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balajis.com is a personal blog at balajis.com about economics, ai and business. Since 2017, 50 different Hacker News readers have linked it 68 times, most often “Yes, You May Need a Blockchain”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Balaji Srinivasan's essays and archive on US federal debt, DOGE, Bitcoin and blockchain, and fiat money. Few comments judge the writing itself.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- One commenter says his writing 'might not be a horrible place to start' for considering the opposing view on Bitcoin mining.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Yes, You May Need a Blockchain6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-08-04
- The Purpose of Technology6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-07-19
- The Elondrop4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-04-28
- How to Gradually Exit Twitter4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-07-18
- The Fiat Crisis4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-05-02
- America's $175T Problem3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-07-26
- The Mirrortable3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-12-27
- AI is polytheistic, not monotheistic3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-08-03
- Add Crypto to IndiaStack3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-10
- India Should Buy Bitcoin3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-02-05
What Hacker News says?
https://balajis.com/p/americas-175-trillion-problem Might have something to do with all this.
Comment linking /p/americas-175-trillion-problem
on “Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website”Submitted The Mirrortable as a story · 67 points
HN discussion> For those who want to have a substantive discussion on the federal budget and believe these cuts are justified, I have a few questions Have you seen this? https://balajis.com/p/americas-175-trillion-problem
Comment linking /p/americas-175-trillion-problem
on “DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes”Submitted How to Gradually Exit Twitter as a story · 65 points
HN discussionSure. It sounds very bottom-up and libertarian, the kind of libertarian I am is exactly this thing … making a new bottom-up system with software, giving people the tools to self-organize, get critical mass in various local areas, and then using the new tech to bring about change by working with the old top-down structures. Facebook and Uber and AirBNB did it in social networking and transportation and housing, respe…
Comment linking /p/network-state-conference
on “10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023”Submitted The Purpose of Technology as a story · 29 points
HN discussion> We've lost so much already... the old Flash content, the GeoCities pages, the forums fallen under Facebook's iron curtain, the archives of obscure culture erased by copyright lawyers. The lit windows of the Internet that went dark, one by one, only to be replaced by gaudy commercial signage. Have we? I disagree. Why not self host with Ghost? [1] I think a golden age of decentralized tooling (payments, content, etc…
Comment linking /how-to-gradually-exit-twitter/
on “What are you doing, WordPress.com?”Submitted The Elondrop as a story · 13 points
HN discussionPerhaps an even more germane example for the crowd would be the use of blockchain to manage cap tables: https://balajis.com/mirrortable/
Comment linking /mirrortable/
on “Tell HN: We have a responsibility to speak out against blockchain technologies”Submitted The Elondrop as a story · 13 points
HN discussionIf you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have the time to try to convince you, sorry. I don't intend to use that quote in a bad-faith way; it's just the truth. If you'd like to open-mindedly consider the alternate position, the writing of Balaji Srinivasan might not be a horrible place to start. It seems like you disagree with all the other points I make as well. Unfortunately the same time constraints apply…
Comment linking /and-what-has-the-blockchain-ever-done-for-us/
on “When Bitcoin miners take over a town (2018)”Submitted India Should Buy Bitcoin as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI like that he's had a successful startup in the field, and is generally smart as hell: https://balajis.com/about/ Balaji S. Srinivasan (BSS) is a computer scientist, investor, entrepreneur, and academic. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford and taught data mining, statistics, and computational biology in the Department of Statistics at Stan…
Comment linking /about/
on “Balaji Srinivasan, who may run the FDA for Trump, hates the FDA”Submitted Set Up a Paid Newsletter at Your Own Domain as a story · 12 points
HN discussionLately I’ve been listening to the back catalog of Balaji Srinivasan interviews, which is spread across multiple feeds but which is available on https://balajis.com/content-archive/
Comment linking /content-archive/
on “Ask HN: What podcasts do you like listening to?”Submitted America's $175T Problem as a story · 7 points
HN discussionWritten text including links https://balajis.com/fiat/
Comment linking /fiat/
on “Balaji: I just burned a million to tell you they're printing trillions”Submitted The Mirrortable as a story · 7 points
HN discussion> Firms in the broad Russell 3000 share index have a total market value of $79trn I sometimes try to get people to worry about the catastrophic state of American public finances by pointing out that the net national debt, including unfunded liabilities, is estimated to be $175T [0]. The government could appropriate all the equity from the top 3000 largest companies, and also the entire real estate market, and it sti…
Comment linking /p/americas-175-trillion-problem
on “Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?”Submitted The Purpose of Technology as a story · 6 points
HN discussionwhat a great image https://balajis.com/content/images/size/w1600/2023/05/image-...
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on “The Fiat Crisis”Submitted AI is polytheistic, not monotheistic as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Network School – a new school for the dark talent of the world as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yes, You May Need a Blockchain as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yes, You May Need a Blockchain as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Network School Fellowship as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Decentralizing Education with Synthesis as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Elondrop as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Decentralizing Education with Synthesis as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Add Crypto to IndiaStack as a story · 3 points
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