I read the book last summer and thought it was great.

Then I went to the Network State Conference last week in Amsterdam. It's a really exciting and positive movement of people building parallel institutions away from inept and often corrupt Big Governments/Institutions. Everything from medicine & housing to finance & media was covered.

I think every Network State of the future will need Bitcoin because if you have broken money you will eventually end up with a broken society. BTC is the foundation and cornerstone. So in a way they all will be "Bitcoiner Network States"

Balaji's concept of "building parallel instead of reforming from within" is very powerful to me. As he says, you could never reform the Fed, Satoshi had to build Bitcoin. Taxi cartels were taken down by Uber in lots of countries. Twitter helped political figures get their message out when mainstream media would have never given them a fair ride. What else? There are lots of incumbents who will fall...