Encore: ‘Bitcoin at $1M Is a Global Government’

A holiday encore presentation: One of the internet’s most fluid thinkers, Balaji Srinivasan, gives a brief history of the future.

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Balaji Srinivasan is an angel investor and entrepreneur, the former CTO of Coinbase, a former general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and more.

In this wide-ranging conversation with NLW, he discusses:

How networks are taking a power role once reserved for God and the state
Why pre-internet institutions will not survive the internet
Why bitcoin at $1 million is a global government
Woke capital vs. communist capital vs. crypto capital

This interview originally aired on Dec. 19, 2020.

Find our guest online: @balajis

“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell and additional production support by Eleanor Pahl. Adam B. Levine is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. The music you heard today behind our sponsor is “Only in Time” by Abloom. Image credit: Oleksii Liskonih/iStock/Getty Images Plus, modified by CoinDesk.

HOST

Nathaniel Whittemore

NLW is an independent strategy and communications consultant for leading crypto companies as well as host of The Breakdown – the fastest-growing podcast in crypto. Whittemore has been a VC with Learn Capital, was on the founding team of Change.org, and founded a program design center at his alma mater Northwestern University that helped inspire the largest donation in the school’s history.