Bitcoin and Progress: A Cautionary Tale

In everything the West has done since the Industrial Revolution the effect of progress is to give the commoner what was once the sole…

In everything the West has done since the Industrial Revolution the effect of progress is to give the commoner what was once the sole province of kings. We call it ‘progress’ but it is in that way nothing more than sharing with many what few used to possess. There was a time when riding a horse was the difference between the peasant and the knight. In t…