09 / November 16

Hopeium, a hell of a drug

Topics

Cipherpunks to fintech to DeFi/CeFi/prediction markets and the Finternet; the Caesar Cipher to Enigma, Turing's bombes, and Colossus; MILCRYP, Lambros D. Callimahos, and the Zendian Problem; phreaks, hackers, and goldbugs; David Chaum's Blind Signatures for Untraceable Payments, DigiCash, Tim May's Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, Hashcash, BitGold, Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, AZX, Hollywood Stock Exchange, MT.GOX, Satoshi Nakamoto, et al.; bubbles, AI, NFTs; Polymarket, Kalshi, et al.; Golumbia's Software as Rightwing Extremism; Bitcoinmaxxis, gold-to-Moldbugs; Dogecoin and the birth of the memecoin; LFG! v. FUD; quants, HFT, and dark pools; fintech, the flash crash, ultrafast black swans, and nonhuman temporalities; Mercer: NLP to RenTech to Cambridge Analytica, Breitbart, et al.; DeFi to CeFi to memefi: hodling, Robinhood, Wallstreetbets, Gamestop, $MELANIA; reflexive ponzis: Grayscale, World Liberty Financial, et al.; yield farms, bribefarms: Celsius, 3AC, Terra/Luna, washtrading; crypto and Nash equilibria, zero sum minus, greater fool theory; autocatallaxy, hyper- and hypo-pricing, hyperscaling, circular AI funding, and UBI; On (Surplus) Value In Art: Seth Siegelaub's Artist's Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement, Diedrich Diederichsen's On (Surplus) Value In Art; NFTs, blockchain, surplus value, and art, second-order use value, surplus extraction, manufactured scarcity, digital scarcity

Readings 2

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System Satoshi Nakamoto from On (Surplus) Value In Art Diedrich Diederichsen

Additional Reading & Primary Documents 3

MILCRYP: from Military Cryptanalytics Pt. 3 Lambros D. Callimahos from Bitcoin, Software as Rightwing Extremism David Golumbia A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Hollywood Stock Exchange’s Forecasting Accuracy and Risk vs. Return Relationships Benjamin A. Olsho

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