Easy There Entropy

The history of capitalism, in so far as it’s something that emerged out of developments in Italian bookkeeping, is broadly a history of the bill of exchange.

Dan Barabander wrote a great little article on what he calls “Hourglass Markets,” markets bottlenecked by bilateral interemediaries that bridge different trust layers, and the opportunity for crypto to disrupt them.

I’ve written an introduction to zk-SNARKs designed to be accessible to anyone with just some high school math.

The history of money is often glossed over in books about modernity or narratives about money.

This post is part of a series on the Properties of Money.

This is the introductory post in a series on the properties of money and the tensions between them.

This month, September 2022, marks a critical transition point in the history of the Cosmos project.

So I finally got around to reading Brett Scott’s fantastic post, The Hole in Bitcoin’s Heart.

The velocity of money denotes a kind of circulating quality of money, an ability to flow.

Last year I read F.A.

Table of Contents: Introduction - Tesla vs.

This is not investment advice.

The great tragedy of mainstream, neoclassical economics is that, in trying to transform the Classical political-economy of the 19th century into a more mathematical science of economics, it butchered its political and moral foundation.

Local Money Systems As you may know, I’m quite enchanted with the idea of local money systems - money designed to facilitate local economic organization and trade.

Disclaimer: This critique is based almost entirely on a reading of Stephanie Kelton’s popularization of MMT, The Deficit Myth.

I wrote an op-ed in Coindesk, called Crypto Needs to Engage With the World.

The Story of Civilization The story of human civilization begins around 10k years ago in the dawn of agricultural societies, in a new relationship between humans and land.

One whole year ago today, the Cosmos community made history with the successful decentralized launch of the Gaia blockchain, also known as the Cosmos Hub.

This is an ode to the Guelph Center for Urban Organic Farming, an organic farm located on the University of Guelph campus, where I fell in love with gardening and discovered that permaculture can feed the world.

Modern distributed software development marks the pinacle of text-based collaboration.

Life Socioeconomic systems may be conceived in the same vein as organisms: driven, replicated, non-equilibrium systems in a landscape of steady-states.

On January 3rd, 2009, the great mother Goddess of cryptoeconomics, Satoshi Nakamoto, birthed her baby Bitcoin into the world. 10 years later, Bitcoin is booming, awakening cavalries of latent innovative energy and catalyzing radical new approaches to soci…

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