Balaji Srinivasan

That's why people disagree on law.

That's why the fights are getting so bad.

So first is, the internet was actually built in part to resist exactly that, to resist a nuclear attack.

Look at the graph below.

Can you bomb that?

The entire point is that decentralization... Can you bomb Bitcoin?

In theory, I suppose you could try to go and bomb every single data center around the world.

Go ahead.

That was not even like... Sorry, I'm jumping in here.

That's not the core point, by the way.

Go ahead.

So hear me out.

The thing is, first, you have to identify the pole of network and state, cloud and land.

Like these are, it's like, you know, North and South Poles, for example, it's two extremes, right?

And then there's many intermediates between those two poles.

But what you're talking about are conflicts between the network and the state.

And in China, yes, the state basically triumphed over the network.

And Xi, Jack Ma, Jack Ma, before Jack Ma could Elon Xi.

Okay, meaning Xi went and basically expropriated Jack Ma before Jack Ma had any ideas of maybe doing something that could undermine Xi's power.

Okay, but in America, the network has triumphed over the state.