Virtually everyone agrees that social media is broken. On Facebook, X, Instagram, and TikTok, people fear out-of-control algorithms, fake news, state actor censorship, and propaganda. Google and Meta collect vast troves of…
Tag: Decentralization
How 1990s Libertarians Laid the Groundwork for Cryptocurrency
The Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek wanted to denationalize money. David Chaum, an innovator in the field of cryptography and electronic cash, wanted to shield it from surveillance. Their goals were not the…
The Federal Government Is Trying To Shut Down Decentralized Finance
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced yesterday it had both filed and settled charges against three “decentralized finance” operations, Opyn Inc., ZeroEx Inc., and Deridex Inc. In the agency’s own language,…
Debate: Bitcoin Is the Future of Free Exchange
Bitcoin Is an Effective Tool for Liberty Affirmative: Alex Gladstein Joanna Andreasson There was a time when it was fair to question whether bitcoin was an effective tool for liberty. In its…
Nostr and the Decentralized Future of Social Media Is Here: Live with NVK, Will Casarin, Nick Gillespie, and Zach Weissmueller
What is Nostr, the fledgling software project to which Twitter founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey gave 14 bitcoin (worth approximately $245,000 at the time) in December following Elon Musk’s controversial Twitter…