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

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Pinning the Idea of ‘Network States’ on the Map
On today’s show we’re taking a look at one man’s thesis of forming online countries and how it may lead to a new asset class, courtesy of CoinDesk’s Executive Editor of Consensus, Marc Hochstein.
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CDCrop Balaji Srinivasan MI2022 (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)
Pinning the Idea of ‘Network States’ on the Map
Balaji Srinivasan's thesis of forming countries online underpins a thought-provoking bestseller and maybe a new asset class – earning him a spot on CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2022 list.
CDCrop Balaji Srinivasan MI2022 (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)

7/17/22   A Primer on Balaji’s “Network State”
A Primer on Balaji’s 'Network State'
NLW reads Balaji Srinivasan’s essay version of “The Network State.”
7/17/22   A Primer on Balaji’s “Network State”

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Why Elon Musk Should Airdrop a New Twittercoin to Every User
Could he build the world’s first global political coalition?
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A Censorship-Resistant Inflation Index Is Being Built on Chainlink
Truflation currently measures a 13.3% inflation rate, as opposed to the 7.9% measured by the Consumer Price Index in March.
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LRS Global Monetary Competition
What Governments Should Do in the Coming Global Monetary Competition
A reading of Balaji Srinivasan’s recent essay “How India Legalizes Crypto.”
LRS Global Monetary Competition