Emile Phaneuf III on Nostr: My 2nd of 3 articles (so far) focusing on the climate of ideas that eventually led to ...

My 2nd of 3 articles (so far) focusing on the climate of ideas that eventually led to what we now call "Bitcoin".

This one focuses on the philosopher Ayn Rand's concept of a hidden away place called "Galt's Gulch," which Cypherpunk Timothy C. May believed could be built better in cyberspace using mathematics and open source code than in real space.

https://www.aier.org/article/cypherpunks-galts-gulch-and-bitcoin/