Jon GulsonRanking Preference: Ideal Money and the Anti-Game-Theory of Bitcoin Forks.“The nature of Bitcoin is such that once version 0.1 was released, the core design was set in stone for the rest of its lifetime.” Satoshi…6 min read·Oct 17, 2023----
Jon GulsonInvariance with respect to positive affine transformations and the Bitcoin value.Detractors of the Bitcoin proposition will speak on price fluctuations which result in risky speculation from wasteful energy expenditure…3 min read·Sep 5, 2023--1--1
Jon GulsonFurther Analysis on “Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives” as a Bitcoin Design Axiom.This analysis extends previous rudimentary work on the absence of a third party in the core Bitcoin system representing Independence of…5 min read·Sep 3, 2023----
Jon GulsonTwo Asymptotes in BitcoinEarly Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney, was precise in his language describing the protocol: “The 50 bitcoin reward gets halved every four years…1 min read·Feb 15, 2023----
Jon GulsonBitcoin and Repeated Principal-Agency GamesPrincipal and Agent games are well established in game theory — this writing explains how they relate to Bitcoin, in respect to contracts…3 min read·Feb 10, 2023----
Jon GulsonThe PrincipalHuman language and philosophy can throw up paradoxes on simple turns of phrases or expressions, which might mean different things to…2 min read·Feb 9, 2023----
Jon GulsonMeasuring Damages on a Bitcoin Standard.If death is a separation, then the metaphor of division between this life and another can take on formal reception.1 min read·Feb 8, 2023----
Jon GulsonTwo and three player non-zero sum games for contract writers.For the purposes expressed here, “peer-to-peer” refers to a two player game, where a “trustless” third player takes form as software, and…2 min read·Dec 23, 2022----
Jon GulsonJohn F Nash Jr. addressing “work” in context of psychology and its environment.Professor John F. Nash Jr., Nobel Laureate in Economics in 1994, had an Open Dialogue with hundreds of Hong Kong students at the newly…2 min read·Nov 21, 2022----
Jon GulsonCanon Law for 2 Person GamesGame theory references diverse bargaining scenarios by the “characteristic function” (CF) of the game analysed. For these purposes…2 min read·Nov 20, 2022----