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Nick Szabo

American computer scientist · United States · On the map · Lawyers · Born 1964 · age 62

Nicholas Szabo is an American computer scientist, legal scholar, and cryptographer known for his research in smart contracts and digital currency.

Nick Szabo is read about 180 times a day, in 18 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 103 days, one point a day.

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A life in dates

2008“Nevertheless, this nice fiction allowed the United States to avoid creating a real locus of sovereignty by creating a fictional sovereignty to satisfy the Romanists.”In their words1 March 2008Comments on the United States Constitution (i)Read the whole statement

2005“Clock time is a fungible measure of sacrifice.”In their wordsA measure of sacrifice, 2005Read the whole statement

2002“the New England natives used neither silver nor gold. Instead, they used the most appropriate money to be found in their environment - durable skeleton parts of their prey.”In their wordsShelling Out (2002)Read the whole statement

“Only a handful of tribes, such as the Narragansetts, specialized in manufacturing wampum, while hundreds of other tribes, many of them hunter-gatherers, used it.”In their wordsShelling Out (2002)Read the whole statement

“Barter works well at small volumes but becomes increasingly costly at large volumes, until it becomes too costly to be worth the effort.”In their wordsShelling Out (2002)Read the whole statement

“On a larger scale, the Laffer curve may be the most important economic law of political history. Charles Adams uses it to explain the rise and fall of empires.”In their wordsShelling Out (2002)Read the whole statement

1964Born5 April 1964

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