Could new countries be founded – on the internet? | Sam Venis

Coinbase’s former chief technology officer wants to use social networks to create states. What doesn’t fit into his vision are things like poverty, illness and ageingIn The Network State, a buzzy new book by Balaji Srinivasan, the former chief technology officer of Coinbase, poses a devious question: how do you Larp a country into existence?Released provocatively this 4 July, the book presents Srinivasan’s case for a new model of digital statehood run and managed in the cloud.