If you think you have the definitive answer, or my characterizations of the arguments aren’t right, then please say. Introduction The deficits incurred in our attempts to tackle the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic are pushing theories about money to the forefront of public discussion once again. Economic crises always cause us to question money. What is it? How is it created? How does it work? …

I was on the Soft Money segment of Coinbase’s recent Consensus: Distributed conference. It was hosted by Joon Ian Wong and Annaliese Milano. My fellow panelists were Brett Scott and Cameron Robertson and the question we were asked was: ‘Does it matter what money is made of?’ I think it…

JE52 783458 £20 January 1st. The start of a new decade is a ridge walk. Such rare, high, temporal-perspective reveals truths less accessible in the lowlands of days, weeks and months. …

A Story of Pilgrimage — Over Easter week 2019, sixty-nine people undertook a pan-European ‘pilgrimage’ which ended at Carl Jung’s Tower, Bollingen, Switzerland. I was one of the 69 and I also helped organise it. I want to understand what the experience meant to me personally and I’m hoping that putting it into words will…

It’s been exactly a month since the Money Burning Ritual at Festival 23 — the celebration of Discordian counterculture that took place in Greno Woods, Sheffield, UK. A dozen people burned around £230 between them, with another fifty actively participating. I’m the guy in the bowler hat in the center of the picture. I’m unable put into words how it felt, so I’ll leave the picture (above) and video (below) to speak for me. The meaning of ritual inheres within the doing of it. Any attempt to extract or isolate…