On The Brink with Castle Island
Balaji Srinivasan on building digital commonwealths (EP.43)
Released: Feb 17, 2020
Balaji Srinivasan is an angel investor and entrepreneur. He was formerly the CTO of Coinbase, a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and the co-founder of Earn.com, Counsyl, Teleport and Coin Center. In this episode we discuss:
- the 100x' crypto has delivered over traditional finance
- how Balaji’s views of what Bitcoin is good for have changed over time
- the 'sovereign collective' versus the sovereign individual
- whether Twitter is a functioning digital commonwealth and the prospects for Bluesky
- why handles on social media might more closely resemble property than a platform
- what Balaji is trying to achieve with nakamoto.com
