Bitcoin Worlds preprint
Bitcoin confronts the global monetary order with an unprecedented experiment of absolute scarcity in a system built on elastic credit. Bitcoin’s trajectory will be set less by protocol rules than by governance choices.
Murray Rudd
Bitcoin’s Infinite Game: Deflation, Incentives, and Governance Risks
The September 01, 2025 episode of the Bitcoin Infinity Show features Jeff Booth explaining why Bitcoin represents an “infinite game” distinct from the zero-sum dynamics of fiat and gold.
Bitcoin Fee Markets, Fork Risk, and Relay Policy
The August 07, 2025 episode of the Isabel Foxen Duke podcast features Pete Rizzo analyzing renewed disputes over arbitrary data on Bitcoin’s base layer. He frames these tensions as a continuation of the 2017 block size wars.
AI Polytheism, Bitcoin Reserves, and the State–Network Divide
The August 29, 2025 episode of the Peter H. Diamandis Podcast features Balaji Srinivasan explaining how AI, Bitcoin, and geopolitical realignments are reshaping global structures.
Superintelligence Governance, Digital Minds, and Cosmic Risks
The August 22, 2025 episode of Wes and Dylan features philosopher Nick Bostrom outlining four central challenges for superintelligence: technical alignment, governance, moral status of digital minds, and relations with a possible cosmic host.
Treasuries, ETFs, and the $200K Supply Squeeze
The August 06, 2025 episode of Blockstream Talk features Matt Hougan outlining how institutional adoption of Bitcoin has shifted from technical barriers to behavioral ones such as anchoring bias.
ZK Rollups on Bitcoin: Trustless Scaling, Real UX, No Base-Layer Change
The August 05, 2025 episode of The Bitcoin Source features David Seroy explaining how zero-knowledge (ZK) rollups can scale Bitcoin without base-layer changes.