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Balaji: China is modern Nazi Germany, woke US is Soviet Russia
“China is like the new Nazi Germany woke America is like the new Soviet Russia and the decentralized center is going to be the new America.”
Balaji: China has won every round of US war games
“The US military has a perfect record in its war games with China. China's won every round.”
Balaji: US government control of Facebook will lead to backdoor surveillance
“But the US government gaining more control over Facebook is not a solution to Facebook's real problems. It's just going to mean backdoor surveillance of everything.”
Balaji: SEC regulatory statutes for crypto will be invalidated or overturned
“I don't think they're going to be able to maintain the status quo of a hundred years ago, the statutes that they're citing. I think that's going to either get knocked down in court or going to be technologically invalidated.”
Balaji: The US government is a shambolic mess optimized for PR
“The US government is today in 2021, not the 1950 US government, the 2020 US government is like this shambolic, chaotic mess that can't really do anything, and is optimized for PR and yelling online.”
Balaji: The future will feature a centralized East and decentralized West
“I think the future is a centralized East and decentralized West.”
Balaji: China will establish a Monroe Doctrine over Asia
“I think that China does have some Monroe Doctrine-like thing that it gets to within Asia where basically it says, you know, just like the US said, hey, you know, we're running this hemisphere. They're saying, hey, we're running this sector of things.”
Balaji: Legacy media will not reform; technology must replace it
“We didn't go and say, oh, Blackberry do better. Blockbuster do better. Barnes and Noble do better. We just replaced them, disrupted them with better technological versions. And so the idea that, oh, you know, New York Times do better. That's completely outmode…”
Balaji: Official channels spread misinformation early in the COVID-19 pandemic
“Official disinformation early in COVID, which, you know, I had to like basically beat back with a stick. Fortunately, you know, got some of it out in time, but you know, people said the flu is more serious. The travel bans were overreactions that only Wuhan vi…”
Balaji: Blockchains are easier to index than the open or social web
“Blockchains are easier to index than either the open web or the social web.”
Balaji: Assets added during his tenure drive >50% of Coinbase revenue
“And the other assets that we added after I joined Coinbase are more than 50% of Coinbase's revenue, again, in their filings.”
Balaji: Cryptographic verification is replacing argument from authority
“I think truth is mathematical truth. It's cryptographic truth. It's truth that one can check for oneself rather than You know, argument from authority. It's argument from cryptography.”
Balaji: Facebook is probably more beneficial overall than critics acknowledge
“I actually think on net, it's probably being more beneficial than many people say, but I don't believe that the federal government is a solution to those problems.”