Archive - Heaviside

Bitcoin, Technology, and Civilization. Pt 0/17

Becoming the Schelling point of Bitcoin high-tech industrialism

Mar 4 •

December 2024

Public and Private Credit Creation

The myth of the private market economy -- a review of trends in money printing, implications for bitcoinization, and what to do in the meantime

Dec 27, 2024 •

October 2024

Ending Value Store vs Exchange Medium Debate Once and For All

Both sides are wrong!

Oct 29, 2024 •

July 2024

Will El Salvador be the Chicago of the great pre-hyperbitcoinization interregnum?

This morning Stacy tweeted out a comment about El Salvador, which inspired me to write a 1300 word reply sharing an alternative perspective, which is…

Jul 15, 2024 •

April 2024

Advancing Technology Disincentivizes War Regardless of how quickly Bitcoin Defunds it

Some points on specific technological trends in energy and other areas to gain better situational awareness of where we are on the war-disincentivation…

Apr 25, 2024 •

January 2024

Technological Advancement from a Scale Non-Linearity Perspective

A treatise on the physics of techno-economics and my new defense startup

Jan 17, 2024 •

December 2023

Nostrato: How relational contracts on NOSTR might underpin the foundations of most economic trade in the real world

Prelude & tl;dr: Though bitcoin is itself trustless, any and all economic activity that is tied to the real world has an element of trust and…

Dec 9, 2023 •

May 2023

Bitcoin defunds the State; Nostr actually replaces it

Why real world economic trade is the key to mainstream Nostr adoption, and how relational contracting indicates the viability of global, State-less…

May 22, 2023 •

March 2023

210 Years of Darkness on Bitcoin & Nostr

Some notes on the nature of Bitcoin, economic dynamics under sound money, speculation on the first century or two of life after fiat-zero, and some…

Mar 25, 2023 •

January 2023

The Forgotten Fourth Function of Money

How Standard of Value/Contract in the Digital Era Debunks Austrian Monofunctionality Theory, Resulting Implications for Transient Monetary States, and…

Jan 8, 2023 •

December 2021

Bitcoin, Autism, and Dąbrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration

Dec 6, 2021 •

June 2021

Bitcoin mining wastes energy, but Bitcoin maximizes the power human civilization wields

1) the thermodynamics underpinning growth; 2) what technology is and the only reliable principle for sound investing; 3) why we're closer to $10b 2020…

Jun 1, 2021 •

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