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Sources

Sources and references for the thesis.

Theory & Framing

• Davidson, J. D., & Rees-Mogg, W. (1997). The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State. New York: Simon & Schuster / Touchstone. Amazon

• McLuhan, M. (1964). Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. New York: McGraw-Hill. Wikipedia

Macro: Debt, Financial Repression, Real Yields

• Gaspar, V., Gonçalves, C. E., & Poplawski-Ribeiro, M. (2025, September 17). Global Debt Remains Above 235% of World GDP. IMF Blog / Global Debt Monitor. International Monetary Fund. IMF

• International Monetary Fund. (2025). Global Debt Monitor 2025. IMF Global Debt Database. IMF

• Reinhart, C. M., & Sbrancia, M. B. (2015). The Liquidation of Government Debt. IMF Working Paper 15/7. International Monetary Fund. IMF

• Rose, J. (2021). Yield Curve Control in the United States, 1942 to 1951. Economic Perspectives, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 45(2). Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Social / Disinformation / Deepfakes / Provenance

• “The Twitter Files.” (overview). Twitter Files entry, Wikipedia (summarizing 2022–2023 document releases and reporting). Wikipedia

• U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary (Republican Staff). (2023). The Weaponization of CISA: How a “Cybersecurity” Agency Colluded with Big Tech and “Disinformation” Partners to Censor Americans. Staff Report (includes “cognitive infrastructure” quote). House Judiciary Committee Republicans

• U.S. Department of State. (2021–2025). Global Engagement Center (GEC): About Us. U.S. Department of State site. U.S. Department of State

• Harwell, D., & Patton, D. (2025, October 22). We uploaded a fake video to 8 social apps. Only one told users it wasn’t real. The Washington Post. The Washington Post

• UNESCO. (2025). Deepfakes and the Crisis of Knowing. UNESCO briefing (summarizes cross-country survey findings on deepfakes and misinformation). UNESCO

• Ahmed, S., et al. (2024). Social Media News Use Amplifies the Illusory Truth Effects of Deepfakes. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (preprint / article discussing prior exposure increasing perceived accuracy). Taylor & Francis Online

Policy Clock: EU AI Act

• European Union. (2024). Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act). Official Journal of the European Union, L 2024/1689, 12 July 2024. EUR-Lex

Verification Asymmetry & PoUW (MatMul)

• Komargodski, I., Lin, S., & Weinstein, O. (2025). Proofs of Useful Work from Arbitrary Matrix Multiplication. arXiv:2504.09971. arXiv

ZKML / Verifiable ML

• Peng, Z., Wang, T., Zhao, C., et al. (2025). A Survey of Zero-Knowledge Proof Based Verifiable Machine Learning. arXiv:2502.18535. arXiv

FHE / FHE Rollups / OpenFHE / Fhenix

• Zyskind, G., Erez, Y., Langer, T., Grossman, I., & Bondarevsky, L. (2024). FHE-Rollups: Scaling Confidential Smart Contracts on Ethereum and Beyond. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (BSCI ‘24). ACM Digital Library

• OpenFHE Project. (2025). OpenFHE v1.4.0 – Development Release Announcement. OpenFHE Discourse / GitHub. GitHub

• Fhenix. (2023). Introducing FHE-Rollups: Scaling Confidential Smart Contracts on Ethereum and Beyond. Fhenix blog (rolling whitepaper companion). Medium

Bitcoin Transport Privacy (BIP-324, Core 27.0)

• Bitcoin Core Developers. (2024, April 16). Bitcoin Core Version 27.0 Released. BitcoinCore.org release announcement. Bitcoin Core

• Mehta, D., Ruffing, T., Schnelli, J., & Wuille, P. (2023). BIP-324: Version 2 P2P Encrypted Transport Protocol. Bitcoin Improvement Proposals repository. GitHub

Lightning Receiver Privacy (BOLT12 Offers)

• No Bullshit Bitcoin. (2024, July 4). Phoenix Wallet v2.3.1 & Phoenixd v0.2.0: BOLT12 Offers. NoBSBitcoin.com (release coverage). No Bullshit Bitcoin

• No Bullshit Bitcoin. (2024, September 24). BOLT12: Offers Officially Merged into Lightning Specification. No Bullshit Bitcoin

Ecash / Federations (Fedimint / Fedi)

• Bitcoin Magazine. (2025, October 29). From Stealth to Scale: Fedi Unveils Multi-Sig Guardians for Federated Bitcoin Ecash Mints. Bitcoin Magazine. Bitcoin Magazine

• Fedimint Project. (2024–2025). What Does the Federation Do? Fedimint documentation. fedimint.org

Privacy Rails: Zcash, BTC↔XMR Swaps

• Electric Coin Co. / Zcash Foundation. (2024). Zcash Protocol Specification – NU6 Activation and Second Halving. Zcash Protocol Specification, Rev. 2025.6.0-105 (notes activation at block 2,726,400 on 23 Nov 2024). zips.z.cash

• Reitwießner, C. et al. (COMIT Network). (2020). Monero–Bitcoin Atomic Swaps. COMIT blog and GitHub implementation (xmr-btc-swap). comit.network

• UnstoppableSwap / eigenwallet. (2025). UnstoppableSwap GUI / eigenwallet: Non-custodial XMR↔BTC Atomic Swaps. GitHub organization and Monero Observer coverage. GitHub

Zcash Roadmap / NU7 Discussions

• Zcash Community Forum. (2024–2025). Accelerate NU7: Let’s Deliver a Smaller Network Upgrade Sooner. Governance thread. Zcash Community Forum

Ethereum Privacy L2 (Aztec)

• Steinrueck, D., & Sammara, A. (2025, May 2). Testnet Retro – Launch Day: Aztec Public Testnet Went Live. Aztec Network blog. aztec.network

• Coindesk. (2025, May 1). “Everything Is Encrypted”: Aztec’s Privacy Rollup Hits Testnet Amid Growing Demand. CoinDesk. CoinDesk

IBC-Wide Shielding (Namada)

• Namada Team. (2025, June 20). Namada Mainnet Launch Is Complete! Namada blog. namada.net

• Namada Team. (2023, January 31). Understanding the MASP and CC Circuits. Namada blog (Multi-Asset Shielded Pool). namada.net

Proof Markets / PoUW / Privacy-First L1s

• Aleo. (2025). Consensus and Proof of Succinct Work (PoSW). Aleo developer documentation. aleo.org

• RISC Zero / Boundless. (2025). Boundless: A Universal ZK Compute Layer. Binance Research / Messari profile. Binance

• Succinct Labs. (2025, August 5). Succinct Prover Network Mainnet Launch (PROVE). CoinMarketCap / Binance / Succinct blog. CoinMarketCap

• Nockchain Foundation. (2025). Nockchain Is Now Open Source; Nockchain Issuance Schedule and Dumbnet Launch. Nockchain.org blog & docs. Nockchain

• Psy Protocol (formerly QED). (2025). Psy: A Scalable, Privacy-First L1 Secured by Proof-of-Useful-Work 2.0. RootData / CCN testnet coverage. RootData

• Bittensor. (2025). Yuma Consensus. Bittensor Docs / LearnBittensor. Bittensor Docs

• Ambient. (2024). Ambient Litepaper v1: Proof of Logits and Consensus. Ambient litepaper. Ambient

Transport, Privacy, SDKs & Related Infrastructure

• No Bullshit Bitcoin. (2024, July 11). The New Phoenix: A 3rd Generation Lightning Wallet. (includes BOLT12 & path-blinding roadmap). No Bullshit Bitcoin

• Fedimint. (2025). Fedimint Lightning Gateway Uses LDK Node to Simplify Deployment and Liquidity Management. Lightning Dev Kit blog. Lightning Dev Kit Documentation

Ethereum Privacy Roadmaps (PSE / Privacy Cluster)

• Privacy Stewards of Ethereum (PSE). (2025, September 12). PSE Roadmap: 2025 and Beyond. PSE.dev blog / Ethereum Magicians post. pse.dev

• Ethereum Foundation. (2025, October 8). The Ethereum Foundation’s Commitment to Privacy. Ethereum.org blog. Ethereum Foundation Blog

• CoinMarketCap Academy. (2025, October 9). Ethereum Foundation Launches Privacy Cluster for Enhanced Blockchain Security. CoinMarketCap. CoinMarketCap

Vitalik on Openness & Verifiable Hardware

• Buterin, V. (2025, September 24). The Importance of Full-Stack Openness and Verifiability. Personal blog. vitalik.eth.limo

C2PA / Provenance (Supporting)

• Creative Commons / Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA). Content Credentials Standard Documentation. (Used as background for provenance metadata that platforms strip.) C2PA

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