You go and try to talk to the African officials today and say, hey, these guys are trying to start a virtual country

The digital country and blah blah blah blah blah. They're just laughing you out the door, right?

The reason is yes, take us as a joke like we actually want you to laugh

We want you to keep on laughing because within the laughing period

We are building seriously so that by the time we reveal our leverage and our critical mass no one's laughing anymore

I think that was the similar Bitcoin strategy where today Bitcoin is taken as a serious asset

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What would it look like to create a new country using crypto as a coordination technology?

We've explored this topic previously with Bolognese Renewasin

He calls it the network state the idea of using crypto to create a new digital

Nation it's an interesting concept of course, but can it be done as Thomas Edison once said vision without execution is

merely hallucination

So today we're talking about the execution side

We have a project that's seriously trying to build a new country for Africa

They have a plan using crypto. They have a roadmap. What would Africa's crypto nation actually look like?

That is the topic today a few benefits and takeaways number one

Why the nation-state experiment has failed for black people number two?

Why Africa needs a redrawing of lines and how web3 can help number three?

Why Africa is actually the best place to spawn a new network state movement number four?

What about crypto and crypto values are demanded in Africa?

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