web3/notes/post-state-technocracy.md

Post State Technocracy

Rufus Pollock and Stephen Diehl do a deep dive into the Silicon Valley utopian ideas of crypto assets and explore the notion that crypto assets are a means to create a new form of network state outside of the existing international order.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ0iCJkM3PU

Topic

post-state-technocracy

Concepts Covered

• post-state-technocracy
• cryptoanarchism
• technosolutionism
• public-goods-problem
• narrative-economics
• public-goods-problem
• free-rider-problem
• private-money

Summary

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