Here I think it might be useful to begin to generalize observations on the evolution of life and mankind. This might seem a little disjoint. First we can consider the changing of borders and understand such events to be signs of instability of our global civilization. Naysayers might not understand…

Thrift-the quality of using money and other resources carefully and not wastefully. The motivations of Savings and thrift is the subtitle of John Nash’s works Ideal Money. It becomes relevant when we consider the thesis of Saifedean Ammous that bitcoin will inspire and foster a period of lowered time preference…

To the Reader: This article is written to be read start to end with no need for the reader to trace the link’s and extra material reference. That is the brevity of it. After words, when brevity hits, if there was clarity provided it might be enjoyable to then to…

I’ll cue this video for the moment Paul says that he doesn’t need context in order to know the implied definition of a word. The significance or summary is that Paul is claiming that words don’t need context in defense of my accusation that he is misinterpreting a passage wrong.

Its a semantic point in a sense but its also one of re-solution. We can understand that with the introduction of local versus non-local bounds (ie perspective) something can have a non-locally derived value. This could be viewed as “intrinsic” value in the sense of the above debate in that…

With bitcoin, for quite some time, you will hear it said that it has no intrinsic value and therefore cannot compete with gold or a commodity based money. …