The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

Suppose you were a patriotic Texan, planning on how to make your state independent. As Tinkzorg likes to put it, in politics (not just in w...

Bitcoin is, without any question, one of the most remarkable financial stories of our lifetimes. Simply by running some code on your laptop ...

I keep being forwarded this article that came out in Medium recently. It poses as a big expose of tether , the stablecoin that powers lots ...

The eternal question about the civil service is its level of competence . At one end of the spectrum is the curmudgeonly woman at the DMV. A...

[ In the quite useful parlance of Scott Alexander , the epistemic status of this post is fairly uncertain, so take with a grain of salt.]   ...

Well, it’s been about 6 months since my last Bitcoin post . I think what I wrote back in May stands up pretty well so far. Certainly the pr...

As far as I can tell, the primary problem with Bitcoin is that after you've bought it, you become medically incapable of shutting the @#...