Bitcoin mining emissions in China: what the model shows
Explore how hardware, geography, and grid assumptions shape modeled Bitcoin mining emissions in China and limit policy claims.
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Murray Rudd
Dr. Murray Rudd is an applied environmental economist and policy researcher. His full attention is now on the economic, social, technical, and environmental impacts and potential of emerging technologies.
Transaction cost economics as a theory of governance
Explore how transaction cost economics links asset specificity, adaptation, and governance while exposing its empirical and policy limits.
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How transaction costs shape governance
Explore how transaction-specific investment, frequency, and uncertainty shape the choice among markets, contracts, and hierarchy.
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When tight money can raise future inflation
Explore how fiscal dominance can make tighter money raise future inflation when debt service outruns growth and fiscal policy does not adjust.
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Bitcoin energy use - a framework
Explore how Bitcoin mining incentives, energy mix, security, and system boundaries shape credible environmental research.
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Designing a Post-Quantum Signature Fallback for Bitcoin
Explore how hash-based signatures could give Bitcoin a post-quantum fallback while reshaping wallets, fees, custody, and migration.
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Bitcoin’s Post-Quantum Migration Problem
Explore how Bitcoin could adopt post-quantum signatures while managing wallet state, custody, block-space costs, and dormant-coin recovery.
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Making AI Reliable by Representing What It Does Not Know
Explore how explicit uncertainty, calibration, and Bayesian updating could make AI decisions more reliable, adaptive, and accountable.
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When can LLMs stand in for human subjects?
Explore how LLMs could reshape social science and why synthetic participants require rigorous validation before supporting human inference.
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How merchant guilds made rulers’ promises credible
Explore how merchant guilds coordinated boycotts and enforced member compliance to make rulers’ protection promises credible.
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Liquidity, Capital-Market Structure, and Bitcoin Treasury Strategy
Explore how liquidity, security design, macro conditions, and disciplined capital management shape Bitcoin treasury strategies.
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AI Compute Concentration and the Reallocation of Capital
Explore how AI compute concentration could reshape infrastructure, credit markets, regulation, fiscal systems, and economic power.
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