by Guy | Jun 15, 2020 | Fundamentals, Philosophy
“Beware of what I call Pascal’s scams: movements or belief systems that ask you to hope for or worry about very improbable outcomes that could have very large positive or negative consequences.” – Nick Szabo Another amazing piece from the Unenumerated blog...
by Guy | Dec 23, 2019 | Fundamentals, Money
“The precursors of money, along with language, enabled early modern humans to solve problems of cooperation that other animals cannot – including problems of reciprocal altruism, kin altruism, and the mitigation of aggression. These precursors shared with...
by Guy | Dec 3, 2019 | Fundamentals, Technology
“Imagine the ideal protocol. It would have the most trustworthy third party imaginable — a deity who is on everybody’s side. All the parties would send their input to this god. God would reliably determine the results and return the output. In addition,...
by Guy | Apr 17, 2019 | Fundamentals, Philosophy
Exit & Freedom by Guy Swann https://anchor.fm/s/80d5cfc/podcast/play/2921368/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2019-3-12%2FCryptoQuikRead-233---Exit---Fr-939a718da6ea6.m4a Bitcoin | Liberty | Nick Szabo Building on the principles discussed...
by Guy | Feb 21, 2019 | Game theory, Technology
“… The movement from static to dynamic media promises to bring about a fourth cost revolution in the related areas of jurisdiction, trust, and security. Impacts on business will be felt in law, accounting, auditing, billing, collections, contracts,...
