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hillis
@hillis
What is the business model for network states? @balajis.eth has a great chart showing subscription revenue ($100s - 1000s / person-year) in between current consumer products and existing state taxes What goods/services can be provided to a network of people that justify this cost?
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@m-j-r.eth
go straight to the source: energy and where you can't transmit energy for profit, transmit bits (something something fixes this) & ship photovoltaics/batteries instead. I feel like prepared farm-to-table food is only low-margin in densely-populated areas. rest stops are lindy, imho.
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hillis
@hillis
What’s the competitive advantage for a budding network state in becoming an energy producer? How do you compete with natural monopoly utilities?
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@m-j-r.eth
the question is when solar PV reaches grid parity (https://www.whatnextnow.com/home/solar/sunmetrix-grid-parity-map-for-residential-solar-energy-in-the-united-states) fundamentally, the question is what the best monetization happens to be (it's compute). grid utilities are notoriously awful at compensating for this.
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in other words, what would it take for a budding network state to have net commodity surplus despite the spend on e-waste (i.e. PV + transformers + compute hardware)? I'd like to think we can figure out a market that compensates MaaS more than PoW (https://paragraph.xyz/@m-j-r.eth/agency,-a-la-carte)
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