Publications 

• 'Things Hidden’: Mimesis, Technology, and the Apocalypse

• Mimetic Apocalypse

• Against Safetyism

• Boom, Bust, and Bitcoin: Bitcoin-Bubbles As Innovation Accelerators

• The Prophecy of Satoshi Nakamoto: Bitcoin As Religion

• Manias and Mimesis: Applying René Girard’s Mimetic Theory to Financial Bubbles

• Are Bitcoin Bubbles Predictable?

• How Financial Models Could Move Bitcoin’s Price After the Halving

• ‘Salvation and Profit’: Deconstructing the Clean-Tech Bubble

• Crypto Network Effects

• What Makes Crypto Protocols Valuable?

• Bubbles As Innovation Accelerators

• Can There Be A Physics of Financial Markets?

• Believe the Neuralink Hype—It’s Important for Technological Innovation

Talks 

• ‘Things Hidden’: Mimesis, Technology, and the Apocalypse (2023 Novitate Conference—New Models of Thought and Desire: René Girard Centennial Celebration, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C, November 3, 2023)

• ‘Only a God Can Save Us’: Technology As Salvation (Private Event, El Salvador, September, 2023)

• Definite Optimism, Social Bubbles, and Technological Innovation (Progress Studies Meetup, New York City, February 11, 2020)

• Decoding Bitcoin's Value: Money, Technological Innovation, and Self-Sovereignty (Blockchain and Our Societies–An Ethical Appraisal, Trust Square Zurich, March 1, 2019)

• The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking—with Saifedean Ammous (ETH Zurich, May 24, 2018)

• Financial Bubbles As Innovation Accelerators (Institute for New Economic Thinking Conference on Innovation, Institutions and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, September 19, 2017)

• Inaugural Workshop and Panel Discussion on Financial Bubbles and Technological Innovation (Center for Information and Bubbles Studies, University of Copenhagen, February 10, 2017)

• The Future of Complexity Economics (Institute for New Economic Thinking Plenary 2016—with J. Doyne Farmer, Central European University, Budapest, October 19-22, 2016)

• The Physics of Finance? Econophysics and Financial Market Reflexivity (The Physics of Society: Philosophy of Econophysics and Complex Social Systems, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, July 23, 2016)

• Quantifying Reflexivity in Financial Markets (Complexity and Economics Workshop, Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Toronto, April 28, 2016)

• Modeling Financial Market Crashes: Phase Transitions, Universality, and Criticality (Causality and Modeling in the Sciences, UNED, Madrid, June 29, 2015)

• Can We Predict Financial Markets? Black Swans vs. Dragon Kings (Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable 2015, University of Washington, May 8, 2015)
  
  Podcasts

• Big Ideas Podcast on the Future of AI and the Existential Risk of Safetyism