Law & Regulation
State Power and Ordinary People from the Tokugawa Period through the 20th Century
Traditionally, the study of history looked at the state and elite forces and people and how they would change the
The Scarcity Paradox
There is a good deal of misinformation around scarcity right now. Unfortunately, our education system has produced a series of
The 51% Attack That Never Was
There are widespread mythologies concerning supposed attacks against Bitcoin (Bindseil et al., 2022), including ones that are promoted by people
Anti-Trust
The problem with Ethereum and BTC groups is that they are anticorporate. They call themselves crypto capitalists (Ortiz, 2020). What
Decentralisation
Abstract. A system such as Bitcoin operates using a proof-of-work-based consensus mechanism that many individuals have falsely claimed to limit
The Vision for Bitcoin
Over the last decade, I have been dragged into innumerable arguments and debates, going back to those with James Donald
Defining Scaling
Numerous arguments abound in regard to scaling blockchain-based systems such as Bitcoin or the BTC system (Khan, Jung, & Hashmani,
Reliving an Ancient Past
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) consists of twenty-two provinces, four municipalities, five autonomous regions, and two special administrative regions,
The Closing of Open Society: Part II
The Republic of Mozambique (hereafter Mozambique) is a sub-Saharan African nation on the Swahili coast. The country gained political independence
The Wizard of Blockchain
There are always arguments over scaling blockchain networks. Most of them end in ad hominem attacks, and very few address
The Closing of Open Society
Traditionally, the United Kingdom has been an open society (OS) [1]. In a neoliberal context, an open society incorporates open
Book Review: After Virtue
Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory provides a cogent and compelling argument for virtue ethics over Kantian