Date: 2026-01-13 · basis: publication date recorded in the magazine inventory
JelloShooter
JelloShooter argues that government monopoly over money and bureaucratic control over city building are the same top-down impulse, tracing state money issuance back to China's Song Dynasty and quoting Hayek's The Denationalization of Money and Satoshi on why central banks cannot be trusted. Supporting examples include a San Francisco homeowner fined $1,400 for a front-yard 'free library' and objections to parking minimums, setback requirements and density caps as bureaucratic shackles on property rights. He concedes the Bitcoin-to-urbanism link is speculative — 'Probably not, but it's fun to imagine' — and closes with his own Hayekian proclamation to return city building to the people.
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Cities were organic beasts, growing and morphing without some pencil-pushing planner telling you what color you could paint your front door.https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/the-intersection-of-bitcoin-and-urbanism/
What was once a free exchange of value and ideas became a system of compliance and conformity.https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/the-intersection-of-bitcoin-and-urbanism/
It’s the same top-down control we see in government-controlled money, and it’s just as stifling.https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/the-intersection-of-bitcoin-and-urbanism/
Parallels the state monopoly on money with zoning and planning control over city building, invoking Hayek.
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Stackchain Magazine article, catalogue item 69, category opinion-essay. Summarised by the archive from the published piece; quotes below are verbatim excerpts. Original: https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/the-intersection-of-bitcoin-and-urbanism/