Governments claim monopoly, but we can choose between them. Flag theory explains how mobility, diversification, and “exit” create a real marketplace for governance.
Crypto-related prosecutions illustrate how allegations of crime are used to target privacy-enhancing tools and the people who build them.
Last month, President Donald Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced that the United States government would be “selling a gold card,” with permanent residency status and a pathway toward…
Residence-by-investment is common, but present laws make American citizenship a permanent tax and regulatory trap.
"While the SEC’s long-overdue approval of a Bitcoin spot ETF deserves a bit of celebration, watch out for what’s next. The state apparatus will increasingly treat Bitcoin as a regulated…
"Nobody ever planned MRE cheese spread as the preferred medium of exchange between military service members. Cheese spontaneously emerged, again and again, in a process of competition between goods." ~Emile…
"The primary obstacle to continuous improvement in the human condition is human (political or ideological) interference with the liberty of others." ~Emile Phaneuf III & Christopher Lingle
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them." ~Emile Phaneuf III
"History is full of instructive examples that reveal the conditions that allow for both human flourishing and those that end catastrophically." ~ Emile Phaneuf III
"As Bitcoin is a highly decentralized and antifragile system with no real-world backed assets that can be seized to shut it down, appears to be the only realistic candidate to…