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title: The Network State
description: "> Balaji Srinivasan’s 2022 book, The Network State is a blueprint of
  sorts. It is the wild fever-dream of Silicon Valley’s libertarian investor-class.
  It imagines a near future in which online communi"
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> Balaji Srinivasan’s 2022 book, The Network State is a blueprint of sorts. It is the wild fever-dream of Silicon Valley’s libertarian investor-class. It imagines a near future in which online communities use the blockchain to opt out of government and form their own competing “network states.”

[Dave Karpf‘s review](https://open.substack.com/pub/davekarpf/p/the-tech-barons-have-a-blueprint) is the only thing you should read when it comes to this book.

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