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Participating Safely In Cryptocurrency If You Choose To

Posted on May 14, 2026 by nathanalbright

Introduction The three preceding papers in this series have laid out, in turn, what cryptocurrency is and what it promises, why the field attracts unusual concentrations of fraud, and what specific forms that fraud takes. A reader who has followed … Continue reading →

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Why Crypto Is a Magnet for Fraud

Posted on May 14, 2026 by nathanalbright

Introduction The first paper in this series argued that cryptocurrency emerged from serious questions about money, trust, and individual autonomy, and that it has partially delivered on some of its founding promises while falling short of others. That paper deliberately … Continue reading →

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The Promise of Cryptocurrency

Posted on May 14, 2026 by nathanalbright

Introduction Few financial innovations of the past two decades have generated as much heat, and as little light, as cryptocurrency. To its advocates it is the foundation of a freer monetary order; to its critics it is a speculative mania … Continue reading →

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On the Energy Mix of Bravian Provinces and the Implications of Energy Cost and Availability for Settlement and Productive Life

Posted on May 10, 2026 by nathanalbright

Provincial College of Porterville Working Paper Series in Covenantal Political Economy Working Paper No. 17 Albrecht Wegmüller, Chair of Public Works and Civil Covenants with reference to the typological work of H. Tschudi Porterville, Eleventh Month 3015 Abstract This paper … Continue reading →

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Screen Reading, Deep Reading, and the Plastic Brain

Posted on April 20, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract The shift from print to screen as the dominant reading medium of daily life is one of the largest changes in the practice of reading in the history of the skill. It has happened within a single generation, and … Continue reading →

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Deep Catalog Exploration: How Streaming Handles (or Fails to Handle) Album-Oriented Listening

Posted on April 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

White Paper 5 of the Beyond the Playlist Series Abstract The album is the primary artistic unit of recorded music for most of the twentieth century’s serious musical output. It is the form in which composers, bandleaders, and recording artists … Continue reading →

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The Radio Analogy: What Broadcast Radio Got Right (and Wrong) About Discovery

Posted on April 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

White Paper 4 of the Beyond the Playlist Series Abstract Broadcast radio preceded streaming by decades and was, for most of the twentieth century, the primary infrastructure through which ordinary listeners encountered music they had not chosen and had not … Continue reading →

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Platform Comparison: How Apple Music, Tidal, Amazon Music, and YouTube Music Handle Exploration

Posted on April 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

White Paper 3 of the Beyond the Playlist Series Abstract Spotify is the dominant streaming platform by subscriber count and cultural visibility, but it is not the only architecture through which listeners engage with the recorded music catalog in the … Continue reading →

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Spotify’s Album and Artist Radio: Algorithmic Behavior, Decay, and the Echo Chamber Problem

Posted on April 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

White Paper 2 of the Beyond the Playlist Series Abstract Spotify provides several mechanisms beyond the playlist for listeners to engage with the catalog in an exploratory mode: artist radio, song radio, album radio, artist mixes, and the autoplay continuation … Continue reading →

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The Playlist as Ceiling: Why Streaming’s Default Mode Limits Discovery

Posted on April 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

White Paper 1 of the Beyond the Playlist Series Abstract The playlist has become the dominant organizational metaphor of the music streaming era, shaping not only how platforms present content but how listeners conceive of their relationship to music. This … Continue reading →

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