free networks and free markets
i believe in free networks and free markets not only as an ideology, but also as engineering
-networks should be permissionless, competitive, and resilient to human failure
-power should emerge bottom-up, rules should be transparent, and participation should never require approval
-markets work when entry is open, exit is real, and risk doesn’t mean ruin and freedom in markets isn’t chaos, it’s the architecture itself
-any network that requires permission to participate is a control surface. any market that restricts entry is a rent machine (hence centralisation cannot be trusted in its own merits)
-markets are discovery mechanisms, not moral systems. they function only when information asymmetry is minimized, barriers to entry are low, and failure is survivable
-i do not trust institutions to behave well at scale. i trust monetarily aligned incentives (that eventually benefit the network and its maintainers), cryptography, and game-theoretic constraints. networks should still work even when participants are selfish, lazy, or malicious
-if a network cannot survive adversaries, it does not deserve users and if freedom is optional, it is already gone