Balaji Srinivasan

And Vancouver becomes the drop-off point for all of this kind of stuff.

And the thing is, in a sense, I mean, Carney's a very high IQ guy.

He's much higher IQ than Justin Trudeau, even though they're nominally Democrats.

Carney may be the single smartest person on the left.

Carney is actually, in a real sense, Mark Carney is the most important American Democrat ever.

despite being Canadian.

And Nayib Bekele is the most important American Republican, despite being Latin American.

In fact, the political innovation for the left and the right is coming from outside America because Carney and Bekele are both running their own countries and they're not locked within the, oh, we need to solve it within the American system constraint.

I'll just say one thing.

One thing is, which is, I do believe the free internet can and will be a balance to this.

That's why decentralization, encryption, you know, I think that we can build a coalition of global techno-capitalism on the other side to balance as opposed to beat.

But we just have to be absolutely realistic about like, you know, what time it is, right?

Like where the numbers are.

And just I'm a reality shill and, you know, doc, give it to me straight, you know, that kind of thing, right?

And I think there can be hope and a positive sign on the thing on their side if we organize around the free internet.

We don't just want to go direct.

We want to prove correct.

And in a sense, what the blockchain is, is like an armored car for information.

We can transport that information on chain.

So easy to verify, difficult to fake becomes a critical thing in any system that deals with strangers, which is lots of systems.