PODCAST APPEARANCES:
- The pre-history and future of Bitcoin
A conversation with the founder and a student of Hayek Global College
- Pré-História do Bitcoin
A conversation with Brazilian youtuber Huberto Leal about my work on privately-issued digital currencies before Bitcoin (Portuguese language)
SPEAKING:
- Privately issued digital currencies before Bitcoin
A presentation I gave to at the Praia Bitcoin Carnaval Conference 2023 in Jericoacoara, Brazil
- As Influências conhecidas (e possíveis) de Satoshi Nakamoto: moedas digitais privadas antes do Bitcoin
A presentation I gave a talk to students in Brazil of the Master in Economics program at OMMA Business School Madrid on privately-issued digital currencies before Bitcoin (Portuguese language)
- Fungibility and Cryptocurrencies
In June 2020, I gave a webinar presentation for Blockchain New Zealand on fungibility as a property of money and a comparative analysis of various types of money historically: from seashells, to fiat, to gold, to cigarettes, to fiat, and of course, cryptocurrencies.
- In addition, I have given presentations to various organizations in Spain, Nigeria and the United States on work that I have done on the subject of rationality in economics.
WRITING:
Here are a few articles I have written, some with abstracts and some without. They include outlets in Brazil, Italy, Malaysia, New Zealand, United States, South Africa, and Spain. In addition to the below content, I also currently write weekly cryptocurrency and Blockchain analytical newsletters for Brave New Coin (BNC), which are also published on the BNC website.
- Cypherpunks, Galt’s Gulch, and Bitcoin
May, 2023 – «American Institute for Economic Research»
This article was also republished by «Zero Hedge» here and «MSN» here.
- Hayek and Bitcoin
April, 2023 – «American Institute for Economic Research»
This article was also republished by «MSN» here and was called “Recommended reading” by American economist Lawrence H. White, who spent his career studying private currencies.
- Bitcoinize the World By Accurately Conveying Trade-Offs
April, 2023 – «Bitcoin News»
- The Future Will Be Flatter than Ever
May, 2022 – «American Institute for Economic Research»
- Why Bitcoin + Lightning is the Best Blockchain Remittance Model Yet
April, 2022 – self-published on «Medium»
This article was also published by «Bitcoin News» here.
- Mises’s Regression Theorem, Bitcoin, and Subjective Value Theory
November, 2021 – «American Institute for Economic Research»
This article was also published in Portuguese by the «Instituto Rothbard» (Brasil) here.
- A brief review of El Salvador’s “Bitcoin Law”
July, 2021 – «Dasset»
- How Cost-Benefit Considerations Produced “Progressive” Governance in Pirate Societies
July, 2021 – «Center for a Stateless Society»
This article was also published in Spanish by the «C4SS» here.
- Bitcoin as a Store of Value in Times of Uncertainty
June, 2021 – «Dasset»
- Does Gold Have Intrinsic Value?
March, 2021 – «Dasset»
- How the American Prison System Reveals the Marvel of Spontaneous Order
January, 2021 – «Foundation for Economic Education»
This article was also published in Spanish by «FEE en Español» here.
- How mobile air-time credit in East Africa became a currency and inspired a mobile money revolution
November, 2020 – «Dasset»
- Father Juan de Mariana’s 6 Rules for Coinage
October, 2020 – «Dasset»
- Can governments intervene in the market in a rational way? The problems of knowledge and economic calculation
September, 2020 – «Center for Market Education»
- The Known (and possible) Influences of Satoshi Nakamoto Part 2 – Economic and Philosophical Origins
September, 2020 – «Dasset»
This article was also published in Portuguese by «Objetivismo Brasil» here.
- The Known (and possible) Influences of Satoshi Nakamoto Part 1 – Privately-issued, Digital Currencies Before Bitcoin
August, 2020 – «Dasset»
This article was also published in Portuguese by «Objetivismo Brasil» here and again in English by «Bitcoin News» here.
- How Covid-19 responses have worsened inequality – co-authored with Carmelo Ferlito
July, 2020 – «Malay Mail»
This article was also published by «Malaysiakini» here (paywalled) and was also republished in the book My Malaysia: Columns and Op-Eds (2012-2020) by Carmelo Ferlito.
- Inflation and bitcoin block reward halving
July, 2020 – «Dasset»
- Did Money Originate with the Nation State?
July, 2020 – «Dasset»
- Economic Lockdowns Kill People–Yes Literally
May, 2020 – «Foundation for Economic Education»
As the title suggests, I explain how shutting down the planet as a reaction to COVID literally kills people – something political leaders around the world seem to be all too happy to ignore. Making a decision to not shut down an economy isn’t merely trading lives in favor of economy. In fact, in both cases (both without lockdowns and with lockdowns), the trade-offs involve the loss of human lives.
This article was also republished by a South African gay men’s magazine called «Gay Pages» here, published in Spanish by «FEE en Español» here, in Italian by «Istituto Bruno Leoni» here, and in Portuguese by «Jornal Hora Extra» here.
- Politicians, immigration and the God complex
October, 2018 – «National Business Review»
Here I provide an analysis of Australia and NZ’s immigration laws through the lens of Hayek’s knowledge problem. (Content behind paywall but can be accessed for free by creating free account).
- A few of my articles are published on The New Zealand Initiative’s blog. For example, here, here and here.
- On Human Rationality and Government Control – co-authored with Carmelo Ferlito (see pgs. 137-181)
October, 2014, Vol. XI nº2 2014 – «Procesos de Mercado: Revista Europea de Economía Política»
- International Relations Glossary in Portuguese and Spanish
July, 2013 – Formerly published on «MyPoliSciLab.com» and «InternationalRelations.com». Content now published here on my own website.
For IR scholars and students who also happen to be “latinoamericanistas,” this list of translations of IR terms in all three languages (English, Portuguese and Spanish) serves as a great resource.
- Sowell’s Visions
December, 2013 – «Foundation for Economic Education»
In this article I summarize Thomas Sowell’s book A Conflict of Visions and Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate and explain the importance of understanding the concepts of opposing world visions when discussing often controversial topics such as economics and politics.
- Developments in Brazil Energy Sector
January, 2011 – «The Rio Times»
- Slow Start to PAC Development
January, 2011 – «The Rio Times»
- Rio Real Estate Shielded from Burst
January, 2011 – «The Rio Times»
- UA Community Voices Opinion of Tibet-China conflict
March, 2008 – «The Arkansas Traveler»
- Protests in the Streets of Sao Paulo (text only); Award-winning photography for this coverage (along with videos)
March, 2007 – «The Arkansas Traveler»