balajis
@balajis.eth
Big fan of George Washington. He organized a successful rebellion against the most powerful empire in the world. The Brits who called him traitor grew to respect him. And the state he founded eventually exceeded its progenitor, as the sun set on the British Empire. Good role model! https://warpcast.com/ted/0x8fa0f9
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balajis
@balajis.eth
More seriously, I’m actually writing on this topic but let me offer a few quick remarks. First, blockchains are digital governments. They provide property rights, contract laws, and verifiable identities across legacy borders. That is *intrinsically* political: it replaces states. https://warpcast.com/ted/0x8fa0f9
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bennet
@bgrill.eth
@balajis.eth You write in the Network State that Locke thought that the state should be the guarantor of private property. Should network states be afforded a monopoly on violence to enforce private property rights, as many liberal democracies have done?
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