What Balaji Srinivasan thinks about crypto
Co-founder of Counsyl and of Earn.com; a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz from 2013 to 2018 and chief technology officer of Coinbase from 2018 to 2019. Wrote The Network State, which he publishes free and in full at thenetworkstate.com, and writes at balajis.com.
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7 dated positions, 2025 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Balaji Srinivasan has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsAs incredible as it may sound, the blockchain is the most important development in history since the advent of writing itself, as it’s a cryptographically verifiable, highly replicated, unfalsifiable, and provably complete digital record of a system.
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Their wordsToday's world is becoming tripolar. It is NYT vs CCP vs BTC. That's the American Establishment vs the Communist Party of China vs the Global Internet.
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Their wordsAnother example is Bitcoin. It’s the Unix of money. You can send millions with a keystroke or rm your entire fortune. That’s more upside and more downside, by making people power users, and taking away the system administrator.
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Their wordsJust like Hollywood once compared Netflix to the Albanian Army, the US establishment doesn’t yet understand how much better Satoshi Nakamoto or Vitalik Buterin is than every apparatchik they have in the Federal Reserve system.
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Their wordsI disagree with the fundamental moral premise of Maximalism, which is that Bitcoin is the only coin and all other digital assets are sins.
- 9 months earlier
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Their wordsBecause the next step after cryptocurrencies is cryptocommunities.
↗Network State Conference 2025balajis.com 1st of 3 in this piece
- 8 weeks earlier
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Our readingCrypto's deterministic guarantees constrain what probabilistic AI systems can fake or solve.
Their wordsAI is probabilistic while crypto is deterministic. So crypto can constrain AI.
↗AI is polytheistic, not monotheisticbalajis.com 2nd of 3 in this piece