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Murphy Plugs Understanding Bitcoin and Tom Woods’ Real Dissent

Here’s the link to the Bitcoin website, and here’s the link to Tom’s new book that helps me buy Christmas presents.

Jeff Tucker and I Talk Bitcoin

The updated version of my guide co-authored with Silas Barta (which fixed a slight mistake in a footnote, as well as some typos) is here. Jeff has a forthcoming book on peer-to-peer technology, of which Bitcoin is simply the most developed example.

Understanding Bitcoin

[UPDATE: The link below now goes to version 1.1, which fixes a slight mistake in a footnote and some typos.] You guys think I spend my time at the karaoke bar and trolling Scott Sumner. Well, I do spend my time doing those things, but I also co-authored this guide to Bitcoin with Silas Barta. […]

Potpourri

==> I realized I haven’t been mentioning it here, but I’ll be speaking in Brooklyn on October 11 with a bunch of other people, including Naomi Wolf and Tom Woods. Here’s the info, and I think if you type in “MURPHY” you get a discount. ==> Bryan Caplan has an interesting post on the internal […]

Tom Woods and I Talk Austrian vs. Chicago, Bitcoin, Gold Standard

Here’s his blog post with various formats, below is the YouTube version.

Just to Be Sure Billy Joel Hates Libertarians

A new video featuring “Bitcoin Girl”: And my own efforts from last year, on a much lower budget:

A Conversation on Bitcoin, Gold, and Music

Tatiana Moroz had me and Amagi Metals’ Stephen Macaskill on her show to discuss sundry topics, including the launch of TatianaCoin which is an intriguing new way for artists to crowd-fund projects from their fans. I also shamelessly plug the Night of Clarity, at which Tatiana will be performing. It’s August 15. Larry Reed, Nelson […]

Can Bitcoin Become Money?

A familiar question that Frank Shostak recently raised, so at Liberty Chat I gave my usual answer: The reason Mises needed to supplement his theoretical explanation of the purchasing power of money with his historical “regression theorem” was simply to protect the explanation from charges of infinite regress. In other words, since Mises was explaining […]