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Angel investor. Cofounder of Earn, Counsyl, Teleport, Coin Center. Previously CTO of Coinbase, GP a16z. I hear this Bitcoin thing might be kind of a big deal.

Stanford, CA
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    Balaji S. Srinivasan‏Verified account @balajis 5h5 hours ago
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    Digital quarantine is here. It appears that folks who fled Wuhan have been digitally quarantined, likely via WeChat. Their apps don’t work outside the quarantine zone. Now that’s happened to 240 Uber users in Mexico exposed to the infected. Complex issue! A thread…🧵pic.twitter.com/3ZQ9vZdHo2

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      2. Balaji S. Srinivasan‏Verified account @balajis 5h5 hours ago
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        First, Wuhan is a city in crisis. The healthcare system has crashed. You do not want that in your city, or country. This is not an illusory threat. So, a quarantine. Stop this from spreading. Free movement suddenly has externalities. But how efficient should that quarantine be?pic.twitter.com/jglPw4N5zf

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      3. Balaji S. Srinivasan‏Verified account @balajis 5h5 hours ago
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        It’s hard to argue that the Wuhan quarantine should be porous. Or that contagious riders should spread to drivers. That’s how the whole system crashes, as in Wuhan. Yet the potential for long-term abuse here is so obvious.

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      4. Balaji S. Srinivasan‏Verified account @balajis 5h5 hours ago
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        If the coronavirus goes pandemic, and it seems it may, the extreme edge case becomes the new normal. It’s every debate we’ve had on surveillance, deplatforming, centralization — accelerated. Pandemic means emergency powers for the state, even more than terrorism or crime.

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      5. Balaji S. Srinivasan‏Verified account @balajis 5h5 hours ago
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        Sometimes a solution creates the next problem. My rough forecast of the future: the coronavirus results in quarantines, nationalism, centralization. And this may actually work to stop the spread. But once under control, states will not cede their powers. So, we decentralize.

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      6. Balaji S. Srinivasan‏Verified account @balajis 5h5 hours ago
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        The coronavirus may also be to decentralized medicine what the financial crisis was to decentralized currency. It is an enormous stimulus for portable diagnostics, wearables, mobile clinics, telemedicine, right-to-try laws, accelerated approvals. For decentralizing medicine.

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      7. Balaji S. Srinivasan‏Verified account @balajis 4h4 hours ago
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        Ben Gurion once said “fight the war as if there were no White Paper, fight the White Paper as if there were no war” The tension between crypto & quarantine is obvious. Perhaps we fight for crypto as if there is no coronavirus, and fight the coronavirus as if there is no crypto.pic.twitter.com/M2pYj64OUm

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      1. Avy Faingezicht‏ @avyfain 5h5 hours ago
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        cc @m_older, this seems like something that could have been stolen from your yet unpublished novels.

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        Digital quarantine is clearly nonsense.

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      1. Pranay Aryal‏ @pranayaryal 39m39 minutes ago
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        What wearable do you have in mind?

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      2. LukeMullen 🍀 🇺🇸 ⚛️1%‏ @Luke1732Mullen 5h5 hours ago
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        In USA this might be accomplished by disabling a person’s credit cards outside a geographic area? Disabling smartphone laptop SIM cards outside a geographic area? Disabling @uber @lyft accounts outside a geographic area? #DigitalQuarantine #Wuhan #coronavirus

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        It's already in the works.https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.smh.com.au/national/uber-flags-suspension-of-drivers-passengers-exposed-to-coronavirus-20200130-p53w9v.html …

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