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Networks vs. Governments: Could Crypto-Powered Digital Communities Challenge the Power of Cities and States?

A reading of Balaji Srinivasan’s essay “The Network Union.”

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A reading of Balaji Srinivasan’s essay “The Network Union.”

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Bitstamp.

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What exists between a Facebook group and a formal organization? Right now, not much. But in the future, Balaji Srinivasan argues, blockchain-powered communities will be able to exert the power to help them develop the polities of the future. On this “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads Balaji’s “The Network Union.”

See also: Balaji Srinivasan on Communist Capital vs. Woke Capital vs. Crypto Capital

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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.

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