the Essays

How the Keynesians won some battles but will ultimately lose the war. Being neither Austrian nor an Austrian economist, one might […]

Before Bitcoin (BB). After Bitcoin (AB) During Bitcoin 2021, Francis, Madex and I were driving back from an event in Miami, […]

Huxley and Orwell were both right “The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a [...]

“The greatest danger to the state is independent, intellectual criticism” – Murray Rothbard   Why does Bitcoin matter? I wrote an […]

Blockchain Doesn’t Work. About halfway through a few of last year’s talks, I presented what I called “the new formula”. A […]

Whilst “blockchain people” are arguing about 1000 or 100k transactions per second, and in the process compromising the security & immutability […]

Bitcoin & the Internet: A comparison. Understanding why, let alone predicting where economic activity will congregate, is hard. It’s hard because […]

Introduction to Edition 1 “What important truth do very few people agree with you on?” Peter Thiel, Zero to One In […]