The Praxeology of Privacy
by Max Hillebrand
A first-principles case for why financial privacy matters.
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What it's about
Hillebrand fuses two traditions — Austrian economics and the cypherpunks — into a single argument: privacy is not a standalone 'right' but what results when self-ownership and property are respected, and the cypherpunks built the running code that makes it defensible. Part treatise, part field guide, it covers Bitcoin's privacy tools (CoinJoin, PayJoin, Lightning), anonymous communication (Tor, mixnets) and operational security.
Why it matters
Privacy is core to genuine self-custody and financial freedom, and few books reason about it from first principles the way this does. Advanced, but foundational for the privacy-minded.
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