The Praxeology of Privacy
A fundamental treatise on the individual property right to selectively reveal oneself to the world.
Abstract
Humans act, and humans argue. From these fundamental assumptions, we can deduce a plethora of insights relevant to economics, ethics, and strategy. The individual is in a constant state of uneasiness, with the creative spark to imagine multiple superior scenarios. The heroic entrepreneur acts, allocating scarce resources to manifest their most desired outcomes. The sovereign individual claims their property and has the power to defend what is rightfully theirs. In the darkness of crypto anarchy, cypherpunks control how to selectively reveal themselves to the world, thriving in the free realm of cyberspace. The Individual's liberty cannot be secured by a trusted third party.
Contributions
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Outline
- Abstract
- Preface
## Part 0: Introduction
- Introduction
- On the Importance of Methodology
- Definition of Praxeology
- Free License Publication
- Contributions
## Part I: The Theory of the Private Individual
- Human Axioms
- Uneasiness
- Ends
- Means
-- Scarcity
-- Non-scarcity
-- Consumption goods
-- Production goods
-- Specialized factors
- Subjective preference scale
- Law of marginal utility
- Choice
- Judgment
- Time
- Time preference
- Labor and leisure
- Capital Formation
- Entrepreneurial capital allocation
## Part II: The Theory of the Revealed Individual
- Observing other Individuals
-- Selective revelation
-- Anonymity
- Attributing actions to other Individuals
-- Pseudonymity
- Deciding how to interact
- Interacting in the realm of scarcity
-- Mutual beneficial exchange
-- Theft
--- Autistic intervention
--- Binary intervention
--- Triangular intervention
- Interacting in the realm of non-scarcity
-- Free information
-- Theft through intellectual property claims
## Part III: Monetary Theory
- State of barter
- Emergence of money
- Use case of money
-- Medium of Exchange
-- Store of Value
-- Unit of Account
- Estimating future customer demand
- Investing capital in deep production stages
- Exchanging goods and services for profit
- Sound money
- Bitcoin
-- Axiom of Resistance
-- Nodes
--- definition
--- verification
--- enforcement
-- Miners
--- transaction relay
--- block production
--- block propogation
-- Issuance policy
-- Script
- Fiat money
## Part IV: Strategies of Individual Liberation
- Meatspace defense
-- Weapons
-- Armor
-- Coordinated Individual militia
-- Vonu and Nomadism
-- Citadels
- Cyberspace defense
-- Cryptoanarchy
-- Encryption
-- Anonymous communication
-- Secure computation
- Monetary defense
-- Bitcoin
--- CoinJoin
--- CoinSwap
--- Payment Channels
--- Lightning Network
--- Sidechains
--- Discrete Log Contracts
-- Debt based digital bearer certificates
-- Financial Privacy
React
Typescript
Django
Laravel
Facebook
Microsoft
Google
Alibaba
D3
Tencent