Mar 18A P2P Mental Poker Nostr Implementation PossibilityThis is very simple. Why hasn’t anyone done it before? I don’t know, but I imagine it has to do with the fact that people making social networks are either companies wanting to make money or P2P activists who want to make a thing completely without servers. …8 min read8 min read
Feb 10On the Curious Similarities Between John Nash’s Ideal Money and the Works of Nick SzaboWhen I was first introduced to bitcoin, it was mostly through my revelations via a lecture and writing series called “Ideal Money”. When I went to find the bitcoin community to understand better what bitcoin was I came across Nick Szabo’s work. I began to read both their work as…Money9 min readMoney9 min read
Feb 9On the Nature of Central Banks (as Firms) and the Emergence of Central BankingThis writing extends my work, Ronald Coase, and Nick Szabo’s in regard to the emergence of central banking, the cause of it, and the value that might be harnessed because it with relation to the advent of CBDC’s and bitcoin. …Money8 min readMoney8 min read
Jan 7The Great ConstrainerAnd thus propriety is not only the creator and guardian but also the teacher trainer and constainer of AI. Propriety is the god of AI.1 min read1 min read
Dec 6, 2022The ICPI and Bitcoin as an Ideal Money BasisConfessions of the Maximalist View Adam Back, George Selgin, and Saifedean Ammous are all quoted as suggesting Nash’s proposal Ideal Money rests on using a basket of commodity prices as its basis. Here we will disambiguate the truth of this. Nash defines the ICPI in his Southern Economic Journal Article: A possible non-political basis for…Bitcoin7 min readBitcoin7 min read
Dec 6, 2022Introduction to Ideal Money and the Value Thereof~The disambiguation of `Ideal Money` from `ideal money`~ — On the Relevance of John Nash’s Ideal Money and Bitcoin The significance of works Ideal Money is observed when fitting Bitcoin as a basis for the proposal described (whereas economic philosophers may have previously come to conclusions for or against Bitcoin but without considering it in this particular role). Although an inquiry into what is money and more specifically what…Bitcoin4 min readBitcoin4 min read
Dec 6, 2022The Theory of Bitcoin Backed Central Banks~A Nashian Extension of Hal Finney’s theory of Bitcoin Backed Banks~ A Not So Secret History of Bitcoin We will explore the origins of a certain source of contention surrounding Bitcoin and how Bitcoin will unfold with respect to our global financial system. …Economics29 min readEconomics29 min read
Dec 6, 2022The Nashian Orientation of Bitcoin:A Theory of Bitcoin and Money Menger on the Origins of Money and the Relevant Definition of It In his time, Menger, inspired by newly emerging (but not yet matured) insights about the origin of man and the progress of knowledge (i.e. natural selection and the principle of falsifiability), attempted to lay out a theory of the origin of money. …Economics19 min readEconomics19 min read
Nov 17, 2022Hal Finney’s Theory of Bitcoin Backed BanksIntroduction In the early Bitcoin days the possibility of an exploit caused Satoshi to add a transactional throughput limitation to the system. The implications of these limitations are widely disagreed upon and range from the need to remove it to the need to innovate around it. In response to this…Bitcoin27 min readBitcoin27 min read
Nov 13, 2022On The Evolution Of Poker and a Psychological Theory of CheatersOn The Evolution Of Poker and a Psychological Theory of Cheaters I have never perfectly understood the concept referred to here but I’ll try to give my understanding of it. Timex (Mike McDonald) a(n ex?) pro poker player is pointing to a post by Sam Bankman-Fried. Sam is the center…4 min read4 min read
