Bitcoin related articles from Cheques & Balances
A look at properties of highly infectious diseases as a as a blueprint for network resilience, throughput and availability
Nietzschean philosophy put in practice as a competitive system
The costs of covert concentration of power
Potlatch as costly signal and historical parallel to proof of work
Microtransactions — small, precise payments for goods or services—represent a refinement of capitalism’s ability to allocate resources efficiently.

A core and periphery that need each other.