All right. So, just going to
wrap up with some I I think some pretty
fun stuff, okay? [snorts]
Um save some of the best for last.
Uh so,
basically, I think that was pretty
awesome. I don't know if you guys liked
everything so far.
Um
So, what next?
So, the core idea of the network state
is that you can found your ideal
society. That's the whole point of the
book or you can find your ideal society
and that's the point of the dashboard.
So, for example, you can do citizenship
migration like Henley and IMI and
CitizenX. You could find an existing
society
uh like, you know, the citizenship in
the Bitcoin age and so on and so forth
in CitizenX.
Um…
Uh so thank you very much for this
honor. Uh the main point for the
development and like uh the main point
for the wrap-up part it's going to be
dedicated to the holy tokenized city
which we are trying to develop in
central Asia. So my name is Bayan and
basically what I want to tell you I want
to just uh tell you more about
Kazakhstan by itself because uh thanks
to Balajia I think I hope more people
will be able to know about it. But the
main point with Allat with Central Asia
is that the Kazakhstan is developing
really fast and the main idea for us is
to use that kind of uh new technology
development coming from Asia and Europe
and Europe to…
So, so British Empire meetup just got
Neil just got off a plane and got here.
Yeah.
>> Yeah. Go ahead.
>> I just got off the flight uh from London
which some of you will know. Uh so don't
expect high levels of coherence from me.
I'll do my best.
>> No, you uh you are the you know British
gentleman from Central Casting. Um and
>> I'm not a gentleman at all. I'm from
Glasgow.
>> Okay. Okay, fine. Well, you're you're
like Sean Connory, who's you know, well,
I guess he's Scottish, but whatever.
Okay. So, we have had a conversation
over the years
>> which is similar to one I've had with
others, but you have a interesting twist
on it because being …
Hi, I'm I'm Zen from Bass. We recently
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tokenized stocks will expand who can
invest, who can raise capital, and what
people can build.
For many people around the world, buying
a US stock is painful. It can mean very
high fees, lots of friction, lots of
paperwork, and finding a broker willing
to serve you. With tokenized stocks,
buying a stock can be as easy as
ordering a takeaway…
Hello everyone.
So I heard you want to start a new
country?
Well, you're probably going to need a
new currency.
So the motto of Network State is win and
help win.
This is the essence of free market
capitalism
the
ideal of humans voluntarily
collaborating to solve our collective
problems.
It's the foundation of civilization.
I like to say money is love
and love is a circle.
The idea of money has been dramatically
over complicated.
It's actually very simple.
You do things for other people and your
number goes up.
Other people do things for you and your
number goes down.
That's making and spending money.
Of course, that's just an ideal. It
doesn…
Anyone here can use cryptocurrencies to
send $1 million across the planet before
I present myself.
But you can't move freely.
Crypto solved capital mobility.
Human mobility still requires
permission.
I'm Alex Rigosa and for the past 5 years
at Citizen X, I have created the easiest
way to diversify your passport
portfolio.
Because no serious investor holds 100%
of their wealth in one asset.
But for some reason, somehow, most
people still leave their mobility
options to a single jurisdiction.
From all the elements of your sovereign
stack,
your citizenships, residencies, your
visas,
your passport is the most critical one
for your mobility, your …
We're in a room today filled with
individuals who very much epitomize
thinking beyond borders.
You're all part of a international
network and a global community.
But when we strip that back,
how many of you on an individual basis
can consider yourself to be truly
global?
How many of us are still linked to one
individual country?
One individual country that gives all of
our rights, all of our access,
and any benefits that we may bring.
Only one country.
We diversify all aspects of our life.
We diversify our investments, our
wealth, our businesses.
We diversify the technology that we rely
on.
We also consider risk mitigation
and decentralizatio…
Hello everyone.
I have five minutes to explain to you
how we can set the world free.
Please wish me luck.
So let's start with the fundamental
problem.
States do not treat individuals well.
They subject us to taxation.
They restrict our movements. They
regulate us. And they even conscript us
and send us to war.
And the question that we need to answer
is what is a practical way of making the
state respect individual freedoms and
property rights.
Crypto is part of the answer, but of
course crypto doesn't do you much good
if your physical person is in say a
goolog.
Is the answer
voting harder?
No. Doesn't work for reasons we don't
have time to ge…
Thank you. Good afternoon.
So, when I was a teenager, what one
source
did every geek like me turn to to devour
all of the information we could consume
about all of the countries in the world
that we had never been to?
The CIA World Factbook. Who remembers
that if you're old enough? Okay, good.
So, you may or may not have known uh or
might not know that it was actually
discontinued earlier this year.
But, in the last decade or so, I'm sure
it's web traffic declined pretty
significantly because it's more or less
been replaced by a vast plethora of
hundreds of different rankings and data
sets purporting to explain uh political
stability, the eco…
Chad
>> allergy.
>> So, you know what's funny is uh you're a
Chad and you have the Chad. Chad was a
Chad before the term Chad was a thing.
>> There was no Chad when I was a Chad.
>> Yes, exactly. He has a Chad jaw. Chad,
you're CEO of Paxos. Uh you also should
you you want to tell them about how you
got into Bitcoin and how how we met like
you know in New York and so on and so
forth like in the early like the
financial crisis origin story.
>> Yeah. These aren't like uh our origin
story isn't well known. Yeah.
>> Um I was an investor and uh we did a
good job at understanding the financial
crisis. We were short subprime
>> going into the financ…
So,
thanks for coming all the way up. Um,
so,
American monarchy, decentralized
democracy. We've had a conversation for
a while.
Um, I want you to well, there's 15
different things we can go back and
forth on, but let me throw out a few
statements and then you tell me whether
you agree, disagree, and so and so
forth. Um so first you still do believe
America can be turned around. It can be
fixed.
>> Absolutely. Amazing property.
>> Okay. And as its current institution or
as like a the reboot.
>> Well, what a reboot means I think varies
a lot. I think the level of a reboot
that's needed is um certainly goes much
farther than we've seen with the …
uh preemptively I will be running off
for a flight before this panel ends. So
I'm going to uh hand off moderator
responsibilities to hib for the end. But
to get us off kicked off, we had a tweet
that rocketed around the world last
night from Justin Drake uh telling
everyone to not panic. Um
>> of course they panicked.
>> Of course they panicked. And this is
about uh the correctness the the
validity of cryptography and math. Um
and I do want to talk about crypto in
the longer term but now because people
are panicking I think we need to talk
about math and cryptography in the short
term. Uh the fear is that AI has truly
accelerated timelines on…
Thanks for flying all the way out.
>> Yeah, it's a nice flight.
>> So, why don't you just tell everybody
about your background? Early investor in
Twitter, Twitch, you know, Floodgates
being a major a major angel for many
years.
>> Yeah. So, I guess I'm one of the OG seed
investors. So, I invest uh either too
early or way too early in startups. So,
uh you know, when I invested in uh
Twitter, they were trying to decide
whether to call it TWWTR or uh voicemail
2.0 You know, Lyft started out as
Zimride. Octa was Sasher. Uh, and so,
uh, yeah, too early, way too early, or
legally ambiguously too early.
>> Well, you you were one of the seeds of
seed…
Hello network states. Raise your hand if
you like freedom.
Anybody like freedom here? All right.
You like communism? I think it's kind of
anti-freedom, right? So
the problem with communism is that it
requires surveillance to work. So as
communism wants to grow, it is always
seeking to acquire new information. via
surveillance. It's trying to surveil
every part of your life. Now, why is
that?
Surveillance equals control. The more
information that you have about
somebody's life, the easier it is to
control them. In a communist economy,
every asset of the economy is top- down
planned, which means you have to have a
lot of control, which means yo…
Hello.
So, I'm an engineer on Zcash.
Zcash's
development is very decentralized. So,
the taxonomy can be a little bit
confusing. But, more specifically than
Zcash, I work at Valor Group. More
specifically than that, I work on
Zecora, which is the really
high-performance Zcash client. And then,
more specifically than that, I make the
blocks big and fast. So, what we really
want is these payment systems that work
like Zcash. So, they're permissionless,
they're censorship resistant, and they
preserve privacy.
And this is really difficult because
there's so many different bottlenecks in
different areas. So, as other speakers
have presented today, …
Cool.
Uh hello everyone. My name is Josh Lee
and I'm co-founder at Fiser. And Visor
is uh currently the fastest growing
wallet in Ccash. Um Visor is currently
available on both mobile and desktop.
And we built Visor because we
basically wanted to connect this
powerful technology that's been building
for Zcash into an experiment into an
experience that the average person can
use.
Um,
ultimately, you know, I feel like Zcash
is one of the most underrated uh
cryptocurrency and and protocol in the
entire world. uh from my experience
interacting and getting to know Zcash um
it leads in in zero knowledge
cryptography uh and applying that to
privacy …
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So, Bitcoin was never banned. Um, and
there's a good reason for that.
The the state didn't need to. And
if you think about it, had the states
were if the state were really worried
about Bitcoin, it would have figured out
a way to to ban it. But it didn't. And
the reason for that is because with AI
and with increasingly better
surveillance algorithms,
Bitcoin is turning into a true surve
surveillance machine.
And compared to CBDC's which are very
unpopular, people willingly buy into
Bitcoin and willingly enter this 360
degree uh panopticon.
And there's only one currency that they
would really have to ban and it also
happens to be the o…
Uh, hello everyone. Uh, I'm Dev. And
today I'm going to talk about again how
we scale Zcash. And first, like what's
the origin of like what we all care
about? Well, starts with the Bitcoin
white paper. Peer-to-peer electronic
cash. It's kind of the promise we're all
made. And with Zcash, the goal is to
actually fulfill this. So,
what's going on? Bitcoin started with
the promise of being digital cash. And
there's this great Nick Carter post. The
narratives change over time. Starting
2019, you'll never hear anyone call it
digital cash. You'll start hearing it be
called digital gold or store value.
With Zcash, instead we started the
opposite way…
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tried to fist bump me on the way up and
I totally missed it. I was distracted by
you all. All right, so a few years ago,
I applied for a refinance on my home to
a bank that I had been with for over 30
years since I was a teenager. My credit
was perfect. My payment history was
perfect. It went to the underwriter and
it came back and they said, "We're
sorry, Josh. You've been rejected.
You've been rejected because we don't
like the company that you're working
for. You do work that we don't like.
Last year, the OC released a study
showing that nine of the largest banks
in the US were denying financial
services to people because they were…
Hello, good morning network state. So I
want to tell you a little bit about my
story. Long ago there was a time when
humans could actually contribute to
frontier math and I was lucky to be a
member of the last generation of people
who could do that. So back in the day I
was one of seven authors who wrote the
white paper on which Zcash is founded
and I was one of the founding scientists
alongside these six illustrious
academics.
Then I worked on some post-quantum
secure cryptography. So in 2018
published the white paper about ZK
Starks uh which is hashbased and pretty
safe. Now, I didn't know back then that
we'll be in a state where quantum th…
So, I'm Sean Bo. I'm the executive
director of Tachion and um I was here
about a year ago in Singapore and we
announced that we were going to hire for
a a team of cryptographic engineers to
work on sort of the next iteration of uh
Zcash's cryptography.
And uh we we did we hired these
fantastic engineers from like Celestia
and Penumbra and um Espresso and we've
been working really hard for the last
year or so on uh essentially scaling
Zcash. We're we're taking the
cryptography that's uh at this at the
core of the private payments that take
place in our protocol and we're removing
all the cryptographic bottlenecks that
are on the inside. So, if…