Articles to Read
A regularly updated list of recommended articles - For SoS21 Members
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There is no specific order to read these resources. Follow as you like, reading different views is a method to learn more. Every person will see money, privacy, bitcoin etc. in a different manner and learn in a different manner - the need and experiences of everyone differ. The neutrality of things is what offers the best way to learn.
Take a step back from what you already know or believe you know! Just enjoy.
Money
"Who controls the money, controls the world."
- Henry H. Kissinger
Shelling Out: The Origins of Money | Satoshi Nakamoto Institute
“The Yield from Money Held” Reconsidered | Hans-Hermann Hoppe
If a person then adds to his cash balance, he does so because he is confronted with a situation of (subjectively perceived) increased uncertainty.
Economics for Beginners
All you need to know about economics in 30 minutes. Scroll down to view the animated videos.
Why Economics Matters
Watch the short video below. There is no more important task for our civilization than to teach new generations of Americans to think seriously about the challenges of the world we live in.
What Has Government Done to Our Money?
Of all the economic problems, money is possibly the most tangled, and perhaps where we most need perspective. Scroll down to view the animated videos.
How Money Printing Really Works
We all know that money printer go brrr. But how does the fiat money supply really get increased and what does this mean for our economy?
Stanislav Kozlovski
The Use of Knowledge in Society | F. A. Hayek
Hayek points out that sensibly allocating scarce resources requires knowledge dispersed among many people, with no individual or group of experts capable of acquiring it all.
F. A. Hayek
The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
UPDATE: First published as a long-form article in 2018, The Bullish Case for Bitcoin has become the most read non-technical introduction to…
Vijay Boyapati
Masters and Slaves of Money
Money is a tool for trading human time. Central banks, the modern-era masters of money, wield this tool as a weapon to steal time and…
Robert Breedlove
Praxeology: The Methodology of Austrian Economics | Murray N. Rothbard
The praxeological method was the basic method of the earlier Austrian School and also of a considerable segment of the older classical school.
Praxeology and Liberalism | Ludwig von Mises
What the liberals maintain is that the immense majority prefer a life of health and abundance to misery, starvation, and death.
Trusted Third Parties are Security Holes | Satoshi Nakamoto Institute
Uncovering The Hidden Costs Of The Petrodollar
The world’s reserve currency relies on oil, dictators, inequality and the military-industrial complex. But a Bitcoin standard could change this.
Alex Gladstein
Structural Adjustment: How The IMF And World Bank Repress Poor Countries And Funnel Their Resources To Rich Ones
The IMF and World Bank do not seek to fix poverty, but only to enrich creditor nations. Could Bitcoin create a better global economic system for the developing world?
Alex Gladstein
The End Of Super Imperialism
How the U.S. succeeded in turning the dream of monetary imperialism into our current inequitable reality, and how Bitcoin offers a new standard.
Alex Gladstein
Enders Game - Unchained Capital
For context, the following research piece was written just before the Fed began to unwind its balance sheet (October 2017) and it hasn’t been revised or altered since. At the time, I had set out to better understand the financial crisis and the impact of quantitative easing (QE) in an effort to then…
Parker Lewis
Our Most Brilliant Idea
Ideas ambulate humanity across history. A new and useful idea is an innovation, which can benefit everyone for the rest of time. Therefore…
Robert Breedlove
Did Bastiat say “when goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will”? | Online Library of Liberty
Fighting Monetary Colonialism With Open-Source Code
France still uses monetary colonialism to exploit 15 African nations. Could Bitcoin be a way out?
Alex Gladstein
Check Your Financial Privilege
While those comfortable in the dollar bubble deride Bitcoin, the stories of three emerging market users demonstrate why it is so important.
Alex Gladstein
Inalienable Property Rights - The Law, Language, Money, and Morality of Bitcoin | dergigi.com
If speech and the free exercise thereof is sacred, then Bitcoin is sacred, because all that Bitcoin requires of you is to think and to speak.
The Freedom of Value - How Value-for-Value Fixes the Monetization of Information | dergigi.com
How #Bitcoin and #Value4Value fixes the monetization of information.
Bitcoin Is Venice
Rhapsody on a Theme of Nakamoto
allen farrington
Fiat Privilege
what it is and how to fight it
allen farringtonBitcoin Is Halal
Part XI of the Bitgenstein Serialization
allen farrington
Bitcoin Obsoletes All Other Money - Unchained Capital
When it comes to bitcoin adoption, there are generally two rules that never seem to fail. Everyone always feels late, and everyone always wishes they had bought more bitcoin.
Parker LewisMoney, blockchains, and social scalability
Introduction Blockchains are all the rage. The oldest and biggest blockchain of them all is Bitcoin , which over its eight-year hist...
Nick Szabo
Privacy
"Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world. "
- Eric Hughes
"I am doing nothing wrong" - isn't the best thought, to begin with."
The Case for Privacy | Satoshi Nakamoto Institute
Digital Cash & Privacy | Satoshi Nakamoto Institute
The Right to Privacy. Adam Carlyle Breckenridge. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1970. Pp. 152. $5.75.) | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
The Right to Privacy. Adam Carlyle Breckenridge. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1970. Pp. 152. $5.75.) - Volume 65 Issue 1
Louis B. Moreland
Totalitarianism and Freedom of Speech
The unbridled propaganda war waged around the Ukrainian crisis once again raises the question of independence of the media. According to journalist Alexander Podrabinek, the purging of information space could be avoided if the international community promptly and decisively reacted to the first sign…
Alexander Podrabinek
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Freedom and Privacy - Two Sides of the Same Coin | dergigi.com
The solution to improving online privacy was not to create a 2nd internet.
The Case for Electronic Cash in an Open and Free Society - Coin Center
Jerry Brito lays out why society must embrace the privacy cryptocurrencies offer and what we could give up in a world without them. Learn more about this conversation.
We must protect our ability to transact privately online - Coin Center
Without cryptocurrency, a cashless society is a surveillance society…
Jerry Brito
Circumventing Surveillance On The Open Internet
As the resurgence of the EARN IT Act shows, we’re all in need of tools for communicating privately online.
L0la L33tz
Your Money and Your Life
Central Bank Digital Currencies will ransom our future
Edward Snowden
Bitcoin And The Hidden Costs Of Hyper-Adoption
Fundamental aspects of Bitcoin’s properties are at risk if privacy isn’t viewed as paramount to further development.
L0la L33tz
The Magic Dust of Cryptography - How digital information is changing our society | dergigi.com
Thoughts on the nature of information, free speech, and how strong cryptography changes everything.
Privacy vs. Convenience.
It’s an unfortunate truth that most people in today’s world prioritise convenience over privacy. Services like Google Maps, Google Photos, Facebook & equivalents collect continuous metadata streams on billions of people daily. We love that GPS can pinpoint our exact locati
KYCfree
The Cypherpunks
“Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and we’re going to write it.” — The Cypherpunk’s Manifesto, 1993
Haseeb Qureshi
Op Ed: As Cash Fades, Will Bitcoin Keep Protest Alive in the Surveillance Age?
In the surveillance age, decentralized and private payments are a crucial innovation for a digital future where we retain our civil liberties and personal freedoms.
Alex Gladstein
Cultural Revolutions
Freedom is not a goal, but a direction
Edward Snowden
The Rise of the Sovereign Individual - How power is re-aligning itself in an internet-native world | dergigi.com
Decentralized and private payments are a necessary innovation for a digital future where we retain our civil liberties and personal freedoms.
The Death of Decentralized Email
A historical review of the multi-decade centralization and capture of the email protocol.
Some Tools:
Privacy Tools
All tools are as good as its user. Improving upon habits is necessary than just using the tools
sos21
PrivacyTools.io - Fight Mass Surveillance with Encryption
The most reliable source for privacy tools since 2015. Software and services to counter surveillance with encryption for better internet privacy.
Which browsers are best for privacy?
An open-source privacy audit of popular web browsers.
Exodus for Android: Finds trackers embedded in all your apps
Folder Encryption with Cryptomator.
Cryptomator is an excellent software package that allows users to secure their files and folders using 256-bit AES encryption. Without first decrypting the folder, an attacker cannot obtain sensitive information on the data contained within. Your files, file names and folder stru
KYCfree
The New Oil
Data is the new oil
Home
Privacy Guides is your central privacy and security resource to protect yourself online.
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Privacy first steps | sethforprivacy.com
A quick post detailing a recommendation of the order of steps I would take if starting from scratch in my privacy journey today.
Seth For Privacy
Bitcoin
Why Bitcoin
Books, Articles, Podcasts, and other curated Bitcoin resources.
Nobody Understands Bitcoin (And That’s OK)
Does anyone understand bitcoin? This multifaceted technology is different things to different people, and we should accept that, argues Jameson Lopp.
Jameson Lopp
Why Bitcoin is Different
If you’re new to the Bitcoin space, the last few months have been pretty crazy. There have been some steep climbs and heart-stopping drops…
Jimmy Song
Bitcoin is Not Backed by Nothing - Unchained Capital
Bitcoin is not backed by nothing. It has a fixed supply and is finitely scarce. Only 21 million bitcoin will ever exist. But how and why is that?
Parker LewisThe Number Zero and Bitcoin
Satoshi gave the world Bitcoin, a true “something for nothing.” His discovery of absolute scarcity for money is an unstoppable idea that…
Robert Breedlove
Bitcoin First
Why investors need to consider bitcoin separately from other digital assets.
Bitcoin Obsoletes All Other Money - Unchained Capital
When it comes to bitcoin adoption, there are generally two rules that never seem to fail. Everyone always feels late, and everyone always wishes they had bought more bitcoin.
Parker LewisThe Dangers Of Paper Bitcoin
The potential of losing your funds isn’t the only reason to secure your own bitcoin. It also ensures the price cannot be manipulated.
Captain Sidd