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Some people think that Bitcoin is a system designed to act outside of state and society. Others believe that it is a system designed to control business and to reign power into their particular...

I have been giving oral presentations for a long time. The methodology I used in learning the necessary skill has been far from ideal—jumping into fire rarely leaves you without scars. So, I do...

Franfurt (2005; originally 1986, in his essay On Bullshit) assembled a modern philosophical concept that presents perhaps one of the most critical advances in philosophy and the twentieth century....

When people discuss Renaissance art, they generally look to Florence and the northern Italian peninsula. In doing so, they bypass the source of the revolution. As one of the pinnacles of late...

Proof-of-work has become fetishised and overly worshipped by some in the ‘cryptocurrency communities’ and when it comes to Bitcoin. Their fixation is unfortunate, because proof-of-work is little...

In mathematics and logic, there are many functions that act only one-way. Bitcoin is based on many such functions. For instance, a cryptographically secure hash function, based on an indexed value...

Bitcoin has nothing to do with ‘censorship resistance’, and it never did. The entire term is rather asinine. The only people who truly want ‘censorship resistance’ and money of any size are...

In 1996, Judge Easterbrook presented and spoke to the University of Chicago Law School. In his speech, he reflected the words of the dean of the school, Gerhard Casper, who related that the...

One of the primary arguments made over and over throughout ‘blockchain communities’ comes with the concept of being owed a living. Inefficient developers, who through a small amount of moderately...

Many people within the ‘cryptocurrency communities’ have made a religion of "code is law", the flawed methodology of Lawrence Lessig [1]. In his rant-like diatribe, Lessig holds the view of a...