Balaji’s Crypto Crusade: Refugees in a Digital Age
Balaji Srinivasan, author of The Network State and former CTO of Coinbase, has taken to social media like a disgruntled bureaucrat with a grudge against the system. He argues that the crypto industry must prioritize scalable, reliable infrastructure to support refugees from Ukraine, California, and the Arab Gulf-regions renowned for their… well, let’s say, “diverse” challenges. Srinivasan claims that public blockchains are designed for “wartime mode,” which, if you think about it, is just a fancy way of saying “when the internet is down and your data center is a target.”