"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value zero" - Voltaire 

 "The real issue is control. The internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating a seamless global economic zone, anti-sovereign and unregulatable, the internet calls into question the very idea of a nation state."

- John Perry Barlow

The Network State is on the horizon

E/ACC 

 "Truth is treason in the Empire of Lies"

- Ron Paul 

 "When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed."

- Ayn Rand 

 'Right to privacy' folks are doomed to fail. 'Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.' - George S. Patton

'Privacy is not a human right. It's a human fight.' 

 "A Network Archipelago need not acquire all its territory in one place at one time. It can connect a thousand apartments, a hundred houses, and a dozen cul-de-sacs in different cities into a new kind of fractal polity with its capital in the cloud. "

- from The Network State by Balaji Srinivasan 

 "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." 

- Ayn Rand 

 "The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody...It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous."

- Ludwig Von Mises 

 A world built on decentralized protocols and companies on top of them is better than a world of companies granted top-down control, especially when that control spans across hundreds of millions to billions of users 

 "The blockchain is the most important development in history since the advent of writing itself, as it’s a cryptographically verifiable, highly replicated, unfalsifiable, and provably complete digital record of a system."

- from The Network State by Balaji Srinivasan