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Summary The June 15, 2026 episode of the Bitcoin Infinity Show features Josh of Secure Sovereign presenting Bitcoin Commons, a Rust implementation that formally specifies consensus separately from Core’s monolithic codebase. He identifies differential testing across the full chain and cryptographically attested release binaries as mechanisms binding the implementation to a verifiable specification. He positions

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Summary The June 28, 2026 episode of The Robin Seyr Podcast features Jeff Booth framing deflation as the free market’s natural state, distorted by debt-based fiat money. He identifies node operation as individual agency and Bitcoin yield products as a centralization trap that recreates fractional-reserve fragility. He expects an eventual chain split to determine whether

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Summary The February 23, 2026 episode of The Bitcoin Nova Podcast features Josh (“Secure Sovereign”) presenting a quantitative governance analysis identifying merge-access concentration among a handful of Bitcoin Core maintainers. He locates the root problem in a monolithic 350,000-line codebase that entangles consensus rules with non-protocol code and lacks any mathematical consensus specification. He proposes

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A proposal with vocal grassroots support is entering its August signaling window with minimal miner support. The reason is not that Bitcoiners have stopped caring about sound money; sound money commitments now point toward different remedies. Bitcoin’s most contested governance proposal in years is approaching its decisive window but still with almost no one mining

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This is the July 2026 draft of chapter 06 in my new book, When Policy Falls Behind: Bitcoin, AI, and the Governance of Fast Systems. Copyright © 2026 by Murray A Rudd. A pdf version of this chapter is available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6693259 Introduction A cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC) running Shor’s (1997) algorithm could derive private

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This is the July 2026 draft of chapter 03 in my new book, When Policy Falls Behind: Bitcoin, AI, and the Governance of Fast Systems. Copyright © 2026 by Murray A Rudd. A pdf version of this chapter is available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6557201 Introduction The fastest equity trade in modern financial markets executes in nanoseconds while the

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This is the June 2026 draft of chapter 08 in my new book, When Policy Falls Behind: Bitcoin, AI, and the Governance of Fast Systems. Copyright © 2026 by Murray A Rudd. A pdf version of this chapter is available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6749281 Introduction Since its conception, Bitcoin (Nakamoto, 2008) has unsettled long-standing assumptions about money, value,

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This is the June 2026 draft of chapter 09 in my new book, When Policy Falls Behind: Bitcoin, AI, and the Governance of Fast Systems. Copyright © 2026 by Murray A Rudd. Introduction Current US legislation is determining which digital assets can be absorbed into finance without disturbing the US dollar’s role as unit of account.

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This is the June 2026 draft of chapter 02 in my forthcoming new book, When Policy Falls Behind: Bitcoin, AI, and the Governance of Fast Systems. Comments are welcome!  Introduction Bitcoin – a decentralized, permissionless, peer-to-peer protocol (Nakamoto, 2008) – is often introduced through monetary economics, computer science, or political theory (Antonopoulos, 2015; Böhme et al.,

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Here is the June 2026 draft of chapter 05 in my forthcoming new book, When Policy Falls Behind: Bitcoin, AI, and the Governance of Fast Systems. Comments are welcome! Click here for a downloadable pdf version. Introduction Bitcoin’s custody paradox arises because of the nature of agency in Bitcoin’s permissionless environment. A pension fund allocator

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