"The Praxeology of Privacy" goes out today, the third edition. A new chapter publishes every day at 1600 UTC for the next month. Print edition arrives in a couple of days.
Today: endorsements from Knut Svanholm, Luke de Wolf, Erik Voskuil, and Stephan Kinsella, Paul Rosenberg's foreword, and the preface.
The book joins Austrian economics and the cypherpunk tradition on a single claim. State predation depends on state observation. When observation gets cheaper, predation gets cheaper; when observation gets more expensive, predation recedes. The engineering that raises the cost of observation is what this book is about.
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Max's excellent Praxeology of Privacy is out in physical form soon. Follow along here as he publishes a chapter per day!
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I am so ready for this print edition!!!
Will be on https://bitcoininfinitystore.com
I'll announce when its available
Yes indeed! It's been on my reading list since the first version was released😉 I might hold out for the physical or audio version though, can't force myself to read long texts from a screen TBH.
Extra kudos to @Max for releasing it copyright free, of course! 👊
Will definitely feature it on @Open Source Culture sooner rather than later.
Thanks!
The audio book is already recorded, will take a bit until edit is finished.
Then it'll be on podcast & blossom
If we are currently reading (I assume Ed 1) has much changed and we should switch?
Get it on amazon here
Next week comes the Bitcoin edition, after that the audio book.
The Praxeology of Privacy: 9798196622069: Economics Books @ Amazon.com
A whole bunch has changed since the first edition, in hindsight I'm kinda embarrassed how bad v1 was...
So I'd definitely abandon that and check out the new one.
Looking forward to this! Praise from Kinsella. That dude is so thorough.
Are the other books listed there also from you?
What other books?
This is my first standalone book.
Yes! Super grateful for his review on the topic, he was key to many improvements since v2.
Will do. Is your web and ebook versions up to date so I should download them now or that is what you are releasing over time?
Yes, the pdf (only light mode for now) is on the website.
Epub & darkmode will come later.
Perfect. Already added it to my kindle!
Waiting for the .epub :)
Its on the website.
Towardsliberty.com/pop
Which is down for maintenance atm, should be back up soon.
hey @Max i've started translating the book and made it up to the chapter 5, but 2 months ago i took a break for another project—does it make sense to continue or is the third edition so different that it deserves to start over from the beginning? is this the final version? thx
Thanks for doing this!
Which language?
A lot changed and improved in v3, and this one will be stable for a while.
So I'd suggest to start over, sorry about that!
czech (:
Very cool!
Czechs are quite cypherpunk, so should fit the audience.
Patiently waiting for the physical copy I paid for 5+ years ago
Patients will be rewarded greatly!
Thanks for sticking around 🖤