The Intellectual Framework
The eight pillars that structure Dr Craig Wright's body of work, identified from analysis of 795+ blog posts, academic papers, patents, and public talks.
⚖ Bitcoin Is Rules, Not Democracy
The protocol is set in stone. Miners enforce rules — they don't make them. Changing the protocol creates a different system.
★ Sound Money & Austrian Economics
Bitcoin's fixed supply creates honest money. Rooted in Hayek, Menger, and classical liberal economic thought. Cash, not digital gold.
∞ Information Theory & Bitcoin
Bitcoin transactions are information channels with provable properties. Shannon's information theory applied to distributed systems.
⚙ Computation & Smart Contracts
Bitcoin Script is Turing complete. Smart contracts through overlapping transactions, not virtual machines. UTXO model enables parallelism.
⚗ Law, Property & Digital Signatures
Bitcoin enables property rights in the digital realm. Digital signatures create legally binding evidence. Law is law — code is a tool.
◆ Enterprise & the Metanet Vision
Bitcoin's killer app is data integrity. The Metanet: an internet rebuilt on Bitcoin where data has ownership and value.
✎ Academic Rigour
Cross-disciplinary competence is non-negotiable. Read primary sources. Peer review is broken. Most blockchain research is shallow.
◈ Philosophy & Values
Popper and falsifiability. Individual rights and responsibility. Christianity and moral law. Merit over mob rule.
Intellectual Genealogy
The thinkers Wright builds upon — essential context for understanding his work.
Economics
Friedrich Hayek, Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Ronald Coase
Computer Science & Mathematics
Alan Turing, Claude Shannon, Wei Dai, Hal Finney, Nick Szabo
Philosophy
Karl Popper (falsifiability), Classical liberal tradition, Christian moral philosophy