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@balajis.eth
Cryptocurrencies are digital boundaries. That is, in the physical world you can clearly distinguish where France ends and Germany begins. And you can enumerate the millions of people near the Franco-German border, as opposed to those who are more internally located. But in the digital world, you canât easily see the Instagram/X border. You canât see which people spend a lot of time on both platforms, and are in a sense near the network border, as opposed to those who are âpatriotsâ to just one platform. Until crypto. Because coin holdings give public digital boundaries. You can determine from wallets and posts which people are coin maximalists (and hold 100% in one coin) vs which people are in digital border territories (and hold balances in multiple coins). This is machine-readable information that can establish digital and physical borders for a community. NFT-gated Discords and door locks prove the point. So: itâs early now, but eventually crypto tribalism becomes crypto patriotism.
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@rotarincrypto
1. Digital boundaries are the new national borders In the physical world, borders define geography and identity. In the digital world, those borders are fuzzyâplatforms like Instagram or X donât expose who âbelongsâ where. But crypto changes that. Holding a coin isnât just an investmentâitâs a public declaration of alignment. A wallet thatâs 100% BTC shows loyalty. A wallet diversified across ETH, SOL, and DOGE shows youâre living in the âborderlands.â
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