This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Sterlin Lujan from Logos

Sterlin Lujan entered the blockchain space through activism, viewing the state as a parasitic, illegitimate institution upheld by cultural propaganda and public schooling. Embracing cypherpunk values and high risk tolerance, he sees blockchain as a tool for productive resistance and the foundation for emerging alternatives like network states.

Logos is a fully decentralized, privacy-focused, and politically neutral technology stack designed to support self-sovereign virtual territories and network states. It integrates blockchain-based protocols—Nomos for consensus, Codex for storage, and Waku for messaging—to enable the creation of borderless, trust-minimized institutions governed by voluntary communities.

We spoke to Sterlin Lujan about Polis Labs and:

• Got into this space, because of activism


• A good kid in paper prison


• Why the system is so corrupt


• State is this parasitic organization


• Doing things that are active and productive rather than complaining


• Being black-pilled


• Government is an illegitimate institution that has the mystique of legitimacy


• The problem is cultural indoctrination and propaganda


• Public schooling is a propaganda machine


• Propaganda and risk tolerance


• Uncle Sam, the fatherland, the motherland


• A lot of scams in Ponzi's


• Cypherpunk values


• Proliferation of network states


• Having a tremendous amount of risk tolerance


• Governance is not solved, it's an open question

Timestamps

00:00 – 09:16 : Intro

09:16 -- 14:20 : The why

14:20 -- 31:50 : Why don't people act?

31:50 -- 40:00 : Has the movement done anything?

40:00 -- 47:53 : What’s happening right now?

47:53 -- 54:19 : Why will it succeed?

54:19 -- 58:00 : Advice to keep core values

58:00 – 01:04:34 : The Blitz

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Special Guest: Sterlin Lujan.

Links:

• Alice Miller
• Arrival
• Bitcoin
• Charles Tart
• Collapse of FTX
• Czech Republic
• Czechoslovakia
• David Friedmans Book, The Machinery of Freedom
• Dryden Brown
• Ethereum
• FDA
• For a new Liberty
• For Your Own Good
• Free Talk Live
• Hijacking Bitcoin: The Hidden History of BTC
• Ian Freeman
• Institute of Free Technology
• Jacques Ellul called Propaganda
• Jamie Redman
• Jarrad Hope
• Logos
• Malaysia
• MDMA
• Monero
• Murray Rothbard's book, Anatomy of the State
• New Hampshire
• Peace of West Folly Westphalian Treaty
• Peter Thiel
• Polis Labs
• Porcfest
• Prague
• Praxis
• Prussians
• Roger Verre
• Ronald Reagan
• Ron Paul revolution
• Ross Ulbrich
• Seth for privacy
• Silk Road
• Stefan Molyneux
• Terrence McKenna's The Archaic Revival
• Texas
• The Most Dangerous Superstition by Larkin Rose
• Thomas Hobbes
• Urbit
• Václav Havel
• Velvet Revolution
• Vitalik Buterin
• Waku
• Walmart
• Westphalian state
• X (formally Twitter)