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crypto/2026-08-11
Who Owns the Algorithm?FILE 00119K

Who Owns the Algorithm?

A vehicle-routing method beat the state of the art this year and was published for anyone to read. Who owns it? TIG's licensing document is the fullest answer crypto has produced to the value-capture question: copyright conceded dead, patents on technical effects, a data-disclosure license that herds commercial users toward payment, and community enforcement in place of courts. The mechanism is real. The demand is unproven. Here is what would have to be true.

TIGThe Innovation GameValue Capture
01 / 19K / 7 minread
crypto/2026-07-24
Back to the Bearer AssetFILE 00227K

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
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