Category: Satoshi Nakamoto
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Wendy McElroy: The Double C-Word in the Private Sector
The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations Section 5: Saving the World Through Anarchism Chapter 11, Part 2 The Double C-Word in the Private Sector The first rule of the politics of fear is that if you want to make something sound scarier than it actually is, you add the word ‘culture’ at the…
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A Bitcoin Rat Is Occupying Wall Street
Ten years after the financial crisis of 2008, an artist known as Nelson Saiers has placed his latest artwork across the street from the New York Federal Reserve building in the financial district. The piece is a giant sized and menacing-looking inflatable rat covered in Bitcoin code. The former Wall Street hedge fund manager and…
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Can Clues to Bitcoin’s Earliest Mysteries Be Found in a Cryopreserved Brain?
There has been some speculation over the years about whether the late software developer, Hal Finney, was actually Satoshi Nakamoto. Some people wonder if he had any connection to the 700,000 bitcoins mined back in the earliest days of the protocol. Finney was an Extropian, or a person who believes in the philosophy of futurism…
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Wendy McElroy: Crypto Takes Anarchism Digital and Explodes Old Concepts
The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations Section 5: Saving the World Through Anarchism Chapter 11, Part 1 Crypto Takes Anarchism Digital and Explodes Old Concepts All around us are the almost unimaginable benefits of markets, cooperation, and technology, yet somehow we’re naïve if we don’t want to funnel human activity through government cattle…
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Virtual Satoshi Monument Goes up in Kiev, Hollywood Is Next
A Ukrainian project group has erected a statue of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous founder of Bitcoin, in the virtual reality (VR) of a mobile app they have developed. The plan is to construct a network of virtual cities around such statues and ultimately establish a global “Satoshi Nakamoto Republic.” The monument can be seen on…
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Wendy McElroy: Crypto’s Means Are Its End – as Crypto-Statists Well Know
The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations Section 4: State Versus Society Chapter 10, Part 6 Crypto’s Means are Its End, as Crypto-Statists Well Know The problem of the Means is, as I see it, a twofold problem: first, the problem of End and Means; second, the problem of the People and the State,…
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Wendy McElroy: Crypto-Idealism Is the Future That Crypto-Statists Need to Defame
The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations Section 4: State Versus Society Chapter 10, Part 5 Crypto-Idealism is the Future that Crypto-Statists Need to Defame by Wendy McElroy [A]ll those who used their knowledge in a bid to enact social change saw cryptography as a tool to enhance individual privacy and to shift power…
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A Decade After Lehman Brothers Died: Mises, Satoshi, Bitcoin, and Wall Street Worship
September 15, 2018 brings the post-industrial financial world to a ten-year milestone. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was officially shuttered on this day in 2008, rocking the entire planet. The event occurred just 110 days before a revolution its collapse helped to spawn: Bitcoin. A little-known economic philosopher, Ludwig von Mises, tried to warn many years ahead…
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Wendy McElroy: Crypto and the New Cold War
The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations Section 4: State Versus Society Chapter 10, Part 4 Crypto and the New Cold War History is written by the victors. -Winston Churchill Success is a great deodorant. -Elizabeth Taylor The winning side of a war writes the narrative; politicians, cultural leaders, educators, and the media create…
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The Nakamoto Imperative: Why We Have to Build a Decentralist Culture
The following opinion piece on building a decentralist culture was written by Max Borders, director of Social Evolution and author of The Social Singularity. Some people have made good money buying and trading tokens. And on net, that’s a good thing. Whether you’re a trader or lucky hodler, you’re contributing to human progress. But it’s…