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Not Your: Keys, Infrastructure, Land Title (???)

A stress test across Crypto, Cloud, and Canadian Courts

Oct 24 • 

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Discord Democracy: Decentralizing Diasporas and Digital Diplomacy

Innovative coordination tools are transforming decentralized governance in digital and physical spaces. Insights from case studies in Nepal and Albania.

Oct 18 • 

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Network State & School 2025: Highlights

Some thoughts from Network State Conference and visiting Network School

Oct 8 • 

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September 2025

How to Value Emerging Network States

Running some numbers behind the socio-techno-capital of human coordination

Sep 24 • 

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Decentralized Social Media: 15 Years in the Making

A brief history of decentralized social media, and a snapshot of the current landscape

Sep 10 • 

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Digital Fentanyl: The AI Doom Thesis

A forecast of 2030, and ways to fight our digital demons individually and collectively

Sep 2 • 

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August 2025

Chokepoints of the ‘Decentralized’ Web

Exploring identity portability, client plurality, and social recovery

Aug 28 • 

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From Digital Nomad to Network Participant

Exploring NomadList's 2025 data on the average digital nomad, and addressing gaps for emerging network states

Aug 13 • 

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Updates on Network State Experiments (mid-2025)

Some updates and amendments from the previous post, and projects I'm looking forward to from a mid-2025 vantage point

Aug 5 • 

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July 2025

Lessons from Network State Experiments (2023–2025)

A progress report on network states that made it to land (2023-2025). What worked, what didn't?

Jul 27 • 

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The Network State Manifesto

Welcome to the blog: Nomads. Networks. New worlds.

Jul 20 • 

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