Humans are naturally inclined to seek compromise (Baume & Novak, 2020, pp. 70–71), which is a well-studied psychological condition (Radosavljevic, Andelkovic, & Panagopoulos, 2014). Because of the...
You will never find a statement from me in my persona of Satoshi saying that Bitcoin was designed for ‘censorship resistance’. The reason for it is simple: such is not the purpose or design of...
Aristotle characterized envy as anguish at the prospect of another’s good fortune which is provoked by “those who have what we ought to have” (Aristotle in Cope, 1877). Russell (1930/2015) refers...
The journal articles written by Jones (2003) and Cairney (2012) seem very different at face value, but we can see the same point of view in both. Jones analyses specific challenges to rationality...
I used the word vote in the Bitcoin white paper three times. I used the notion of anthropomorphism in explaining the concept of proof-of-work. In noting that proof-of-work was “essentially...
In the field of service marketing, relationship marketing is gradually experiencing more common deployment. To some, it would appear as if it were new. But, as Morgan and Hunt (1994) have...
When people query why elite athletes such as NBA basketball players are getting paid so much more than teachers, the argument is one of scarcity: it is not that basketballers get paid more; it is...
If you opt to believe Anderson (2016; originally 1991), it becomes necessary to concur with the notion that ancient great powers, including Ancient India and Ancient China, are merely modern...
There lies an error in many people’s fundamental understanding of Bitcoin, and any blockchain system, that has been propagated by those who seek to hide the power grab they are making—behind a...
Truth in advertising is something that many people would call an oxymoron, but with the advent of social media, we have become even more cynical, and it has become common to see the promotion of...