Cryptoeconomics

See the “Cryptoeconomics” side menu for a full list of topics.

This started as a way to avoid retyping the same ideas, 140 characters at a time. In keeping with that environment, topics were as short as possible, and informal. I did not intend to write a book, and still could not.

Most of the topics (including this one) were written on my phone, on a flight, train or in a coffee shop. Many are quick observations that arise from intimate knowledge of core Bitcoin code or long self-study and experience in various disciplines.

Over time topics began to interact, a necessary taxonomy erupted, and what had been a casual process of ad-hoc observation started to become work. I made an honest effort to rationalize links and terminology, but my focus remains on understanding.

I’ve used the terms “Catallactics” and “Praxeology” to describe the underlying discipline. People also use the term “Austrian Economics”. I find each of these unsatisfying, so have started to refer to the discipline as “Rational Economics”. A strictly rational person with some perspective on economics would understand the inevitability of this.

The topics form a graph, over which no total ordering seems appropriate. The table of contents is a poorly-imposed order. While some attempt at progression has been made, I recommend reading the topics as they were written, as a curiosity.