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1729 is a group working to build a new kind of country called a “Network State”.

Similarities Between Early-Stage Crypto and Current-Stage Network States

Why Does it Matter?

Balaji Srinivasan and James Medlock have agreed to a wager for one million dollars. The bet: Bitcoin’s price will reach one million dollars by June 17th, 2023.

In The Network State

Christianity as a Network State

How Network States Can Outmaneuver the US Establishment

How Empowered People Create Unstoppable Societies

Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays (nostr)

And why guys with guns won't stop Network States

After going through a few of the crypto boom and bust cycles, one gets accustomed to rapid sea changes in a short period of time within the industry. As such, I typically work to re-orient myself to the rapid shifting landscape, or “touch grass” of the industry.

Why option to exit?

22 September 2022 - Liquidity mining rewards are broken, let’s fix this! The design of many liquidity mining programs very extractive and parasitical, where projects are giving rewards in hopes of bootstrapping their liquidity, but the liquidity providers that farm either end up extracting and destroying project value.

The Battle for Social Cohesion

How Pseudonyms Evolve on the AI Frontier

The Trust-Power Cycle

How action inspires unique writing

And how to start using it today

An end-to-end breakdown of Nestcoin's writing cohort with Taptive

What my programming self can learn from my ultimate-playing self

An initial rabbit hole exploration into the future network state system's potential for peaceful co-existence with the current nation state system.

Open questions and thought experiments around social contracts, social safety nets, and universal basic income on the network.

A look at sample lessons that the network state movement could learn from the early Christians, the 1776ers, and the Marxists.

An initial look at parallel challenges from the crypto movement that the network state movement should try to avoid or mitigate.

Exploring the window of opportunity for network unions to seize the day and score touchdowns on underrepresented issues in increasingly gridlocked Western democracies.

A historical dive into "zero-sum" contexts, "non-zero-sum" frontiers, and their relativity.

3rd Century lessons into the "thermodynamics" of a "world" split into three competing sides or poles.

An exploration into major diasporas and their opportunities for further network unions and more.

An exploratory reflection...on lifestyles, relationships, family planning, and society.

An exploration into the mapping, emulation, and uploading of our minds to a digital substrate.

Glimpses into transhumanist and extraordinary trans-species experiences combining technology and the senses.

Glimpses into emerging transhumanist political movements and parties amid an era of great power games and world order changes.

A mini-compilation of blogs, news, podcasts, and other bookmark resources for the tech progressive learning about transhumanism.

This is ojas, a newsletter about TransHumanism + NetworkState + Web3.

The risk of developing ever-smarter AI is becoming a more and more current topic.

From Andean cosmology to digital decentralization

Learning from history. One commandment.

This is essay 3 of 4 essays for The Network State Creators Cohort #3

Learnings from the book Ministry for the future

Web3, online community, Naval Ravikant, Balaji Srinivasan, and Kevin Owocki