Jon GulsonDid Bitcoin Arise from the “Nash Program”?How Bitcoin is a self-enforcing (non-cooperative) game modelled from cooperative game theory by the Nash program.Sep 5Sep 5
Jon GulsonTether, Bitcoin, and the “Ideal Money”How game theory might explain Tether (USDT) depreciation against bitcoins.Aug 3Aug 3
Jon GulsonAmerica will NEVER “reserve” bitcoins in its Treasury.Further to recent strategy announcements by Robert F Kennedy Jr., and Donald Trump on bitcoins as United States economic policy which form…Jul 27Jul 27
Jon GulsonTail Indexing and BitcoinHow tail-index theory might explain future bitcoins having an increasingly lowering probability of ever being mined.Jul 241Jul 241
Jon GulsonDifferent Evolutions of Ideal Money.When Charles A. Holt wrote an article (John Nash: Flashes of Brilliance in Different Directions, Southern Economic Journal, 2015) about…Jul 15Jul 15
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…Oct 17, 2023Oct 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…Sep 5, 20232Sep 5, 20232
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…Sep 3, 2023Sep 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…Feb 15, 2023Feb 15, 2023