“History never repeats itself but it rhymes.” -Mark Twain What is it like to live during a formative change in humanity? I think the answer is much like it is today. After a tip off to read B...
Ideas come and ideas go. And some ideas, you just can’t shake. For about a year, I’ve been working on sketching out a framework for how to use contracts based on Bitcoin (capital B is the pro...
https://statisticaleconomics.org/2014/01/10/peer-to-peer-government-guarding-the-guardians/
Alt-Market posted a critique about Bitcoin that I thought was myopic and missed the key attributes of the protocol and currency and the movement that surrounds it. Please read the original here. ...
Theft is a strong word. It requires two things, desire and a lack of consent. One party desires something from another and takes it without their consent. Simple. My current project is developing...
https://statisticaleconomics.org/2013/11/13/theft-at-the-grandest-scale/
I came to being a libertarian because of the math. I started with the idea that if we start with microeconomics, game theory, and then formally aggregate a group of individuals we can come to mac...
https://statisticaleconomics.org/2013/10/29/liberty-as-a-consequence-of-human-action/
In all that is the “Meh” of the revelations of the extent of NSA monitoring domestic communications, here is an analogy to help better understand what it is that we are dismissing. The NSA is...
https://statisticaleconomics.org/2013/06/30/nsa-monitoring-the-beat-cop-pandemic/