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Bitcoin Worlds preprint

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 10 Sep 2025
Draft Bitcoin horizon scan book online

Draft Bitcoin horizon scan book online

Leveraging a modified, AI-assisted horizon scanning approach and analysis of 1,900 hours of 2024 Bitcoin-focused podcasts distilled with LLMs, it converts thousands of raw “threats and opportunities” into a preliminary research agenda.
Murray Rudd 14 Aug 2025
2024 Bitcoin research horizon scan

2024 Bitcoin research horizon scan

I used an AI-assisted 'key questions' approach to: (1) analyze transcriptions from 1,818 Bitcoin podcast episodes from 2024; (2) identify Bitcoin-oriented threats and opportunities; and (3) create and refine a list of 100 policy-salient Bitcoin research questions.
Murray Rudd 17 Mar 2025
40 questions for shaping a policy-salient Bitcoin research agenda

40 questions for shaping a policy-salient Bitcoin research agenda

Full article summary: Rudd, M.A., 2024. 40 questions for shaping a policy-salient Bitcoin research agenda, SSRN preprint.
Murray Rudd 22 Aug 2024

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