Shelling Out - The Origins of Money [Nick Szabo]

Vijay Boyapati details in a Twitter thread, the brilliant but subtle shift that cypherpunks discovered in the economic concept of scarcity that made the...

"From an engineering perspective the mechanical clock with its novelty, the escapement, was by far the more important invention. In terms of its impact...

The only way to protect yourself from closed, surveilled AI tools, is to use the open and private alternatives. When NVK couldn't find them,...