An important piece of context here: Palladium is funded by Peter Thiel, whose particular community of reactionary-cum-libertarian sovereign citizen types has fr

An important piece of context here: Palladium is funded by Peter Thiel, whose particular community of reactionary-cum-libertarian sovereign citizen types has frequently sought friendly (meaning pliable) host nations for experiments in autonomy. Given that, it's hard to separate the economics here from a pseudo-colonial approach to investing, in which Thiel-type ultrawealthy individuals get their own banana republics in Africa.