Natalie Smolenski

An introduction to The Satoshi Papers, exploring how Bitcoin challenges traditional monetary systems, reshapes state power, and offers a foundation for a freer, decentralized future.

This excerpt from The Satoshi Papers explores how self-sovereignty challenges centralized power in a world drifting toward surveillance and control.

This excerpt from the introduction to The Satoshi Papers traces how the consolidation of money, law, and state power in 20th-century America eroded liberty and reshaped the global financial order.

This excerpt from the introduction to The Satoshi Papers explores how the rise of the sovereign individual challenges the modern state, tracing the shift from America’s founding principles to today’s centralized military, financial, and bureaucratic power.

Theoretical anthropologist Natalie Smolenski discusses her latest work, The Satoshi Papers, the second book-length academic text on Bitcoin, which she conceptualized, contributed to and edited.