Economics
Nation and State: Old Wine in New Bottles
If you opt to believe Anderson (2016; originally 1991), it becomes necessary to concur with the notion that ancient great
The Myth of Bitcoin as a Voting System
There lies an error in many people’s fundamental understanding of Bitcoin, and any blockchain system, that has been propagated by
Undermining Truth: The Rise of Fake News
Truth in advertising is something that many people would call an oxymoron, but with the advent of social media, we
Bitcoin’s Model of Capitalism
Some people think that Bitcoin is a system designed to act outside of state and society. Others believe that it
On Talking
I have been giving oral presentations for a long time. The methodology I used in learning the necessary skill has
What Proof-of-Work Is Used for (in Bitcoin)
Proof-of-work has become fetishised and overly worshipped by some in the ‘cryptocurrency communities’ and when it comes to Bitcoin. Their
Techno-Communism and the Desire for Socialism through Code
One of the primary arguments made over and over throughout ‘blockchain communities’ comes with the concept of being owed a
The Right to Run a Node
The problem that exists in the Bitcoin environment today is reminiscent of society at large. For many years now, we
A Discourse on Nodes
The definition that has propagated around the description of a Bitcoin node has led to a rather cultish ‘quasi-religion’. I
Nodes, Hash Rate, and Signalling
Some people falsely think that the amount of hash rate is a security feature in itself. The error here stems
How the World Works; or, A Discourse on Fake News
In the Bitcoin and “cryptocurrency” space, and I use the term cryptocurrency loosely as practically none of the other systems
Money Is Time and Energy
Many falsely believe that by simply producing more money or redistributing it, we would all suddenly have more wealth. It