Key ideas from Arjun Khemani

• Arjun, 19, dropped out of high school after COVID radicalized his thinking through The Beginning of Infinity and The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
• "If you're under surveillance, you're not sovereign" - privacy enables creativity, authentic self-expression, and strategic surprise
• Lightning Network requires hub-and-spoke topology that resembles traditional banking, breaking Bitcoin's "anybody can pay anybody anytime" promise
• Solana's on-chain scaling model proved superior to Layer 2 solutions - "it's easier conceptually, you don't have to think about where's my coin"
• ZCash must scale on-chain with Tachyon to become "what a lot of people wanted Bitcoin to be"
• Singapore, Dubai, and El Salvador are emerging as the "new Tokyo, London, New York" for crypto and tech innovation
• Bitcoin's brand power creates a "power law" effect where most people only know one crypto name
• ZCash's historical failure mode was being "too academic" rather than too commercial like most crypto projects