Category: Satoshi Nakamoto
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Wendy McElroy: Crypto as Propriety Justice and a Solution to Private Violence
Crypto As Propriety Justice And A Solution To Private Violence by Wendy McElroy The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading − some type of first use or embordering activity. Obviously, an actor must already own his body if he is…
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Holacracy: Governance in an Age of Innovation and Subversion
The following opinion piece on Holacracy was written by Max Borders, director of Social Evolution and author of The Social Singularity. Imagine turning on your mobile device one morning to find only two apps: Red and Blue. It’s bad enough that these are the only two choices. Only one works at a time–and not very…
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Bitcoin History Part 1: In the Beginning
With today marking the tenth anniversary of the Bitcoin whitepaper, the web is predictably thick with op-eds, retrospectives and thought pieces. While Oct. 31, 2008 is hailed as a pivotal moment in monetary history, at the time, few noticed the publication of the Bitcoin whitepaper to a cryptography mailing list. Like all revolutions, this one…
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Ten Years Ago Today, the Whitepaper Changed the Way We Look at Money
On Oct. 31, 2008, at 2:10 p.m. EDT, the creator of the Bitcoin network, Satoshi Nakamoto, announced the publication of the protocol’s whitepaper using a Vistomail email address. It’s now been 10 years to the day since Satoshi’s idea was first revealed to the world — an idea that unleashed the first pure peer-to-peer version of…
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Wendy McElroy: In a Stateless Society Crypto is Law and Justice
The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations Section 5: Saving the World Through Anarchism Chapter 11, Part 5 In a Stateless Society, Crypto is Law and Justice The economic analysis of crime starts with one simple assumption: Criminals are rational. A mugger is a mugger…because that profession makes him better off, by his own…
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Weaponized Money: Thoughts on the Creation and Control of Bitcoin
Some tin-foil hat conspiracy theorists believe government devised and built bitcoin as weaponized money to enslave the people. They think Big Brother made the technology to subjugate everyone, and that politicians are somehow benefiting from the technology. In an odd twist of logic, these people believe bitcoin represents a state-sponsored tool for control. Also read: Regulations…
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Prominent Financial Advisor: Crypto Market Cap Will Hit $20 Trillion in Ten Years, Bitcoin to Face “Competition”
Ten years after the launch of Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency market remains in its nascent stages. While a lack of real-world applications and widespread crypto-usage creates questions about the innovation’s long-term viability, a prominent financial advisor predicts the market has potential to 50x from here. 5,000 Percent Increase Nigel Green, the founder, and CEO of financial…
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Bitcoin Intentions: Are We Aiming to Replace the Status Quo or Become Them?
When the idea of a working digital currency like bitcoin was introduced, many of its early adopters disliked the current bureaucratic system, with a cartel of bankers pulling the world’s monetary strings. Over time, however, something weird has happened and the idea of permissionless innovation perverted into people literally asking nation states for permission, begging…
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Cypherpunk Essentials: A Beginner’s Guide to Crypto Privacy
The following op-ed on crypto privacy was written by Reuben Yap. He is the Chief Operations Officer of Zcoin. A corporate lawyer for ten years, specializing in institutional frameworks, Reuben founded one of SE Asia’s top VPN companies, bolehvpn.net. He graduated with a LLB from the University of Nottingham. One of blockchain’s most notable and valued…