The Satoshi Curve: Inside Bitcoin's Architecture, Incentives and Illusions

The Satoshi Curve takes Bitcoin as a case study to examine the incentives, architecture, and trust that underpin digital systems. It asks how Bitcoin's design influences behaviour, concentrates power, and shapes the institutions that increasingly depend upon it.

Drawing together technical analysis, historical research, linguistic observations, and structural reasoning, Anna Staltman examines the relationship between Bitcoin's origin, its design, its narrative, and its long-term consequences...