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Social•Feb 22, 2026
Inside Trust AI Thrives; Outside Requires Crypto Verification
AI inside, crypto outside. Within your tribe's trusted perimeter, you give AI all the context and let it figure it out. But outside your tribe's trusted perimeter, you hit a wall of AI spam. Now you need cryptographic verification to see what's true.
By Balaji Srinivasan
Social•Feb 21, 2026
Crypto's Code‑Based Order Preserves Rights Amid Failing Systems
The purpose of crypto is to build a code-based order, because the rules-based order is unfortunately collapsing. That code-based order covers some of what international law once protected. It guarantees property rights, smart contracts, rule-of-code, privacy, secure voting, and user accounts...
By Balaji Srinivasan
Social•Feb 14, 2026
AI May Self‑Prompt, Yet Humans Remain Goal‑Setters
NOT YOUR KEYS, NOT YOUR BOTS The fundamental question is whether AI stays on the leash. Namely: will AI prompt itself? Obviously, in some sense it already does. Since Deepseek, consumer interfaces have been showing the internal monologues after you ask an AI...
By Balaji Srinivasan
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Zero‑Knowledge: The Privacy Shield Against AI Surveillance
From AI to ZK. Artificial intelligence is the attack. Zero knowledge is the defense. AI takes advantage of the slightest slip. ZK does not let anything slip. AI decodes all the data. ZK encrypts all the data. AI is the surveillance state. ZK is the sovereign individual.
By Balaji Srinivasan
Social•Feb 10, 2026
Tech Decentralizes: Unicorns Can Thrive Anywhere
Silicon Valley is a lagging indicator. Tech moved out of Delaware. Now it’s moving out of California. There are hundreds of other places. You can build a unicorn anywhere. So: cut bait on failed states. Our destiny is decentralization. That’s what the Internet means. https://t.co/9gygAEDScs
By Balaji Srinivasan