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16 Essays

01

Who Owns Bitcoin? Retail Investors, Whales and Wall Street

Bitcoin can be traced on the blockchain down to the last satoshi. Yet establishing who owns the coins is surprisingly difficult. Since the launch of US spot ETFs, another layer has emerged: millions of investors can have a stake in Bitcoin while a small number of service providers hold the keys.

02

What Is Interest?

Time, saving and capital: the Austrian view and Keynes’s opposing position

03

When Cheap Money Is Called Back

The ECB, the yen and renewed unease in capital markets: what happens when capital demands a price again?

04

When Money Changes Society

The crisis of the fiat system does not end at the bank statement. It reaches into businesses, politics, culture and how people experience life.

05

Bolivia: When the Exchange Rate Lies

Not hyperinflation in the technical sense — yet a severe currency crisis that reveals how long an administered price can conceal economic scarcity.

06

How Zero Interest Rates Encourage Zombie Companies

How cheap refinancing changes selection in capitalism — and why a bridge through a crisis can become a permanent condition.

07

When Progress Lowers Prices

The computer market shows why falling prices do not necessarily mean a crisis — and why people still buy today.

08

Why Bitcoin Challenges Tax Administration Differently from Gold

Gold leaves familiar traces. Bitcoin shifts ownership into a world of digital evidence — with concrete consequences for holding periods and documentation.

09

Why Bitcoin Is Really a Debate About Ownership

Behind the discussion about money lies a more fundamental question: who controls, holds and verifies ownership?

10

Why Inflation Is Not a Natural Event

Price shocks never hit a neutral surface. They encounter a monetary system of interest rates, debts, rescue promises and expectations.

11

Bitcoin as a Response to Asset Price Inflation

Why rising asset prices affect owners and savers differently — and why Bitcoin is seen as a way out.

12

Why Bitcoin Is More Than Digital Gold to the Austrian School

Bitcoin is not just a scarce digital asset. It is an attempt to shift monetary rules from institutional discretion into a verifiable protocol.

13

Banking Crises and the Power of Modern Central Banks

Market correction meets fragile credit chains: why central banks become the infrastructure of last-resort trust in an emergency.

14

Why Hard Currencies Are Politically Inconvenient

Rule-bound money limits political escape routes — especially when crises make swift and less visible action attractive.

15

Bitcoin and Gold: Two Forms of Scarcity

Gold is scarce because of its material properties; Bitcoin because of a verifiable rule. The result is two very different architectures of ownership.

16

How Inflation Can Create Political Room for Manoeuvre

Inflation is not a pleasant goal, but it can give governments room for manoeuvre whose more visible alternatives would be politically more painful.

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  1. 01

    When Money Changes Society

    How money shapes everyday life.

    14 min read
  2. 02

    Why Bitcoin Is Really a Debate About Ownership

    What it means to own something yourself.

    10 min read
  3. 03

    When Progress Lowers Prices

    Why progress opens up new possibilities.

    8 min read