Extending insights on the Great Includer… I remember a dialogue I had with a peer not long after taking a good first look at the libertarian/Austrian viewpoint (or whatever is the range and slide between Nick Szabo’s work and the full bitcoin maximalist view). My peer countered the idea of…

A Game Theoretical Floor and Ceiling for Post-mining Transaction Fees In the future when all bitcoins have been mined we can consider the level of fees paid by transactors. Game theoretically we can assume that every transactor or player won’t pay more than they have to (assumes a mature market…

Nash describes and references something he calls the “Machiavellian perspective”. It is an important frame of reference that contrasts with a far more limited one. At some point in this direction there is what Nash refers to as the ‘Olympian view’ and beyond that what I refer to as the…

The internet creates an interesting situation in regard to communication. We generally feel like we are brought to an advantage, both as the individual and as the group, when we are able to use social media and the internet to hyper experience communication compared to the past. But there are…

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…