The 20th century was the first where technology enabled forms of violent state competition, as well as peaceful globalization, across the full scale of the Earth. Moreover, the same technology made possible the organization of massive state systems to project power and maintain integrated, centralized control over large, diverse populations and cultures. - Matthew Pines
THE FUTURE GEOPOLITICAL ORDER AND BITCOIN: AN INITIAL ASSESSMENT
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