Could new countries really be founded on the internet? Sam Venis
Jul 15, 2022
3 minutes
Illustration Christophe Gowans
In The Network State, a buzzy new book by Balaji Srinivasan, the former chief technology officer of Coinbase, poses a devious question: how do you L arp (Live action role play) a country into existence?
Released provocatively in the US on 4 July, the book presents Srinivasan’s case for a new model of digital statehood run and managed in the cloud. A network state, as he describes it, is a group of people who
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