Techno-Utopia Rises in Malaysia's $100 Billion Forest City Flop

Techno-utopia rises in Malaysia's $100 billion Forest City flop

Entrepreneurs experiment with "startup societies” defined less by historical territory than shared beliefs in technology, cryptocurrency and light regulation.

400 'Tech Utopian' Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State

"Nearly 400 students, many of them entrepreneurs, have so far made the journey to Forest City to study everything from coding to unconventional theories on statehood," reports Bloomberg. "They're building crypto projects, fine-tuning their physiques and testing whether a shared ideology — r...

Crypto and tech entrepreneurs are attending Network School, founded by Balaji Srinivasan in Forest City, Malaysia, to test his concepts about the Network State

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Techno-utopia rises in Malaysia’s US$100 billion Forest City debacle

IN A hotel-turned-campus on a reclaimed island in Malaysia, crypto and tech entrepreneurs are building software, chomping down Australian prime ribeye, hitting the gym – and getting schooled in a radical blueprint for creating new sovereign states from scratch.