Cypherpunk Nick Szabo is joining Samson Mow's Jan3 — a digital infrastructure company fostering global Bitcoin (BTC) adoption — as chief scientist, the company announced on Jan. 9.

But as Nick Szabo’s seminal 1999 paper, Micropayments and Mental Transaction Costs, pointed out, there’s a lot more than technology standing in the way. Twenty-five years on, Szabo’s ...

A 1999 article by Nick Szabo is often cited to argue that micropayments don’t work. But with Bitcoin and the Lighting Network, now they do. Szabo explained the history of philosophical and technical ...

But as Nick Szabo’s seminal 1999 paper, Micropayments and Mental Transaction Costs, pointed out, there’s a lot more than technology standing in the way. Twenty-five years on, Szabo’s warnings about ...