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The Engine of Prosperity: How Four Sources Drive All Economic Progress
Four sources of economic progress form an interdependent system that emerges spontaneously from voluntary exchange when property rights remain completely intact.
The Credit Famine: How Modern Banking Starves Real Commerce
Modern banking systematically transformed from credit creator to deliberate gatekeeper, engineering $2.5 trillion trade finance gap while earning billions from derivatives.
The Mathematics That Bridges Bitcoin: From BitVM to Argo
Cryptographic enforcement succeeds where trust fails, and nowhere does this principle matter more than in Bitcoin's quest for trustless bridges.
The Non-Computational Nature of Agency
Vervaeke proves agency emerges from non-algorithmic relevance realization, explaining why Bitcoin and Nostr preserve human autonomy while algorithmic systems destroy it.
The Code Liberation: How AI Makes Software Infinitely Customizable
When AI handles compilation and patching tasks, source-based computing finally escapes the domain of experts, ending decades of binary distribution monopoly.
The Anatomy of Aggression
Rothbard's typology classifies all state intervention into autistic, binary, and triangular forms, revealing the common thread of coercive aggression beneath policy complexity.
The Merchant's Return: When Systems Fail, Producers Prosper
Being cast out of the system reveals its deepest secret: you were never its beneficiary, only its fuel. Freedom begins with this recognition.
Another round of patience
Time preference reveals through lending at interest rates. Hoarding refuses all rates, demanding present possession. Expected gains are speculation, not deferral.
Temporary Autonomous Zones: The Economics of Exit
When defense costs less than attack and property emerges through daily practice, autonomous zones become economically sustainable refuges.
The Root of Money
Money is neither vice nor virtue but the material expression of human judgment exercised through time. Only parasites hate it.
A Constitution for the Ungoverned
Medieval merchants and diaspora communities built functional legal systems without states; their principles can now govern disputes in cyberspace.
Build for the Mole
Infiltration is inevitable; detection is unreliable. The real defense against state informants is building organizations where their presence cannot accomplish its purpose.
Securing the Second Realm
Security in autonomous zones means making attack uneconomical through deterrence, distributed defense, and eternal vigilance against any protector becoming predator.
A Vibe Coding Setup in Your Pocket
GrapheneOS now runs a hardware-isolated Debian VM on your phone, and OpenCode provides open-source AI coding against any provider you choose.
The Third Option
Libertarian strategy gains more from building parallel institutions that coexist with state power than from reform or territorial exit.
The Consumption You Call Saving
Holding money does not defer gratification but consumes the opportunity cost of lending, making hoarding a present expense rather than proof of low time preference.
The Moral Case for Debt Repudiation
Public debt differs fundamentally from private debt: politicians pledge our wealth, bondholders knowingly invest in future theft, so repudiation restores justice.
The Algebra of Trust
Anonymous commerce requires solving the trust problem, and the solution may be to treat trust itself as a quantifiable, tradeable commodity.
The Constitution That Isn't One
The Universal Principles of Liberty codifies libertarian jurisprudence as discovered law, providing a meta-normative baseline for decentralized justice without sovereign authority.
The Action That Accomplishes Nothing
Decentralization does not prevent the adversary from acting against you. It ensures that his action accomplishes nothing.