Rajesh Khairwa on Clubhouse

Bio

Interests in Technology, Economics, History, Law and Philosophy.
Deep into Crypto’s Rabbit Hole.

Learning is a never ending process.

Pseudo-intellectuals (mostly coming out of state funded institutes) are pessimistic because it’s easy. Optimism requires hard work, ingenuity and desire to take world forward out of quagmire of current problems.

History of Money: 💵

Nick Szabo on Proto Money-Shelling Out @ https://nakamotoinstitute.org/shelling-out/

Carl Menger on Origins of Money @ https://mises.org/library/origins-money-0

History of Privately Issued Money:

Nick Szabo on Non Governmental Money @ https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-many-traditions-of-non-governmental.html

Larry White and George Selgin
wrote extensively on Free Banking & Private Money.

Economics of Bitcoin:
Inspired by Austrian School of Economics

Philosophy of Bitcoin:

Separation of Money from State

Cypherpunk Movement:

A Cypherpunk's Manifesto @ https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html by Eric Hughes
The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto @ https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/crypto-anarchy.html by Tim May

Precursors or Building blocks of Bitcoin:

1991 Why I Wrote PGP https://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html by Philip Zimmermann
1992 DigiCash - https://chaum.com/ecash/ by David Chaum
1997 Hash Cash (Proof of work) by Adam Back
1998 Bit Gold by Nick Szabo
1998 B-Money by Wei dai
2004 RPOW (Reusable proof of work) by Hal Finney

Smart Contracts: 💻

Smart Contracts Protocols by Nick Szabo @ https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/548/469