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In this episode of the Network Nations mini-series, Primavera De Filippi is joined by Jessy Kate Schingler, co-founder of the Embassy Network, to explore how intentional communities and new jurisdictions can give Network Nations real-world grounding.
Jessy shares lessons from over a decade of building translocal co-living communities, explains why the Embassy Network thought of its spaces as "embassies to the future," and how identity, culture, and entanglement emerge without formal membership rules.
The conversation then turns to jurisdictional innovation, including Gelephu Mindfulness City in Bhutan, and how special administrative regions, charter cities, and regulatory sandboxes could act as physical anchor points for Network Nations.
A rich discussion on culture, identity, subsidiarity, functional sovereignty, and how digital communities might interface with states without losing their values.
🌱 greenpill.network
🌐 networknations.network
🐦 @owocki
 @greenpillnet 
https://x.com/yaoeo
https://x.com/jessykate

⏱️ Timestamps 
00:00 – Can Network Nations become political actors without land?
01:10 – Intentional communities vs new jurisdictions
02:25 – Introducing Jessy Kate Schingler (Embassy Network)
03:20 – What intentional communities look like today
04:45 – The origin of the Embassy Network
05:40 – "Embassies to the future" where the name came from
06:45 – Membership, curation & why formal rules failed
08:15 – Sister communities & translocal identity
09:30 – Cultural, financial & people-based entanglement
11:40 – Cultural transfusion as the strongest glue
13:00 – Financial support between community nodes
14:20 – Identity through shared people & movement
16:20 – Drift: experiments with shared currencies & mobility
18:05 – Private law vs public law in Network Nations
19:10 – Why jurisdictions matter for scaling
20:05 – Rise of new jurisdictions worldwide
21:50 – Introducing Gelephu Mindfulness City (Bhutan)
23:30 – Values, culture & mindful development
25:35 – Experimentation, subsidiarity & the "diamond strategy"
27:20 – Visas, access & digital-first services
29:35 – Jurisdictions as platforms for Network Nations
31:45 – New corporate forms & DAO-native structures
33:45 – Network state vs network nation approaches
36:05 – Polycentricity & layered governance
38:00 – Embassies as portals between cultures
40:15 – AI, credentials & future statutory innovation
42:40 – Regulatory equivalence & sandboxing
44:40 – Intentional communities vs territorial zones
46:40 – Dispute resolution as a legitimacy bridge
50:30 – Lessons from working with states
52:40 – Land policy, mutualism & functional sovereignty
54:50 – Where to follow Jessy Kate & closing thoughts

In this episode of the Network Nations mini-series, Primavera De Filippi speak with Santiago Siri, founder of Democracy Earth, DemocracyOS, and Proof of Humanity, to explore a central question of the digital age:
Can we escape politics with protocols or do protocols simply create new political arenas?
Santiago shares his journey from building Argentina's internet political party Partido de la Red, to creating open-source democratic infrastructure, to running one of the most ambitious on-chain identity and governance experiments in Web3.
They discuss identity as the core bottleneck of digital democracy, governance failures inside protocols, DAOs as political systems, AI as both promise and threat, and what Network Nations must learn from a decade of real-world experimentation.
A deep, honest conversation about legitimacy, power, and why politics never disappears  it just moves layers.
🌱 greenpill.network
🌐 networknations.network
🐦 @owocki @greenpillnet 
https://x.com/santisiri
https://x.com/yaoeo 
⏱️ Timestamps 
00:00 – Can protocols help us escape politics?
01:00 – Introducing Santiago Siri
02:15 – From activism to political parties
04:10 – Partido de la Red & proxy voting
06:40 – Using technology to modernize democracy
09:00 – DemocracyOS & global adoption
10:45 – Why political systems resist change
12:10 – The limits of centralized digital voting
14:15 – Why identity is the core problem
15:45 – Leaving politics to build infrastructure
17:50 – Democracy Earth & global pilots
20:00 – Bitcoin vs Ethereum for governance
22:00 – The birth of Proof of Humanity
24:20 – Early identity failures & attacks
26:40 – One person, one vote challenges
29:55 – Proof of Humanity mechanics explained
32:10 – UBI, incentives & DAO governance
34:40 – Delegation farming & power struggles
36:25 – Quadratic delegation as a fix
38:25 – Removing founders from power
40:25 – Identity, justice & money tensions
42:00 – AI breaks video-based identity
44:05 – Worldcoin & biometric approaches
46:30 – Protocols still create politics
48:30 – AI governance experiments
50:25 – Why AI is still unsafe for governance
52:25 – Centralized compute as a risk
54:15 – Who governs the governance layer?
56:40 – Proof of Humanity as a proto–Network Nation
58:40 – What's missing for real Network Nations
01:00:45 – Shared identity & legitimacy
01:02:55 – Lessons from 10 years of experimentation
01:04:40 – Final lesson: legitimacy is enacted, not declared
01:07:30 – Where to follow Santiago & closing

New @greenpillnet pod out today! 🌐
In this episode of the Network Nations mini-series, Primavera De Filippi & Felix Beer are joined by Vitalik Buterin to reflect on one of the most influential experiments in recent community-building history: Zuzalu.
Vitalik shares the motivations behind Zuzalu, what actually worked (and what didn't), and why many pop-up cities risk drifting into "long conferences" instead of becoming real communities. Together they explore kinship vs telos, culture vs mission, permanence vs mobility, governance by forking, and how zones, tribes, and regulatory sandboxes might interlock to form durable network nations.
A deep, reflective conversation on how digitally aligned communities can evolve into lasting political actors without losing their soul.
🌱 greenpill.network
🌐 networknations.network
🐦 @owocki 
@greenpillnet 
https://x.com/yaoeo?lang=en 
https://x.com/felix_beer?lang=en
https://x.com/VitalikButerin
https://www.zuzalu.city/
⏱️ Timestamps 
00:00 – Why Zuzalu matters for network nations
02:20 – Introducing Vitalik & the Zuzalu experiment
03:40 – From ideas to action: why Zuzalu was created
05:40 – Bringing 200 people together for two months
07:10 – When a pop-up becomes "real life"
09:10 – Membership, visas & selective curation
11:20 – Zuzalu's offshoots: Edge City, Vitalia & more
13:30 – Decentralizing after Zuzalu
15:30 – Why permanence matters
18:10 – Building culture through physical proximity
20:20 – Cities vs tribes vs nations
22:30 – Membership as a spectrum, not binary
24:50 – Bitcoin embassies & cultural recognition
27:00 – Interests vs vibes vs kinship
29:10 – Shared experiences as the glue of community
31:30 – Why kinship is hard to design
33:50 – Internal purpose vs external purpose
36:10 – Telos-driven communities & corporations
38:50 – Prospera, regulation & culture
41:00 – Zones as platforms for tribes
44:40 – Regulatory sandboxes & state experiments
46:50 – Libertarian vs developmentalist approaches
49:10 – Why niche cities beat generic hubs
51:40 – The "archipelago" vision
54:00 – Zones and tribes: separation or fusion?
56:00 – Governance by forking
01:10:00 – Why governance still matters
01:12:10 – Reinvigorating crypto's political vision
01:14:10 – Low-hanging fruit for network nations
01:16:40 – Ethereum as a proto-network nation
01:17:50 – Closing thoughts

New @greenpillnet pod out today! 🌐
In this episode of the Network Nations mini-series, Primavera De Filippi  explore one of the most influential community experiments of the last 40 years: Burning Man.
They're joined by Erika Blair, who leads engagement and network strategy at Burning Man, to unpack how a one-week event in the Nevada desert evolved into a global, year-round network of communities bound not by territory, but by shared principles, rituals, and identity.
The conversation dives into the origins of Burning Man, the emergence of the 10 Principles, regional burns around the world, kinship and belonging, ritual and meaning, cultural dilution, and whether Burning Man can be understood as a real-world example of a network nation — including where it aligns, and where it diverges, from ideas like functional sovereignty and self-governance.
A fascinating case study for anyone interested in network societies, collective identity, and the future of non-territorial communities.
🌱 greenpill.network
🌐 networknations.network
https://burningman.org/ 
 @owocki 
@greenpillnet 
⏱️ Timestamps 
00:00 – Burning Man as a radical community experiment
02:09 – Introducing Erika Blair & her role at Burning Man
03:50 – Why Burning Man resonated as a movement
05:30 – Burning Man as a response to consumerism
07:40 – The mythic origins: burning the man on the beach
09:40 – Meaning without a fixed narrative
12:15 – What does it mean to be a "Burner"?
14:20 – Global participation beyond Nevada
17:20 – Recognizing "Burner texture" and shared ethos
18:40 – Imagining the world anew
20:30 – The 10 Principles: origins and purpose
24:00 – How regional burns emerged worldwide
27:20 – Burning Man as a "network of networks"
30:10 – Why some events are official
32:10 – Protecting culture from commodification
35:40 – Kinship, belonging, and recognition
37:50 – Decommodification and trust
40:20 – Rituals: the Man, the Temple, grief & celebration
43:20 – Full-spectrum human experience
45:20 – Popularity, scaling & cultural dilution
47:50 – Burning Man across cultures
49:20 – Is Burning Man a Network Nation?
51:30 – Functional sovereignty & working with states
53:45 – Governance, autonomy & stewardship
56:20 – Burning Man as a permission engine
58:40 – Community decision-making & slow governance
01:00:55 – The power of intrinsic motivation
01:02:40 – Building nations vs building companies
01:03:50 – Where to learn more & closing

New @greenpillnet pod out today! 🌐
In this episode of the Greenpill Podcast, Kevin Owocki sits down with Jake Hartnell reality engineer, builder, and the mind behind ENOVA to explore the idea of hyperstitions: beliefs and narratives that become real by spreading through networks.
Jake explains how hyperstitions operate as a new coordination primitive, why technologies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and AGI can be seen as successful hyperstitions, and how tools like hyperstition markets blend prediction markets, incentives, and storytelling to drive collective action.
They discuss ENOVA, egregores, cybernetic systems, futarchy, and how communities can consciously design narratives that pull the future into the present.
A deep and playful conversation about memetics, crypto-economics, and how collective belief can shape the world.
🌱 greenpill.network
@owocki 
@greenpillnet
https://x.com/JakeHartnell
Some of the materials we mention in the episode:
https://x.com/0xEN0VA
https://en0va.xyz/hyperstition
⏱️ Timestamps 
00:00 – Welcome to a new season of Greenpill
01:55 – Introducing Jake Hartnell & the idea of hyperstitions
02:45 – What is a hyperstition? (simple definition)
04:23 – Examples: AGI, Ethereum & Bitcoin as hyperstitions
06:50 – Everyday hyperstitions: lunch vs parties
08:05 – Network effects & aspirational stories
09:20 – Is Greenpill itself a hyperstition?
10:10 – What Jake is building with ENOVA
11:05 – Hyperstition markets explained
12:35 – The first hyperstition market & Goodhart's Law
14:10 – Donation-based hyperstitions & GG / bioregional funding
16:10 – Incentivizing action, not passive prediction
18:00 – Theory of change & coordination design
19:40 – Hyperstition markets vs hyperstition itself
21:30 – Where to find ENOVA & what's coming next
23:05 – Egregores, cybernetic systems & collective intelligence
26:15 – Making hyperstition markets permissionless
28:00 – Greenpill, regeneration & narrative power
31:55 – Phases of a hyperstition
33:20 – Futarchy & decision-making markets
35:20 – Community as the real coordination engine
36:20 – A future where DAOs work
38:15 – Collective intelligence as political power
39:50 – Closing thoughts & where to follow Jake