Richard Caetano @arsydotorg 2021-06-17
@balajis did you coin the term “network state”? Just heard it today from the quest digest.
It’s brilliant & captures the paradigm shift that excited me ten years ago when I first learned aboutbitcoin, along with how the blockchain could play out - what we are seeing it now!
Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen 2021-06-18
I first heard it circa ~2000 from lawyers interested in the way the internet could change governance models. People like Benkler, Castells etc. A search immediately turns up some writing from Castells around that time.
Eg: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as\_sdt=0%2C5&q=castells+network+state&btnG=…