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Sources and references for the thesis.

References are organized by argument domain rather than by a single flat bibliography. Wherever possible, priority is given to primary protocol documents, standards, academic papers, institutional data, and official technical documentation. Commentary and journalism are included when they capture adoption, implementation, or public framing not yet reflected in formal literature.

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. ISBN 978-0-684-83272-5. WorldCat

  • McLuhan, M. (1964). Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-262-63159-4 (MIT Press critical edition, 1994). MIT Press

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.” (2022–2023). Series of internal document releases via journalists Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, et al. Wikipedia overview summarizing document releases and reporting. Wikipedia (overview). Primary documents published via Substack and Twitter threads, 2022–2023.

  • 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 Viral Deepfakes: A Cross-National Study of Eight Countries. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. DOI: 10.1080/08838151.2024.2410783

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 International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure (BSCI ‘24), Singapore. DOI: 10.1145/3659463.3660031. MIT DSpace

  • 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). Fhenix. Accessed 2026-01-10.

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. No Bullshit Bitcoin. Accessed 2026-01-10.

  • No Bullshit Bitcoin. (2024, September 24). BOLT12: Offers Officially Merged into Lightning Specification. No Bullshit Bitcoin. Accessed 2026-01-10.

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. Accessed 2026-01-10.

  • Fedimint Project. (2024–2025). What Does the Federation Do? Fedimint documentation. fedimint.org. Accessed 2026-01-10.

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. Accessed 2026-01-10.

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. Accessed 2026-01-10.

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. Accessed 2026-01-10.

  • RISC Zero / Boundless. (2025). Boundless: A Universal ZK Compute Layer. RISC Zero. Accessed 2026-01-10.

  • Succinct Labs. (2025, August 5). Succinct Prover Network Mainnet Launch (PROVE). Succinct. Accessed 2026-01-10.

  • Nockchain Foundation. (2025). Nockchain Is Now Open Source; Nockchain Issuance Schedule and Dumbnet Launch. Nockchain.org blog & docs. Nockchain. Accessed 2026-01-10.

  • Psy Protocol (formerly QED). (2025). Psy: A Scalable, Privacy-First L1 Secured by Proof-of-Useful-Work 2.0. Psy Protocol. Accessed 2026-01-10.

  • Bittensor. (2025). Yuma Consensus. Bittensor Docs / LearnBittensor. Bittensor Docs. Accessed 2026-01-10.

  • Ambient. (2024). Ambient Litepaper v1: Proof of Logits and Consensus. Ambient litepaper. Ambient. Accessed 2026-01-10.

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. Accessed 2026-01-10.

  • 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. Accessed 2026-01-10.

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)

  • Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA). Content Credentials Standard Documentation. (Used as background for provenance metadata that platforms strip.) C2PA. Accessed 2026-01-10.

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