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crypto/2026-07-24
Back to the Bearer AssetFILE 00127K

Back to the Bearer Asset

I did not lose faith in open AI, open science, or decentralized infrastructure. I lost faith in the assumption that every important coordination problem deserves an investable token. That was the economic reckoning. Then five mornings at Stratford added the political one: every registered claim has an owner, the owner takes sides in an emergency, and the strongest monetary-economics argument of the decade — Alden's — quietly assumes the emergency never comes. This is the essay the authoritarianism series kept promising: what a bearer asset is actually for.

BitcoinMoneroCypherpunk
01 / 27K / 9 minread
privacy/2026-06-17
The Ghost Who Built Private MoneyFILE 00212K

The Ghost Who Built Private Money

The most important ancestor in Monero's lineage is not a founder anyone can interview. He is a signature block, a timezone offset, an email address, and a protocol that survived the wreckage around its first implementation. Nicolas van Saberhagen may never resolve into a person. The uncertainty is where the story begins.

MoneroCryptoNotePrivacy
02 / 12K / 4 minread