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'Crypto's destiny'

As promised, here's my latest story in the New Republic. It's about Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase, the nation's biggest crypto exchange. He's got a net worth estimated at over $8 billion – and some disturbing ideas about the future. He openly

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Balaji Srinivasan launches Network State 'school'

I spent the past week entirely focused on writing my next big story. And I can't wait to share it with you as soon as it's published. To research this new piece – the latest in my series on the rise of the Network State cult – I

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BBC examines the Network State

Balaji's dystopian cult grows louder

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Reboot: Project 2025, Peter Thiel and right-wing San Francisco

A vision of our future politics?

Digital image portraying a wolf in a suit at a podium that reads: "East Solano Scam."

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California Forever's biggest PR problem may be its CEO

Jan Sramek has a talent for saying disastrous things

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'Solano Gap': California Forever scrambles to create a need

It's looking very, very bad for the tech billionaires' plan to impose a "utopia" city on Solano County. Can the project be saved?

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Miracle in Solano: California Forever unites Democrats and Republicans

The point: The California Forever project appears headed for a massive defeat in November. But the billionaires behind the proposed "tech utopia" have managed to pull off a true political miracle in 2024: uniting Democrats and Republicans – against their project. I got a sneak peak at more detailed

Photo illustration of the California Forever project featuring people fishing and boating at sunset

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Balaji depicts California Forever as a Network State project

The Point: During a tech podcast last September, Network State leader Balaji Srinivasan appeared to confirm that the California Forever project in Solano County is, indeed, part of the cultish Network State movement. This could further complicate things for the project's developers, who already face strong opposition from

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Cool Gray City of Tech Authoritarians: Balaji's dark vision for San Francisco

Maybe you can literally have like the sovereign city of San Francisco and secede effectively ... if you have total control of the city ... maybe it's possible. – B.S. The Point: Like some mustache-twirling cartoon villain, the main tech figure behind the Network State cult lays out a

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Psst, New York Times. The Network State cult hates you

What if [A.G.] Sulzberger is more like Keyser Söze? What if his employees are highly self-interested professional prevaricators? What if they've always been like that? – Balaji Srinivasan, "The Network State." The point: The New York Times profiled Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan, but failed