The Usually Rational Concern Recently Tether has become a hot issue in the bitcoin community and I have a theory as to why. Tether is a crypto-coin that purports to be 1 to 1 backed by USDs. However, the

In 2009 a conjecture was made that a software project was impregnable and would increasingly store value as long as we remain a conflict based society. Since then it has accrued $100 billion in value and

Here is a recent talk I was involved in on the subject of Ideal Money versus Hyperbitcoinization: Here is a follow up insight I had.

I recently was invited to a group chat by Shinobimonkey to discuss the macroeconomic implications of bitcoin and its possible relationship to John Nash’s Ideal Money. It was very off the cuff and we decided

We got Satoshi’d. We Satoshi’d ourselves Consider this passage from a blog post by Nick Szabo (number one suspect for being at least part of Sataoshi Nakomoto): Perhaps less easily resolved, because one

A lot of persons in bitcoin that don't know anything about economics but think they do and they are loud about it. It's because bitcoin is very easy to quickly realize how difficult it would be to pull

The goal of society is to reach optimal levels of freedom in regard to pursuing our own self interest (w/o encroach on another's freedom). It is technological gain that procures and signals such freedom

A strange article to read from Frances Coppola on the nature of the value proposition of bitcoin and its relation to Gresham’s law. There are agreeable points made, however, the way in which the author

A straw man is a misrepresentation of someone’s position or argument that is easy to defeat: a “steel man” is an improvement of someone’s position or argument that is harder to defeat than their originally

Sometime if you get a chance sit calmly and observe your thoughts. But see from a different paradigm in which all movement of the mind, and phenomena of the real world, are simply different forms of escape

This writing explores a special essay and lecture series by John Nash entitled Ideal Money. John Nash is already well known for redefining our understand of economics through various game theory related

I recently came across this video of Graham Hancock highlighting the mystery of how the pyramids were built and why: As far as I know it’s true that we barely understand the how or the why, if at all,

In regard to games it is possible to reduce some cooperative game down to a non-cooperative counterpart allowing for a solution to be found. I think this might be an extendable observation. For example,

Here is a statement by Craig Wright given at this conference as quoted by Ryan X. Charles: This assertion is not economically sound. Increased velocity of money is understood to be a signal of (value)

John Nash Trapped the Entire World in Their Own Ignorance John Nash, Ideal Money: Starting with the idea of value stabilization in relation to a domestic price index associated with the territory of one

I recently came across the concept of a scripting language which got me really excited. The language is called autohotkey and it has the ability to automate different tasks a user might otherwise perform

My previous writing explained how bitcoin’s usefulness as a settlement system is able to scale indefinitely in contrast to scaling bitcoin to serve low value participants which has a diminishing return

The gold and silver money which circulates in any country, and by means of which, the produce of its land and labour is annually circulated and distributed to the proper consumers, is, in the same manner

Cypherpoker a P2p Poker Development Platform Patrick Bay's Cypherpoker, a p2p poker implementation based on the Ethereum network, is almost ready for attention from developers those that want to implement

This article extends a previous article that serves as an introduction to a first person shooter strategy construct that can be used to objectively analyze strategy decisions. A New Paradigm For Fighting