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BREAKDOWN: “Bitcoin at $1,000,000 is a Global Government”

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4.8689 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

One of the world’s most interesting thinker joins NLW for a wide-ranging discussion

This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.

This interview originally aired December 19th, 2020. 

Balaji Srinivasan is an angel investor and entrepreneur, the former CTO of Coinbase, a former General Partner at Andressen Horowitz and more. 

In this wide-ranging conversation with NLW, he discusses:

  • How networks are taking a power role once reserved for god and the state
  • Why pre-internet institutions will not survive the internet 
  • Why bitcoin at $1 million is a global government
  • Woke capital vs. communist capital vs. crypto capital


Find our guest online: @balajis

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NYDIG, the institutional-grade platform for Bitcoin, is making it possible for thousands of banks who have trusted relationships with hundreds of millions of customers, to offer Bitcoin. Learn more at NYDIG.com/NLW.

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“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell and additional production support by Eleanor Pahl. Adam B. Levine is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. The music you heard today behind our sponsor is “Only in Time” by Abloom. Image credit: Oleksii Liskonih/iStock/Getty Images Plus, modified by CoinDesk.




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Transcript

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0:00.0

Bitcoin at 10,000 is an industry. Bitcoin at 100,000 is a world power. And Bitcoin at a million is a global

0:07.4

government. It's just not the one that anybody expected. It's funny to put it that way.

0:11.9

A lot of people thought about a global government in different ways. And essentially,

0:16.0

there's been two factions, those people who are pro freedom and don't want a global government.

0:19.6

And those people who are, let's say, pro order or pro state who do want a global government. But Bitcoin

0:26.6

at a million is like a pro freedom global government, which seems like a paradoxical thing that

0:30.4

neither group really understands. Welcome back to the breakdown with me, NLW.

0:42.6

It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world.

0:49.2

The breakdown is sponsored by Nidig and produced and distributed by CoinDesk.

0:57.5

What's going on, guys? It is Monday, September 6th, and that means it's Labor Day. Because it's Labor Day, we're doing a rerun of an interview that I did that was extremely popular and is one of

1:04.5

the interviews that I have the most people still come ask me about to this day. Unsurprisingly,

1:09.7

it's an interview with Balai's Srinivasa.

1:13.0

Bologi is an angel investor, an entrepreneur. He's the former CTO of Coinbase, a former general

1:18.4

partner of Andreessen Horowitz, and mostly people just know him for his incredibly expansive,

1:23.7

synthesizing brain and perspective. Bologi is the type of guy who I love to talk with about how different things intersect,

1:32.0

not just about trends, but about the broad patterns of history that shape where we've been,

1:36.4

where we are, and where we might be going.

1:38.6

In this conversation, we talk about networks and how they take a power role once reserved

1:43.2

for God and the state.

1:44.9

We talk about why pre-internet institutions will not survive the internet.

1:49.3

We talk about one of his most intriguing concepts, woke capital versus communist capital

1:54.7

versus crypto capital.

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