Edited by Texas Bitcoin Foundation director and Bitcoin Policy Institute fellow Natalie Smolenski, The Satoshi Papers was inspired by the eighteenth-century American debate between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists. Just as those papers constituted a forum for debate, the articles in this volume exhibit differing points of view emerging from different analytical frameworks. Nevertheless, they share a set of animating principles: that respect for the freedom and privacy of the individual is the bedrock of a just and prosperous society; that power should be rigorously checked and limited; that human coordination happens first and foremost bottom up; and that technology is a critical engine for the progress of humanity.

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