References Index
Curated references articles.
Last updated: 2026-07-16
Contents
| File | Summary | Tags | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Lessons | Reference guide to Gigi’s 21 Lessons (2020), a reflective tour of what Bitcoin teaches rather than what it is: three chapters of seven lessons each on Bitcoin’s philosophical teachings (immutability, scarcity, identity, free speech, the limits of knowledge), its economic teachings (financial ignorance, inflation, value, the history and downfall of money, sound money), and its technological teachings (strength in numbers, don’t-trust-verify, why telling time takes work, privacy, and why cypherpunks write code). A deliberately accessible on-ramp that compresses the corpus’s Austrian and cypherpunk threads into aphorisms. | gigi, bitcoin, cypherpunk, sound-money, hard-money, time-preference, privacy, proof-of-work, philosophy | 2026-07-08 |
| A Lodging of Wayfaring Men | Reference guide to Paul Rosenberg’s novel A Lodging of Wayfaring Men (2007 Creative Commons edition): a small group — the Free Souls — builds an untraceable, encrypted free-market society on the internet, beyond state oversight. Often called the Crypto Anarchist’s Bible, it dramatizes voluntary order, sound money, and the political-versus-economic-means distinction. | paul-rosenberg, a-lodging-of-wayfaring-men, crypto-anarchy, agorism, anarcho-capitalism, cypherpunk, voluntaryism, sound-money, fiction, novel | 2026-06-16 |
| A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism | Reference guide to Hoppe’s comparative-systems book on capitalism, socialism, and property regimes, now ingested in full text. | hoppe, austrian-economics, socialism, property-rights | 2026-06-09 |
| Adam Back | Adam Back is the cryptographer who created Hashcash, the proof-of-work cost function first proposed on the Cypherpunks list in 1997 and formalized in his 2002 paper. Hashcash is the abuse-pricing primitive — costly to mint, cheap and publicly to verify — that Satoshi Nakamoto cites in the Bitcoin whitepaper and adapts from spam throttling into timestamp consensus, making Back the cost-function rung in the cypherpunk proof-of-work lineage. | adam-back, hashcash, proof-of-work, cypherpunk, bitcoin, digital-cash, cryptography | 2026-06-18 |
| Albert Jay Nock | Short author reference for Albert Jay Nock, the American essayist and Old Right forerunner whose Our Enemy, the State transmitted Oppenheimer’s state theory into American libertarian anti-statism. | albert-jay-nock, old-right, state, social-power, political-means, american-history | 2026-06-09 |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Short author reference for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Soviet dissident writer and author of The Gulag Archipelago. He enters this wiki as a witness to Soviet totalitarianism, not as a libertarian political theorist. | aleksandr-solzhenitsyn, gulag, soviet-union, stalinism, dissident-literature, totalitarianism | 2026-05-12 |
| America’s Great Depression | Reference guide to Rothbard’s 1963 application of Austrian Business Cycle Theory to the 1929 crash and the prolonged depression that followed; the canonical Austrian interpretation of the era and a sustained revisionist case against Hoover as the architect of the New Deal interventionist program. | rothbard, great-depression, austrian-economics, business-cycle, economic-history, hoover, monetary-history | 2026-06-18 |
| Anarchy, State, and Utopia | Robert Nozick’s 1974 Anarchy, State, and Utopia, in three parts: Part I derives a minimal (night-watchman) state from a stateless order by an invisible-hand process without violating rights; Part II argues that no more than the minimal state is justified, via the entitlement theory of justice and the Wilt Chamberlain argument that liberty upsets patterns; Part III presents the minimal state as a framework for utopia. The academic anchor of the wiki’s minarchism node and the principal counterpart to its Rothbardian anarcho-capitalism. | robert-nozick, anarchy-state-and-utopia, minarchism, minimal-state, entitlement-theory, distributive-justice, wilt-chamberlain, invisible-hand, night-watchman-state, political-philosophy | 2026-06-29 |
| Anatomy of the State | Reference guide to Rothbard’s concise anti-state essay on political monopoly, ideological camouflage, and the conflict between state power and social power. | rothbard, state, anti-statism, political-theory, political-means, evolution-of-the-state | 2026-06-09 |
| Anthem | Ayn Rand’s 1938 dystopian novella, set in a collectivist future that has abolished the word “I” and replaced every self with the plural “we.” Its protagonist, Equality 7-2521, rediscovers individual achievement, romantic love, and finally the singular pronoun itself, taking the name Prometheus. The novella prefigures Rand’s later individualism and is in the US public domain. | ayn-rand, anthem, objectivism, individualism, collectivism, dystopia, novella, ego, public-domain | 2026-06-18 |
| Are Bitcoins Ownable? | Konrad Graf’s action-based property-theory work on Bitcoin (originally a 2013 essay, cited here in the expanded 5 November 2015 book edition), arguing that bitcoin can be analyzed as rival and potentially ownable without collapsing into intellectual-property claims over copyable patterns. | konrad-graf, bitcoin, property-rights, legal-theory, intellectual-property, austrian-economics, cypherpunk, rival-goods | 2026-06-18 |
| Aristotle | Short author reference for Aristotle (384–322 BC), whose Nicomachean Ethics and Politics root the natural-law tradition: the distinction between natural and conventional justice, and a teleological account of human nature and the polis. ‘The Philosopher’ for the Scholastics — but also the source of the natural-slavery doctrine libertarians reject. | aristotle, natural-law, natural-justice, classical-canon, virtue-ethics, teleology, political-philosophy | 2026-06-09 |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel dramatizes her philosophy of Objectivism through a mystery: as the world’s most productive minds vanish in a deliberate strike led by John Galt, industrialist Dagny Taggart fights to keep civilization running. Rand uses the collapse to argue that reason, individual achievement, and rational self-interest are the engines of human life, and that a morality of self-sacrifice is what destroys them. | ayn-rand, atlas-shrugged, objectivism, capitalism, individualism, novel, john-galt, strike-of-the-mind | 2026-06-18 |
| Ayn Rand | Ayn Rand (1905-1982) was a Russian-American novelist and philosopher, founder of Objectivism, who dramatized rational self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism in The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and defended them in her non-fiction. She is libertarian-adjacent but rejected the label and broke with both Hayekian classical liberalism and Rothbardian anarchism. | ayn-rand, objectivism, capitalism, individualism, rational-self-interest, novelist-philosopher, romantic-realism | 2026-06-09 |
| b-money | b-money is Wei Dai’s 1998 proposal for a digital money that lets pseudonymous online participants hold balances and enforce contracts without any government or trusted issuer. Money is created by broadcasting solutions to costly computational problems, transfers are signed broadcasts applied to a shared set of account databases, and contracts are bonded with arbitration. It is one of the cypherpunk proof-of-work predecessors the Bitcoin whitepaper cites directly, supplying proof-of-work issuance and signed, broadcast-ordered accounts while leaving the consensus problem open. | b-money, wei-dai, proof-of-work, digital-money, cypherpunk, crypto-anarchy, contracts, trusted-third-parties | 2026-06-19 |
| Bernstein v. United States (1999) | The 1999 Ninth Circuit panel opinion in Bernstein held that encryption source code, as used by cryptographers, can be expressive First Amendment material and that the challenged export-control licensing regime operated as unconstitutional prior restraint. The opinion was withdrawn when the court granted rehearing en banc, and the dispute was mooted by changed export rules before any en banc ruling, so it set no binding precedent. The source also records the district-court path through Judge Marilyn Hall Patel’s 1996 and 1997 rulings. | libertarian, cypherpunk, bernstein-v-united-states, code-as-speech, first-amendment, export-controls, crypto-wars, court-ruling | 2026-05-30 |
| Bit Gold | Bit Gold is Nick Szabo’s 2005 proposal for a digital money built from unforgeably costly proof-of-work strings, secure distributed timestamping, and a distributed title registry. It aims to recreate the trust-minimized scarcity of precious metals online, and is the closest pre-Bitcoin design to Bitcoin’s combination of cost, timestamping, and chain of title — though Bitcoin’s whitepaper does not cite it. | bit-gold, nick-szabo, proof-of-work, digital-money, cypherpunk, unforgeable-costliness, timestamping, title-registry, trusted-third-parties | 2026-06-18 |
| Bitcoin Is Venice | Allen Farrington’s 2021 essay reads Bitcoin as a civilizational exit from fiat finance, using Venice, medieval commerce, Islamic finance, mobile capital, open-source money, and programmable settlement as interpretive frames. | allen-farrington, bitcoin, austrian-economics, sound-money, fiat, venice, capitalism, cypherpunk | 2026-06-09 |
| Bitcoin Whitepaper | The 2008 Bitcoin whitepaper proposes peer-to-peer electronic cash by combining digital signatures, public transaction ordering, and hash-based proof of work. Its 12 sections define the double-spending solution, network process, incentives, verification model, privacy limits, and attack calculations. | bitcoin, satoshi-nakamoto, proof-of-work, digital-cash, cypherpunk, peer-to-peer | 2026-06-18 |
| Blind Signatures for Untraceable Payments | David Chaum’s CRYPTO ‘82 paper (published in the 1983 proceedings) introduces blind signatures as a way for a bank to sign payment tokens without learning which signed token is later spent and deposited, preserving payer privacy while retaining verification and audit controls. | david-chaum, blind-signatures, digital-cash, privacy, cryptography, cypherpunk, payments | 2026-06-18 |
| Busting Myths about the State and the Libertarian Alternative | Reference guide to Zack Rofer’s accessible libertarian primer on common pro-state myths and common misconceptions about the free market. | state, libertarianism, strategy, advocacy | 2026-06-09 |
| Capital | Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (Das Kapital, Vol. I, 1867) is Karl Marx’s central work of economics. Its opening chapter develops the labor theory of value: a commodity has value because abstract human labour is embodied in it, and the magnitude of that value is the socially necessary labour-time for its production. This objective, production-side theory of value is the position the Austrian subjective theory of value was built to overturn. | karl-marx, das-kapital, labor-theory-of-value, value-theory, commodities, abstract-labour, socially-necessary-labour-time, surplus-value, commodity-fetishism, classical-economics | 2026-06-20 |
| Capital and Interest: A Critical History of Economical Theory | Reference guide to Böhm-Bawerk’s Capital and Interest (Smart’s 1890 translation), Vol. I of Kapital und Kapitalzins: the critical history that surveys and refutes earlier theories of interest — productivity, use, abstinence, and exploitation — clearing the ground for his own positive theory. | eugen-von-bohm-bawerk, austrian-economics, capital-theory, interest, history-of-economic-thought, exploitation-theory | 2026-06-15 |
| Capitalism and Freedom | Reference guide to Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom (1962, with Rose D. Friedman): the classic statement of Chicago-school classical liberalism — competitive capitalism as economic freedom and a precondition of political freedom, the limited role of government, and the case for a legislated money-growth rule. The broad free-market source in the wiki’s Austrian-versus-Chicago comparison, where Friedman is the ally on liberty and the rival on money. | milton-friedman, chicago-school, capitalism-and-freedom, classical-liberalism, competitive-capitalism, role-of-government, monetary-policy, k-percent-rule, school-vouchers, negative-income-tax, classical-liberal | 2026-06-18 |
| Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal | A 1966 essay collection by Ayn Rand with Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, and Robert Hessen, arguing that laissez-faire capitalism is the only moral social system. Capitalism is ‘unknown’ because even its defenders justified it on utilitarian rather than moral grounds. Grounded against a partial OCR scan (front matter plus the opening essay); broader structural detail rests on established bibliography. | ayn-rand, capitalism-the-unknown-ideal, objectivism, capitalism, laissez-faire, political-economy, alan-greenspan, nathaniel-branden | 2026-06-26 |
| Carl Menger | Carl Menger (1840–1921) founded the Austrian School with the marginal-utility analysis of his 1871 Principles of Economics, and in his 1892 essay On the Origins of Money gave the school its defining account of money: a spontaneous, unintended institution that emerges from the differing saleableness of goods as self-interested traders converge on the most marketable commodities — without any state decree. This is the seed of Mises’s regression theorem and the Austrian-cypherpunk theory of money the wiki traces into Bitcoin. | carl-menger, austrian-economics, origin-of-money, marginal-utility, saleableness, medium-of-exchange, regression-theorem, spontaneous-order, methodological-individualism | 2026-06-18 |
| Carl Schmitt | Author reference for Carl Schmitt, included as a non-libertarian and anti-liberal theorist of sovereignty, exception, decision, and the friend/enemy distinction. | carl-schmitt, sovereignty, state-of-exception, friend-enemy-distinction, political-theology, decisionism, non-libertarian | 2026-05-12 |
| Charles Tilly | Short author reference for Charles Tilly, the American historical sociologist whose 1985 organized-crime essay and later Coercion, Capital, and European States supply this wiki’s non-libertarian Tilly tradition node. | charles-tilly, historical-sociology, state, war-and-state-formation, comparative-historical-sociology, non-libertarian | 2026-05-30 |
| Cicero | Short author reference for Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC), the Roman statesman, orator, and philosopher whose De Re Publica transmitted Stoic natural law — ‘right reason in accordance with nature’ — into the Roman legal tradition and thence to the West. | cicero, natural-law, natural-rights, stoicism, roman-law, classical-canon, republicanism | 2026-06-09 |
| Coercion, Capital, and European States | Reference guide to Charles Tilly’s historical-sociological account of European state formation, war-making, extraction, citizenship, nationalism, soldiers, and the capital/coercion typology. The raw aggregate now includes chapters 1-7. | charles-tilly, state, historical-sociology, war-and-state-formation, coercion, capital, protection-racket, european-history, citizenship, nationalism, military-power, full-text, non-libertarian | 2026-06-26 |
| CryptoNote Whitepaper | Nicolas van Saberhagen’s 2013 CryptoNote v2.0 paper proposes a privacy-preserving cryptocurrency using one-time keys for receiver privacy, one-time ring signatures for sender privacy, and a memory-bound proof-of-work function intended to reduce specialized mining advantage. The paper is the design foundation for Monero. | libertarian, cypherpunk, cryptonote, monero, ring-signatures, stealth-addresses, proof-of-work, privacy-coins, digital-cash | 2026-05-28 |
| David Chaum | David Chaum is the cryptographer who invented blind signatures in his 1982 paper and laid out, in his 1985 Communications of the ACM article, a comprehensive program of privacy-preserving transaction systems built to make Big Brother obsolete. His blind-signature primitive lets a bank sign a payer-blinded token that the payer later unblinds, so the bank cannot link a withdrawal to its eventual spend — yielding untraceable digital cash. Chaum is the foundational pre-cypherpunk cryptographer whose ecash and DigiCash are the direct ancestors of later digital-cash designs. | david-chaum, blind-signatures, ecash, digicash, privacy, cypherpunk, digital-cash, cryptography | 2026-06-18 |
| David Friedman | Author reference for David D. Friedman (b. 1945): the consequentialist anarcho-capitalist, whose The Machinery of Freedom argues for a stateless order — police and courts replaced by competing private firms — on efficiency/outcome grounds rather than a natural-rights axiom. Covers the competing-protection-agency mechanism (Tannahelp vs Dawn Defense; profit prices war out, contra Rand), private property as ‘the machinery of freedom’, ‘selling the state in small pieces’, and the explicit method choice to judge legal rules by consequences. The missing consequentialist pillar beside the wiki’s natural-rights (Rothbard/Rand) ancap material; disambiguated from his father Milton. | david-friedman, machinery-of-freedom, anarcho-capitalism, consequentialism, utilitarian, private-law, protection-agencies, market-anarchism, chicago-school | 2026-07-15 |
| De Legibus (On the Laws) | Cicero’s De Legibus (On the Laws, c. 52 BC) — the systematic companion to De Re Publica and the fullest classical statement of the natural-law argument: justice and law are rooted in nature and right reason, not in opinion or utility. ‘Law is nothing else than right reason, enjoining what is good and forbidding what is evil’; man is ‘born for justice. | cicero, natural-law, natural-rights, classical-canon, stoicism, de-legibus, on-the-laws, right-reason, justice, roman-law | 2026-06-12 |
| De Re Publica (The Republic of Cicero) | Cicero’s De Re Publica (c. 54–51 BC) — the Stoic-Roman transmission of natural law. Book III preserves the canonical formula: ‘There is indeed a law, right reason, which is in accordance with nature, existing in all, unchangeable, eternal,’ the same at Rome and at Athens, that no senate or people can abolish. | cicero, natural-law, natural-rights, classical-canon, stoicism, de-re-publica, roman-law, right-reason, justice, mixed-constitution | 2026-06-09 |
| Democracy: The God That Failed | Reference guide to Hoppe’s 2001 regime-comparison book on monarchy, democracy, time preference, decivilization, and natural order, now backed by a full-text Internet Archive OCR ingest. | hoppe, democracy, monarchy, time-preference, decivilization, natural-order, regime-theory, praxeology | 2026-06-18 |
| Denationalisation of Money | F. A. Hayek’s 1976/1978 IEA monograph arguing that the government monopoly on money should be abolished and replaced by ‘free trade in money’ — competition among private issuers of distinct, stable-value currencies, so that the discipline of competition forces issuers to maintain purchasing power. Widely cited as an intellectual forerunner of cryptocurrency, and sharply criticized by Rothbard and Hoppe on regression-theorem grounds. | hayek, denationalisation-of-money, competing-currencies, currency-competition, free-banking, sound-money, monetary-theory, austrian-economics, bitcoin | 2026-06-26 |
| Discipline and Punish | Reference guide to Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, especially disciplinary power, surveillance, examination, docile bodies, panopticism, and the prison form. | michel-foucault, discipline-and-punish, disciplinary-power, panopticism, prison, surveillance, normalization, non-libertarian, commercially-published | 2026-05-12 |
| Economic Thought Before Adam Smith | Volume 1 of Rothbard’s two-volume Austrian history of economic thought (1995), running from the Greeks to Adam Smith. It advances two revisionist theses: that sound economics began not with Smith but with the natural-law tradition and the late Spanish scholastics, and that Smith’s labour theory of value was a wrong turn away from the subjective-value insights of his Salamancan and French predecessors. | murray-n-rothbard, austrian-economics, history-of-economic-thought, school-of-salamanca, late-scholastics, natural-law, just-price, subjective-value, quantity-theory, classical-canon | 2026-06-09 |
| Economics in One Lesson | Henry Hazlitt’s 1946 primer, the best-known modern popularization of the free-market case. Its ‘one lesson’ generalizes Bastiat’s seen-and-unseen method into a rule for all economic reasoning: the art of economics is to trace not merely the immediate effect of an act or policy on one group, but its longer and secondary effects on every group. The book states the lesson in two short opening chapters and then applies it, chapter by chapter, to the fallacies of public works, taxes, government credit, machinery and ‘technological unemployment,’ tariffs and the drive for exports, price-fixing and rent control, the minimum wage, unions, ‘saving’ particular industries, the assault on profits, and inflation. It is exposition, not original theory — Hazlitt names his debts to Bastiat, Wicksteed, and Mises — and it is the wiki’s standard on-ramp to Austrian and free-market economics. | henry-hazlitt, economics-in-one-lesson, seen-and-unseen, broken-window-fallacy, opportunity-cost, austrian-economics, free-trade, protectionism, price-controls, classical-liberalism, frederic-bastiat | 2026-07-16 |
| Eichmann in Jerusalem | Reference guide to Hannah Arendt’s 1963 report on Adolf Eichmann’s Jerusalem trial and the banality-of-evil thesis. Companion to The Origins of Totalitarianism: the earlier book analyzes the regime, while Eichmann analyzes the ordinary participant. | hannah-arendt, eichmann, banality-of-evil, holocaust, totalitarianism, bureaucracy, moral-judgment, thoughtlessness, non-libertarian | 2026-06-18 |
| Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk | Author reference for Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, the second-generation Austrian economist whose capital-and-interest theory — roundabout production, time preference, and capital as reducible to land, labor, and time — is the lineage Mises and Rothbard carry into this wiki’s capital concept. | eugen-von-bohm-bawerk, austrian-economics, capital-theory, time-preference, interest, roundaboutness, classical-canon | 2026-06-18 |
| F. A. Hayek | Reference guide to Friedrich Hayek’s place in this wiki as the second pillar of mature Austrian economics: knowledge-problem theorist, business-cycle theorist, and classical-liberal critic of central planning. | hayek, austrian-economics, classical-liberalism, knowledge-problem, business-cycle | 2026-06-18 |
| Farewell to Westphalia | Reference guide to Jarrad Hope and Peter Ludlow’s Farewell to Westphalia (2025, CC BY-SA). The Peace of Westphalia made territorial nation-states the world’s fixed political form; the book treats that form as an aging technology and argues the most important application of blockchain is not finance but governance: immutable records, smart contracts, and DAOs as the technical base for voluntary ‘crypto-sovereign’ communities defined by exit and access rather than territory — with chapters on rights and responsibilities, inter-community collaboration, conflict (including Lowery’s Softwar thesis), and a post-territorial concept of sovereignty. | jarrad-hope, peter-ludlow, crypto-sovereignty, nation-state, westphalia, network-state, blockchain-governance, daos, exit, cypherpunk | 2026-07-08 |
| Fog of CryptoWar | Reference guide to Jonathan ‘smuggler’ Logan’s Fog of CryptoWar (2017), the wiki’s seed source on the second crypto war. Against the replayed 1990s arguments (‘you can’t ban math’), Logan shows why absolutist claims lose the policy fight — regulation targets behavior, not knowledge, and needs only partial enforcement — then surveys the real regulatory menu: metadata defense, insecure defaults, lawful hacking, update-channel trojans, and result-driven plaintext mandates enforced through the app-store chokepoint. | jonathan-logan, smuggler, crypto-wars, going-dark, encryption, key-escrow, lawful-hacking, backdoors, surveillance, cypherpunk, opsec | 2026-07-08 |
| Folkways | Reference guide to W. G. Sumner’s Folkways (1906), the classic statement of the we-group/out-group distinction and the coinage of ethnocentrism, cited in this wiki for the tribal sentiment nationalism mobilizes. | william-graham-sumner, folkways, ethnocentrism, in-group, out-group, we-group, tribalism, sociology | 2026-06-14 |
| For a New Liberty | Reference guide to Rothbard’s movement-level overview of libertarian doctrine, applications, and strategy, now ingested in full text. | rothbard, libertarianism, anti-statism, strategy | 2026-06-09 |
| Franz Oppenheimer | Short author reference for Franz Oppenheimer, the German sociologist and political economist whose conquest theory of the state and political/economic means distinction fed into Nock, Rothbard, and later libertarian anti-state theory. | franz-oppenheimer, sociology, state, conquest-theory, political-means, economic-means | 2026-05-10 |
| Frédéric Bastiat | Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850) was a French classical-liberal economist, famous for lucid, satirical defenses of free markets. The wiki uses him for two enduring contributions: the seen-and-the-unseen principle and the broken-window fallacy (from That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen), and the theory of legal plunder (from The Law). | frederic-bastiat, french-liberal-school, classical-liberalism, free-trade, seen-and-unseen, broken-window-fallacy, legal-plunder, protectionism, economic-sophisms | 2026-07-01 |
| Hal Finney | Hal Finney was a cypherpunk cryptographer, PGP contributor, RPOW creator, early Bitcoin participant, and recipient of the first Bitcoin transaction. His selected posts bridge Hashcash, Bit Gold, reusable proof of work, and early Bitcoin. | hal-finney, bitcoin, rpow, proof-of-work, pgp, cypherpunk, digital-cash, satoshi-nakamoto | 2026-06-18 |
| Hannah Arendt | Author reference for Hannah Arendt, whose works now present in the wiki include Origins, Eichmann in Jerusalem, On Violence, The Human Condition, and On Revolution. | hannah-arendt, political-philosophy, totalitarianism, banality-of-evil, on-violence, the-human-condition, on-revolution, violence, power, republicanism, civic-humanism, continental-philosophy, non-libertarian | 2026-05-30 |
| Hans-Hermann Hoppe | Reference guide to Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s role in this wiki as a property theorist, Austrian economist, and major bridge from market theory to private-law anarchism. | hoppe, austrian-economics, libertarianism, property-rights, democracy, regime-theory | 2026-06-18 |
| Hashcash | Adam Back’s 2002 Hashcash paper formalizes the 1997 proof-of-work cost function for throttling spam and denial-of-service abuse, defining interactive and non-interactive variants, public verifiability, trapdoor freedom, and later applications including b-money. | hashcash, adam-back, proof-of-work, cypherpunk, bitcoin, spam, denial-of-service, cryptography | 2026-06-18 |
| Henry Hazlitt | Henry Hazlitt (1894–1993) was a leading free-market economic journalist of the 20th century — chief editorial writer for the New York Times, a weekly columnist for Newsweek, an editor of The Freeman, and a founding board member of the Foundation for Economic Education. He was not an original theorist but the tradition’s great transmitter: the writer who carried the ideas of Bastiat and Mises out of the treatises and into plain, popular prose. His signature work, Economics in One Lesson (1946), distills the free-market case into a single methodological rule and remains the best-known introductory text in the Austrian and classical-liberal canon. | henry-hazlitt, economics-in-one-lesson, austrian-economics, free-trade, economic-journalism, classical-liberalism, frederic-bastiat, ludwig-von-mises | 2026-07-16 |
| Hugo Grotius | Short author reference for Hugo Grotius (1583–1645), the Dutch jurist whose De Jure Belli ac Pacis secularized natural law and founded modern international law — grounding rights and obligations in human nature such that they would bind ‘even if there were no God. | hugo-grotius, natural-law, natural-rights, classical-canon, international-law, law-of-nations, rationalism, dutch-golden-age | 2026-06-12 |
| Human Action | Reference guide to Mises’s praxeological treatise (1949 / Scholar’s Edition 1998), the foundational text of modern Austrian economics and the immediate intellectual ancestor of Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State. | mises, austrian-economics, praxeology, economics | 2026-06-09 |
| Ideal Money and Asymptotically Ideal Money | Reference guide to John Nash’s lecture ‘Ideal Money and Asymptotically Ideal Money’, which argues for a money of stable long-run value approached by indexing issuance to industrial prices rather than central-bank discretion. | john-nash, ideal-money, monetary-theory, inflation, sound-money, hard-money, central-banking | 2026-06-14 |
| Individualism and Economic Order | Reference guide to Hayek’s 1948 essay collection containing ‘The Use of Knowledge in Society’, ‘Economics and Knowledge’, the three ‘Socialist Calculation’ essays, and ‘The Meaning of Competition’ — the most concentrated statement of his knowledge-problem critique of central planning. | hayek, knowledge-problem, spontaneous-order, socialist-calculation-debate, competition | 2026-06-26 |
| Inflation and Unemployment | Reference guide to Milton Friedman’s 1976 Nobel Memorial Lecture, Inflation and Unemployment: the natural-rate hypothesis, the vertical long-run Phillips curve, and the positive transitional relationship between inflation and unemployment — the empirical, monetarist core of the Chicago position on money and the business cycle, and the argument that anticipated 1970s stagflation. | milton-friedman, chicago-school, monetarism, phillips-curve, natural-rate-of-unemployment, inflation, unemployment, nobel-lecture, classical-liberal | 2026-06-25 |
| James Dale Davidson | Short author reference for James Dale Davidson as represented by The Sovereign Individual: an American venture capitalist, entrepreneur, and private-investment newsletter publisher who co-authored the book and two earlier forecasting works with Lord William Rees-Mogg. | james-dale-davidson, sovereign-individual, megapolitics, strategic-investment, venture-capital, non-libertarian | 2026-06-09 |
| Jason Lowery | Short author reference for Jason P. Lowery as represented by Softwar: a US Space Force officer and MIT SDM fellow whose thesis analyzes Bitcoin as electro-cyber power projection and national-security infrastructure. | jason-lowery, softwar, bitcoin, national-security, ussf, mit-sdm | 2026-06-18 |
| John Locke | Short author reference for John Locke (1632–1704), the English philosopher whose Second Treatise of Government gave the natural-rights tradition its decisive modern form: pre-political rights to life, liberty, and property; government by consent; and the right of revolution. | john-locke, natural-law, natural-rights, classical-liberalism, social-contract, property, empiricism, enlightenment | 2026-06-09 |
| John Maynard Keynes | Author reference for John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), the British economist whose General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) founded modern macroeconomics and ‘Keynesianism’ — the case for active fiscal and monetary management of aggregate demand to secure full employment. In this wiki he is the principal counterpoint to the Austrian tradition (Mises, Hayek, Rothbard). | john-maynard-keynes, keynesianism, macroeconomics, effective-demand, demand-management, fiscal-policy, monetary-policy, business-cycle, non-libertarian | 2026-06-16 |
| John Nash | Short author reference for John F. Nash Jr., the mathematician and Nobel laureate whose ‘Ideal Money’ lectures converge, from outside the Austrian tradition, on this wiki’s hard-money critique of discretionary fiat. | john-nash, ideal-money, monetary-theory, inflation, sound-money, game-theory, non-libertarian | 2026-06-14 |
| Joseph T. Salerno | Austrian-school monetary economist in the Mises-Rothbard tradition; Academic Vice President of the Mises Institute and Professor Emeritus of Economics in Pace University’s Lubin School of Business. Author of: (1) the 1987 True Money Supply (TMS) paper formalizing Rothbard’s broad money-supply criterion; (2) the 1993 ‘Mises and Hayek Dehomogenized’ paper distinguishing two paradigms within modern Austrian economics on source lineage, equilibrium/market-process treatment, and the socialist-calculation debate; (3) the 2010 essay collection Money, Sound and Unsound, spanning monetary theory foundations, inflation/deflation/depression, the gold standard, monetary-history applications, and contemporary commentary. | salerno, austrian-economics, monetary-theory, tms, mises-institute, pure-time-preference | 2026-06-26 |
| Julian Assange | Author reference for Julian Assange (b. 1971): cypherpunks-mailing-list contributor and Rubberhose author; the 2006 iq.org essays (State and Terrorist Conspiracies / Conspiracy as Governance) that blueprint WikiLeaks as a machine for taxing conspiratorial communication; WikiLeaks as applied cypherpunk sousveillance and the 2010 banking blockade as the empirical case for censorship-resistant money; the 2012 Cypherpunks book (‘Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action’); the persecution arc; and the honestly-flagged harm-versus-transparency dispute. | julian-assange, wikileaks, cypherpunk, transparency, censorship-resistance, conspiracy-as-governance, banking-blockade, whistleblowing, crypto-anarchy | 2026-07-12 |
| Karl Marx | Karl Marx (1818–1883) is the political economist whose labor theory of value the Austrian school takes as its principal foil. In Capital (1867) he holds that the value of a commodity is determined by the socially necessary labour-time embodied in it — value as an objective magnitude residing in the object. The Austrian subjective theory of value inverts this; Böhm-Bawerk’s Karl Marx and the Close of His System is the school’s classic refutation. | karl-marx, marxism, labor-theory-of-value, value-theory, das-kapital, classical-economics, exploitation, surplus-value, critique | 2026-06-20 |
| Karl Marx and the Close of His System | Reference guide to Böhm-Bawerk’s Karl Marx and the Close of His System (1896; Macdonald trans. 1898): the classic Austrian critique of Marx’s labor theory of value and the contradiction between Capital Vol. I (value = labor-time) and Vol. III (competitive prices of production). | eugen-von-bohm-bawerk, austrian-economics, karl-marx, marxism, labor-theory-of-value, value-theory, critique | 2026-06-15 |
| Konrad Graf | Konrad Graf is the Austrian-school theorist who applied action-based jurisprudence to Bitcoin in Are Bitcoins Ownable?, arguing that bitcoin can be analyzed as a rival, exclusively appropriable good — specified as a spendable transaction output — without repeating the intellectual-property error of treating copyable patterns as owned things. His work distinguishes owning a signing key from controlling a bitcoin, and shows where the ownability question actually bears on cases of theft, double spending, and fungibility. | konrad-graf, bitcoin, property-rights, praxeology, austrian-economics, cypherpunk | 2026-06-18 |
| Let’s Abolish Government | Reference guide to the Rothbard-curated Spooner collection on constitutional illegitimacy, jury nullification, slavery, and radical anti-state dissent. | spooner, government, constitutionalism, anti-statism | 2026-06-09 |
| Liberalism | Reference guide to Mises’s short 1927 statement of classical-liberal political economy: private property, peace, free trade, and a strictly limited state defended on consequentialist economic grounds. | mises, liberalism, classical-liberalism, free-trade | 2026-06-09 |
| Ludwig von Mises | Reference guide to Ludwig von Mises’s place in this wiki as the founder of modern Austrian economics, originator of the economic-calculation argument, and the methodological source for the wider Rothbardian tradition. | mises, austrian-economics, praxeology, classical-liberalism | 2026-06-18 |
| Lysander Spooner | Short author reference for Lysander Spooner (1808–1887), the American individualist anarchist, abolitionist, and legal theorist whose Natural Law; or The Science of Justice turns natural-rights reasoning against the legitimacy of legislation itself. | lysander-spooner, natural-law, natural-rights, individualist-anarchism, classical-canon, abolitionism, no-treason, american-libertarianism | 2026-06-09 |
| Man, Economy, and State | Reference guide to Rothbard’s full Man, Economy, and State aggregate: action, exchange, money, and the Power and Market intervention analysis. | rothbard, austrian-economics, economics, power-and-market | 2026-06-25 |
| Max Hillebrand | Short author reference for Max Hillebrand as represented in this wiki by The Praxeology of Privacy, a Towards Liberty public-domain book connecting Austrian economics, Rothbardian/Hoppean libertarianism, Bitcoin privacy, and cypherpunk implementation. | max-hillebrand, privacy, bitcoin, cypherpunk, austrian-economics | 2026-05-10 |
| Meditations on Cypherpunk Nightmares | Reference guide to Michael Goldstein’s ‘Meditations on Cypherpunk Nightmares’ (2014). Taking Timothy May’s Crypto Anarchist Manifesto seriously means accepting its dark side: anonymous markets will trade any information, including yours. Goldstein’s answer is not despair but a Stoic discipline layered under the cryptographic one — strong crypto manages risk, it is not a panacea; virtue in thought and action, and carefully judged trust in the people at the other end of the channel, are what remain in your control. | michael-goldstein, cypherpunk, crypto-anarchy, stoicism, privacy, information-markets, opsec, bitcoin | 2026-07-08 |
| Michel Foucault | Author reference for Michel Foucault, included as a non-libertarian genealogist of discipline, surveillance, biopower, population, and modern power. | michel-foucault, disciplinary-power, biopower, genealogy, sovereignty, population, non-libertarian | 2026-05-12 |
| Milton Friedman | Author reference for Milton Friedman (1912-2006), the American economist who led the Chicago school and revived the quantity theory of money as monetarism. His General Theory-era opponents were the Keynesians; in this wiki he is the principal free-market counterpoint to the Austrians (Mises, Hayek, Rothbard) — an ally on liberty and the market, a rival on money and method, whose case for a rule-bound managed central bank the Austrian corpus treats as managing the disease rather than curing it. | milton-friedman, chicago-school, monetarism, monetary-policy, natural-rate-of-unemployment, permanent-income-hypothesis, quantity-theory, k-percent-rule, money-supply, classical-liberalism, classical-liberal | 2026-06-18 |
| Mises and Hayek Dehomogenized | Joseph T. Salerno’s 1993 paper argues that modern Austrian economics contains two distinct paradigms, the Mises-Rothbard line and the Hayek-Kirzner line, with different source lineages, equilibrium treatments, and readings of the socialist-calculation debate. | salerno, mises, hayek, austrian-economics, socialist-calculation, market-process, monetary-calculation, knowledge-problem | 2026-06-18 |
| Money, Sound and Unsound | Joseph T. Salerno’s 2010 Mises Institute collection gathers 26 essays across monetary theory, inflation, deflation, depression, the gold standard, historical applications, and contemporary commentary, including the 1987 True Money Supply paper and related Mises-Hayek dehomogenization themes. | salerno, sound-money, austrian-economics, monetary-theory, gold-standard, tms, inflation, deflation, business-cycle | 2026-06-18 |
| Moxie Marlinspike | Moxie Marlinspike is the builder behind Signal — founder of Open Whisper Systems, creator of the Signal messenger, and, with Trevor Perrin, co-author of the X3DH and Double Ratchet specifications that form the Signal protocol. His distinctive contribution is not protocol theory but deployment: he made forward-secure end-to-end encryption a default consumer technology, first in Signal and then by getting the Signal protocol adopted into WhatsApp — the single largest rollout of strong cryptography in history, and the clearest mass-scale realization of the cypherpunk program. | moxie-marlinspike, signal, cryptography, end-to-end-encryption, deployment, forward-secrecy, cypherpunk, privacy | 2026-07-16 |
| Murray N. Rothbard | Reference guide to Rothbard’s place in this wiki as system-builder, economist, anti-state theorist, and movement strategist. | rothbard, libertarianism, austrian-economics, anti-statism, economic-history | 2026-06-18 |
| Natural Law; or The Science of Justice | Spooner’s 1882 essay defining justice as an exact natural science of ‘mine and thine’ — an immutable natural law of person and property knowable by reason — from which he concludes that ‘all human legislation’ beyond enforcing natural justice is ‘an intrusion, an absurdity, an usurpation, and a crime.’ The individualist-anarchist radicalization of the natural-law tradition. | lysander-spooner, natural-law, natural-rights, natural-justice, classical-canon, individualist-anarchism, justice, legislation, abolitionism | 2026-06-18 |
| New Directions in Cryptography | Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman’s 1976 paper identifies the key-distribution and digital-signature problems and proposes public-key cryptography and public-key distribution as foundations for secure communication over open networks. | diffie-hellman, public-key-cryptography, digital-signatures, cryptography, cypherpunk, key-exchange, privacy | 2026-05-28 |
| New Libertarian Manifesto | Reference guide to Samuel Edward Konkin III’s New Libertarian Manifesto (1980), the founding statement of agorism: build the counter-economy until voluntary exchange displaces the state. | samuel-edward-konkin, agorism, counter-economics, market-anarchism, strategy, black-market, parallel-economy | 2026-06-14 |
| Nick Szabo | Nick Szabo is the most directly Austrian figure in the cypherpunk source set: his work connects Mengerian monetary origins, Misesian regression-theorem concerns, smart contracts, trusted-third-party minimization, Bit Gold, and Bitcoin-era social scalability. | nick-szabo, cypherpunk, smart-contracts, bit-gold, austrian-economics, proof-of-work | 2026-06-18 |
| Nicomachean Ethics | Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (c. 340 BC). Book V, on justice, draws the foundational distinction between natural justice — ‘that which has everywhere the same force and does not depend upon being received or not’ — and merely conventional justice fixed by enactment. This natural/conventional distinction is the classical root of the natural-law tradition. | aristotle, natural-law, natural-justice, classical-canon, nicomachean-ethics, virtue-ethics, justice, teleology, eudaimonia | 2026-06-09 |
| Of Cypherpunks and Sousveillance | Reference guide to Patrick D. Anderson’s ‘Of Cypherpunks and Sousveillance’ (Surveillance & Society 20(1), 2022, CC BY-NC-ND). The paper bridges the cypherpunk movement and academic surveillance studies: cypherpunk ethics is the two-sided norm ‘privacy for the weak, transparency for the powerful’, and its practice pairs re-active privacy strategies (cryptography) with pro-active transparency strategies — a distinctive ‘cypherpunk sousveillance’ running from the movement’s Crypto War distribution of classified cryptology documents to WikiLeaks — framed as data activism against institutions like the NSA and Google. OCR-extracted source: quotes verified by hand against the scan. | patrick-anderson, sousveillance, surveillance, cypherpunk, privacy, transparency, data-activism, wikileaks, crypto-wars | 2026-07-08 |
| On Revolution | Reference guide to Hannah Arendt’s 1963 comparison of the American and French revolutions, public freedom, the social question, founding, public happiness, and the lost council tradition. | hannah-arendt, on-revolution, revolution, american-revolution, french-revolution, public-happiness, council-system, founding, commercially-published, non-libertarian | 2026-05-30 |
| On Violence | Reference guide to Hannah Arendt’s 1970 essay distinguishing power, strength, force, authority, and violence, and arguing that violence is instrumental rather than identical with political power. | hannah-arendt, on-violence, violence, power, authority, force, political-philosophy, totalitarianism, commercially-published, non-libertarian | 2026-05-30 |
| Our Enemy, the State | Reference guide to Albert Jay Nock’s 1935 anti-state book applying Oppenheimer’s political-means/economic-means distinction to American history and the New Deal. | albert-jay-nock, state, social-power, state-power, political-means, american-history, old-right | 2026-06-18 |
| Paul Rosenberg | Author reference for Paul Rosenberg: engineer, privacy entrepreneur, and writer; author of the crypto-anarchist novel A Lodging of Wayfaring Men (2007), the history Production Versus Plunder, and the Free-Man’s Perspective newsletter; co-founder of the Cryptohippie anonymous-VPN service. In this wiki he is the anchor for crypto-anarchist fiction and the production-versus-plunder reading of history. | paul-rosenberg, crypto-anarchy, agorism, cypherpunk, anarcho-capitalism, voluntaryism, privacy, sound-money | 2026-06-16 |
| Phil Zimmermann | Phil Zimmermann is the creator of PGP and a central figure in the 1990s Crypto Wars over strong encryption, export controls, key escrow, and ordinary users’ right to private digital communication. | phil-zimmermann, pgp, public-key-cryptography, crypto-wars, privacy, cypherpunk, export-controls | 2026-05-30 |
| Political Theology | Reference guide to Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology, the sovereign-decision work that defines sovereignty through decision on the exception. | carl-schmitt, political-theology, sovereignty, state-of-exception, decisionism, non-libertarian, commercially-published | 2026-05-12 |
| Politics (Aristotle) | Aristotle’s Politics (c. 340 BC): man is by nature a political animal, the polis exists by nature for the sake of the good life, and household, property, and rule are analyzed teleologically. The companion to the Ethics for Aristotelian natural-order arguments — and the source of the doctrine of natural slavery the libertarian tradition rejects. | aristotle, natural-law, classical-canon, politics, political-animal, polis, property, natural-slavery, justice, teleology | 2026-06-09 |
| Power and Market | Reference guide to Rothbard’s Power and Market (1970) — the standalone companion to Man, Economy, and State that develops the autistic/binary/triangular intervention typology and the systematic Austrian critique of taxation, expenditure, and antimarket ethics. | rothbard, austrian-economics, intervention, taxation, power-and-market, political-means | 2026-06-26 |
| Prices and Production and Other Works | Reference guide to the Mises Institute’s collected edition of Hayek’s monetary and business-cycle works (originals 1929–1939) — the core texts of Austrian business-cycle theory. | hayek, austrian-business-cycle-theory, capital-theory, monetary-theory | 2026-06-18 |
| Principles of Economics | Saifedean Ammous’s 2023 textbook presents an Austrian economics sequence across human action, value, time, property, capital, money, markets, monetary economics, violence, defense, and civilization. | saifedean-ammous, economics, austrian-economics, textbook, human-action, property, money, civilization, bitcoin | 2026-06-18 |
| Principles of Economics (Menger) | Principles of Economics (Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre, 1871) is Carl Menger’s founding work of the Austrian School and one of the three independent origins of the marginal revolution. Its theory of value is the cornerstone of the subjective theory of value: value is not a property inherent in goods but a judgment economizing individuals make about the importance of goods for satisfying their needs, and its measure is entirely subjective. | carl-menger, austrian-economics, subjective-theory-of-value, marginal-utility, theory-of-value, theory-of-price, principles-of-economics, methodological-individualism | 2026-06-20 |
| Richard Cantillon | Richard Cantillon (c. 1680s–1734) was an Irish-French banker and economist whose Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en Général gave the first systematic process-analysis of how new money enters an economy unevenly and changes relative prices and the distribution of wealth — the mechanism later named the Cantillon effect. Rothbard calls him the founding father of modern economics; the wiki uses him, via Rothbard’s reconstruction, as the source of its account of money non-neutrality. | richard-cantillon, cantillon-effect, monetary-theory, money-non-neutrality, pre-austrian, murray-rothbard, essai, eighteenth-century, subjective-value | 2026-06-29 |
| Rights of Man | Paine’s Rights of Man (1791–92), written to answer Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France. It radicalizes the natural-rights tradition for mass politics: rights are natural and pre-political, no generation can bind its successors, and government is a delegated trust whose only legitimate constitution comes from the living people. | thomas-paine, natural-law, natural-rights, classical-canon, rights-of-man, edmund-burke, french-revolution, consent, republicanism, american-founding | 2026-06-09 |
| Robert Nozick | Robert Nozick (1938–2002) was a Harvard philosopher whose 1974 Anarchy, State, and Utopia gave libertarian minarchism its most influential academic statement: a minimal state derived from anarchy without violating rights, the entitlement theory of justice, and the case against patterned distribution. The wiki uses him as the academic anchor of the minarchism node and the principal counterpart to its Rothbardian anarcho-capitalism. | robert-nozick, minarchism, minimal-state, libertarianism, political-philosophy, entitlement-theory, distributive-justice, harvard, anarchy-state-and-utopia | 2026-06-29 |
| Saifedean Ammous | Author reference for Saifedean Ammous, the economist whose Bitcoin Standard, Fiat Standard, and Principles of Economics give this wiki its explicitly Austrian, hardness-and-stock-to-flow reading of money and its engineering critique of fiat. | saifedean-ammous, bitcoin, hard-money, stock-to-flow, fiat, sound-money, austrian-economics, monetary-theory | 2026-06-18 |
| Samuel Edward Konkin III | Short author reference for Samuel Edward Konkin III, the market-anarchist theorist who founded agorism and counter-economics and wrote the New Libertarian Manifesto. | samuel-edward-konkin, agorism, counter-economics, market-anarchism, left-libertarian, strategy, libertarianism | 2026-06-14 |
| Samuel Pufendorf | Short author reference for Samuel von Pufendorf (1632–1694), the German jurist and natural-law theorist who systematized the discipline between Grotius and Locke, grounding the law of nature in human sociality. | samuel-pufendorf, natural-law, natural-rights, classical-canon, sociality, law-of-nations, german-enlightenment, jurisprudence | 2026-06-09 |
| Satoshi Nakamoto | Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonymous author of the 2008 Bitcoin whitepaper. The work is high-confidence as a public design artifact; claims about identity are deliberately low-confidence and should remain limited. | satoshi-nakamoto, bitcoin, proof-of-work, digital-cash, cypherpunk, cryptography | 2026-06-18 |
| Second Treatise of Government | Locke’s 1689 Second Treatise — the keystone of modern natural-rights theory. A state of nature governed by the law of nature, property acquired pre-politically by mixing one’s labour, government instituted by consent solely to protect life, liberty, and estate, and a right of revolution when it turns predatory. | john-locke, natural-law, natural-rights, classical-canon, social-contract, property, state-of-nature, consent, right-of-revolution, classical-liberalism, second-treatise | 2026-06-18 |
| Security Without Identification | David Chaum’s 1985 CACM paper expands blind signatures into a broader program for privacy-preserving transaction systems built on digital pseudonyms, personal card computers, untraceable communication, payments, and credentials. | david-chaum, pseudonymity, privacy, digital-cash, cryptography, surveillance, cypherpunk | 2026-06-18 |
| Signal Double Ratchet | The Signal Double Ratchet specification describes how two parties derive a new message key for every message by combining symmetric-key ratchets with Diffie-Hellman ratchet steps. Its goals are forward secrecy, break-in recovery, and usable encrypted messaging over unreliable networks. | libertarian, cypherpunk, signal, double-ratchet, forward-secrecy, post-compromise-recovery, end-to-end-encryption, messaging, diffie-hellman | 2026-06-18 |
| Signal X3DH | Moxie Marlinspike and Trevor Perrin’s 2016 X3DH specification describes asynchronous authenticated key agreement for encrypted messaging. It uses identity keys, signed prekeys, optional one-time prekeys, and three or four Diffie-Hellman computations to establish a shared secret when one party may be offline. | libertarian, cypherpunk, signal, x3dh, key-agreement, forward-secrecy, end-to-end-encryption, messaging, diffie-hellman | 2026-06-18 |
| Socialism | Reference guide to Mises’s 1922 critique of socialism — the book-length statement of the economic-calculation argument first made in his 1920 essay, and the work that touched off the entire socialist-calculation debate. | mises, socialism, economic-calculation, austrian-economics | 2026-06-26 |
| Society Must Be Defended | Reference guide to Michel Foucault’s 1975-1976 lectures on war, sovereignty, disciplinary power, biopower, population, and state racism. | michel-foucault, society-must-be-defended, biopower, sovereignty, population, state-racism, non-libertarian, commercially-published | 2026-05-30 |
| Softwar | Reference guide to Jason Lowery’s 2023 MIT SDM master’s thesis arguing that Bitcoin should be analyzed as electro-cyber power projection and national-security infrastructure, not only as peer-to-peer cash or monetary technology. | jason-lowery, softwar, bitcoin, power-projection, national-security, proof-of-work, cyberspace, non-libertarian | 2026-06-18 |
| Speculative Attack | Pierre Rochard’s 2014 essay argues that Bitcoin adoption can accelerate through speculative attacks against weak fiat currencies, as leverage and currency crises turn gradual adoption into hyperbitcoinization. | pierre-rochard, bitcoin, hyperbitcoinization, monetary-economics, austrian-economics, fiat, cypherpunk | 2026-05-28 |
| Summa Theologica: Treatise on Law | Aquinas’s Treatise on Law (Summa Theologica I-II, QQ. 90–108) — the systematic medieval natural-law text. Defines law as ‘an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community, and promulgated,’ and distinguishes eternal, natural, human, and divine law, holding that a human law contrary to natural law ‘is no longer a law but a perversion of law. | thomas-aquinas, natural-law, classical-canon, scholasticism, summa-theologica, eternal-law, human-law, divine-law, treatise-on-law | 2026-06-18 |
| The ‘True’ Money Supply | Joseph T. Salerno’s 1987 Austrian Economics Newsletter paper formalizes Rothbard’s broad money-supply criterion into the True Money Supply aggregate, specifying which Federal Reserve monetary components count as money and which are credit or investment claims. | salerno, tms, money-supply, austrian-economics, monetary-theory, rothbard, m1, m2, fiduciary-media | 2026-06-18 |
| The Bitcoin Standard | Saifedean Ammous’s 2018 Wiley book argues that Bitcoin should be understood as digital hard money through a Mengerian/Austrian history of monetary technologies, salability, time preference, government money, and central banking. | saifedean-ammous, bitcoin, sound-money, austrian-economics, monetary-history, central-banking, stock-to-flow, cypherpunk | 2026-06-18 |
| The Concept of the Political | Reference guide to Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political, especially the friend/enemy criterion and critique of liberal depoliticization. | carl-schmitt, concept-of-the-political, friend-enemy-distinction, sovereignty, political-theory, non-libertarian, commercially-published | 2026-05-12 |
| The Conscience of a Hacker | Reference guide to ‘The Conscience of a Hacker’ (1986), written by Loyd Blankenship (‘The Mentor’) after his arrest and published in Phrack. Its defense of curiosity, judgment by mind rather than appearance, and open exploration against a criminalizing establishment became the founding moral document of the hacker ethic — the culture the cypherpunk movement later armed with cryptography. | loyd-blankenship, the-mentor, hacker-manifesto, phrack, hacker-ethic, curiosity, cypherpunk, censorship | 2026-07-08 |
| The Cypherpunks Mailing List | Reference guide to the Cypherpunks mailing list (1992-2009), the Bay Area-founded forum where the cypherpunk program — anonymous remailers, Chaumian digital cash, the two founding manifestos, the Crypto Wars, Hashcash, and b-money — was argued out in public, and from which the lineage runs to the 2008 Bitcoin announcement on the separate Metzdowd cryptography list. | cypherpunk, cypherpunks-mailing-list, tim-may, eric-hughes, hal-finney, adam-back, wei-dai, crypto-wars, digital-cash, remailers, proof-of-work, b-money, hashcash, history, primary-source | 2026-06-26 |
| The Declaration of Independence | The 1776 Declaration of Independence, drafted principally by Thomas Jefferson — the most influential political application of the natural-rights tradition. Its second paragraph compresses Lockean natural law into a public creed: equality, unalienable rights, government by consent, and the people’s right to alter or abolish a government destructive of those ends. | declaration-of-independence, thomas-jefferson, natural-law, natural-rights, classical-canon, american-founding, consent, right-of-revolution, unalienable-rights, lockean, classical-liberalism | 2026-06-10 |
| The Economics and Ethics of Private Property | Reference guide to Hoppe’s collected essays on property, taxation, money, public goods, and security, now ingested in full text. | hoppe, property-rights, austrian-economics, taxation | 2026-06-09 |
| The Ethics of Liberty | Reference guide to Rothbard’s natural-rights treatise (1982/1998) on the ethical foundations of libertarianism: self-ownership, property, contract, the state, and a critique of competing libertarian theories. | rothbard, natural-rights, ethics, liberty, property-rights | 2026-06-18 |
| The Fiat Standard | Saifedean Ammous’s 2021 companion to The Bitcoin Standard treats fiat money as a debt-based engineering system and then traces its incentive effects through banking, government finance, family, food, science, fuel, and Bitcoin adoption. | saifedean-ammous, fiat-money, bitcoin, central-banking, debt, austrian-economics, capital-consumption, cypherpunk | 2026-06-18 |
| The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand’s 1943 novel follows architect Howard Roark, who refuses to compromise his designs, against a cast of men defined by their dependence on others’ opinions. It is Rand’s first full dramatization of her individualist ethics, organized around the conflict she frames as the independent creator versus the ‘second-hander’. | ayn-rand, the-fountainhead, objectivism, individualism, integrity, second-hander, novel, howard-roark | 2026-06-26 |
| The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money | Reference guide to John Maynard Keynes’s The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936): the founding text of Keynesian macroeconomics — effective demand, the consumption function and the multiplier, liquidity preference as the theory of interest, the marginal efficiency of capital, and the rejection of the classical full-employment postulate, leading to the case for a comprehensive socialisation of investment. | john-maynard-keynes, keynesianism, macroeconomics, general-theory, effective-demand, liquidity-preference, multiplier, marginal-efficiency-of-capital, business-cycle, unemployment, non-libertarian | 2026-06-16 |
| The Gulag Archipelago | Reference guide to Solzhenitsyn’s documentary-literary investigation of the Soviet camp system. The wiki now holds both the earlier abridged one-volume OCR and the unabridged three-volume OCR ingested on 2026-05-12. | aleksandr-solzhenitsyn, gulag, soviet-union, stalinism, totalitarianism, mass-terror, labor-camps, ideology, dissident-literature, abridged, unabridged, non-libertarian | 2026-06-18 |
| The Human Condition | Reference guide to Hannah Arendt’s 1958 account of vita activa: labor, work, action, public and private realms, the rise of the social, and the modern eclipse of public action. | hannah-arendt, the-human-condition, vita-activa, labor, work, action, public-realm, private-realm, rise-of-the-social, commercially-published, non-libertarian | 2026-05-30 |
| The Law | Reference guide to Bastiat’s anti-plunder essay on law, liberty, property, and the corruption of legislation. | bastiat, law, property-rights, legal-plunder | 2026-06-12 |
| The Lightning Network Paper | Joseph Poon and Tadge Dryja’s 2016 Lightning paper proposes scalable off-chain Bitcoin payments through bidirectional payment channels, revocable commitments, hashed timelock contracts, routed payments, and blockchain settlement as a dispute backstop. | bitcoin, lightning-network, payment-channels, htlc, scalability, proof-of-work, cypherpunk | 2026-05-28 |
| The Market for Liberty | Reference guide to the Tannehills’ full-scale case for private law, arbitration, insurance, and defense markets, now ingested in full text. | tannehill, market-anarchism, private-law, defense-agencies | 2026-06-09 |
| The Mystery of Banking | Rothbard’s 1983 (2nd ed 2008) book-length popular treatment of money, banking, and central banking — the most accessible statement of the 100%-reserve-banking case and the Rothbardian money-supply criterion that Salerno later formalizes as the True Money Supply. Full text now ingested into the corpus (322 pages, ~10.5k lines). | rothbard, banking, fiduciary-media, fractional-reserves, sound-money, money-supply, 100-percent-reserves | 2026-06-18 |
| The North Atlantic Treaty | Reference guide to the wiki’s two NATO primary sources: the North Atlantic Treaty (Washington, 4 April 1949) and the Wales Summit Declaration (5 September 2014). Article 3 binds parties to maintain and develop the capacity to resist armed attack by ‘continuous and effective self-help and mutual aid’ — a deliberately open-ended obligation that later spending floors interpret; Article 5 is the collective-defense cornerstone. Wales ¶14 (the Defence Investment Pledge) crystallized Article 3 into the 2% of GDP guideline ‘within a decade’, and the May 2026 raise to 3.5% by 2032 extends the same ratchet. Read through the wiki’s Tilly/Rothbard lens: a treaty-level mechanism by which member states’ war spending ratchets upward by alliance interpretation, without new domestic authorization. | nato, treaties, defense-spending, article-3, article-5, collective-defense, ratchet, primary-source | 2026-07-08 |
| The Origins of Totalitarianism | Reference guide to Hannah Arendt’s 1951 study of antisemitism, imperialism, mass society, ideology, terror, and totalitarianism as a novel form of government. The wiki holds a full-text Internet Archive OCR ingest of the 1973 Harvest / Harcourt edition under commercial-copyright provenance. | hannah-arendt, totalitarianism, antisemitism, imperialism, nazism, stalinism, mass-society, ideology, terror, political-philosophy, commercially-published, non-libertarian | 2026-06-09 |
| The Politics of Obedience | Reference guide to La Boetie’s classic essay on consent, habit, and the fragility of political domination, now ingested in full text. | de-la-boetie, consent, state, strategy, evolution-of-the-state | 2026-06-18 |
| The Positive Theory of Capital | Reference guide to Böhm-Bawerk’s Positive Theory of Capital (Smart trans. of Positive Theorie des Kapitales, 1889): the constructive Austrian account of capital as produced means of production, the roundabout structure of production, and the agio (time-preference) theory of interest. | eugen-von-bohm-bawerk, austrian-economics, capital-theory, time-preference, interest, roundaboutness, structure-of-production, agio-theory | 2026-06-18 |
| The Praxeology of Privacy | Reference guide to Max Hillebrand’s public-domain v0.2.0 book arguing that privacy is a structural feature of human action and that Austrian theory and cypherpunk implementation converge in privacy-preserving money, communication, and parallel-economy tools. | max-hillebrand, privacy, praxeology, austrian-economics, bitcoin, cypherpunk, cryptography, property-rights, power-projection | 2026-06-18 |
| The Pretence of Knowledge | F. A. Hayek’s 11 December 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize lecture. It argues that economics has imitated the physical sciences in a ‘scientistic’ way it cannot sustain: the economy is a phenomenon of organized complexity about which we can make only ‘pattern predictions,’ so acting on a pretended precise knowledge — to predict and control society — does great harm. The economist should cultivate conditions like a gardener, not fashion outcomes like a craftsman. | hayek, pretence-of-knowledge, nobel-lecture, scientism, knowledge-problem, spontaneous-order, complexity, methodology, austrian-economics | 2026-06-12 |
| The Production of Security | Reference guide to Molinari’s 1849 essay — the founding text of the classical-liberal case for private, competitive production of security, and the principal nineteenth-century predecessor to modern market-anarchist thought. | molinari, market-anarchism, private-security, classical-liberalism, private-law, evolution-of-the-state | 2026-06-26 |
| The Rights of War and Peace (De Jure Belli ac Pacis) | Grotius’s 1625 De Jure Belli ac Pacis — the work that secularized natural law and founded modern international law. Natural law derives from the rational and social nature of man and would bind ‘even if we were to grant that there is no God’ (etiamsi daremus), making it a basis for rights and obligations among persons and states independent of shared religion. | hugo-grotius, natural-law, natural-rights, classical-canon, international-law, law-of-nations, de-jure-belli-ac-pacis, just-war, rationalism | 2026-06-18 |
| The Road to Serfdom | Reference guide to Hayek’s 1944 warning that central economic planning leads to authoritarian rule by destroying the rule of law and the institutions on which liberty depends, now cross-linked to Arendt’s distinct totalitarianism framework. | hayek, central-planning, totalitarianism, rule-of-law, classical-liberalism | 2026-06-26 |
| The Role of Monetary Policy | Reference guide to Milton Friedman’s 1968 American Economic Association presidential address, The Role of Monetary Policy — the canonical statement of monetarism: what monetary policy cannot do (peg interest rates or the unemployment rate for long), what it can do, the natural rate of unemployment, and the case for a steady money-growth rule. The Chicago-school account of the cycle that the wiki’s Austrian sources answer. | milton-friedman, chicago-school, monetarism, monetary-policy, natural-rate-of-unemployment, quantity-theory, k-percent-rule, money-supply, central-banking, great-depression, classical-liberal, ocr | 2026-06-18 |
| The Sovereign Individual | Reference guide to Davidson and Rees-Mogg’s 1997 book arguing that the microprocessor lowers the returns to violence, dissolves the nation-state’s taxing monopoly, drives commerce into an untaxable cybereconomy settled in encrypted digital cash, and produces a denationalized ‘Sovereign Individual’ who shops among competing jurisdictions. | james-dale-davidson, william-rees-mogg, sovereign-individual, information-age, megapolitics, cybereconomy, digital-money, jurisdictional-competition, nation-state, cypherpunk, commercially-published, non-libertarian | 2026-06-26 |
| The State | Reference guide to Franz Oppenheimer’s sociological treatise on the state’s conquest origin, developmental stages, and political-means/economic-means distinction. | franz-oppenheimer, state, conquest-theory, political-means, economic-means, sociology, non-libertarian | 2026-06-18 |
| The Theory of Money and Credit | Reference guide to Mises’s The Theory of Money and Credit (1912 German; 1934 English trans. H. E. Batson; 1953 Yale ‘new edition’ enlarged with Monetary Reconstruction) — the founding text of Austrian monetary theory and the original source of the regression theorem, the present-good-for-future-good definition of credit, and the proto-statement of Austrian Business Cycle Theory. | mises, austrian-economics, monetary-theory, money-and-banking, credit, regression-theorem, business-cycle, ludwig-von-mises | 2026-06-18 |
| The Virtue of Selfishness | Ayn Rand’s 1964 essay collection (with contributions by Nathaniel Branden) states the ethics branch of Objectivism in non-fiction form: rational self-interest as a moral ideal, life as the standard of value, and reason as man’s means of survival. Its political essays extend the ethics into a minarchist defense of individual rights and a strictly limited, voluntarily financed government. | ayn-rand, the-virtue-of-selfishness, objectivism, ethics, rational-self-interest, altruism, individual-rights, nathaniel-branden | 2026-06-18 |
| The Whole Duty of Man According to the Law of Nature | Pufendorf’s De Officio Hominis et Civis (Latin 1673), in Andrew Tooke’s English translation — the natural-law systematizer between Grotius and Locke. It grounds the interpersonal law of nature in human sociality (in Tooke’s words, ‘every man ought, as much as in him lies, to preserve and promote society’), then derives the duties of man toward God, self, and others and the foundations of the state. | samuel-pufendorf, natural-law, natural-rights, classical-canon, sociality, law-of-nature, law-of-nations, de-officio-hominis, duty, social-contract | 2026-06-09 |
| Theory and History | Reference guide to Mises’s 1957 methodological treatise: the case for methodological dualism between the natural and social sciences, and a critique of historicism, scientism, and Marxian dialectical materialism. | mises, methodology, epistemology, philosophy-of-history | 2026-06-18 |
| Thomas Aquinas | Short author reference for Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274), the Dominican theologian whose Treatise on Law in the Summa Theologica is the most systematic medieval statement of natural law: law as reason for the common good, and the eternal/natural/human/divine fourfold scheme. | thomas-aquinas, natural-law, classical-canon, scholasticism, summa-theologica, medieval-philosophy, aristotelianism | 2026-06-09 |
| Thomas Paine | Short author reference for Thomas Paine (1737–1809), the Anglo-American revolutionary pamphleteer whose Common Sense helped spark the American Revolution and whose Rights of Man carried natural-rights theory into mass democratic politics. | thomas-paine, natural-rights, classical-canon, american-founding, french-revolution, republicanism, common-sense, rights-of-man | 2026-06-09 |
| Thus Spake Zarathustra: The New Idol | Reference guide to Nietzsche’s 1883 Zarathustra chapter that calls the state the coldest monster: useful as a non-libertarian primary source for the state-as-monster trope, but not a source for libertarian political theory. | nietzsche, state, critique-of-the-state, anti-statism, primary-source, non-libertarian | 2026-05-30 |
| Timothy C. May | Timothy C. May (1951-2018) was a former Intel senior scientist, founding cypherpunk, and author of the 1988 Crypto Anarchist Manifesto and the 1994 Cyphernomicon. In this corpus, he is the main anchor for the crypto-anarchy branch of cypherpunk libertarianism. | tim-may, cypherpunk, crypto-anarchy, cryptography, privacy, libertarianism | 2026-06-09 |
| Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router | Dingledine, Mathewson, and Syverson’s 2004 Tor paper presents a deployable second-generation onion-routing system with telescoping circuit construction, forward secrecy, directory servers, exit policies, congestion control, and hidden services. | tor, onion-routing, anonymity, privacy, cryptography, cypherpunk, hidden-services, forward-secrecy | 2026-05-30 |
| Toward a Libertarian Theory of Inalienability | Work reference for Walter Block’s Journal of Libertarian Studies article (17:2, 2003), the principal libertarian argument against inalienability. Reasoning from self-ownership — if you truly own a thing you may sell it — Block defends ‘full’ alienability and concludes that a genuinely voluntary slave contract is a valid, enforceable title transfer, critiquing the inalienability-of-the-will positions of Rothbard, Barnett, George Smith, Kinsella, Gordon, and Epstein. | walter-block, inalienability, alienability, voluntary-slavery, contract, self-ownership, title-transfer, rothbard-critique, journal-of-libertarian-studies, libertarian, austrian | 2026-06-24 |
| Trevor Perrin | Trevor Perrin is a cryptographer and protocol designer — the design half of the Signal protocol, co-author with Moxie Marlinspike of the X3DH key-agreement protocol and the Double Ratchet algorithm. Beyond Signal he is the author of the Noise Protocol Framework, a toolkit for building secure-channel protocols that underlies WireGuard, WhatsApp’s transport, and the Lightning Network handshake, and he has convened much of the modern secure-messaging standards work. Where Marlinspike shipped the cryptography, Perrin designed the constructions the deployments rest on. | trevor-perrin, signal, cryptography, protocol-design, noise-protocol, forward-secrecy, cypherpunk, privacy | 2026-07-16 |
| Walter Block | Author reference for Walter Block, the Austro-libertarian economist whose ‘full alienability’ thesis is this wiki’s principal internal-libertarian dissent from the inalienability-of-the-will answer to voluntary slavery and debt bondage. His 2003 Journal of Libertarian Studies article argues that genuine self-ownership entails the right to sell oneself, so that a truly voluntary slave contract is valid and enforceable. | walter-block, inalienability, voluntary-slavery, alienability, contract, self-ownership, austrian, libertarian, rothbard-critique | 2026-06-24 |
| War Making and State Making as Organized Crime | Reference guide to Charles Tilly’s 1985 essay that explicitly compares war making, state making, protection, and extraction to organized crime. This is the canonical source for the ‘quintessential protection rackets with the advantage of legitimacy’ formulation. | charles-tilly, state, war-and-state-formation, protection-racket, organized-crime, historical-sociology, coercion, extraction, non-libertarian | 2026-06-18 |
| Wei Dai | Wei Dai is the cypherpunk who proposed b-money in 1998, a protocol for pseudonymous online communities to hold money balances and enforce contracts without government. B-money pairs computational money creation by proof of work with signed broadcasts and deposit-backed arbitration, and the Bitcoin whitepaper explicitly cites it — making Dai the pseudonymous-money-plus-proof-of-work-issuance rung in the cypherpunk lineage alongside Adam Back’s Hashcash and Nick Szabo’s Bit Gold. | wei-dai, b-money, proof-of-work, cypherpunk, bitcoin, digital-cash, cryptography | 2026-06-18 |
| William F. Shughart II | Short author reference for William F. Shughart II, the American public-choice economist whose Concise Encyclopedia of Economics entry ‘Public Choice’ supplies this wiki’s compact statement of rational ignorance and the logic of concentrated benefits over dispersed costs. | william-f-shughart-ii, public-choice, rational-ignorance, collective-action, rent-seeking, government-failure, economics | 2026-06-13 |
| William Graham Sumner | Short author reference for William Graham Sumner, the American sociologist and laissez-faire classical liberal whose Folkways supplies this wiki’s we-group/out-group and ethnocentrism vocabulary. | william-graham-sumner, ethnocentrism, in-group, out-group, folkways, classical-liberalism, sociology, non-libertarian | 2026-06-14 |
| William Rees-Mogg | Short author reference for Lord William Rees-Mogg as represented by The Sovereign Individual: a British journalist and public figure, formerly editor of The Times of London and vice-chairman of the BBC, who co-authored the book and two earlier forecasting works with James Dale Davidson. | william-rees-mogg, sovereign-individual, megapolitics, the-times, bbc, non-libertarian | 2026-06-09 |
| Your Secret Right to Cash | Reference guide to Peter Van Valkenburgh’s ‘Your Secret Right to Cash’ (2017). A ‘secret right’ is one so reliably guaranteed by the physical nature of the world that no one ever wrote it down — like not floating off into space. Cash conferred one: payments that could not be censored before the fact and were private by default. Electronic payments through trusted third parties quietly inverted that default, and the essay argues for an honest reckoning — on consequentialist rather than natural-rights grounds — before the death of cash is celebrated as mere progress. | peter-van-valkenburgh, cash, financial-privacy, censorship-resistance, surveillance, secret-rights, consequentialism, war-on-cash | 2026-07-08 |
| Zerocash | Ben-Sasson, Chiesa, Garman, Green, Miers, Tromer, and Virza’s 2014 Zerocash paper proposes a decentralized anonymous payment protocol using zk-SNARKs to hide transaction origin, destination, and amount while preserving ledger validity. It is the technical foundation for Zcash. | libertarian, cypherpunk, zerocash, zcash, zk-snarks, zero-knowledge-proofs, privacy-coins, bitcoin, digital-cash | 2026-05-28 |
| Étienne de la Boétie | Short author reference for Étienne de la Boétie, the sixteenth-century French humanist whose Discourse of Voluntary Servitude supplies this wiki’s foundational account of tyranny as something the ruled sustain by habit and consent. | etienne-de-la-boetie, voluntary-servitude, consent, obedience, tyranny, withdrawal, classical-canon | 2026-06-18 |
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2026-05-28: Compile-4 added 5 Phase C work-references: bernstein-v-united-states-1999 (the 9th Circuit code-is-speech opinion), cryptonote-whitepaper (van Saberhagen 2013 Monero foundation), zerocash (Ben-Sasson et al 2014 Zcash zk-SNARK foundation), signal-x3dh (Marlinspike & Perrin 2016 async key agreement), signal-double-ratchet (Marlinspike & Perrin 2016 per-message ratcheting).
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