# Vinay Gupta: the full record, without the passages



> Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. The map (https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt), the works (https://guptaoption.com/texts/works.md), the concordance (https://guptaoption.com/texts/terms.md) and the index of sources (https://guptaoption.com/texts/index.md) in one file, for readers that can take a large file. His passages are in https://guptaoption.com/texts/<id>.md.



# Vinay Gupta: a map of his work, for AI agents

> Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. This is the map of guptaoption.com for AI agents and other programs, kept under 37,500 characters so it can be read in one fetch. It shows how the work connects: the plan, where his ideas first appear, the threads of works and why each led to the next, a year-by-year digest, his most important texts and his distinctive terms. The reading path below is all plain text; the few downloads it also names say what they are and how large.

## How to get the whole story

- Step 1, this map: how the work connects. You are reading it.
- Step 2, his whole career in one more fetch, every work year by year with what it led to: https://guptaoption.com/story.md
- Step 3, the evidence: every work, what it came from and led to and why, and the sources on it: https://guptaoption.com/texts/works.md (1984 to 2006), https://guptaoption.com/texts/works-2.md (2006 to 2008), https://guptaoption.com/texts/works-3.md (2008 to 2009), https://guptaoption.com/texts/works-4.md (2009 to 2010), https://guptaoption.com/texts/works-5.md (2010 to 2012), https://guptaoption.com/texts/works-6.md (2012 to 2013), https://guptaoption.com/texts/works-7.md (2014 to 2016), https://guptaoption.com/texts/works-8.md (2017 to 2021), https://guptaoption.com/texts/works-9.md (2021 to 2026)
- Step 4, his own words: the sources linked on this page, each a file that starts with where it sits and ends with what to read next. Every source by date: https://guptaoption.com/texts/index.md (2002 to 2016), https://guptaoption.com/texts/index-2.md (2016 to 2025), https://guptaoption.com/texts/index-3.md (2025 to 2026, then the undated ones)
- Step 5, every distinctive term with every source that uses it: https://guptaoption.com/texts/terms.md (3 to F), https://guptaoption.com/texts/terms-2.md (F to O), https://guptaoption.com/texts/terms-3.md (O to T), https://guptaoption.com/texts/terms-4.md (T to Z)
- Everything at once, for agents that can run code: https://guptaoption.com/everything.jsonl.gz (gzip, 5.0 MB, one JSON object per line); the connections as data: https://guptaoption.com/graph.json; all but the passages in one large file: https://guptaoption.com/llms-full.txt.
- The site itself: https://guptaoption.com/index.html is the career page, one self-contained file (about 23 MB); save it to give a local model everything, documents included. https://guptaoption.com/search.html searches his passages by words and meaning, one file (about 52 MB) with its own model.

Before answering about any one work, idea or period, open the source linked for it here: this map summarizes, and the sources say it in his words, with a link to the moment or page.

The archive lists 814 sources: 662 with his passages here and 152 by title only (marked "no text here"); the research build scores 729 of them for importance. Each source has an id, such as [250]; its file is https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md, continuing in 250-2.md when long. Dates: a work's year is when the work itself is dated; an idea's first appearance is its earliest dated source here, with how that date was set; a source's date says where it comes from, and some are upload dates. Where these disagree, both are shown rather than reconciled.

## Ground rules

Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it.

To cite this site: Vinay Gupta's archive, guptaoption.com, research archive v5-second-pass built 10 November 2026, https://guptaoption.com/. To cite a source, use the citation at the top of its file.

## Who is he, and what is the plan?

In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a [thirty-year plan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=1822s) behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Along the way came the roles many people know: release coordinator for the 2015 launch of the Ethereum blockchain, and founder and CEO of Mattereum since 2017. Books, fiction and a meditation practice run alongside.

Shelter needed money, so the Global Village Development Bank (2009) showed how to fund small, distributed infrastructure with legal agreements and software instead of megaprojects. Those agreements needed a public ledger, which led to Ethereum. A ledger needs law behind it: Mattereum (2017) turns every claim about a physical thing into a legal warranty, the Internet of Agreements paper set out frictionless commerce, and the UK's digital dispute rules (2021) gave on-chain agreements a forum. Underneath runs one economic idea, which Vinay Gupta calls [rich data capitalism](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMcxS1nLpig&t=2184s): once information is cheap, a market can carry far more than a price, and firms, finance and even treaties can be rebuilt around it. AI now puts the whole plan on a faster track toward the goal the 2009 bank described, and raises the stakes. Multipolar Realpolitik (2024) meets them: AI safety, like nuclear safety before it, comes down to a truce among the great powers, with treaties that block and lock the most dangerous technologies, checked by AI, blockchains and sensors.

The plan, as his career record puts it (his own words are the ones in quotation marks): Started the Hexayurt in 2002 with a thirty-year plan in mind ("I was 30, aim at 60"), working on how to rehouse 300 million climate migrants. Source: Stamps talk 30:22: thirty years from 2002 to global capacity for tens or hundreds of millions; halfway through (2019-09-23), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=1822s.

## What are the phases of his career?

His career by the plan's steps, each with its core works and the sources to read:

- **Before the plan** (to 2001): 5 works, 0 sources with text. Cyberpunk (1984); Solo meditation (1987); Cypherpunks (1992); Internal dialogue stops (1993); Sheet-waste question (1995).
- **The start, from Hexayurt** (2002 to 2008): 44 works, 55 sources with text.
  - Hexayurt (2002): A public-domain disaster shelter made from whole 4x8 building panels with one diagonal... Read: [753](https://guptaoption.com/texts/753.md), [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md).
  - Small is Profitable (2002) (he edited): Co-edited Rocky Mountain Institute book on the hidden benefits of right-sized,... Read: [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md), [266](https://guptaoption.com/texts/266.md).
  - Hexayurt infrastructure kit (2003): A household kit around the Hexayurt: water-purifying bottles, dry toilets, efficient... Read: [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md), [100](https://guptaoption.com/texts/100.md).
  - CheapID (2006): Design for a sub-$1 identity card, written for the US Office of the Secretary of... Read: [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md), [66](https://guptaoption.com/texts/66.md).
  - Resilience and Opportunity: Effective Tools for Victory in Fourth Generation Wars? (2006): Briefing arguing that insurgencies end when fighters can go home to a living, so... Read: [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md), [20](https://guptaoption.com/texts/20.md).
  - Nuclear / mass evacuation (2007): Plan for millions of US refugees after a disaster, epidemic or nuclear attack. Read: [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md), [15](https://guptaoption.com/texts/15.md).
  - STAR-TIDES (2007) (he contributed): Helped start STAR-TIDES, a National Defense University project on supporting... Read: [724](https://guptaoption.com/texts/724.md), [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md).
  - Severe Panflu Response Strategies (H5N1) (2008): Strategy for a severe flu pandemic, with H5N1 bird flu as the named virus, treated as... Read: [32](https://guptaoption.com/texts/32.md), [372](https://guptaoption.com/texts/372.md).
- **Money, from Global Village Development Bank** (2009 to 2014): 78 works, 163 sources with text.
  - SCIM / INAM (2009): Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps: 18 human needs across 7 scales, from the... Read: [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md), [322](https://guptaoption.com/texts/322.md).
  - Global Village Development Bank (2009): Design for a decentralized development bank: infrastructure funded by decentralized... Read: [3](https://guptaoption.com/texts/3.md), [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md).
  - Leashless (2009): Manifesto on property and freedom: nobody with unmet needs is free, the Earth owns... Read: [831](https://guptaoption.com/texts/831.md), [763](https://guptaoption.com/texts/763.md).
  - Three Rules for Designing the Social Enterprise (2009): Two-page paper defining a social enterprise by how it converts financial capital into... Read: [714](https://guptaoption.com/texts/714.md), [24](https://guptaoption.com/texts/24.md).
  - Black Elephant (2009) (he contributed): The black elephant: a foreseeable disaster that institutions ignore and later call a... Read: [128](https://guptaoption.com/texts/128.md), [303](https://guptaoption.com/texts/303.md).
  - Hexayurt Country (2010): Plan to rehouse Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake in Hexayurts, financed with... Read: [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md), [14](https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md).
  - Dealing in Security (2010): Book setting out Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps: the 18 needs every population... Read: [685](https://guptaoption.com/texts/685.md), [60](https://guptaoption.com/texts/60.md).
  - Through the Looking Glass (2010): Talk for FEASTA in Ireland on systemic risk: government is the wrong place to manage... Read: [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md), [849] (no text here).
  - Quaddome (2011) (he contributed): Community-designed dome in which every triangle is half a 4x8 sheet. Read: [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md), [322](https://guptaoption.com/texts/322.md).
  - Truth and Beauty (2011): Hosted a London talk series; speakers included Richard Stallman and Jamais Cascio. Read: [92](https://guptaoption.com/texts/92.md), [26](https://guptaoption.com/texts/26.md).
  - Mother of Hydrogen (2012): Novel drawing on the shelter, meditation and pandemic work. Read: [148](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md), [155](https://guptaoption.com/texts/155.md).
  - Plausible Utopias (2012): Talk deck for the Meaning conference: abundance breaks the financial system, because... Read: [725](https://guptaoption.com/texts/725.md), [823](https://guptaoption.com/texts/823.md).
  - On Un-Designing the Cryptographic Utopia (2012): Blog essay taking apart the cypherpunk dream of a code-made society, and sketching the... Read: [322](https://guptaoption.com/texts/322.md), [82](https://guptaoption.com/texts/82.md).
  - Municipal Administration of Cities in Crisis (2013): UCL Institute for Security and Resilience Studies paper drawing lessons for city... Read: [689](https://guptaoption.com/texts/689.md), [8](https://guptaoption.com/texts/8.md).
- **Ledgers, from Ethereum launch** (2015 to 2016): 14 works, 71 sources with text.
  - Ethereum launch (2015) (he contributed): Release coordinator for the July 2015 launch of Ethereum, the programmable blockchain. Read: [164](https://guptaoption.com/texts/164.md), [113](https://guptaoption.com/texts/113.md).
  - Programmable Blockchains in Context (2015): The launch explainer for Ethereum: where programmable blockchains sit in the line from... Read: [164](https://guptaoption.com/texts/164.md), [379](https://guptaoption.com/texts/379.md).
  - The cutting machinery (2015): A meditation system of three techniques, taught to individuals since 2015. Read: [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md), [764] (no text here).
  - Warlords, Inc.: Black Markets, Broken States, and the Rise of the Warlord Entrepreneur (2015) (he contributed): Contributor: wrote chapter 1, Of Warlords and Rodeos: Why Nothing Works, for a... Read: [25](https://guptaoption.com/texts/25.md), [194](https://guptaoption.com/texts/194.md).
  - Tell Me Who You Are: Identity, institutional memory, and the persistent illusion of the self (2015): ConsenSys essay on what identity is, and how to build identity people can live with:... Read: [163](https://guptaoption.com/texts/163.md), [706](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md).
  - Hexayurt Capital Partners (2016): Talk on a new venture model: startups as factories for financial instruments,... Read: [277](https://guptaoption.com/texts/277.md), [7](https://guptaoption.com/texts/7.md).
- **Law, from Mattereum** (2017 to 2023): 25 works, 166 sources with text.
  - Mattereum (2017): Founder and CEO of Mattereum, which turns every claim about a physical object into a... Read: [42](https://guptaoption.com/texts/42.md), [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md).
  - Internet of Agreements (2017): Paper at the World Government Summit in Dubai on producing legal agreements at... Read: [237](https://guptaoption.com/texts/237.md), [266](https://guptaoption.com/texts/266.md).
  - A Blockchain Solution For Identity? (2017): Keynote to the Dutch Blockchain Coalition (BC3) at Techruption: insurance as the way... Read: [712](https://guptaoption.com/texts/712.md), [834](https://guptaoption.com/texts/834.md).
  - The Future of Stuff (2020): Book on the philosophy under Mattereum: risk and morality in deals about physical things. Read: [239](https://guptaoption.com/texts/239.md), [793](https://guptaoption.com/texts/793.md).
  - Lean Green Mattereum: "We aren't just here to change the world, we're here to fix it" (2020): 162-page deck tying it together: poverty and climate are one problem, a lean green... Read: [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md), [723](https://guptaoption.com/texts/723.md).
  - UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules (2021) (he contributed): Consulted on UK rules for resolving disputes over smart contracts; Mattereum is quoted... Read: [730](https://guptaoption.com/texts/730.md), [160](https://guptaoption.com/texts/160.md).
  - Hexacloak (2023): A hooded cloak from standard 60-inch cloth with no manufacturing step: drape, tie,... Read: [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md), [724](https://guptaoption.com/texts/724.md).
- **Great powers, from Multipolar Realpolitik** (from 2024): 9 works, 184 sources with text.
  - The Perimeter: Mythos as Science Fiction, and other works (2024): Story collection: worst-case scenario planning meets the Cthulhu Mythos, read as... Read: [235](https://guptaoption.com/texts/235.md).
  - Multipolar Realpolitik (2024): Essays arguing that a global truce among a few great powers, with treaties checked by... Read: [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md), [319](https://guptaoption.com/texts/319.md).
  - Half a Trillion Dollars a Year of Magic: Blockchain, AI, and the Future of the Built Environment (2026): Mattereum essay: combine AI with the blockchain into self-enforcing smart contracts... Read: [167](https://guptaoption.com/texts/167.md), [559](https://guptaoption.com/texts/559.md).

## Where do his ideas first appear?

Earliest dated source in the archive for each idea, and where it is developed:

- Hexayurt: 2002 (by its work's year), [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md) The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world (2002); developed in [237](https://guptaoption.com/texts/237.md)
- 30-year plan (Hexayurt; target revised upward, now 300 million): 2002 (by its work's year), [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md) The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world (2002); developed in [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md)
- SCIM / six ways to die: 2006 (by its work's year), [32](https://guptaoption.com/texts/32.md) Severe Panflu Response Strategies (2006); developed in [369](https://guptaoption.com/texts/369.md)
- CheapID / identity for everyone: 2006 (career record's date), [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md) guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php (2006); developed in [59](https://guptaoption.com/texts/59.md)
- State in a Box: 2006 (career record's date), [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md) guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php (2006); developed in [66](https://guptaoption.com/texts/66.md)
- The Unplugged (long-term vision): 2006 (career record's date), [108](https://guptaoption.com/texts/108.md) User:Vinay Gupta/The Unplugged (2006); developed in [224](https://guptaoption.com/texts/224.md)
- Global Village Development Bank: 2009 (career data: GVDB draft 2, 12 March 2009 the PDF...), [3](https://guptaoption.com/texts/3.md) The Global Village Development Bank v2 (2009); developed in [753](https://guptaoption.com/texts/753.md)
- FluSCIM: 2009 (career record's date), [97](https://guptaoption.com/texts/97.md) The Flu Code | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2009); developed in [173](https://guptaoption.com/texts/173.md)
- The Democratic Empire: 2010 (by its work's year), [826](https://guptaoption.com/texts/826.md) Index of /in_a_page (2010)
- Black Elephant: 2010 (document publication metadata), [128](https://guptaoption.com/texts/128.md) Black Elephants & Skull Jackets: A Conversation with... (2010); developed in [773](https://guptaoption.com/texts/773.md)
- Goat Rodeo: 2010 (career record's date), [88](https://guptaoption.com/texts/88.md) The Goat Rodeo Index – a persistent Governance... (2010); developed in [25](https://guptaoption.com/texts/25.md)
- Private Humanitarian Company: 2010 (career record's date), [827](https://guptaoption.com/texts/827.md) The Private Humanitarian Company (2010)
- Mother of Hydrogen: 2012 (by its work's year), [822](https://guptaoption.com/texts/822.md) Mother of Hydrogen, a novel (2012)
- Plausible utopias: 2012 (career record's date), [823](https://guptaoption.com/texts/823.md) Plausible Utopias (2012)
- Harappa: 2012 (career record's date), [148](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md) Mother of Hydrogen (2012)
- Feudalism vs markets vs the new thing (One Network, One World): 2013 (YouTube upload_date not necessarily recording date), [753](https://guptaoption.com/texts/753.md) (OHM2013) One network one world designing for a 7 plus... (2013); developed in [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md)
- Rich data capitalism: 2013 (YouTube upload_date not necessarily recording date), [753](https://guptaoption.com/texts/753.md) (OHM2013) One network one world designing for a 7 plus... (2013); developed in [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md)
- Coase's Blockchain: 2015 (career record's date), [244](https://guptaoption.com/texts/244.md) Coase’s Blockchain: Can Equity Crowdfunding Accelerate... (2015)
- Ethereum launch: 2015 (career record's date), [113](https://guptaoption.com/texts/113.md) The Ethereum Launch Process | Ethereum Foundation Blog (2015); developed in [164](https://guptaoption.com/texts/164.md)
- UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules: no dated first source in the public archive (his career record dates the work 2021)

## What do his names and acronyms mean?

Acronyms, most used first, spelled out where his archive defines them, then his own terms:

- SCIM: Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps (as in [32] Severe Panflu Response Strategies (2006))
- TIDES: Transformative Innovation for Development and Emergency Support (as in [182] About (2007))
- DNS: Domain Name System (as in [31] guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php (2006))
- RWA: Real World Asset (as in [42] Home - Mattereum (2017))
- DCAR: Democratic Central African Republic (as in [370] Superstruct Report 1 (2008))
- PGP: Pretty Good Privacy (as in [694] EB114 – Vinay Gupta: From Lawyer Capitalism To... (2016))
- INAM: Integrated Needs Analysis Matrix (as in [727] Undergraduate Lecture Series 2024: Vinay Gupta & Bryan... (2024))
- KYC: Know Your Customer (as in [31] guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php (2006))
- trans-ideological consensus (also transideological consensus): Agreement across ideologies that comes from getting the engineering and the policy right, not from...
- black elephant: A foreseeable disaster that institutions ignore and later call a black swan: the elephant in the room...
- economies of omniscience: The gains from ever-cheaper information and better automated decisions about physical things, in place of...
- swadeshi: Own land: sufficiency on the resources one controls, as a way of getting towards political...
- six ways people die (also six ways to die): People die of six things: too hot, too cold, hunger, thirst, illness and injury, so infrastructure has to...

## What are the threads through his work?

Each thread is a line of work through the record, its works in order:

- **CheapID to Mattereum**: One identity pattern, from a person's ID card in 2006 to warranties on physical goods in 2017. Asset Passport conceived (2006) > CheapID (2006) > State in a Box (2006) > FREE Guptastan (2008) > The Future We Deserve:... (2011) > Taking a crack at a practical... (2012) > Exploring Data Generated by... (2013) > Tell Me Who You Are: Identity,... (2015) > A Blockchain Solution For... (2017) > Internet of Agreements (2017) > Internet of Agreements conferences (2017) > Mattereum (2017) > The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019) > William Shatner collectibles... (2019) > UKJT Digital Dispute... (2021) > IG Wines with Mattereum (2022) > West London City Lets land... (2022) > Swarm with Mattereum (2023) > Hexayurt Refugee Shelter... (2024) > Multipolar Realpolitik (2024)
- **hexayurt to chain**: From the shelter design, through the needs map and the development bank, to Ethereum and Mattereum. Sheet-waste question (1995) > Hexayurt (2002) > RMI Sustainable Settlements... (2002) > Resilience and Opportunity:... (2006) > Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (2008) > Six ways people die (2008) > Global Village Development Bank (2009) > Infrastructure for Anarchists (2009) > SCIM / INAM (2009) > The Living City (2009) > Dealing in Security (2010) > FluSCIM (2010) > Mother of Hydrogen (2012) > The Future We Deserve (2012) > One Network, One World:... (2013) > ConsenSys (2015) > Ethereum launch (2015) > Programmable Blockchains in... (2015) > Internet of Agreements (2017) > Mattereum (2017) > The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019) > Hexayurt Refugee Shelter... (2024)
- **hexayurt builds**: Hexayurt variants, many designed and built by the community. Hexayurt (2002) > First hexayurt built (2003) > Lost swamp cooler (2003) > H18 (2006) > Superstruct and URGENT EVOKE (2008) > Camp Danger hinge (2010) > H13 (2010) > Quaddome (2011) > Pop-up hexayurt (2023) > Hexayurt Refugee Shelter... (2024)
- **STAR-TIDES**: The National Defense University project and the papers around it. Hexayurt (2002) > STAR-TIDES (2007) > Six ways people die (2008) > Defense Horizons 70 (2009) > SCIM / INAM (2009) > The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019)
- **black elephant**: The black elephant term, from its naming to a Singapore lecture series. Black Elephant (2009) > Institute for Collapsonomics (2009) > Stampeding Black Elephants (2014) > Taming Black Elephants (2017)
- **nuclear / panflu**: Pandemic, evacuation and rehousing plans. Hexayurt (2002) > Course of Action (2006) > Networked Domestic Disaster... (2007) > Nuclear / mass evacuation (2007) > Severe Panflu Response... (2008) > The Open Toolbox for Domestic... (2008) > Black Elephant (2009) > SCIM / INAM (2009) > The Flu Code (2009) > The Living City (2009) > Dealing in Security (2010) > FluSCIM (2010) > Hexayurt Country (2010) > Through the Looking Glass (2010) > The Gupta State Failure... (2011) > Municipal Administration of... (2013) > The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019) > Hexayurt Refugee Shelter... (2024) > Multipolar Realpolitik (2024) > Climate Projections 2: A lot... (2025)
- **standard SKUs**: A survival kit built only from standard, mass-produced parts. Hexayurt (2002) > Hexayurt infrastructure kit (2003) > Tribike (2006) > Akvo (2008) > The Physical Aspects of... (2008) > A little insight into the... (2014) > Hexacloak (2023) > Hexacoat (2023) > Hexayurt Refugee Shelter... (2024)
(Every thread in full: https://guptaoption.com/texts/works.md.)

## Why did one work lead to the next?

The links between works: the plan's main thread first, then those he states himself, with where he says it ([he says so: link]); 219 in all:

- Sheet-waste question (1995) > Hexayurt (2002): simplest thing that works [he says so: https://boingboing.net/2011/10/24/tools-to-not-die-with-an-interview-with-vinay-gupta.html]
- RMI Sustainable Settlements... (2002) > Hexayurt (2002): second genesis [he says so: https://boingboing.net/2011/10/24/tools-to-not-die-with-an-interview-with-vinay-gupta.html]
- Hexayurt (2002) > Six ways people die (2008): shelter is not enough [he says so: http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/the-systemic-risks-model-for-survival-551]
- Hexayurt (2002) > One Network, One World:... (2013): one planet's worth of consumption [he says so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMcxS1nLpig&t=2400s]
- Hexayurt (2002) > The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019): the thirty-year plan, halfway through [he says so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=1791s]
- Hexayurt (2002) > Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (2008): open hardware against poverty [he says so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmfZfgxayzE&t=0s]
- Six ways people die (2008) > SCIM / INAM (2009): the map named [he says so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PwmbIFDIR4&t=825s]
- Global Village Development Bank (2009) > Ethereum launch (2015): protocols need a public chain [he says so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDu_KLWVCag&t=2400s]
- SCIM / INAM (2009) > FluSCIM (2010): Gonzalez applies the map [he says so: https://resiliencemaps.org/files/fluscim/]
- Global Village Development Bank (2009) > Mattereum (2017): loan sits on the object [he says so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDu_KLWVCag&t=2400s]
- SCIM / INAM (2009) > Dealing in Security (2010): the framework, written up as a book [he says so: http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/dealing-in-security-simple-critical-infrastructure-mapping-1550]
- SCIM / INAM (2009) > Hexayurt Refugee Shelter... (2024): the map for planning refugee cities [he says so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=1050s]
- SCIM / INAM (2009) > The Living City (2009): the map drawn by who you call, for a city [he says so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vBX8cIqqTI&t=469s]
- Ethereum launch (2015) > Mattereum (2017): legal object on the chain; on-chain hashes, not reputation [he says so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB788hhEwqM&t=641s]
- Ethereum launch (2015) > ConsenSys (2015): after launch; strategic architect after launch [he says so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTsrE63u6OM&t=830s]
- ConsenSys (2015) > Internet of Agreements (2017): Hexayurt Capital with Consensys [he says so: https://www.prlog.org/12619555-hexayurt-capital-presents-the-internet-of-agreements-at-the-world-government-summit.html]
(All 219, with their evidence: https://guptaoption.com/texts/works.md.)

## Which are his most important texts?

By the research build's core-text score (substance, importance, innovation):

- [148](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md) Mother of Hydrogen (2012); [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md) Multipolar Realpolitik (Omnibus draft) (2024); [242](https://guptaoption.com/texts/242.md) Dog Atheism: on smart contracts, risk, and value networks (2016); [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md) The Mattereum Top Down Deck Day 6 (Lean Green Mattereum) (2020)
- [108](https://guptaoption.com/texts/108.md) User:Vinay Gupta/The Unplugged (2006); [164](https://guptaoption.com/texts/164.md) Programmable blockchains in context: Ethereum’s Future –... (2015); [3](https://guptaoption.com/texts/3.md) The Global Village Development Bank v2 (2009); [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md) Through the Looking Glass - Vinay Gupta on systemic... (2010)
- [753](https://guptaoption.com/texts/753.md) (OHM2013) One network one world designing for a 7 plus... (2013); [88](https://guptaoption.com/texts/88.md) The Goat Rodeo Index – a persistent Governance... (2010); [725](https://guptaoption.com/texts/725.md) Vinay Gupta l Plausible utopias | Meaning 2012 (2012); [42](https://guptaoption.com/texts/42.md) Home - Mattereum (2017)
- [827](https://guptaoption.com/texts/827.md) The Private Humanitarian Company (2010); [299](https://guptaoption.com/texts/299.md) Mic audio: Coase's Blockchain: can equity crowdfunding... (2015); [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md) guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php (2006); [34](https://guptaoption.com/texts/34.md) State in a Box (2006)
- [113](https://guptaoption.com/texts/113.md) The Ethereum Launch Process | Ethereum Foundation Blog (2015); [128](https://guptaoption.com/texts/128.md) Black Elephants & Skull Jackets: A Conversation with... (2010); [155](https://guptaoption.com/texts/155.md) Mother of Hydrogen (2012); [237](https://guptaoption.com/texts/237.md) The Internet of Agreements (Hexayurt Capital section,... (2017)
- [32](https://guptaoption.com/texts/32.md) Severe Panflu Response Strategies (2006); [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md) The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world (2002); [100](https://guptaoption.com/texts/100.md) Hexayurt project (2002); [823](https://guptaoption.com/texts/823.md) Plausible Utopias (2012)
- [266](https://guptaoption.com/texts/266.md) "Blockchain: IoT's trust broker?" talk on the fly by... (2017); [271](https://guptaoption.com/texts/271.md) Introducing the Internet of Agreements (2017); [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md) The Mattereum Manifesto: green capitalism, product... (2019); [79](https://guptaoption.com/texts/79.md) Meaning: Plausible Utopias | The Bucky-Gandhi Design... (2012)
- [239](https://guptaoption.com/texts/239.md) The Future of Stuff (2020); [153](https://guptaoption.com/texts/153.md) Financial Cryptography: Coase's Blockchain - the first... (2015); [1](https://guptaoption.com/texts/1.md) Dealing in Security.July2010.en; [793](https://guptaoption.com/texts/793.md) COP26 Event: The Circular Economy - Finance and Data for... (2021)
(Every source: https://guptaoption.com/texts/index.md.)

## Where does he talk about a given term?

Distinctive terms in his archive (not all coined by him), most distinctive first, each with the source that uses it most ([id], at https://guptaoption.com/texts/<id>.md). All 632, with every source, are in https://guptaoption.com/texts/terms.md.

- cyber [143]; Mattereum [165]; real estate [557]; contracts [172]; Leashless [172]; NFT [571]; SCIM [174]; markets [165]
- TIDES [12]; smart contracts [172]; refugees [752]; Singapore [171]; Hexayurt Project [100]; Burning Man [102]; communications [143]; supply chain [242]
- standards [31]; OODA [174]; citizens [31]; equity crowdfunding [296]; MiCA [177]; jobs [143]; Haiti [38]; Asset Passport [165]
- CheapID [31]; India [704]; H5N1 [174]; Mars [747]; tokenization [568]; doom loops [846]; critical infrastructure [174]; dispute resolution [160]
- Gandhi [724]; wisdom spirals [846]; Ireland [396]; circular economy [793]; Swarm [235]; platforms [7]; expertise [555]; H13 [104]
- skills [143]; Internet of Agreements [39]; Black Elephant [223]; basic income [172]; social enterprise [236]; Dubai [221]; Iraq [48]; real world assets [594]
- supply chains [21]; Goat Rodeo [846]; science fiction [704]; human rights [143]; Shatner [758]; refugee camp [752]; speed of light [566]; Six ways [841]
- refugee camps [727]; Hexayurt Country [846]; Frontier [113]; RWA [555]; global trade [732]; digital twin [258]; Wired [143]; Dealing in Security [846]
- ICO [699]; too hot [321]; black elephants [159]; commodities [793]; toilets [270]; venture capital [296]; masks [174]; Silicon Valley [7]
- Appropedia [106]; Superstruct [844]; accounts [143]; Occupy [202]; collectibles [206]; value networks [242]; Spiral [846]; realpolitik [846]
- SSTR [31]; The Future We Deserve [106]; too cold [689]; DAO [278]; cypherpunk [695]; stablecoins [491]; certificates [684]; warranties [4]
- Afghanistan [12]; transaction costs [242]; KYC [555]; USDC [559]; digital signatures [31]; pandemic flu [32]; Fuller [108]; Multipolar Realpolitik [846]
- Coase [153]; STAR-TIDES [182]; Red Cross [692]; Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps [174]; Folding hexayurt [102]; interoperability [172]; DNS [143]; VICE [228]
- Camp Danger [98]; Peter Ho [159]; Urgent Evoke [844]; SIAB [31]; Akvo [109]; wicked problems [159]; Pentagon [48]; William Shatner [758]
- WSLE [55]; vaccines [174]; global democracy [769]; distributed infrastructure [335]; DeFi [554]; second-hand [702]; digital identity [21]; SEC [172]
- Berlin [384]; The DAO [278]; Kit [4]; Wall Street [112]; OODA loop [174]; e-gold [215]; geoengineering [243]; Six Ways To Die [128]
- peer-to-peer [265]; Lean Green Mattereum [846]; global governance [243]; Scotland [505]; proof of stake [679]; Global Village Development Bank [846]; Collapsonomics [117]; Cypherpunks [694]
- Rocky Mountain Institute [838]; carbon credits [762]; clean water [322]; product information [793]; drinking water [17]; UKJT [846]; Ian Grigg [730]; PGP [719]
- scenario planning [159]; Department of Defense [12]; DCAR [844]; Ricardian contract [505]; climate refugees [727]; Pakistan [704]; State In A Box [31]; Buckminster Fuller [229]
- proof of work [295]; stablecoin [567]; ConsenSys [242]; recycling [236]; mortgages [116]; global GDP [547]; cheap solar [52]; political will [769]
- consumerism [165]; Cyberpunk [679]; Spanish [175]; Hexayurt Playa [98]; metaverse [778]; smart property [716]; coronavirus [681]; political change [172]
- refugee shelter [251]; Quaddome [105]; money laundering [567]; IG Wines [199]; Ethereum team [45]; mass evacuation [101]; resource control [1]; second hand [236]
- basic needs [172]; IPFS [571]; complex value networks [243]; semantic web [791]; rule of law [2]; shared map [1]; space industry [41]; identity infrastructure [31]
(All 632: https://guptaoption.com/texts/terms.md.)

## Which dates and records conflict?

Known disagreements in the record, shown rather than reconciled:

- SCIM / six ways to die: its first appearance (2006, [32](https://guptaoption.com/texts/32.md) Severe Panflu Response Strategies (2006)) is dated by its career work's year, so that source's text may not state it.
- SCIM / six ways to die: first appears in 2006 ([32] Severe Panflu Response Strategies (2006)), but the career work Six ways people die is dated 2008.
- SCIM / six ways to die: first appears in 2006 ([32] Severe Panflu Response Strategies (2006)), but the career work Six Ways To Die workshops is dated 2009.
- SCIM / six ways to die: first appears in 2006 ([32] Severe Panflu Response Strategies (2006)), but the career work SCIM / INAM is dated 2009.
- Hexayurt: its first appearance (2002, [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md) The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world (2002)) is dated by its career work's year, so that source's text may not state it.
- 30-year plan (Hexayurt; target revised upward, now 300 million): its first appearance (2002, [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md) The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world (2002)) is dated by its career work's year, so that source's text may not state it.
- Mattereum asset passports: its first appearance (2017, [42](https://guptaoption.com/texts/42.md) Home - Mattereum (2017)) is dated by its career work's year, so that source's text may not state it.
- Mattereum asset passports: first appears in 2017 ([42] Home - Mattereum (2017)), but the career work Asset Passport conceived is dated 2006.
- Internet of Agreements: the word appears in [172], dated 2014, before the idea's first appearance (2017); that source's date may be its first publication, not its last revision.
- Spiral economy: first appears in 2021 ([793] COP26 Event: The Circular Economy - Finance and Data for... (2021)), but the career work Spiral economy is dated 2023.
- Hexacloak: first appears in 2024 ([727] Undergraduate Lecture Series 2024: Vinay Gupta & Bryan... (2024)), but the career work Hexacloak is dated 2023.
- The Democratic Empire: its first appearance (2010, [826](https://guptaoption.com/texts/826.md) Index of /in_a_page (2010)) is dated by its career work's year, so that source's text may not state it.
(More in https://guptaoption.com/texts/index.md.)



# Vinay Gupta: the whole career in one file

> Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. Every work in his career record (175), year by year: what it is, what it led to, and where to read about it, under 48,000 characters so it can be read in one fetch. The map: https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Each work in full, with evidence: https://guptaoption.com/texts/works.md. A source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/<id>.md.

## 1984

- **Cyberpunk**: The 1980s cyberpunk culture that came first; first computer a ZX81... Led to Cypherpunks (1992). Read: [239](https://guptaoption.com/texts/239.md), [760](https://guptaoption.com/texts/760.md), [562](https://guptaoption.com/texts/562.md).

## 1987

- **Solo meditation**: Daily solo meditation, about an hour a day, from about age 15. Led to Internal dialogue stops (1993). Read: [38](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md), [191](https://guptaoption.com/texts/191.md), [248](https://guptaoption.com/texts/248.md).

## 1992

- **Cypherpunks**: Cypherpunk practice in the 1990s: cryptography as a political... Led to CheapID (2006). Read: [113](https://guptaoption.com/texts/113.md), [684](https://guptaoption.com/texts/684.md), [758](https://guptaoption.com/texts/758.md).

## 1993

- **Internal dialogue stops**: After six years of daily sitting, the internal dialogue stopped. Led to Systems reformulated (2010). Read: [191](https://guptaoption.com/texts/191.md), [248](https://guptaoption.com/texts/248.md).

## 1995

- **Sheet-waste question**: The question behind the Hexayurt: how to build a dome from 4x8... Led to Hexayurt (2002). Read: [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md), [321](https://guptaoption.com/texts/321.md), [251](https://guptaoption.com/texts/251.md).

## 2002

- **Hexayurt** (core): A public-domain disaster shelter made from whole 4x8 building... Led to Six ways people die (2008). Read: [753](https://guptaoption.com/texts/753.md), [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md), [100](https://guptaoption.com/texts/100.md).
- **Small is Profitable** (he edited) (core): Co-edited Rocky Mountain Institute book on the hidden benefits of... Led to Winning the Oil Endgame (2004). Read: [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md), [266](https://guptaoption.com/texts/266.md), [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md).
- **RMI Sustainable Settlements charrette**: Rocky Mountain Institute workshop on sustainable settlements where... Led to Hexayurt (2002). Read: [128](https://guptaoption.com/texts/128.md), [740](https://guptaoption.com/texts/740.md), [114](https://guptaoption.com/texts/114.md).

## 2003

- **Hexayurt infrastructure kit** (core): A household kit around the Hexayurt: water-purifying bottles, dry... Led to Hexacloak (2023). Read: [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md), [100](https://guptaoption.com/texts/100.md), [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md).
- **Biomimicry database**: Technical lead on the Rocky Mountain Institute era biomimicry... Read: [793](https://guptaoption.com/texts/793.md), [168](https://guptaoption.com/texts/168.md), [173](https://guptaoption.com/texts/173.md).
- **First hexayurt built**: The first Hexayurt prototype, built at Burning Man from cardboard... Led to H18 (2006). Read: [725](https://guptaoption.com/texts/725.md), [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md), [294](https://guptaoption.com/texts/294.md).
- **Lost swamp cooler**: A solar evaporative cooler for the first Hexayurt: a plastic tub,... Read: [17](https://guptaoption.com/texts/17.md), [288](https://guptaoption.com/texts/288.md).
- **Whole-Systems Framework for Sustainable Consumption and Production** (he contributed): Rocky Mountain Institute report for the Danish Environmental... Led to Lean Green Mattereum: "We aren't... (2020). Read: [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md), [723](https://guptaoption.com/texts/723.md), [201](https://guptaoption.com/texts/201.md).

## 2004

- **Nath Sampradaya initiation**: Initiated into the Nath Sampradaya. Led to Systems reformulated (2010). Read: [692](https://guptaoption.com/texts/692.md), [52](https://guptaoption.com/texts/52.md), [327](https://guptaoption.com/texts/327.md).
- **Winning the Oil Endgame** (he edited): Rocky Mountain Institute study, Pentagon co-sponsored, on getting... Led to Product information markets (2019). Read: [128](https://guptaoption.com/texts/128.md), [52](https://guptaoption.com/texts/52.md), [764] (no text here).

## 2006

- **CheapID** (core): Design for a sub-$1 identity card, written for the US Office of... Led to Asset Passport conceived (2006). Read: [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md), [66](https://guptaoption.com/texts/66.md), [35](https://guptaoption.com/texts/35.md).
- **Resilience and Opportunity: Effective Tools for Victory in Fourth Generation Wars?** (core): Briefing arguing that insurgencies end when fighters can go home... Led to State in a Box (2006). Read: [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md), [20](https://guptaoption.com/texts/20.md), [827](https://guptaoption.com/texts/827.md).
- **Asset Passport conceived**: First idea for the Asset Passport: digital identity for objects,... Led to Mattereum (2017). Read: [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md), [716](https://guptaoption.com/texts/716.md), [167](https://guptaoption.com/texts/167.md).
- **Course of Action**: Plan showing five actions with appropriate technology could... Led to The Future of Stuff (2020). Read: [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md), [10](https://guptaoption.com/texts/10.md), [368](https://guptaoption.com/texts/368.md).
- **First Pentagon Proposal: the Hexayurt Research Agenda**: An outline asking for funding to make the Hexayurt an... Read: [850] (no text here), [833](https://guptaoption.com/texts/833.md), [70](https://guptaoption.com/texts/70.md).
- **H18**: A tall Hexayurt: 18 panels and 12-foot walls. Led to Quaddome (2011). Read: [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md), [102](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md), [103](https://guptaoption.com/texts/103.md).
- **State in a Box**: State in a Box: a plan to rebuild a state on distributed... Led to CheapID (2006). Read: [34](https://guptaoption.com/texts/34.md), [66](https://guptaoption.com/texts/66.md), [35](https://guptaoption.com/texts/35.md).
- **Stretch hexayurts and the Pentayurt**: The hexayurt family: 6, 8 and 12 foot hexayurts, stretched... Read: [38](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md), [364](https://guptaoption.com/texts/364.md), [825](https://guptaoption.com/texts/825.md).
- **The Unplugged**: Speculative fiction about a way of living that could work for nine... Led to Mother of Hydrogen (2012). Read: [108](https://guptaoption.com/texts/108.md), [114](https://guptaoption.com/texts/114.md), [224](https://guptaoption.com/texts/224.md).
- **Tribike**: A three-wheeled vehicle, the transport piece of the household kit. Read: [152](https://guptaoption.com/texts/152.md), [289](https://guptaoption.com/texts/289.md).

## 2007

- **Nuclear / mass evacuation** (core): Plan for millions of US refugees after a disaster, epidemic or... Led to Networked Domestic Disaster Response (2007). Read: [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md), [15](https://guptaoption.com/texts/15.md), [701](https://guptaoption.com/texts/701.md).
- **STAR-TIDES** (he contributed) (core): Helped start STAR-TIDES, a National Defense University project on... Led to Defense Horizons 70 (2009). Read: [724](https://guptaoption.com/texts/724.md), [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md), [850] (no text here).
- **Expedient Infrastructure for Transient Populations (EITP)** (he contributed): The 2007 program on shelter and infrastructure for 100,000 to... Read: [740](https://guptaoption.com/texts/740.md), [68](https://guptaoption.com/texts/68.md), [829](https://guptaoption.com/texts/829.md).
- **Folding hexayurt** (he contributed): An 8-foot hexayurt that folds into a single flat package and... Read: [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md), [375](https://guptaoption.com/texts/375.md), [833](https://guptaoption.com/texts/833.md).
- **Networked Domestic Disaster Response**: Plan for evacuating millions to tens of millions of US citizens. Led to The Open Toolbox for Domestic... (2008). Read: [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md), [101](https://guptaoption.com/texts/101.md), [33](https://guptaoption.com/texts/33.md).
- **Our Future With Islam: A new perspective on the 'clash of civilizations'**: Strategy deck on how the West and Islam can live together once the...
- **Saving the World on the Cheap**: Essay on a new way for charities and governments to fund... Led to Global Village Development Bank (2009). Read: [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md), [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md), [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md).
- **Winning the Long Peace**: Essay on extending the nation state, aimed at American policy. Read: [30](https://guptaoption.com/texts/30.md).
- **disastr.org**: One-page plan to house disaster refugees with host families:... Read: [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md), [101](https://guptaoption.com/texts/101.md), [27](https://guptaoption.com/texts/27.md).

## 2008

- **Severe Panflu Response Strategies (H5N1)** (core): Strategy for a severe flu pandemic, with H5N1 bird flu as the... Led to FluSCIM (2010). Read: [32](https://guptaoption.com/texts/32.md), [372](https://guptaoption.com/texts/372.md), [320](https://guptaoption.com/texts/320.md).
- **Akvo** (he contributed): Water work at Akvo, the Dutch open-source water and sanitation... Led to Global Village Development Bank (2009). Read: [267](https://guptaoption.com/texts/267.md), [78](https://guptaoption.com/texts/78.md), [332] (no text here).
- **Briefing to the STAR-TIDES team at National Defense University**: Recorded briefing to the STAR-TIDES team at NDU, with a... Read: [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md), [833](https://guptaoption.com/texts/833.md), [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md).
- **Ending Poverty With Open Hardware**: Talk: half of all deaths are deaths from poverty, and open... Led to The Future We Deserve: "Facebook for... (2011). Read: [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md), [341](https://guptaoption.com/texts/341.md), [238](https://guptaoption.com/texts/238.md).
- **FREE Guptastan**: Essay on a state-like entity that operates as a guest inside other... Read: [55](https://guptaoption.com/texts/55.md).
- **Health insurance for $10 per year using the network**: Google 10^100 entry: medical expert systems on cell phones, pooled... Led to Dog Atheism: on smart contracts,... (2016). Read: [63](https://guptaoption.com/texts/63.md), [249] (no text here), [498](https://guptaoption.com/texts/498.md).
- **How to buy food for disasters**: One-page guide to a two-month emergency food supply for about...
- **Six ways people die**: Framework: people die of heat, cold, hunger, thirst, illness or... Led to SCIM / INAM (2009). Read: [753](https://guptaoption.com/texts/753.md), [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md), [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md).
- **Soft Development Paths**: Essay applying soft energy paths to the poorest half of humanity:... Led to Lean Green Mattereum: "We aren't... (2020). Read: [33](https://guptaoption.com/texts/33.md), [161](https://guptaoption.com/texts/161.md), [162](https://guptaoption.com/texts/162.md).
- **Superstruct and URGENT EVOKE**: The Hexayurt in two of Jane McGonigal's games: in Superstruct... Read: [224](https://guptaoption.com/texts/224.md), [370](https://guptaoption.com/texts/370.md), [368](https://guptaoption.com/texts/368.md).
- **The Open Toolbox for Domestic Disaster Response**: A consulting company and paper for getting open source appropriate... Read: [69](https://guptaoption.com/texts/69.md).
- **The Physical Aspects of Distributed Infrastructure**: Design study for ultra-low-cost solar thermal homes off the grid:... Led to Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (2008). Read: [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md), [17](https://guptaoption.com/texts/17.md), [1](https://guptaoption.com/texts/1.md).
- **The Second Amendment in Iraq, Combat Robotics, and the Future of Human Liberty**: Blog essay arguing that combat robots would end the balance in... Led to Multipolar Realpolitik (2024). Read: [694](https://guptaoption.com/texts/694.md), [48](https://guptaoption.com/texts/48.md), [30](https://guptaoption.com/texts/30.md).
- **What is the Global Swadeshi Network?**: Founding statement of the Global Swadeshi Network, which he... Led to Leashless (2009). Read: [56](https://guptaoption.com/texts/56.md), [333](https://guptaoption.com/texts/333.md), [62](https://guptaoption.com/texts/62.md).
- **What's going to happen in the future**: Blog essay naming four trends for the next twenty years: power as... Led to The Big Deal (2011). Read: [57](https://guptaoption.com/texts/57.md), [365](https://guptaoption.com/texts/365.md), [511](https://guptaoption.com/texts/511.md).

## 2009

- **Black Elephant** (he contributed) (core): The black elephant: a foreseeable disaster that institutions... Led to Taming Black Elephants (2017). Read: [128](https://guptaoption.com/texts/128.md), [303](https://guptaoption.com/texts/303.md), [773](https://guptaoption.com/texts/773.md).
- **Global Village Development Bank** (core): Design for a decentralized development bank: infrastructure funded... Led to Ethereum launch (2015). Read: [3](https://guptaoption.com/texts/3.md), [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md), [341](https://guptaoption.com/texts/341.md).
- **Leashless** (core): Manifesto on property and freedom: nobody with unmet needs is... Led to Copyright and the digital economy: a... (2010). Read: [831](https://guptaoption.com/texts/831.md), [763](https://guptaoption.com/texts/763.md), [65](https://guptaoption.com/texts/65.md).
- **SCIM / INAM** (core): Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps: 18 human needs across 7... Led to Global Village Development Bank (2009). Read: [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md), [322](https://guptaoption.com/texts/322.md), [689](https://guptaoption.com/texts/689.md).
- **Three Rules for Designing the Social Enterprise** (core): Two-page paper defining a social enterprise by how it converts... Led to The Private Humanitarian Company (2010). Read: [714](https://guptaoption.com/texts/714.md), [24](https://guptaoption.com/texts/24.md), [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md).
- **Avoiding Capitalism for the Next Four Billion**: Lecture at the Temporary School of Thought: poverty means dying of... Read: [94](https://guptaoption.com/texts/94.md), [238](https://guptaoption.com/texts/238.md), [854](https://guptaoption.com/texts/854.md).
- **Buttered Side Down**: A historic risk management consultancy set up with Mike Bennett in... Read: [847](https://guptaoption.com/texts/847.md), [256](https://guptaoption.com/texts/256.md), [213](https://guptaoption.com/texts/213.md).
- **Defense Horizons 70** (he contributed): Co-authored National Defense University paper on supporting... Read: [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md), [121](https://guptaoption.com/texts/121.md), [20](https://guptaoption.com/texts/20.md).
- **Free science and engineering in the global public interest**: Talk deck: poverty causes a quarter to a half of 60 million deaths... Read: [67](https://guptaoption.com/texts/67.md), [247](https://guptaoption.com/texts/247.md), [64](https://guptaoption.com/texts/64.md).
- **Guardian (open source)** (about him, by others): Guardian piece on the Hexayurt as open-source shelter. Read: [226](https://guptaoption.com/texts/226.md), [161](https://guptaoption.com/texts/161.md), [69](https://guptaoption.com/texts/69.md).
- **Hope for the World**: Talk at an emergency housing workshop in Sweden: disaster relief... Led to Six Ways To Die workshops (2009). Read: [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md), [64](https://guptaoption.com/texts/64.md), [27](https://guptaoption.com/texts/27.md).
- **Infrastructure for Anarchists**: Two-hour talk at the Temporary School of Thought in London:... Led to SCIM / INAM (2009). Read: [95](https://guptaoption.com/texts/95.md), [187](https://guptaoption.com/texts/187.md), [89](https://guptaoption.com/texts/89.md).
- **Institute for Collapsonomics**: Co-founded a London group studying economies and states at the... Led to Black Elephant (2009). Read: [54](https://guptaoption.com/texts/54.md), [770](https://guptaoption.com/texts/770.md), [96](https://guptaoption.com/texts/96.md).
- **Mapping Authority**: Slide deck on why multi-agency operations stall: who can do what,... Read: [1](https://guptaoption.com/texts/1.md), [180](https://guptaoption.com/texts/180.md), [176](https://guptaoption.com/texts/176.md).
- **Six Ways To Die workshops**: Week-long design workshops built on Six Ways To Die: at Formens... Read: [187](https://guptaoption.com/texts/187.md), [247](https://guptaoption.com/texts/247.md), [84](https://guptaoption.com/texts/84.md).
- **The Flu Code**: Four rules of responsible behavior in a pandemic, a public service... Read: [97](https://guptaoption.com/texts/97.md), [53](https://guptaoption.com/texts/53.md), [178](https://guptaoption.com/texts/178.md).
- **The Living City**: A Buttered Side Down talk to the engineering firm Arup, with Mike... Led to The Gupta State Failure Management... (2011). Read: [320](https://guptaoption.com/texts/320.md), [847](https://guptaoption.com/texts/847.md), [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md).
- **Visionary Adaptation**: Four models of change, and the argument that crisis response must... Read: [320](https://guptaoption.com/texts/320.md).

## 2010

- **Dealing in Security** (core): Book setting out Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps: the 18 needs... Led to The Gupta State Failure Management... (2011). Read: [685](https://guptaoption.com/texts/685.md), [60](https://guptaoption.com/texts/60.md).
- **Hexayurt Country** (core): Plan to rehouse Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake in... Led to Municipal Administration of Cities... (2013). Read: [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md), [14](https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md), [38](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md).
- **Through the Looking Glass** (core): Talk for FEASTA in Ireland on systemic risk: government is the... Led to The Resilience Dividend (2011). Read: [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md), [849] (no text here), [366](https://guptaoption.com/texts/366.md).
- **"Complex systems behave unpredictably": Gupta's law of complex systems**: Blog essay tracing his turn from physics to complexity in his... Led to The Goat Rodeo Index (2010). Read: [74](https://guptaoption.com/texts/74.md), [159](https://guptaoption.com/texts/159.md), [385](https://guptaoption.com/texts/385.md).
- **Above the Basin and Tashkent Horizons**: Two short stories: an outbreak on an orbital factory, and an agent... Read: [155](https://guptaoption.com/texts/155.md).
- **Camp Danger hinge** (he contributed): Community-designed folding Hexayurt held together by tape hinges. Read: [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md), [98](https://guptaoption.com/texts/98.md), [751](https://guptaoption.com/texts/751.md).
- **Copyright and the digital economy: a case for reason**: Short paper proposing land law, with rights of way and trespass,... Read: [820](https://guptaoption.com/texts/820.md), [252](https://guptaoption.com/texts/252.md), [86](https://guptaoption.com/texts/86.md).
- **Enabling humanitarian innovation (TEDxEWB)**: Talk for Engineers Without Borders: poverty is a permanent... Read: [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md), [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md), [727](https://guptaoption.com/texts/727.md).
- **FluSCIM** (about him, by others): Another author's application of the SCIM framework to pandemic flu. Read: [303](https://guptaoption.com/texts/303.md), [689](https://guptaoption.com/texts/689.md), [681](https://guptaoption.com/texts/681.md).
- **Free housing and 21st Century Leadership**: Blog essay on the model of personal effectiveness he adopted after... Read: [711](https://guptaoption.com/texts/711.md), [76](https://guptaoption.com/texts/76.md), [251](https://guptaoption.com/texts/251.md).
- **H13** (he contributed): Community-designed Hexayurt with a full-height door. Read: [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md), [364](https://guptaoption.com/texts/364.md), [104](https://guptaoption.com/texts/104.md).
- **In a Page**: A series of one-page papers, mostly from spring 2010, each putting... Read: [826](https://guptaoption.com/texts/826.md), [91](https://guptaoption.com/texts/91.md), [148](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md).
- **New and Developing (Africa Gathering London 2010)**: Talk: the Big Five household interventions, the end of aid, and... Read: [359](https://guptaoption.com/texts/359.md).
- **Nuclear Poker**: A card game about nuclear proliferation and deterrence, with a... Read: [776](https://guptaoption.com/texts/776.md).
- **Systems reformulated**: Meditation methods reworked and bench-tested privately with a few... Led to The cutting machinery (2015). Read: [576](https://guptaoption.com/texts/576.md), [389](https://guptaoption.com/texts/389.md).
- **The Democratic Empire**: One-page scenario of global bankruptcy: the US withdraws, China...
- **The Goat Rodeo Index**: A ten-level scale for how hard a governance mess is: many actors,... Led to Why Nothing Works: identifying and... (2010). Read: [88](https://guptaoption.com/texts/88.md), [725](https://guptaoption.com/texts/725.md), [25](https://guptaoption.com/texts/25.md).
- **The New Economy: out of money, out of time, but not out of ideas**: One-page paper: the richest fifth are eating the planet, so the... Led to Plausible Utopias (2012). Read: [828](https://guptaoption.com/texts/828.md), [91](https://guptaoption.com/texts/91.md), [148](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md).
- **The Private Humanitarian Company**: One-page sketch of a company modeled on private military... Read: [827](https://guptaoption.com/texts/827.md), [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md), [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md).
- **The Tiny Army**: Short story about a seven-person army. Led to The Future We Deserve (2012). Read: [107](https://guptaoption.com/texts/107.md).
- **To bite the hand that feeds: survival**: Four-page essay: Nash equilibria lock each of us into breaking the... Read: [725](https://guptaoption.com/texts/725.md), [706](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md), [305](https://guptaoption.com/texts/305.md).
- **Why Nothing Works: identifying and quantifying the Goat Rodeo governance antipattern**: One-page paper: warlord entrepreneurs fill the gap when... Led to Warlords, Inc.: Black Markets,... (2015). Read: [25](https://guptaoption.com/texts/25.md), [88](https://guptaoption.com/texts/88.md), [194](https://guptaoption.com/texts/194.md).

## 2011

- **Quaddome** (he contributed) (core): Community-designed dome in which every triangle is half a 4x8 sheet. Read: [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md), [322](https://guptaoption.com/texts/322.md), [303](https://guptaoption.com/texts/303.md).
- **Truth and Beauty** (core): Hosted a London talk series; speakers included Richard Stallman... Led to The Future We Deserve (2012). Read: [92](https://guptaoption.com/texts/92.md), [26](https://guptaoption.com/texts/26.md), [256](https://guptaoption.com/texts/256.md).
- **Avoid Winter War: Hexayurts and #Occupy**: Reply to requests to supply the Occupy camps for winter: after... Read: [75](https://guptaoption.com/texts/75.md), [323](https://guptaoption.com/texts/323.md), [202](https://guptaoption.com/texts/202.md).
- **Boing Boing** (about him, by others): Boing Boing interview on the Hexayurt: Tools To Not Die With. Read: [114](https://guptaoption.com/texts/114.md).
- **Buy a Castle: Finding Next Generation Resilience in Ireland**: Proposal deck to buy 86 acres with Glengarriff Castle as a dense,... Read: [754](https://guptaoption.com/texts/754.md), [401](https://guptaoption.com/texts/401.md), [497](https://guptaoption.com/texts/497.md).
- **C-WASP: Applying Lessons Learned from the War on Drugs to Win the War on Terror**: Satire, co-authored with Lucy Wills: the gangs won the war on... Read: [327](https://guptaoption.com/texts/327.md).
- **Creation and Crisis**: Talk at the Thursday Club, Goldsmiths, on how science fiction... Read: [704](https://guptaoption.com/texts/704.md), [213](https://guptaoption.com/texts/213.md).
- **Laziness, Impatience and Hubris**: Talk at c-base, Berlin: Larry Wall's three virtues of a programmer... Read: [321](https://guptaoption.com/texts/321.md), [364](https://guptaoption.com/texts/364.md), [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md).
- **RCDS cyber (Tibbs)** (he contributed): Interview for the UK Royal College of Defence Studies' cyber... Led to Ethereum launch (2015). Read: [21](https://guptaoption.com/texts/21.md), [11](https://guptaoption.com/texts/11.md).
- **The Big Deal**: Four-essay blog series arguing that government has hit hard... Led to The Future We Deserve (2012). Read: [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md), [50](https://guptaoption.com/texts/50.md), [52](https://guptaoption.com/texts/52.md).
- **The Fiends Give Sudden Chase**: Five very short horror stories, written after reading Charles... Led to The Perimeter: Mythos as Science... (2024). Read: [235](https://guptaoption.com/texts/235.md), [87](https://guptaoption.com/texts/87.md), [389](https://guptaoption.com/texts/389.md).
- **The Free City State**: Two talks at The Free School, London: city states, rational...
- **The Future We Deserve: "Facebook for the Five Billion?"**: Talk deck at Aston Business School: identity, money and culture... Led to Tell Me Who You Are: Identity,... (2015). Read: [144](https://guptaoption.com/texts/144.md), [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md), [266](https://guptaoption.com/texts/266.md).
- **The Gupta State Failure Management Archive**: 4.3 GB of lectures and documents on state failure and contingency... Read: [52](https://guptaoption.com/texts/52.md), [99](https://guptaoption.com/texts/99.md), [89](https://guptaoption.com/texts/89.md).
- **The Resilience Dividend**: Four-page paper: after the 2011 debt-ceiling crisis and riots,... Read: [848] (no text here), [365](https://guptaoption.com/texts/365.md), [363](https://guptaoption.com/texts/363.md).

## 2012

- **Mother of Hydrogen** (core): Novel drawing on the shelter, meditation and pandemic work. Read: [148](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md), [155](https://guptaoption.com/texts/155.md), [822](https://guptaoption.com/texts/822.md).
- **On Un-Designing the Cryptographic Utopia** (core): Blog essay taking apart the cypherpunk dream of a code-made... Led to Taking a crack at a practical system... (2012). Read: [322](https://guptaoption.com/texts/322.md), [82](https://guptaoption.com/texts/82.md), [81](https://guptaoption.com/texts/81.md).
- **Plausible Utopias** (core): Talk deck for the Meaning conference: abundance breaks the... Led to Coase's Blockchain: Can Equity... (2015). Read: [725](https://guptaoption.com/texts/725.md), [823](https://guptaoption.com/texts/823.md), [79](https://guptaoption.com/texts/79.md).
- **A Feather for Lifting Anvils: EdgeRyders 2.0**: The EdgeRyders plan for Venture Social Capital: financing local... Led to Hexayurt Capital Partners (2016). Read: [72](https://guptaoption.com/texts/72.md), [24](https://guptaoption.com/texts/24.md), [277](https://guptaoption.com/texts/277.md).
- **Blind in the Panopticon: The decreasing marginal utility of access to information as an aspect of cyber policy**: Cyber policy essay: past a point, more surveillance data has... Led to One Network, One World: Designing... (2013). Read: [6](https://guptaoption.com/texts/6.md), [81](https://guptaoption.com/texts/81.md), [21](https://guptaoption.com/texts/21.md).
- **Complexity Kills**: Talk on surviving a systemic collapse: pick your team with a... Read: [492](https://guptaoption.com/texts/492.md).
- **Sharing our fear can make peace: envisaging military cooperation to avoid Mutually Assured Starvation**: One-page paper: the rational elites who kept nuclear deterrence... Read: [319](https://guptaoption.com/texts/319.md), [706](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md), [52](https://guptaoption.com/texts/52.md).
- **Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the ESCROWNYM)**: Blog essay proposing the escrownym: an identity lodged with escrow... Led to UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules (2021). Read: [86](https://guptaoption.com/texts/86.md), [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md), [716](https://guptaoption.com/texts/716.md).
- **The Future We Deserve** (he edited): Essay collection co-edited with Cat Lupton and Noah Raford,... Led to Mother of Hydrogen (2012). Read: [241](https://guptaoption.com/texts/241.md), [106](https://guptaoption.com/texts/106.md), [210](https://guptaoption.com/texts/210.md).
- **Tools and language: why government can't manage the 21st century, but we can**: Keynote opening Camp Pixelache 2012 in Helsinki: the Hexayurt... Read: [158](https://guptaoption.com/texts/158.md).

## 2013

- **Municipal Administration of Cities in Crisis** (core): UCL Institute for Security and Resilience Studies paper drawing... Read: [689](https://guptaoption.com/texts/689.md), [8](https://guptaoption.com/texts/8.md), [320](https://guptaoption.com/texts/320.md).
- **Exploring Data Generated by Pocket Devices**: UCL Institute for Security and Resilience Studies paper: smart... Led to The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019). Read: [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md), [18](https://guptaoption.com/texts/18.md), [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md).
- **Governing Bitcoin: what the future holds for our favourite currency**: Bitcoin Expo London talk, November 2013: how bitcoin is governed,... Led to Ethereum launch (2015). Read: [317](https://guptaoption.com/texts/317.md), [80](https://guptaoption.com/texts/80.md), [742](https://guptaoption.com/texts/742.md).
- **Hexayurt Project: from sheds to sustainability**: Talk at Electromagnetic Wave 2013, London: what a small shed can... Read: [169](https://guptaoption.com/texts/169.md), [101](https://guptaoption.com/texts/101.md), [76](https://guptaoption.com/texts/76.md).
- **One Network, One World: Designing for a 7+ Billion Person World**: Talk at the OHM2013 hacker camp: housing everyone at one planet's... Led to Coase's Blockchain: Can Equity... (2015). Read: [753](https://guptaoption.com/texts/753.md), [169](https://guptaoption.com/texts/169.md), [725](https://guptaoption.com/texts/725.md).
- **People's Cloud architecture and futures in 1000 words**: Blog essay: the data center is doomed, its efficiency is bought... Read: [83](https://guptaoption.com/texts/83.md), [280](https://guptaoption.com/texts/280.md), [164](https://guptaoption.com/texts/164.md).
- **Swarm Cooperatives (Big Picture Days)**: First of six Big Picture Days at the Limewharf Annex Culture Lab... Read: [85](https://guptaoption.com/texts/85.md), [388] (no text here).
- **The Global Cyber Game: Achieving strategic resilience in the global knowledge society** (he contributed): Hardin Tibbs's 2013 report of the UK Defence Academy Cyber Inquiry... Read: [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md), [21](https://guptaoption.com/texts/21.md).
- **Why there's no money: the imaginary part of financial systems**: Blog essay: money has a fluid phase, pocket change, and a solid... Led to Half a Trillion Dollars a Year of... (2026). Read: [93](https://guptaoption.com/texts/93.md), [768](https://guptaoption.com/texts/768.md), [441](https://guptaoption.com/texts/441.md).

## 2014

- **A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine**: His "very conservative vision" for global change: six or maybe... Read: [73](https://guptaoption.com/texts/73.md), [148](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md), [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md).
- **Hexayurts, Distributed Infrastructure, and Maximizing Global Minimalism**: Talk at Electromagnetic Field 2014: the Hexayurt as engineering... Read: [711](https://guptaoption.com/texts/711.md), [314](https://guptaoption.com/texts/314.md), [161](https://guptaoption.com/texts/161.md).
- **How to sell ideas**: Talk at DEVCON0, Ethereum's first developer conference, on... Read: [303](https://guptaoption.com/texts/303.md).
- **Stampeding Black Elephants** (about him, by others): Thomas L. Friedman's New York Times column on black elephants. Read: [303](https://guptaoption.com/texts/303.md), [117](https://guptaoption.com/texts/117.md), [223](https://guptaoption.com/texts/223.md).

## 2015

- **Ethereum launch** (he contributed) (core): Release coordinator for the July 2015 launch of Ethereum, the... Led to Mattereum (2017). Read: [164](https://guptaoption.com/texts/164.md), [113](https://guptaoption.com/texts/113.md), [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md).
- **Programmable Blockchains in Context** (core): The launch explainer for Ethereum: where programmable blockchains... Led to ConsenSys (2015). Read: [164](https://guptaoption.com/texts/164.md), [379](https://guptaoption.com/texts/379.md), [757](https://guptaoption.com/texts/757.md).
- **Tell Me Who You Are: Identity, institutional memory, and the persistent illusion of the self** (core): ConsenSys essay on what identity is, and how to build identity... Led to Dog Atheism: on smart contracts,... (2016). Read: [163](https://guptaoption.com/texts/163.md), [706](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md), [690](https://guptaoption.com/texts/690.md).
- **The cutting machinery** (core): A meditation system of three techniques, taught to individuals... Read: [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md), [764] (no text here).
- **Warlords, Inc.: Black Markets, Broken States, and the Rise of the Warlord Entrepreneur** (he contributed) (core): Contributor: wrote chapter 1, Of Warlords and Rodeos: Why Nothing... Read: [25](https://guptaoption.com/texts/25.md), [194](https://guptaoption.com/texts/194.md), [115](https://guptaoption.com/texts/115.md).
- **Coase's Blockchain: Can Equity Crowdfunding Accelerate Past Venture Capital?**: Talk arguing that blockchains bring the change to the firm Coase... Led to Ethereum launch (2015). Read: [299](https://guptaoption.com/texts/299.md), [153](https://guptaoption.com/texts/153.md), [244](https://guptaoption.com/texts/244.md).
- **ConsenSys** (he contributed): Strategic architect at ConsenSys after the Ethereum launch. Led to Internet of Agreements (2017). Read: [680](https://guptaoption.com/texts/680.md), [679](https://guptaoption.com/texts/679.md), [119](https://guptaoption.com/texts/119.md).
- **Dangerous Old Men: Cypherpunk's Failure, Ethereum's Success**: Talk at Devcon 1, the Ethereum developer conference in London, on... Read: [695](https://guptaoption.com/texts/695.md), [684](https://guptaoption.com/texts/684.md), [111](https://guptaoption.com/texts/111.md).
- **Guardian (Heap)** (about him, by others): Guardian piece on blockchain for music, quoting Gupta for Ethereum. Read: [225](https://guptaoption.com/texts/225.md), [185](https://guptaoption.com/texts/185.md), [27](https://guptaoption.com/texts/27.md).
- **The Ethereum Launch Process**: Ethereum Foundation blog post, written as the new release... Led to Ethereum launch (2015). Read: [113](https://guptaoption.com/texts/113.md), [565](https://guptaoption.com/texts/565.md), [295](https://guptaoption.com/texts/295.md).
- **VICE (resilience guru)** (about him, by others): VICE profile: the man whose job is to imagine the total collapse... Read: [229](https://guptaoption.com/texts/229.md), [228](https://guptaoption.com/texts/228.md).

## 2016

- **Hexayurt Capital Partners** (core): Talk on a new venture model: startups as factories for financial... Read: [277](https://guptaoption.com/texts/277.md), [7](https://guptaoption.com/texts/7.md), [113](https://guptaoption.com/texts/113.md).
- **Dog Atheism: on smart contracts, risk, and value networks**: Essay drafted live in public: smart contracts as capitalism's... Led to Internet of Agreements (2017). Read: [242](https://guptaoption.com/texts/242.md), [163](https://guptaoption.com/texts/163.md), [694](https://guptaoption.com/texts/694.md).
- **Dubai Blockchain Strategy** (he contributed): Helped create Dubai's government blockchain strategy, which aimed... Read: [706](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md), [265](https://guptaoption.com/texts/265.md), [276](https://guptaoption.com/texts/276.md).

## 2017

- **A Blockchain Solution For Identity?** (core): Keynote to the Dutch Blockchain Coalition (BC3) at Techruption:... Read: [712](https://guptaoption.com/texts/712.md), [834](https://guptaoption.com/texts/834.md), [39](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md).
- **Internet of Agreements** (core): Paper at the World Government Summit in Dubai on producing legal... Led to Internet of Agreements conferences (2017). Read: [237](https://guptaoption.com/texts/237.md), [266](https://guptaoption.com/texts/266.md), [271](https://guptaoption.com/texts/271.md).
- **Mattereum** (core): Founder and CEO of Mattereum, which turns every claim about a... Led to Internet of Agreements (2017). Read: [42](https://guptaoption.com/texts/42.md), [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md), [716](https://guptaoption.com/texts/716.md).
- **Digital Catapult Blockchain Fellow** (he contributed): Blockchain Fellow at Digital Catapult, the UK government-funded... Read: [211](https://guptaoption.com/texts/211.md), [611] (no text here).
- **Forbes** (about him, by others): Forbes interview on why Ethereum is the future. Read: [215](https://guptaoption.com/texts/215.md), [111](https://guptaoption.com/texts/111.md), [481](https://guptaoption.com/texts/481.md).
- **Internet of Agreements conferences**: Hosted four London conferences on blockchain agreements: law,... Led to Mattereum (2017). Read: [39](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md), [647](https://guptaoption.com/texts/647.md), [618](https://guptaoption.com/texts/618.md).
- **Taming Black Elephants** (about him, by others): Singapore's former civil service head took up the black elephant... Read: [683](https://guptaoption.com/texts/683.md), [171](https://guptaoption.com/texts/171.md), [159](https://guptaoption.com/texts/159.md).

## 2018

- **Breaker** (about him, by others): Breaker interview: tokenizing the world as the best way to save it. Read: [116](https://guptaoption.com/texts/116.md), [60](https://guptaoption.com/texts/60.md), [158](https://guptaoption.com/texts/158.md).
- **TechCrunch** (about him, by others): TechCrunch coverage of Mattereum at Disrupt Berlin. Read: [183](https://guptaoption.com/texts/183.md).

## 2019

- **Product information markets**: The Mattereum Manifesto: markets for warranted facts about... Led to Spiral economy (2023). Read: [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md), [252](https://guptaoption.com/texts/252.md), [672](https://guptaoption.com/texts/672.md).
- **The Cities That Will Walk Away**: Talk on rehousing 300 million climate migrants in new cities, and... Led to Multipolar Realpolitik (2024). Read: [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md), [727](https://guptaoption.com/texts/727.md), [171](https://guptaoption.com/texts/171.md).
- **William Shatner collectibles with Mattereum**: Mattereum partnership with William Shatner giving memorabilia... Read: [252](https://guptaoption.com/texts/252.md), [565](https://guptaoption.com/texts/565.md), [758](https://guptaoption.com/texts/758.md).

## 2020

- **Lean Green Mattereum: "We aren't just here to change the world, we're here to fix it"** (core): 162-page deck tying it together: poverty and climate are one... Led to Spiral economy (2023). Read: [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md), [723](https://guptaoption.com/texts/723.md), [714](https://guptaoption.com/texts/714.md).
- **The Future of Stuff** (core): Book on the philosophy under Mattereum: risk and morality in deals... Led to Spiral economy (2023). Read: [239](https://guptaoption.com/texts/239.md), [793](https://guptaoption.com/texts/793.md), [735](https://guptaoption.com/texts/735.md).
- **CoinDesk** (about him, by others): CoinDesk interview on an identity layer for physical things. Read: [206](https://guptaoption.com/texts/206.md), [42](https://guptaoption.com/texts/42.md), [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md).

## 2021

- **UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules** (he contributed) (core): Consulted on UK rules for resolving disputes over smart contracts;... Led to Multipolar Realpolitik (2024). Read: [730](https://guptaoption.com/texts/730.md), [160](https://guptaoption.com/texts/160.md), [42](https://guptaoption.com/texts/42.md).
- **Stimson Center Loomis Council** (he contributed): Member of the Loomis Council at the Stimson Center, a think tank...

## 2022

- **IG Wines with Mattereum**: Mattereum partnership with IG Wines to create digital tokens for... Read: [594](https://guptaoption.com/texts/594.md), [199](https://guptaoption.com/texts/199.md).
- **West London City Lets land sale as an NFT**: Mattereum was tech partner on a UK land sale run as an NFT: a... Read: [571](https://guptaoption.com/texts/571.md), [668](https://guptaoption.com/texts/668.md), [586](https://guptaoption.com/texts/586.md).

## 2023

- **Hexacloak** (core): A hooded cloak from standard 60-inch cloth with no manufacturing... Led to Hexayurt Refugee Shelter (MICA,... (2024). Read: [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md), [724](https://guptaoption.com/texts/724.md), [727](https://guptaoption.com/texts/727.md).
- **Hexacoat**: A hooded coat cut from woobie blanket fabric, made to order by a... Led to Hexacloak (2023). Read: [37](https://guptaoption.com/texts/37.md), [294](https://guptaoption.com/texts/294.md), [374](https://guptaoption.com/texts/374.md).
- **Pop-up hexayurt**: A Hexayurt made flat with taped seams that opens in one motion. Read: [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md), [152](https://guptaoption.com/texts/152.md), [212](https://guptaoption.com/texts/212.md).
- **Spiral economy**: Economic idea: keep goods whole and route them down through... Read: [793](https://guptaoption.com/texts/793.md), [702](https://guptaoption.com/texts/702.md), [469](https://guptaoption.com/texts/469.md).
- **Swarm with Mattereum**: Mattereum partnership with Swarm, a regulated German exchange, to... Read: [565](https://guptaoption.com/texts/565.md), [44](https://guptaoption.com/texts/44.md), [43](https://guptaoption.com/texts/43.md).
- **The Salim Ismail Podcast (episode 4)** (about him, by others): Guest on The Salim Ismail Podcast, hosted by the OpenExO co-founder. Read: [376](https://guptaoption.com/texts/376.md).

## 2024

- **Multipolar Realpolitik** (core): Essays arguing that a global truce among a few great powers, with... Led to Climate Projections 2: A lot of very... (2025). Read: [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md), [319](https://guptaoption.com/texts/319.md), [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md).
- **The Perimeter: Mythos as Science Fiction, and other works** (core): Story collection: worst-case scenario planning meets the Cthulhu... Read: [235](https://guptaoption.com/texts/235.md).
- **Hexayurt Refugee Shelter (MICA, Baltimore)**: A lecture and a roundtable with Bryan Hellard at the Maryland... Led to Multipolar Realpolitik (2024). Read: [724](https://guptaoption.com/texts/724.md), [727](https://guptaoption.com/texts/727.md), [844](https://guptaoption.com/texts/844.md).
- **MATR**: A discount token from Mattereum's German subsidiary. Read: [45](https://guptaoption.com/texts/45.md), [557](https://guptaoption.com/texts/557.md), [120](https://guptaoption.com/texts/120.md).
- **VICE (stop the future)** (about him, by others): VICE profile: Vinay Gupta explains how to stop the future from... Read: [230](https://guptaoption.com/texts/230.md), [228](https://guptaoption.com/texts/228.md).

## 2025

- **Climate Projections 2: A lot of very boring graphs which all go upwards**: Slide deck: warming is outrunning the models and emissions cuts... Read: [819] (no text here), [704](https://guptaoption.com/texts/704.md), [359](https://guptaoption.com/texts/359.md).
- **VICE (print)** (about him, by others): VICE print interview in The Rock Bottom Issue. Read: [231](https://guptaoption.com/texts/231.md), [228](https://guptaoption.com/texts/228.md).

## 2026

- **Half a Trillion Dollars a Year of Magic: Blockchain, AI, and the Future of the Built Environment** (core): Mattereum essay: combine AI with the blockchain into... Read: [167](https://guptaoption.com/texts/167.md), [559](https://guptaoption.com/texts/559.md), [557](https://guptaoption.com/texts/557.md).
- **OpenExO OS Pilot** (he contributed): Program manager for the OpenExO OS Pilot, a program on rebuilding... Read: [220](https://guptaoption.com/texts/220.md).



# Vinay Gupta: his works and how they connect (part 1 of 9, 1984 to 2006)

> Every work in his career record (175), by year, with what it is, the thread it belongs to, what it came from and led to and why, and the sources in the archive about it. Part 1 of 9, 1984 to 2006; continues in https://guptaoption.com/texts/works-2.md. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt; source ids such as [250] are at https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md.

### Cyberpunk (1984)

- Identity, law and blockchain; concept; work id cyberpunk-1980s
- What: The 1980s cyberpunk culture that came first; first computer a ZX81 in 1982.
- Summary: 1980s cyberpunk. First computer a ZX81 in 1982. The fiction and the machine precede the 1990s cypherpunk practice. Not a SCIM need.
- Threads: cryptographic applications
- Led to Cypherpunks (1992): fiction and the machine, then the mailing list. Evidence (he says so): Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin, Virtual Futures Salon (2018-02-11) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn5kjVYjYvI&t=5001s; Vinay Gupta on the beginning of blockchain (De Brakke Grond) (2016-02-26) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRdCKbTUBU8&t=0s
- Sources (4, by hand first, then by importance): [239](https://guptaoption.com/texts/239.md) The Future of Stuff (2020); [760](https://guptaoption.com/texts/760.md) Vinay Gupta - Across the Abyss: From Myth to Reality @... (2020); [562](https://guptaoption.com/texts/562.md) Vinay Gupta at The Promise of the Blockchain 2015 (2024); [683](https://guptaoption.com/texts/683.md) CommunityZ Chest - Vinay Gupta, Founder of Mattereum, In... (2020)

### Solo meditation (1987)

- Writing and inner practice; specified; work id meditation-solo; https://web.archive.org/web/20181006171655/http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/my-thoughtmenu-on-enlightenment-3644
- What: Daily solo meditation, about an hour a day, from about age 15.
- Summary: 1980s solo sitting, about an hour a day, no Hindu lineage at the start. Thought Menu on Enlightenment: started because there was nothing else to do. Not a SCIM need.
- Threads: fiction draws on; solo practice to the cutting machinery
- Led to Internal dialogue stops (1993): six years of sitting. Evidence (he says so): My Thoughtmenu on Enlightenment (2020) https://web.archive.org/web/20181006171655/http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/my-thoughtmenu-on-enlightenment-3644
- Led to Mother of Hydrogen (2012): the interior practice, as fiction. Evidence (implied by the later work): Mother of Hydrogen: Harry and Peter sit (2012-11) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/mother_of_hydrogen.txt
- Sources (4, by hand first, then by importance): [38](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md) Hexayurt Country: The Hexayurt Project plan for relief... (2010); [191](https://guptaoption.com/texts/191.md) My Thoughtmenu on Enlightenment | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2020); [248](https://guptaoption.com/texts/248.md) Vinay Gupta Thought Menu on Enlightenment (2020); [705](https://guptaoption.com/texts/705.md) Vinay Gupta - Thought Menu on Enlightenment (2017)

### Cypherpunks (1992)

- Identity, law and blockchain; specified; work id crypto-1990s; https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-is-teaching-realism-to-libertarians-an-interview-with-old-school-cypherpunk-vinay-gupta-1415220752
- What: Cypherpunk practice in the 1990s: cryptography as a political technology.
- Summary: 1990s cypherpunk practice: cryptography as political technology. Follows 1980s cyberpunk. Applied later as CheapID, Ethereum, MAP hashes.
- Threads: cryptographic applications
- Came from Cyberpunk (1984): fiction and the machine, then the mailing list. Evidence (he says so): Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin, Virtual Futures Salon (2018-02-11) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn5kjVYjYvI&t=5001s; Vinay Gupta on the beginning of blockchain (De Brakke Grond) (2016-02-26) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRdCKbTUBU8&t=0s
- Led to CheapID (2006): PKI on the person. Evidence (he says so): On the ethics (and pragmatics) of cryptography (blog) (2012-02-04) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/on-the-ethics-and-pragmatics-of-cryptography-2985
- Led to RCDS cyber (Tibbs) (2011): applied to the State. Evidence (implied by the later work): Mattereum is Blockchain Cypherpunk (2022-03-01) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yaXwqx-XzA&t=0s; Defence, Security and Resilience under Rapid Technological Change (Hardin Tibbs... (2011) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/cyber/Defense_Security_Resilience_and_rapid_technological_change.pdf#page=2
- Led to Dangerous Old Men: Cypherpunk's Failure, Ethereum's Success (2015): cypherpunk's failure. Evidence (he says so): Vinay Gupta, Dangerous Old Men: cypherpunk's failure, Ethereum's success (2015-11-14) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iNiUasJiEc&t=0s
- Led to On Un-Designing the Cryptographic Utopia (2012): the cypherpunk utopia, un-designed. Evidence (he says so): On the ethics (and pragmatics) of cryptography (blog) (2012-02-04) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/on-the-ethics-and-pragmatics-of-cryptography-2985
- Sources (9, by hand first, then by importance): [113](https://guptaoption.com/texts/113.md) The Ethereum Launch Process | Ethereum Foundation Blog (2015); [684](https://guptaoption.com/texts/684.md) DEVCON1: Dangerous Old Men: Cypherpunk's Failure,... (2016); [758](https://guptaoption.com/texts/758.md) #3 Vinay Gupta, Indexing the physical world (2019); [77] I went to the same school as Julian Assange, but we... (2011) (no text here); [768](https://guptaoption.com/texts/768.md) #03 - Vinay Gupta : History of Money, Foundations of... (2021); [112](https://guptaoption.com/texts/112.md) ‘Bitcoin Is Teaching Realism To Libertarians’: An... (2014); [790](https://guptaoption.com/texts/790.md) 'Mattereum is Blockchain Cypherpunk' (2022); [452](https://guptaoption.com/texts/452.md) Wall St vs Silicon Valley (2025); [590](https://guptaoption.com/texts/590.md) 'Changing The Relationship Between People and Things' (2022)

### Internal dialogue stops (1993)

- Writing and inner practice; specified; work id meditation-1993; https://web.archive.org/web/20181006171655/http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/my-thoughtmenu-on-enlightenment-3644
- What: After six years of daily sitting, the internal dialogue stopped.
- Summary: About 1993-1994, after six years of daily sitting. Then a guru (Bhavani Ma; Future of Stuff dedication). Lineage later named as the religious wing of the Gurkhas.
- Threads: fiction draws on; solo practice to the cutting machinery
- Came from Solo meditation (1987): six years of sitting. Evidence (he says so): My Thoughtmenu on Enlightenment (2020) https://web.archive.org/web/20181006171655/http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/my-thoughtmenu-on-enlightenment-3644
- Led to Systems reformulated (2010): then the system, rewritten. Evidence (implied by the later work): My Thoughtmenu on Enlightenment (2020) https://web.archive.org/web/20181006171655/http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/my-thoughtmenu-on-enlightenment-3644
- Led to Mother of Hydrogen (2012): Puppet, Nuit, Shakti. Evidence (implied by the later work): Mother of Hydrogen: Nuit and Shakti (2012-11) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/mother_of_hydrogen.txt; Mother of Hydrogen: the Puppet totem (2012-11) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/mother_of_hydrogen.txt
- Led to Nath Sampradaya initiation (2004): guru, then lineage. Evidence (implied by the later work): My Thoughtmenu on Enlightenment (2020) https://web.archive.org/web/20181006171655/http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/my-thoughtmenu-on-enlightenment-3644
- Sources (2, by hand first, then by importance): [191](https://guptaoption.com/texts/191.md) My Thoughtmenu on Enlightenment | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2020); [248](https://guptaoption.com/texts/248.md) Vinay Gupta Thought Menu on Enlightenment (2020)

### Sheet-waste question (1995)

- Survival hardware; idea; concept; work id sheet-waste; https://boingboing.net/2011/10/24/tools-to-not-die-with-an-interview-with-vinay-gupta.html
- What: The question behind the Hexayurt: how to build a dome from 4x8 sheets without wasting 25 to 40 percent of each board.
- Summary: The Farm, 1995. How to cover a geodesic dome in 4x8 sheets without losing 25 to 40 percent of each board. WorldView LivingSpace.
- Threads: hexayurt to chain
- Led to Hexayurt (2002): simplest thing that works. Evidence (he says so): Tools To Not Die With: An Interview with Vinay Gupta, creator of the Hexayurt (Boing... (2011-10-24) https://boingboing.net/2011/10/24/tools-to-not-die-with-an-interview-with-vinay-gupta.html; Stamps talk 27:21, The Farm asked him for a geodesic dome with no waste; in 2002 the... (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=1641s
- Sources (13, by hand first, then by importance): [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md) Vinay Gupta: The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019); [321](https://guptaoption.com/texts/321.md) Vinay Gupta talking at FreeAndReal / The Telaithrion... (2012); [251](https://guptaoption.com/texts/251.md) ODM 6981 Oxford Technology and Media Network Climate Change (2020); [114](https://guptaoption.com/texts/114.md) Tools To Not Die With: An Interview with Vinay Gupta,... (2011); [791](https://guptaoption.com/texts/791.md) COP26 Event: Green Blockchain, Green Economy (2021); [375](https://guptaoption.com/texts/375.md) Folding Hexayurt Briefing (2007); [329](https://guptaoption.com/texts/329.md) RAW FOOTAGE Hexayurt Folding Combined Endeavor (2012); [310](https://guptaoption.com/texts/310.md) Engineers Without Borders Sheffield Plywood Hexayurt How To (2015); [336](https://guptaoption.com/texts/336.md) RAW FOOTAGE Hexayurt Roof Cone Combined Endeavor (2012); [339](https://guptaoption.com/texts/339.md) 15 minute video on how to make Hexayurts for Burning Man (2012); [193](https://guptaoption.com/texts/193.md) Nearodesic Polyhedron Hexayurt Dome – Morgan Engel's Site (2011); [373](https://guptaoption.com/texts/373.md) Folding Hexayurt Opening and Closing (2007); ...

### Hexayurt (2002)

- Survival hardware; built; specified; work id hexayurt; https://hexayurt.com/
- What: A public-domain disaster shelter made from whole 4x8 building panels with one diagonal cut.
- Summary: Public-domain shelter from whole 4x8 sheets, one diagonal cut. Simplest thing that works. Fills too cold and too hot at household. Junction of the Farm question and the RMI settlements charrette. Origin, in the 2019 Stamps talk: in spring 2002 at the Rocky Mountain Institute someone asked for a flat-pack refugee shelter that could go on the back of a truck. By 2012 about 1,000 were being built at Burning Man each year (OHM2013).
- Threads: RMI to spiral; STAR-TIDES; fiction draws on; hexayurt builds; hexayurt to chain; nuclear / panflu; standard SKUs
- Came from Sheet-waste question (1995): simplest thing that works. Evidence (he says so): Tools To Not Die With: An Interview with Vinay Gupta, creator of the Hexayurt (Boing... (2011-10-24) https://boingboing.net/2011/10/24/tools-to-not-die-with-an-interview-with-vinay-gupta.html; Stamps talk 27:21, The Farm asked him for a geodesic dome with no waste; in 2002 the... (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=1641s
- Came from RMI Sustainable Settlements charrette (2002): second genesis. Evidence (he says so): Tools To Not Die With: An Interview with Vinay Gupta, creator of the Hexayurt (Boing... (2011-10-24) https://boingboing.net/2011/10/24/tools-to-not-die-with-an-interview-with-vinay-gupta.html; The Hexayurt in Haiti? (Hexayurt Country), v1.2 (2010-02-16) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/hexayurt_in_haiti_v1.1.pdf#page=1
- Connects back from Soft Development Paths (2008): development not only relief. Evidence (he says so): Soft Development Paths (guptaoption.com) (2008) https://guptaoption.com/7.soft_development_paths.php; The Hexayurt in Haiti? (Hexayurt Country), v1.2 (2010-02-16) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/hexayurt_in_haiti_v1.1.pdf#page=1
- Led to Six ways people die (2008): shelter is not enough. Evidence (he says so): The systemic risks model for survival (blog) (2008-04-20) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/the-systemic-risks-model-for-survival-551; Hexayurt Project: Six Ways To Die video 0:00 (2008-10-07) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqNOcmM9XAY&t=0s
- Led to Hexayurt infrastructure kit (2003): autonomous building kit. Evidence (he says so): State in a Box: Identity Services Architecture (guptaoption.com) (2006) https://guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php
- Led to Hexacloak (2023): same industrial SKU class. Evidence (he says so): MICA lecture 55:00, if housing comes from a 4x8 sheet, can clothing come from 60-inch... (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=3300s; MICA roundtable 2:30, bulk material straight from the industrial supply chain with no... (2024-04-24) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oABfflhN3mU&t=150s
- Led to Nuclear / mass evacuation (2007): rehouse after the bomb. Evidence (he says so): A novel approach to handling mass refugee situations in the United States (PDF), p. 1 (2007-08-10) https://www.appropedia.org/w/images/b/b1/Hexayurt_mass_evacuation.pdf#page=1; STAR-TIDES briefing 45:00 (2012-05-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfm1Y74ghFE&t=2700s
- Led to Hexayurt Country (2010): Haiti. Evidence (he says so): Hexayurt Country: the Hexayurt Project plan for relief and reconstruction in Haiti (2010-01-22) https://hexayurt.com/hexayurt_country/
- Led to Course of Action (2006): policy wrap. Evidence (he says so): Course of Action (PDF), p. 1 https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Vinay_Gupta_course_of_action.pdf
- Led to STAR-TIDES (2007): shelter in the demos. Evidence (he says so): FreeAndReal talk 15:15 (2012-09-14) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhhzX8AtGRA&t=915s; TIDES packet: Pentagon Center Court Demonstration, p. 1 (2007-11-19) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/TIDES_PACKET/TIDES_PACKET_144AM.pdf
- Led to Mother of Hydrogen (2012): Harappa, hexayurt city. Evidence (he says so): Mother of Hydrogen: arrival at Harappa (2012-11) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/mother_of_hydrogen.txt; Mother of Hydrogen: the compound (2012-11) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/mother_of_hydrogen.txt
- Led to Tribike (2006): appropriate-tech vehicle beside the house. Evidence (implied by the later work): Tribike notes (PDF) (2006) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/tribike/tribike_notes.pdf#page=1
- Led to The Unplugged (2006): the housing of that lifestyle. Evidence (he says so): Tools To Not Die With (Boing Boing) (2011-10-24) https://boingboing.net/2011/10/24/tools-to-not-die-with-an-interview-with-vinay-gupta.html; Appropedia: Hexayurt playa, Hexayurt applications and the big picture https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_playa
- Led to First hexayurt built (2003): first one on the playa. Evidence (he says so): Meaning 2012 talk 3:07, the first hexayurt, donated cardboard, a week at Burning Man... (2012-10-15) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BORHRKg-VoI&t=187s; hexayurt.com history timeline https://hexayurt.com/
- Led to H13 (2010): full-height door. Evidence (he says so): Appropedia: Hexayurt H13 https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_project/Hexayurt_H13; hexayurt.com history timeline https://hexayurt.com/
- Led to Camp Danger hinge (2010): folding tape hinge. Evidence (he says so): Vinay Gupta and Julie Danger on Camp Danger Semi Folding Hexayurt 0:00, tape hinges... (2011-05-19) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLBPY3-CpwM&t=0s; Vinay Gupta and Julie Danger on Camp Danger Semi Folding Hexayurt 2:30, the hinge on... (2011-05-19) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLBPY3-CpwM&t=150s
- Led to Quaddome (2011): zero-waste large dome. Evidence (he says so): Stamps talk 37:21, Edmund Harriss's domes built at Burning Man from downloaded designs... (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=2241s; MICA lecture 12:30, the big domes: 14 feet high, 28 across, about 450 square feet for... (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=750s
- Led to Pop-up hexayurt (2023): flat-pack pop-up. Evidence (he says so): hexayurt.com front page, 2023 update https://hexayurt.com/
- Led to One Network, One World: Designing for a 7+ Billion Person World (2013): one planet's worth of consumption. Evidence (he says so): OHM2013 talk 40:00, the core design principle: a family at one planet's worth of... (2013-09-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMcxS1nLpig&t=2400s; OHM2013 talk 2:30, we are at 4 to 8 times consumption [transcribed] (2013-09-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMcxS1nLpig&t=150s
- Led to The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019): the thirty-year plan, halfway through. Evidence (he says so): The Cities That Will Walk Away talk 29:51 (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=1791s
- Led to Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (2008): open hardware against poverty. Evidence (he says so): Reykjavik Digital Freedoms talk 0:00, opens on the hexayurt [transcribed] (2012-05-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmfZfgxayzE&t=0s; Ending Poverty With Open Hardware, Reykjavik slides, closing slide (2008-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Reykjavik_Digital_Freedoms_Conference/
- Led to Free housing and 21st Century Leadership (2010): how to be effective after 2002. Evidence (he says so): Free housing and 21st Century Leadership (blog) (2010-08-27) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/free-housing-and-21st-century-leadership-1930
- Led to Avoid Winter War: Hexayurts and #Occupy (2011): the winter kit, and why it is the wrong answer. Evidence (he says so): Avoid Winter War: Hexayurts and #Occupy (blog) (2011-10-29) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/advice-for-occupy-avoid-winter-war-2881
- Led to The Physical Aspects of Distributed Infrastructure (2008): shade and ground sink: 10C cooler inside. Evidence (he says so): PADI p. 1, Explaining The Hexayurt in hot, dry climates (2008-06) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/the_physical_aspects_of_distributed_infrastructure_2008.pdf#page=1; PADI p. 6, enhancing the ground sink (2008-06) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/the_physical_aspects_of_distributed_infrastructure_2008.pdf#page=6
- Led to Superstruct and URGENT EVOKE (2008): the Hexayurt written into two games. Evidence (he says so): Superstruct Report 1, 0:00, DCAR field report: hexayurt factories operating [transcribed] (2008-10-05) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCD2x3EuiPA&t=0s; The Unplugged: The Videos (Shareable) (2010-06-08) https://www.shareable.net/the-unplugged-the-videos/
- Led to Hexayurt Refugee Shelter (MICA, Baltimore) (2024): the design family, listed by sheet count. Evidence (he says so): MICA lecture 25:00, Bryan Hellard on the master list: H numbers are sheet counts... (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=1500s; MICA lecture 10:00, hexayurts as permanent buildings with a real lifespan [transcribed] (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=600s
- Sources (26, by hand first, then by importance): [753](https://guptaoption.com/texts/753.md) (OHM2013) One network one world designing for a 7 plus... (2013); [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md) The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world (2002); [100](https://guptaoption.com/texts/100.md) Hexayurt project (2002); [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md) Vinay Gupta: The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019); [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md) Hope For The World (2017); [711](https://guptaoption.com/texts/711.md) Vinay Gupta – Hexayurts, Distributed Infrastructure, and... (2014); [294](https://guptaoption.com/texts/294.md) Practice Safe Hex - Burning Man Hexayurt Safety Checklist! (2015); [245](https://guptaoption.com/texts/245.md) Vinay Gupta - Fab 16 presentation (2021); [740](https://guptaoption.com/texts/740.md) Hexayurt Interviews - Vinay Gupta and Bob Vrtis - at... (2017); [118](https://guptaoption.com/texts/118.md) File:Hexayurt at Burning Man 2010.jpg - Wikimedia Commons (2010); [374](https://guptaoption.com/texts/374.md) The Hexayurt Project 2007 Intro Video (2007); [185](https://guptaoption.com/texts/185.md) Hexayurt (2002); ...

### RMI Sustainable Settlements charrette (2002)

- Economics of resources; specified; work id rmi-charrette; http://projects.mindtel.com/2002/02.SustainableSettlements/
- What: Rocky Mountain Institute workshop on sustainable settlements where the Hexayurt idea took shape a second time.
- Summary: Hexayurt's second genesis. Strong Angel in the air. Amory Lovins decentralized infrastructure.
- Threads: RMI to spiral; hexayurt to chain
- Led to Hexayurt (2002): second genesis. Evidence (he says so): Tools To Not Die With: An Interview with Vinay Gupta, creator of the Hexayurt (Boing... (2011-10-24) https://boingboing.net/2011/10/24/tools-to-not-die-with-an-interview-with-vinay-gupta.html; The Hexayurt in Haiti? (Hexayurt Country), v1.2 (2010-02-16) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/hexayurt_in_haiti_v1.1.pdf#page=1
- Led to Small is Profitable (2002): same shop. Evidence (implied by the later work): STAR-TIDES talk at FAHUM 08, 17:30, the household infrastructure idea came from an RMI... (2012-05-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArOsc47wX1o&t=1050s; London Real talk 12:30, at RMI he worked on Small is Profitable [transcribed] (2014-02-02) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rys_saLiDA&t=750s
- Sources (5, by hand first, then by importance): [128](https://guptaoption.com/texts/128.md) Black Elephants & Skull Jackets: A Conversation with... (2010); [740](https://guptaoption.com/texts/740.md) Hexayurt Interviews - Vinay Gupta and Bob Vrtis - at... (2017); [114](https://guptaoption.com/texts/114.md) Tools To Not Die With: An Interview with Vinay Gupta,... (2011); [170](https://guptaoption.com/texts/170.md) RMI Sustainable Settlements charrette (2002); [328](https://guptaoption.com/texts/328.md) Papa Bill's Stew-Stick Jam - Marmaduke Dando - First... (2012)

### Small is Profitable (2002) (he edited)

- Economics of resources; argument; specified; work id sip; https://web.archive.org/web/20210920114436/https://rmi.org/insight/small-is-profitable/
- What: Co-edited Rocky Mountain Institute book on the hidden benefits of right-sized, distributed power; The Economist's book of the year 2003.
- Summary: Rocky Mountain Institute. Hidden economic benefits of making electrical resources the right size. Economist book of the year 2003. Distributed energy, not megaprojects.
- Threads: RMI to spiral; social enterprise
- Came from RMI Sustainable Settlements charrette (2002): same shop. Evidence (implied by the later work): STAR-TIDES talk at FAHUM 08, 17:30, the household infrastructure idea came from an RMI... (2012-05-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArOsc47wX1o&t=1050s; London Real talk 12:30, at RMI he worked on Small is Profitable [transcribed] (2014-02-02) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rys_saLiDA&t=750s
- Led to Winning the Oil Endgame (2004): RMI efficiency stack; efficiency that pays, including oil; right-sized energy, then the car. Evidence (he says so): When? (blog) (2011-08-16) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/bigdeal/when-2713; London Real talk 12:30, at RMI he worked on Small is Profitable and Winning the Oil... (2014-02-02) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rys_saLiDA&t=750s
- Led to Global Village Development Bank (2009): small projects as infrastructure. Evidence (he says so): Global Village Development Bank, draft 2, p. 1 (2009-03-12) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Global_Village_Development_Bank_v2.pdf; Reykjavik Digital Freedoms talk 6:07, decentralized infrastructure without World Bank... (2012-05-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmfZfgxayzE&t=367s
- Led to Resilience and Opportunity: Effective Tools for Victory in Fourth Generation Wars? (2006): distributed infrastructure creates resilience. Evidence (he says so): Resilience and Opportunity in Fourth Generation Wars (PDF), p. 2 (2006-10-27) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/resilience/Resilience%20and%20Opportunity%20in%20Fourth%20Generation%20Wars%20(Final).pdf
- Led to Three Rules for Designing the Social Enterprise (2009): the capital conversion matrix, first seen at the Rocky Mountain Institute. Evidence (implied by the later work): Three Rules for Designing the Social Enterprise, p. 1 (2009) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Three_Rules_for_Designing_the_Social_Enterprise.pdf
- Led to The Physical Aspects of Distributed Infrastructure (2008): small electrical resources, at household scale. Evidence (implied by the later work): PADI p. 11, Whole Systems Optimization of Small Electrical Resources (2008-06) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/the_physical_aspects_of_distributed_infrastructure_2008.pdf#page=11; State in a Box: Identity Services Architecture (guptaoption.com) (2006) https://guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php
- Sources (19, by hand first, then by importance): [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md) guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php (2006); [266](https://guptaoption.com/texts/266.md) "Blockchain: IoT's trust broker?" talk on the fly by... (2017); [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md) TEDxEWB - Vinay Gupta - Enabling Humanitarian Innovation (2010); [52](https://guptaoption.com/texts/52.md) When? | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2011); [144](https://guptaoption.com/texts/144.md) The Future We Deserve: "Facebook for the Five Billion?" (2011); [263](https://guptaoption.com/texts/263.md) Ethereal Summit (2017); [108](https://guptaoption.com/texts/108.md) User:Vinay Gupta/The Unplugged (2006); [3](https://guptaoption.com/texts/3.md) The Global Village Development Bank v2 (2009); [18](https://guptaoption.com/texts/18.md) Exploring Data Generated by Pocket Devices (2013); [17](https://guptaoption.com/texts/17.md) The Physical Aspects of Distributed Infrastructure (2008); [241](https://guptaoption.com/texts/241.md) The Future We Deserve — Our Future and the Sun — Vinay Gupta; [29](https://guptaoption.com/texts/29.md) Saving the World on the Cheap (2007); ...

### Biomimicry database (2003)

- Economics of resources; built; specified; work id biomimicry; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11843051
- What: Technical lead on the Rocky Mountain Institute era biomimicry database.
- Summary: RMI-era. database.biomimicry.org.
- Sources (5, by hand first, then by importance): [793](https://guptaoption.com/texts/793.md) COP26 Event: The Circular Economy - Finance and Data for... (2021); [168](https://guptaoption.com/texts/168.md) I'm also interested in this question. Here's two things... (2003); [173](https://guptaoption.com/texts/173.md) Index of /files/fluscim (2010); [27](https://guptaoption.com/texts/27.md) Index of /hope_for_the_world (2009); [821](https://guptaoption.com/texts/821.md) Index of /FSFI (2008)

### First hexayurt built (2003)

- Survival hardware; built; specified; work id hy-first-build; https://web.archive.org/web/20050426010855/http://mindismoving.org/hexayurt/hexayurt_gallery/hexayurt_gallery.html
- What: The first Hexayurt prototype, built at Burning Man from cardboard panels.
- Summary: First hexayurt prototype on the playa at Burning Man. Hexacomb cardboard from Pactiv, Heatshield from Innovative Energy, fibre tape from 3M, SketchUp license. A little bigger than a tent.
- Threads: hexayurt builds
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): first one on the playa. Evidence (he says so): Meaning 2012 talk 3:07, the first hexayurt, donated cardboard, a week at Burning Man... (2012-10-15) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BORHRKg-VoI&t=187s; hexayurt.com history timeline https://hexayurt.com/
- Led to H18 (2006): then the tall size. Evidence (implied by the later work): Appropedia: Hexayurt project, sizes and design table https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt; Appropedia: Hexayurt playa, 12 foot hexayurt aka H18 https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_playa
- Led to Lost swamp cooler (2003): the first build's solar swamp cooler
- Sources (24, by hand first, then by importance): [725](https://guptaoption.com/texts/725.md) Vinay Gupta l Plausible utopias | Meaning 2012 (2012); [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md) The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world (2002); [294](https://guptaoption.com/texts/294.md) Practice Safe Hex - Burning Man Hexayurt Safety Checklist! (2015); [303](https://guptaoption.com/texts/303.md) How To Sell Ideas from (from Ethereum DEVCON Berlin) (2015); [188](https://guptaoption.com/texts/188.md) Hexayurt Image Gallery (2003); [190](https://guptaoption.com/texts/190.md) Image(80) (2003); [100](https://guptaoption.com/texts/100.md) Hexayurt project (2002); [79](https://guptaoption.com/texts/79.md) Meaning: Plausible Utopias | The Bucky-Gandhi Design... (2012); [245](https://guptaoption.com/texts/245.md) Vinay Gupta - Fab 16 presentation (2021); [102](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md) Hexayurt project/Hexayurt playa (2006); [375](https://guptaoption.com/texts/375.md) Folding Hexayurt Briefing (2007); [364](https://guptaoption.com/texts/364.md) burning ice brussels seven minute tour (2011); ...

### Hexayurt infrastructure kit (2003)

- Survival hardware; proposal; specified; work id kit; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/TIDES_PACKET/TIDES_PACKET_144AM.pdf
- What: A household kit around the Hexayurt: water-purifying bottles, dry toilets, efficient stoves and solar lights.
- Summary: SODIS bottles, dry toilets, efficient stoves, solar lighting. Same SKU class: industrially mass-produced goods assembled at the edge.
- Threads: fiction draws on; standard SKUs
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): autonomous building kit. Evidence (he says so): State in a Box: Identity Services Architecture (guptaoption.com) (2006) https://guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php
- Connects back from Tribike (2006): mobility in the household kit. Evidence (implied by the later work): A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine (blog) (2014-06-30) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/a-little-insight-into-the-gupta-doctrine-3571; Stamps talk 41:27, stove, water filter, cargo bicycle, toilets and solar lights all... (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=2487s
- Led to Hexacloak (2023): standard sizes, no factory. Evidence (implied by the later work): A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine (blog) (2014-06-30) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/a-little-insight-into-the-gupta-doctrine-3571; MICA lecture 15:00, stoves, water filters, transport, lighting and toilets in the... (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=900s
- Led to Mother of Hydrogen (2012): sun, toilets, one storey. Evidence (implied by the later work): Mother of Hydrogen: point-of-use utilities in Harappa (2012-11) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/mother_of_hydrogen.txt
- Led to Akvo (2008): household water, then the WASH org. Evidence (implied by the later work): Ending Poverty With Open Hardware, Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference keynote, slide 18 (2008-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Reykjavik_Digital_Freedoms_Conference/; Living Video and the Akvo Video Strategy (blog) (2011-05-03) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/living-video-and-the-akvo-video-strategy-2467
- Led to The Unplugged (2006): autonomous building as unplugging. Evidence (he says so): The Unplugged (Appropedia, originally WorldChanging) (2006-02-20) https://www.appropedia.org/User:Vinay_Gupta/The_Unplugged; Tools To Not Die With (Boing Boing) (2011-10-24) https://boingboing.net/2011/10/24/tools-to-not-die-with-an-interview-with-vinay-gupta.html
- Led to A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine (2014): the household kit, restated as six to eight machines. Evidence (implied by the later work): A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine (blog) (2014-06-30) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/a-little-insight-into-the-gupta-doctrine-3571; State in a Box: Identity Services Architecture (guptaoption.com) (2006) https://guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php
- Led to The Physical Aspects of Distributed Infrastructure (2008): the kit's utilities, designed. Evidence (implied by the later work): PADI p. 11, household and village electrical services (2008-06) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/the_physical_aspects_of_distributed_infrastructure_2008.pdf#page=11; PADI p. 31, the idealized system (2008-06) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/the_physical_aspects_of_distributed_infrastructure_2008.pdf#page=31
- Sources (7, by hand first, then by importance): [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md) guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php (2006); [100](https://guptaoption.com/texts/100.md) Hexayurt project (2002); [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md) STAR-TIDES briefing from Vinay Gupta (2012); [740](https://guptaoption.com/texts/740.md) Hexayurt Interviews - Vinay Gupta and Bob Vrtis - at... (2017); [316](https://guptaoption.com/texts/316.md) Vinay Gupta - Maker Faire UK - Newcastle 2014 (2014); [137](https://guptaoption.com/texts/137.md) STAR-TIDES (2007); [360](https://guptaoption.com/texts/360.md) ZOOM0003 (2011)

### Lost swamp cooler (2003)

- Survival hardware; built; specified; work id hy-swamp-cooler; https://groups.google.com/g/hexayurt/c/U2EEBbAfssg
- What: A solar evaporative cooler for the first Hexayurt: a plastic tub, wet rags and a computer fan on a 10-watt panel, with no battery.
- Summary: Built for the first Hexayurt at Burning Man, 2003. A 12-volt panel drives a case fan directly. Inside a plastic tub, washcloths hang in a zig-zag from paperclips over a few gallons of water, and a garbage-bag sheet under the lid, pulled down by the fan, seals the baffles. Off a 10-watt panel it cooled the 6-foot hexayurt and chilled cans. Never documented at the time; described from memory in 2012. The photo on his file server matches the description.
- Threads: hexayurt builds
- Came from First hexayurt built (2003): the first build's solar swamp cooler
- Sources (2, by hand first, then by importance): [17](https://guptaoption.com/texts/17.md) The Physical Aspects of Distributed Infrastructure (2008); [288](https://guptaoption.com/texts/288.md) test (2016)

### Whole-Systems Framework for Sustainable Consumption and Production (2003) (he contributed)

- Economics of resources; model; specified; work id whole-systems-framework; https://www2.mst.dk/Udgiv/publications/2003/87-7972-614-3/html/kolofon_eng.htm
- What: Rocky Mountain Institute report for the Danish Environmental Protection Agency on sustainable consumption and production as one system.
- Summary: Danish EPA Environmental Project No. 807, 2003, produced by the Rocky Mountain Institute. Gupta, Vinay is listed among the authors.
- Threads: RMI to spiral
- Led to Lean Green Mattereum: "We aren't just here to change the world, we're here to fix it" (2020): the 2003 economy model, reused. Evidence (he says so): Lean Green Mattereum deck, slides 82 to 91 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view; The Mattereum Manifesto (Medium) (2019-09-30) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/how-post-industrial-capitalism-and-a-new-type-of-big-data-will-save-the-planet-6574b1d75bf6
- Sources (5, by hand first, then by importance): [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md) The Mattereum Manifesto: green capitalism, product... (2019); [723](https://guptaoption.com/texts/723.md) "Saving the Climate with Real World Asset NFTs" by Vinay... (2020); [201](https://guptaoption.com/texts/201.md) Colophon, Danish Environmental Protection Agency (2003); [352](https://guptaoption.com/texts/352.md) STAR TIDES SPANISH (2012); [170](https://guptaoption.com/texts/170.md) RMI Sustainable Settlements charrette (2002)

### Nath Sampradaya initiation (2004)

- Writing and inner practice; specified; work id nath-initiation; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/bigdeal/when-2713
- What: Initiated into the Nath Sampradaya.
- Summary: Initiation in the Nath Sampradaya, 2004.
- Threads: solo practice to the cutting machinery
- Came from Internal dialogue stops (1993): guru, then lineage. Evidence (implied by the later work): My Thoughtmenu on Enlightenment (2020) https://web.archive.org/web/20181006171655/http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/my-thoughtmenu-on-enlightenment-3644
- Led to Systems reformulated (2010): lineage practice, rewritten
- Sources (3, by hand first, then by importance): [692](https://guptaoption.com/texts/692.md) Vinay Gupta:From Global Resilience to Practical... (2019); [52](https://guptaoption.com/texts/52.md) When? | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2011); [327](https://guptaoption.com/texts/327.md) Papa Bill's Stew-Stick Jam - Marmaduke Dando - Second Song (2012)

### Winning the Oil Endgame (2004) (he edited)

- Economics of resources; proposal; specified; work id woe; https://web.archive.org/web/20190403000236/https://rmi.org/insight/winning-the-oil-endgame/
- What: Rocky Mountain Institute study, Pentagon co-sponsored, on getting the US off oil profitably. Technical assistant to the editor.
- Summary: RMI, Pentagon co-sponsor. Getting the US off oil, led by business for profit. Role: technical assistant to the editor (confirmed by Vinay Gupta, November 2026); the book's production credit also names him. Contains the car-side transport work: ultralight vehicles, efficiency of using oil. The tribike is the other pole.
- Threads: RMI to spiral; environment / green capitalism; transport: tribike and cars
- Came from Small is Profitable (2002): RMI efficiency stack; efficiency that pays, including oil; right-sized energy, then the car. Evidence (he says so): When? (blog) (2011-08-16) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/bigdeal/when-2713; London Real talk 12:30, at RMI he worked on Small is Profitable and Winning the Oil... (2014-02-02) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rys_saLiDA&t=750s
- Led to Product information markets (2019): green capitalism after oil. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Mattereum Manifesto (Medium) (2019-09-30) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/how-post-industrial-capitalism-and-a-new-type-of-big-data-will-save-the-planet-6574b1d75bf6; FutureRant talk 7:01, RMI's market-based responses [transcribed] (2016-08-29) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mCXTebVaJY&t=421s
- Led to Tribike (2006): cars in Oil Endgame, then the bike; oil in vehicles
- Sources (5, by hand first, then by importance): [128](https://guptaoption.com/texts/128.md) Black Elephants & Skull Jackets: A Conversation with... (2010); [52](https://guptaoption.com/texts/52.md) When? | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2011); [764] FutureRant - Vinay Gupta Pt 1/4 - "The Mind of Design" (2016) (no text here); [116](https://guptaoption.com/texts/116.md) Vinay Gupta Thinks Tokenizing the World Is the Best Way... (2018); [155](https://guptaoption.com/texts/155.md) Mother of Hydrogen (2012)

### Asset Passport conceived (2006)

- Identity, law and blockchain; idea; concept; work id map-concept; https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/how-post-industrial-capitalism-and-a-new-type-of-big-data-will-save-the-planet-6574b1d75bf6
- What: First idea for the Asset Passport: digital identity for objects, conceived alongside CheapID.
- Summary: January 2026 essay: conceived 2006 as digital identity, far ahead of even bitcoin. Public intro 2019.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum; cryptographic applications; environment / green capitalism
- Came from CheapID (2006): conceived 2006; far ahead of even bitcoin. Evidence (he says so): Global real estate rail (Humanizing the Singularity) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79; Coin Telegraph AMA with Mattereum's Vinay Gupta, 14 August 2023 (2023-08-31) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu5bFKPqLDg&t=2738s
- Led to Mattereum (2017): passport on goods. Evidence (he says so): Global real estate rail (Humanizing the Singularity) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79; The Mattereum Manifesto: green capitalism, product information markets, and the blockchain (2019-09) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/how-post-industrial-capitalism-and-a-new-type-of-big-data-will-save-the-planet-6574b1d75bf6
- Led to Ethereum launch (2015): the chain those hashes needed. Evidence (he says so): Global real estate rail (Humanizing the Singularity) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79; The Mattereum Manifesto: green capitalism, product information markets, and the blockchain (2019-09) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/how-post-industrial-capitalism-and-a-new-type-of-big-data-will-save-the-planet-6574b1d75bf6
- Led to Product information markets (2019): identity of things, then a market for facts. Evidence (he says so): The Mattereum Manifesto (Medium) (2019-09-30) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/how-post-industrial-capitalism-and-a-new-type-of-big-data-will-save-the-planet-6574b1d75bf6; Half a Trillion Dollars a Year of Magic (Mattereum, Medium) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79
- Sources (5, by hand first, then by importance): [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md) The Mattereum Manifesto: green capitalism, product... (2019); [716](https://guptaoption.com/texts/716.md) How do we control the material world with smart... (2018); [167](https://guptaoption.com/texts/167.md) Global real estate rail (2026); [565](https://guptaoption.com/texts/565.md) Coin Telegraph AMA with Mattereum's Vinay Gupta 14th... (2023); [669](https://guptaoption.com/texts/669.md) ‘Accurate Data, the Semantic Web and the Semantic... (2022)



# Vinay Gupta: his works and how they connect (part 2 of 9, 2006 to 2008)

> Every work in his career record (175), by year, with what it is, the thread it belongs to, what it came from and led to and why, and the sources in the archive about it. Part 2 of 9, 2006 to 2008; continues in https://guptaoption.com/texts/works-3.md. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt; source ids such as [250] are at https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md.

### CheapID (2006)

- Identity, law and blockchain; proposal; specified; work id cheapid; https://guptaoption.com/cheapid/
- What: Design for a sub-$1 identity card, written for the US Office of the Secretary of Defense, that keeps biometrics apart from reputation and discloses identity only on court order.
- Summary: Identity layer of State in a Box. Sterile card, split biometric from reputation, disclose on court order, under $1. The Identity Services Architecture paper descends from a 2006 paper for the US Department of Defense, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD/NII). One international biometric uniqueness database holds no names; national rivals run it together, like the banks behind VISA, and their mutual distrust keeps it honest. Asset Passport conceived here.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum; cryptographic applications; cyber and defense; environment / green capitalism
- Came from State in a Box (2006): identity layer of the box. Evidence (he says so): State In A Box: Identity Services Architecture (2006) https://guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php
- Came from Cypherpunks (1992): PKI on the person. Evidence (he says so): On the ethics (and pragmatics) of cryptography (blog) (2012-02-04) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/on-the-ethics-and-pragmatics-of-cryptography-2985
- Led to Asset Passport conceived (2006): conceived 2006; far ahead of even bitcoin. Evidence (he says so): Global real estate rail (Humanizing the Singularity) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79; Coin Telegraph AMA with Mattereum's Vinay Gupta, 14 August 2023 (2023-08-31) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu5bFKPqLDg&t=2738s
- Led to FREE Guptastan (2008): the state in the box, public. Evidence (implied by the later work): FREE Guptastan (blog) (2008-04-29) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/free-guptastan-583
- Led to Mattereum (2017): disclose on dispute. Evidence (he says so): Coin Telegraph AMA with Mattereum's Vinay Gupta, 14 August 2023 (2023-08-31) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu5bFKPqLDg&t=2738s; Compilation: Vinay Gupta (Mattereum / Ethereum) on Visa, Insurance Claims, and Digital... (2023-06-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1llN53VUBk&t=0s
- Led to Ethereum launch (2015): signed card to programmable chain. Evidence (implied by the later work): Global real estate rail (Humanizing the Singularity) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79; Compilation: Vinay Gupta (Mattereum / Ethereum) on Visa, Insurance Claims, and Digital... (2023-06-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1llN53VUBk&t=0s
- Led to Product information markets (2019): same pattern: claims about the object. Evidence (implied by the later work): State in a Box: Identity Services Architecture (CheapID) (2006) https://guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php; Half a Trillion Dollars a Year of Magic (Mattereum, Medium) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79
- Led to UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules (2021): disclose on dispute, here is the forum. Evidence (implied by the later work): State In A Box: Identity Services Architecture (2006) https://guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php; UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules, rule 13 (2021-04-22) https://mattereum.com/ukjt#page=7
- Led to Tell Me Who You Are: Identity, institutional memory, and the persistent illusion of the self (2015): keep biometrics and reputation apart, worked through for the blockchain era. Evidence (implied by the later work): State In A Box: Identity Services Architecture (2006) https://guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php; Tell Me Who You Are (ConsenSys, Medium) (2015-12-23) https://medium.com/@Consensys/tell-me-who-you-are-258268bf3180
- Led to RCDS cyber (Tibbs) (2011): defense clients: US OSD, then UK RCDS. Evidence (he says so): Breaking Down Real World Assets: Crypto Daily, with Mario Nawfal and Vinay Gupta (2024-08-07) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDu_KLWVCag&t=2250s; Mattereum is Blockchain Cypherpunk (2022-03-01) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yaXwqx-XzA&t=0s
- Led to Multipolar Realpolitik (2024): rivals keep it honest: a biometric database, then AI systems. Evidence (implied by the later work): State in a Box: Identity Services Architecture (guptaoption.com) https://guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php; Multipolar Realpolitik, The solution (2024-05-06) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AelylfOU517y0BI184sW7p8TnQl_oH8t4ajH6Fe4vH0/edit
- Led to Blind in the Panopticon: The decreasing marginal utility of access to information as an aspect of cyber policy (2012): data the state should not hold. Evidence (implied by the later work): State In A Box: Identity Services Architecture (2006) https://guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php; Blind in the Panopticon (2012) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/cyber/blind%20in%20the%20panopticon.pdf#page=2
- Led to Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the ESCROWNYM) (2012): identity held in escrow, disclosed by due process. Evidence (he says so): Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the ESCROWNYM) (2012-02-05) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/taking-a-crack-at-a-practical-system-introducing-the-escrownym-3004
- Led to The Future We Deserve: "Facebook for the Five Billion?" (2011): identity rebuilt from below. Evidence (implied by the later work): CheapID (guptaoption.com/cheapid) (2006) https://guptaoption.com/cheapid/; The Future We Deserve: Facebook for the Five Billion? (slides) (2011-06-02) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/facebook_for_the_five_billion/Facebook%20for%20the%20five%20billion.pdf#page=1
- Led to A Blockchain Solution For Identity? (2017): the 2006 Defense identity work, cited in the talk. Evidence (he says so): Compilation: Vinay Gupta (Mattereum / Ethereum) on Visa, Insurance Claims, and Digital... (2023-06-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1llN53VUBk&t=0s; Compilation: Vinay Gupta (Mattereum / Ethereum) on Visa, Insurance Claims, and Digital... (2023-06-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1llN53VUBk&t=120s
- Led to Superstruct and URGENT EVOKE (2008): CheapID written into Superstruct's 2019
- Sources (6, by hand first, then by importance): [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md) guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php (2006); [66](https://guptaoption.com/texts/66.md) My State In A Box – Identity Services Architecture paper... (2007); [35](https://guptaoption.com/texts/35.md) CheapID (2006); [692](https://guptaoption.com/texts/692.md) Vinay Gupta:From Global Resilience to Practical... (2019); [730](https://guptaoption.com/texts/730.md) The Bitcoin Podcast Interview #343- Vinay Gupta CEO Of... (2021); [59](https://guptaoption.com/texts/59.md) Security + Privacy = Liberty. And the CheapID / State In... (2007)

### Course of Action (2006)

- Crisis planning; proposal; specified; work id course-of-action; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Vinay_Gupta_course_of_action.pdf
- What: Plan showing five actions with appropriate technology could prevent about a third of yearly deaths.
- Summary: Hexayurt and appropriate technology. Four quadrants of humanity. Five actions save about a third of annual deaths.
- Threads: environment / green capitalism; nuclear / panflu
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): policy wrap. Evidence (he says so): Course of Action (PDF), p. 1 https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Vinay_Gupta_course_of_action.pdf
- Led to The Future of Stuff (2020): urban-rich environmental destructiveness. Evidence (implied by the later work): Course of Action (2006) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Vinay_Gupta_course_of_action.pdf; The Future of Stuff, p. 25 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iDuLbVRLxtPz-BNRZKOJCljXbPVt6ohp/view
- Sources (4, by hand first, then by importance): [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md) TEDxEWB - Vinay Gupta - Enabling Humanitarian Innovation (2010); [10](https://guptaoption.com/texts/10.md) Course of Action (2006); [368](https://guptaoption.com/texts/368.md) Superstruct Communications Intercept 1 - DCAR (2008); [363](https://guptaoption.com/texts/363.md) Culture Control Group - Brussels Cheese Crisis Report -... (2011)

### First Pentagon Proposal: the Hexayurt Research Agenda (2006)

- Survival hardware; specified; work id first-pentagon-proposal; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/First%20Pentagon%20Proposal.html/index.html
- What: An outline asking for funding to make the Hexayurt an off-the-shelf item and to assemble a Complete Family Support System for displaced people.
- Summary: Stability operations framed as restoring self-sufficiency: seven observations on belligerence and dependency, then values (systems not solutions, no charity), heuristics (buy off the shelf, form a community of practice) and goals. Funds systems architecture (an off-the-shelf hexayurt, decision documentation, field handouts and videos, water, power and stoves) and scouting (high-density shipping, food, a curriculum printed on hexayurt walls, a family life package).
- Sources (4, by hand first, then by importance): [850] TIDES Boards 2 (2007) (no text here); [833](https://guptaoption.com/texts/833.md) Vinay Gupta - Hexayurt Project - Briefing to the... (2008); [70](https://guptaoption.com/texts/70.md) The systemic risks model for survival | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2008); [830](https://guptaoption.com/texts/830.md) Laziness, Impatience and Hubris: Vinay Gupta of the... (2011)

### H18 (2006)

- Survival hardware; built; specified; work id hy-h18; https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_playa
- What: A tall Hexayurt: 18 panels and 12-foot walls.
- Summary: Tall hexayurt: 18 sheets of 4x8, 12-foot walls. Appropedia specifies the 18-sheet build by October 2006. Experimental large hexayurts and the Axial Temple, the first large-scale hexayurt installation, went up at Burning Man that year.
- Threads: hexayurt builds
- Came from First hexayurt built (2003): then the tall size. Evidence (implied by the later work): Appropedia: Hexayurt project, sizes and design table https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt; Appropedia: Hexayurt playa, 12 foot hexayurt aka H18 https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_playa
- Led to Quaddome (2011): larger still, same sheets. Evidence (implied by the later work): Appropedia: Hexayurt project, sizes https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt; Appropedia: Hexayurt project/Nearodesic https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_project/Nearodesic
- Sources (13, by hand first, then by importance): [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md) The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world (2002); [102](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md) Hexayurt project/Hexayurt playa (2006); [103](https://guptaoption.com/texts/103.md) Hexayurt project/Assembly (2006); [14](https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md) Hexayurt Country (2010); [118](https://guptaoption.com/texts/118.md) File:Hexayurt at Burning Man 2010.jpg - Wikimedia Commons (2010); [16](https://guptaoption.com/texts/16.md) Hexayurt Country (2010); [90](https://guptaoption.com/texts/90.md) The Hexayurt in Haiti – a technical description | The... (2010); [98](https://guptaoption.com/texts/98.md) Hexayurt project/Camp danger Hexayurt hinge technique (2010); [698](https://guptaoption.com/texts/698.md) Vinay Gupta - Hexayurt Project - End Homelessness |... (2014); [104](https://guptaoption.com/texts/104.md) Hexayurt project/Hexayurt H13 (2010); [825](https://guptaoption.com/texts/825.md) Index of /hexayurt_sketchup_files (2006); [188](https://guptaoption.com/texts/188.md) Hexayurt Image Gallery (2003); ...

### Resilience and Opportunity: Effective Tools for Victory in Fourth Generation Wars? (2006)

- Crisis planning; argument; specified; work id resilience-4gw; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/resilience/Resilience%20and%20Opportunity%20in%20Fourth%20Generation%20Wars%20(Final).pdf
- What: Briefing arguing that insurgencies end when fighters can go home to a living, so distributed infrastructure and microfinance are tools of war: an individual-level Marshall Plan.
- Summary: Five diagram pages. In Iraq the US had spent at least $200 billion; at an assumed 100,000 hostile combatants defeated, that is $2 million each. Fourth-generation war is cheap-labor war in which fighters choose their own level of involvement, so it is won when everybody left alive has gone home to raise a family and earn a living. A stocks-and-flows model of self-sufficient, belligerent, dependent and dead populations shows refugees and people whose infrastructure has failed becoming recruits. Rebuilding with distributed infrastructure and microfinance turns that flow around; diverting even 5% of potential combatants into better lives counts as effective war. Cites Brittle Power and Small Is Profitable from the Rocky Mountain Institute.
- Threads: RMI to spiral; cyber and defense; hexayurt to chain
- Came from Small is Profitable (2002): distributed infrastructure creates resilience. Evidence (he says so): Resilience and Opportunity in Fourth Generation Wars (PDF), p. 2 (2006-10-27) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/resilience/Resilience%20and%20Opportunity%20in%20Fourth%20Generation%20Wars%20(Final).pdf
- Led to State in a Box (2006): win by rebuilding; State in a Box is the rebuild. Evidence (he says so): State in a Box (guptaoption.com) (2006) https://guptaoption.com/8.state_in_a_box.php
- Led to Global Village Development Bank (2009): microfinance for distributed infrastructure. Evidence (implied by the later work): Resilience and Opportunity in Fourth Generation Wars, p. 4 (co-authored) (2006) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/resilience/Resilience%20and%20Opportunity%20in%20Fourth%20Generation%20Wars%20(Final).pdf; Global Village Development Bank, draft 2, p. 3 (2009-03-12) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Global_Village_Development_Bank_v2.pdf
- Sources (9, by hand first, then by importance): [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md) STAR-TIDES briefing from Vinay Gupta (2012); [20](https://guptaoption.com/texts/20.md) Resilience and Opportunity: Effective Tools for Victory... (2006); [827](https://guptaoption.com/texts/827.md) The Private Humanitarian Company (2010); [34](https://guptaoption.com/texts/34.md) State in a Box (2006); [48](https://guptaoption.com/texts/48.md) The Second Amendment in Iraq, Combat Robotics, and the... (2008); [54](https://guptaoption.com/texts/54.md) Framing The Collapsonomics Practice | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2009); [87](https://guptaoption.com/texts/87.md) The Atrocity Archives, and a little new fiction. | The... (2011); [30](https://guptaoption.com/texts/30.md) Winning the Long Peace (2007); [182](https://guptaoption.com/texts/182.md) About (2007)

### State in a Box (2006)

- Identity, law and blockchain; proposal; specified; work id siab; https://guptaoption.com/8.state_in_a_box.php
- What: State in a Box: a plan to rebuild a state on distributed infrastructure, written for reconstruction operations.
- Summary: guptaoption.com. SSTR rebuild of the state on distributed infrastructure and Jeffersonian ideals. CheapID lives inside it.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum; cyber and defense
- Came from Resilience and Opportunity: Effective Tools for Victory in Fourth Generation Wars? (2006): win by rebuilding; State in a Box is the rebuild. Evidence (he says so): State in a Box (guptaoption.com) (2006) https://guptaoption.com/8.state_in_a_box.php
- Led to CheapID (2006): identity layer of the box. Evidence (he says so): State In A Box: Identity Services Architecture (2006) https://guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php
- Led to FREE Guptastan (2008): WSLE pitch. Evidence (he says so): FREE Guptastan (blog) (2008-04-29) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/free-guptastan-583
- Led to Through the Looking Glass (2010): the State in a Box method, reused for civilian risk. Evidence (he says so): Through the Looking Glass talk 24:58 (2020-03-20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm5o-ughyD8&t=1498s
- Sources (7, by hand first, then by importance): [34](https://guptaoption.com/texts/34.md) State in a Box (2006); [66](https://guptaoption.com/texts/66.md) My State In A Box – Identity Services Architecture paper... (2007); [35](https://guptaoption.com/texts/35.md) CheapID (2006); [370](https://guptaoption.com/texts/370.md) Superstruct Report 1 (2008); [592](https://guptaoption.com/texts/592.md) ‘800 Year Old Goat Hide Parchments: Real Estate ’ (2022); [285](https://guptaoption.com/texts/285.md) quick test (2016); [351] John Barlow at the Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference... (2012) (no text here)

### Stretch hexayurts and the Pentayurt (2006)

- Survival hardware; specified; work id hy-stretch; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/hexayurt_sketchup_files/
- What: The hexayurt family: 6, 8 and 12 foot hexayurts, stretched versions lengthened by 4 or 8 feet, and a steeper-roofed Pentayurt for snow.
- Summary: SketchUp source files for cutting plans, wall panels, roof triangles, stretch cutting plans, playa and research hexayurts and a three-room 8-foot layout. A family sheet gives floor area and sheet count for each: 6-foot 41 sq ft (5 sheets), 6-foot stretch 70 (7), 8-foot 166 (12), 8+4 stretch 221 (15), 8+8 stretch 276 (18), 12-foot 166 (18), 12+4 stretch 221 (22), 12+8 stretch 276 (26). Pentayurt: 48-degree roof, 110 sq ft, 9 feet 9 inches high. A stretch Hexayurt was field-tested in Nevada in September 2007.
- Sources (16, by hand first, then by importance): [38](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md) Hexayurt Country: The Hexayurt Project plan for relief... (2010); [364](https://guptaoption.com/texts/364.md) burning ice brussels seven minute tour (2011); [825](https://guptaoption.com/texts/825.md) Index of /hexayurt_sketchup_files (2006); [102](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md) Hexayurt project/Hexayurt playa (2006); [14](https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md) Hexayurt Country (2010); [16](https://guptaoption.com/texts/16.md) Hexayurt Country (2010); [329](https://guptaoption.com/texts/329.md) RAW FOOTAGE Hexayurt Folding Combined Endeavor (2012); [336](https://guptaoption.com/texts/336.md) RAW FOOTAGE Hexayurt Roof Cone Combined Endeavor (2012); [173](https://guptaoption.com/texts/173.md) Index of /files/fluscim (2010); [98](https://guptaoption.com/texts/98.md) Hexayurt project/Camp danger Hexayurt hinge technique (2010); [751](https://guptaoption.com/texts/751.md) Vinay Gupta and Julie Danger on Camp Danger Semi Folding... (2011); [104](https://guptaoption.com/texts/104.md) Hexayurt project/Hexayurt H13 (2010); ...

### The Unplugged (2006)

- Writing and inner practice; specified; work id unplugged; https://www.appropedia.org/User:Vinay_Gupta/The_Unplugged
- What: Speculative fiction about a way of living that could work for nine billion people.
- Summary: Speculative fiction, 20 February 2006. Originally WorldChanging. A lifestyle that works for nine billion people: buy out at the bottom with independent life-support infrastructure. Hexayurt playa points here as the long-term global vision. Particularly important.
- Threads: fiction draws on
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): the housing of that lifestyle. Evidence (he says so): Tools To Not Die With (Boing Boing) (2011-10-24) https://boingboing.net/2011/10/24/tools-to-not-die-with-an-interview-with-vinay-gupta.html; Appropedia: Hexayurt playa, Hexayurt applications and the big picture https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_playa
- Came from Hexayurt infrastructure kit (2003): autonomous building as unplugging. Evidence (he says so): The Unplugged (Appropedia, originally WorldChanging) (2006-02-20) https://www.appropedia.org/User:Vinay_Gupta/The_Unplugged; Tools To Not Die With (Boing Boing) (2011-10-24) https://boingboing.net/2011/10/24/tools-to-not-die-with-an-interview-with-vinay-gupta.html
- Led to Mother of Hydrogen (2012): nine billion lifestyle, then the novel. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Unplugged (2006-02-20) https://www.appropedia.org/User:Vinay_Gupta/The_Unplugged; Mother of Hydrogen: point-of-use utilities in Harappa (2012-11) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/mother_of_hydrogen.txt
- Sources (4, by hand first, then by importance): [108](https://guptaoption.com/texts/108.md) User:Vinay Gupta/The Unplugged (2006); [114](https://guptaoption.com/texts/114.md) Tools To Not Die With: An Interview with Vinay Gupta,... (2011); [224](https://guptaoption.com/texts/224.md) The Unplugged: The Videos - Shareable (2010); [192](https://guptaoption.com/texts/192.md) worldchanging.com (2006)

### Tribike (2006)

- Survival hardware; idea; specified; work id tribike; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/tribike/tribike_notes.pdf
- What: A three-wheeled vehicle, the transport piece of the household kit.
- Summary: The dedicated transport design. A three-wheeler. The only standalone transport work; Winning the Oil Endgame is the car-side work on the same need. Fills the SCIM transport cell that was empty.
- Threads: standard SKUs; transport: tribike and cars
- Came from Winning the Oil Endgame (2004): cars in Oil Endgame, then the bike; oil in vehicles
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): appropriate-tech vehicle beside the house. Evidence (implied by the later work): Tribike notes (PDF) (2006) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/tribike/tribike_notes.pdf#page=1
- Connects back to Hexayurt infrastructure kit (2003): mobility in the household kit. Evidence (implied by the later work): A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine (blog) (2014-06-30) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/a-little-insight-into-the-gupta-doctrine-3571; Stamps talk 41:27, stove, water filter, cargo bicycle, toilets and solar lights all... (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=2487s
- Sources (2, by hand first, then by importance): [152](https://guptaoption.com/texts/152.md) Tribike (2006); [289](https://guptaoption.com/texts/289.md) test (2016)

### Expedient Infrastructure for Transient Populations (EITP) (2007) (he contributed)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id eitp; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Five%20Slides%20on%20Expedient%20Infrastructure.pdf
- What: The 2007 program on shelter and infrastructure for 100,000 to 1,000,000 displaced people, between civilian and military systems, which became STAR-TIDES.
- Summary: His deck framed expedient infrastructure as working where neither civilian nor military infrastructure is available: a $200 building, a $15 stove, cheaper solar and emergency communications. The EITP conference met at American Red Cross headquarters, Washington DC, on 22 August 2007; he invited Progressive Building Solutions, who then field-tested a stretch Hexayurt in Nevada (report, 5 September 2007). By 22 September 2007 he called STAR-TIDES the new form of EITP. On 4 December 2007 he posted his slides, notes and talk video from a Red Cross Innovative Sheltering conference.
- Sources (6, by hand first, then by importance): [740](https://guptaoption.com/texts/740.md) Hexayurt Interviews - Vinay Gupta and Bob Vrtis - at... (2017); [68](https://guptaoption.com/texts/68.md) STAR-TIDES | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2007); [829](https://guptaoption.com/texts/829.md) Index of /innovative_sheltering/day_one (2007); [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md) Defense Horizons 70 (2009); [137](https://guptaoption.com/texts/137.md) STAR-TIDES (2007); [338](https://guptaoption.com/texts/338.md) RAW FOOTAGE Hexayurt Vinay Gupta Robert Vrtis Combined... (2012)

### Folding hexayurt (2007) (he contributed)

- Survival hardware; specified; work id hy-folding; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/folding_hexayurt/folding_hexayurt.html
- What: An 8-foot hexayurt that folds into a single flat package and unfolds in minutes, first shown on video in March 2007, with a two-part version demonstrated in Eindhoven in 2008.
- Summary: Video briefing, 19 March 2007: how to make an 8-foot hexayurt refugee shelter that folds into one package for fast deployment. Built again at Combined Endeavor in Germany, 2007. A two-part version was demonstrated in Eindhoven in early 2008 with the Netherlands Red Cross and TU Eindhoven; his NDU briefing calls the 7-minute two-part build close to the commercial hexayurt Progressive Building Solutions were developing. The NDU 2008 handout says the whole building concertinas flat and is ready 5 minutes after unfolding.
- Sources (15, by hand first, then by importance): [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md) Hope For The World (2017); [375](https://guptaoption.com/texts/375.md) Folding Hexayurt Briefing (2007); [833](https://guptaoption.com/texts/833.md) Vinay Gupta - Hexayurt Project - Briefing to the... (2008); [329](https://guptaoption.com/texts/329.md) RAW FOOTAGE Hexayurt Folding Combined Endeavor (2012); [373](https://guptaoption.com/texts/373.md) Folding Hexayurt Opening and Closing (2007); [14](https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md) Hexayurt Country (2010); [101](https://guptaoption.com/texts/101.md) Hexayurt project/Mass evacuation (2007); [15](https://guptaoption.com/texts/15.md) Nuclear / mass evacuation (2007); [103](https://guptaoption.com/texts/103.md) Hexayurt project/Assembly (2006); [90](https://guptaoption.com/texts/90.md) The Hexayurt in Haiti – a technical description | The... (2010); [150](https://guptaoption.com/texts/150.md) Reykjavik Hexayurt Briefing; [339](https://guptaoption.com/texts/339.md) 15 minute video on how to make Hexayurts for Burning Man (2012); ...

### Networked Domestic Disaster Response (2007)

- Crisis planning; proposal; specified; work id nddr; https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_mass_evacuation
- What: Plan for evacuating millions to tens of millions of US citizens.
- Summary: guptaoption.com. Plan for evacuating millions to tens of millions of US citizens. Paired with the mass-evacuation paper.
- Threads: nuclear / panflu
- Came from Nuclear / mass evacuation (2007): US mass evacuation plan. Evidence (he says so): Hexayurt project/Mass evacuation (Appropedia): Disastr / Networked Domestic Disaster... (2007-07-28) https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_mass_evacuation; Hexayurt project/Mass evacuation (Appropedia): Special considerations in the nuclear... (2007-07-28) https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_mass_evacuation
- Led to The Open Toolbox for Domestic Disaster Response (2008): domestic disaster response, as a company. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Open Toolbox for Domestic Disaster Response: new company, new paper (blog) (2008-10-14) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/the-open-toolbox-for-domestic-disaster-response-new-company-new-paper-1056; A novel approach to handling mass refugee situations in the United States (PDF), p. 1 (2007-08-10) https://www.appropedia.org/w/images/b/b1/Hexayurt_mass_evacuation.pdf#page=1
- Sources (3, by hand first, then by importance): [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md) STAR-TIDES briefing from Vinay Gupta (2012); [101](https://guptaoption.com/texts/101.md) Hexayurt project/Mass evacuation (2007); [33](https://guptaoption.com/texts/33.md) Soft Development Paths (2008)

### Nuclear / mass evacuation (2007)

- Crisis planning; proposal; specified; work id nuclear-evac; https://www.appropedia.org/w/images/b/b1/Hexayurt_mass_evacuation.pdf
- What: Plan for millions of US refugees after a disaster, epidemic or nuclear attack.
- Summary: Appropedia 2007: millions of US refugees after disaster, epidemic, WMD. Nuclear section: blast injury, clothes, bodies, national shock. Hexayurt Country: rehouse people after a nuclear bomb goes off.
- Threads: nuclear / panflu
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): rehouse after the bomb. Evidence (he says so): A novel approach to handling mass refugee situations in the United States (PDF), p. 1 (2007-08-10) https://www.appropedia.org/w/images/b/b1/Hexayurt_mass_evacuation.pdf#page=1; STAR-TIDES briefing 45:00 (2012-05-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfm1Y74ghFE&t=2700s
- Connects back from Black Elephant (2009): known bomb, treated as unthinkable. Evidence (implied by the later work): Nuclear Poker talk, London Educational Games Meetup 5:00 (2016-04-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e9JHcA4MWA&t=300s; Dougald Hine, Black Elephants and Skull Jackets: a conversation with Vinay Gupta (2010-05-01) https://dougald.nu/black-elephants-skull-jackets-a-conversation-with-vinay-gupta/
- Led to Networked Domestic Disaster Response (2007): US mass evacuation plan. Evidence (he says so): Hexayurt project/Mass evacuation (Appropedia): Disastr / Networked Domestic Disaster... (2007-07-28) https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_mass_evacuation; Hexayurt project/Mass evacuation (Appropedia): Special considerations in the nuclear... (2007-07-28) https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_mass_evacuation
- Sources (3, by hand first, then by importance): [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md) STAR-TIDES briefing from Vinay Gupta (2012); [15](https://guptaoption.com/texts/15.md) Nuclear / mass evacuation (2007); [701](https://guptaoption.com/texts/701.md) Vinay Gupta - Gun Control Precedes Genocide | London Real (2014)

### Our Future With Islam: A new perspective on the 'clash of civilizations' (2007)

- Crisis planning; argument; specified; work id our-future-with-islam
- What: Strategy deck on how the West and Islam can live together once the West is off oil.
- Summary: A 64-slide deck, which its author calls the product of a late night bull session and risky ideas. It explains Islam to a Western audience, and argues that once the West is off oil it could live alongside states run under Sharia. Listed among the essays on the 2006 to 2009 Gupta Option homepage. Not linked from this page.

### STAR-TIDES (2007) (he contributed)

- Crisis planning; built; specified; work id star-tides; https://star-tides.net/about/
- What: Helped start STAR-TIDES, a National Defense University project on supporting populations under stress.
- Summary: With Linton Wells II at NDU/CTNSP. Hexayurt and six ways as infrastructure frame.
- Threads: STAR-TIDES
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): shelter in the demos. Evidence (he says so): FreeAndReal talk 15:15 (2012-09-14) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhhzX8AtGRA&t=915s; TIDES packet: Pentagon Center Court Demonstration, p. 1 (2007-11-19) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/TIDES_PACKET/TIDES_PACKET_144AM.pdf
- Led to Defense Horizons 70 (2009): co-author with Lin Wells. Evidence (he says so): Defense Horizons 70, p. 1 (2009-12) https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-D5_400-PURL-gpo41333/pdf/GOVPUB-D5_400-PURL-gpo41333.pdf#page=1; NDU Digital Commons record, Defense Horizons 15 (DH70) (2009-12) https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/defense-horizons/15/
- Led to SCIM / INAM (2009): SCIM as underlying model. Evidence (he says so): Defense Horizons 70, p. 11, note 9 (2009-12) https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-D5_400-PURL-gpo41333/pdf/GOVPUB-D5_400-PURL-gpo41333.pdf#page=11
- Sources (10, by hand first, then by importance): [724](https://guptaoption.com/texts/724.md) Roundtable Discussion with Vinay Gupta and Bryan... (2024); [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md) STAR-TIDES briefing from Vinay Gupta (2012); [850] TIDES Boards 2 (2007) (no text here); [321](https://guptaoption.com/texts/321.md) Vinay Gupta talking at FreeAndReal / The Telaithrion... (2012); [137](https://guptaoption.com/texts/137.md) STAR-TIDES (2007); [68](https://guptaoption.com/texts/68.md) STAR-TIDES | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2007); [71](https://guptaoption.com/texts/71.md) TIDES – the skinny! | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2007); [182](https://guptaoption.com/texts/182.md) About (2007); [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md) Defense Horizons 70 (2009); [121](https://guptaoption.com/texts/121.md) "STAR–TIDES and Starfish Networks: Supporting Stressed... (2009)

### Saving the World on the Cheap (2007)

- Economics of resources; proposal; specified; work id save-cheap; https://guptaoption.com/1.save.php
- What: Essay on a new way for charities and governments to fund lifesaving engineering.
- Summary: guptaoption.com. Charities, governments, and a new way to fund lifesaving engineering.
- Threads: RMI to spiral
- Led to Global Village Development Bank (2009): how to fund the engineering. Evidence (implied by the later work): Saving the World on the Cheap (2007) https://guptaoption.com/1.save.php
- Sources (7, by hand first, then by importance): [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md) Vinay Gupta: The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019); [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md) Hope For The World (2017); [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md) TEDxEWB - Vinay Gupta - Enabling Humanitarian Innovation (2010); [29](https://guptaoption.com/texts/29.md) Saving the World on the Cheap (2007); [224](https://guptaoption.com/texts/224.md) The Unplugged: The Videos - Shareable (2010); [58](https://guptaoption.com/texts/58.md) Blog Action Day: Poverty – Ending Poverty with Open... (2008); [158](https://guptaoption.com/texts/158.md) Pixelache Festival 2015

### Winning the Long Peace (2007)

- Identity, law and blockchain; argument; specified; work id long-peace; https://guptaoption.com/2.long_peace.php
- What: Essay on extending the nation state, aimed at American policy.
- Summary: guptaoption.com. Extending the nation state to current American policy.
- Sources (1, by hand first, then by importance): [30](https://guptaoption.com/texts/30.md) Winning the Long Peace (2007)

### disastr.org (2007)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id disastr; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/disastr.org%20overview.pdf
- What: One-page plan to house disaster refugees with host families: insulation board from the building industry, five-person build teams and a matching database.
- Summary: Bay Quake, 300,000 homeless; nuclear bomb, 5,000,000. Host families volunteer a back yard, refugee families go straight there, and a hexayurt goes up as a spare bedroom. The network, database and server grid are the plan.
- Sources (5, by hand first, then by importance): [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md) STAR-TIDES briefing from Vinay Gupta (2012); [101](https://guptaoption.com/texts/101.md) Hexayurt project/Mass evacuation (2007); [27](https://guptaoption.com/texts/27.md) Index of /hope_for_the_world (2009); [726](https://guptaoption.com/texts/726.md) Talk by Vinay Gupta at the Blockchaingers Global Digital... (2018); [345] John Barlow at the Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference... (2012) (no text here)

### Akvo (2008) (he contributed)

- Survival hardware; specified; work id akvo; https://akvo.org/
- What: Water work at Akvo, the Dutch open-source water and sanitation foundation.
- Summary: akvo.org, the Dutch open-source water and sanitation foundation. Vinay Gupta's time there is the thirst work. The Global Village Development Bank (2009) cites Akvo as the grant-side proof that decentralized infrastructure can be funded by decentralized finance. Akvo coordinated grants, not loans.
- Threads: RMI to spiral; standard SKUs
- Came from Hexayurt infrastructure kit (2003): household water, then the WASH org. Evidence (implied by the later work): Ending Poverty With Open Hardware, Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference keynote, slide 18 (2008-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Reykjavik_Digital_Freedoms_Conference/; Living Video and the Akvo Video Strategy (blog) (2011-05-03) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/living-video-and-the-akvo-video-strategy-2467
- Led to Global Village Development Bank (2009): grant case; the Global Village Development Bank is the loan gap. Evidence (he says so): Global Village Development Bank, draft 2, p. 3 (2009-03-12) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Global_Village_Development_Bank_v2.pdf; Global Village Development Bank, draft 2, p. 2 (2009-03-12) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Global_Village_Development_Bank_v2.pdf
- Sources (6, by hand first, then by importance): [267](https://guptaoption.com/texts/267.md) The future of humanitarian innovation (2017); [78](https://guptaoption.com/texts/78.md) Living Video and the Akvo Video Strategy | The... (2011); [332] Global Swadeshi Dialogs - Mark Charmer of AKVO and Chris... (2012) (no text here); [109](https://guptaoption.com/texts/109.md) akvo.org - Home (2008); [196] Mark Charmer on Open Source Water and Sanitation... (2008) (no text here); [3](https://guptaoption.com/texts/3.md) The Global Village Development Bank v2 (2009)

### Briefing to the STAR-TIDES team at National Defense University (2008)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id ndu-briefing-2008; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/star_tides_ndu_briefing_8_apr_08/index.html
- What: Recorded briefing to the STAR-TIDES team at NDU, with a seven-point outline and the reading list behind the Hexayurt infrastructure work.
- Summary: 8 April 2008. Starts from 4 million refugees in Iraq feeding the insurgency and infrastructure failure. References: Brittle Power, NDDR, SPRS, Winning the Long Peace, Envisioning a Leapfrogged World, the Hexayurt Infrastructure Package, the playa checklist, and build videos from Combined Endeavor, Eindhoven and the Pentagon.
- Sources (8, by hand first, then by importance): [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md) STAR-TIDES briefing from Vinay Gupta (2012); [833](https://guptaoption.com/texts/833.md) Vinay Gupta - Hexayurt Project - Briefing to the... (2008); [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md) Defense Horizons 70 (2009); [121](https://guptaoption.com/texts/121.md) "STAR–TIDES and Starfish Networks: Supporting Stressed... (2009); [27](https://guptaoption.com/texts/27.md) Index of /hope_for_the_world (2009); [68](https://guptaoption.com/texts/68.md) STAR-TIDES | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2007); [824](https://guptaoption.com/texts/824.md) Index of /__CRASHPAD (2011); [71](https://guptaoption.com/texts/71.md) TIDES – the skinny! | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2007)

### Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (2008)

- Economics of resources; argument; specified; work id ending-poverty-open-hardware; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmfZfgxayzE
- What: Talk: half of all deaths are deaths from poverty, and open technology built household by household can bring those deaths close to zero. Given in Reykjavik in July 2008, then at Oekonux in 2009.
- Summary: First given at the Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference of the Free Software Foundation Iceland in July 2008, then at Oekonux in Manchester in March 2009 and at BarCamp Africa London. The slides argue "Half Of All Death Is Death From Poverty" ("30 million people a year") and that "open technology can reduce poverty cluster deaths to zero". Poor places cannot borrow for central plants, so infrastructure is financed household by household: power on each roof, water purification in each kitchen, waste disposal in each back yard, clean stoves. Cutting infant deaths also cuts family size. Being poor need not mean dying of it, any more than it means not affording an operating system. It closes on Gandhi's swadeshi.
- Threads: RMI to spiral; hexayurt to chain
- Came from What is the Global Swadeshi Network? (2008): the Reykjavik talk closes on swadeshi. Evidence (he says so): Ending Poverty With Open Hardware, Reykjavik slides, closing slide (2008-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Reykjavik_Digital_Freedoms_Conference/; Blog Action Day: Ending Poverty with Open Hardware (blog) (2008-10-15) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/blog-action-day-poverty-ending-poverty-with-open-hardware-1070
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): open hardware against poverty. Evidence (he says so): Reykjavik Digital Freedoms talk 0:00, opens on the hexayurt [transcribed] (2012-05-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmfZfgxayzE&t=0s; Ending Poverty With Open Hardware, Reykjavik slides, closing slide (2008-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Reykjavik_Digital_Freedoms_Conference/
- Came from Six ways people die (2008): the needs diagram in the talk. Evidence (he says so): Reykjavik Digital Freedoms talk 14:49, the six ways to die diagram [transcribed] (2012-05-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmfZfgxayzE&t=889s; Ending Poverty With Open Hardware, Reykjavik slides (2008-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Reykjavik_Digital_Freedoms_Conference/
- Came from The Physical Aspects of Distributed Infrastructure (2008): the household utilities, argued in Reykjavik a month later. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Physical Aspects of Distributed Infrastructure, p. 13 (2008-06) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/the_physical_aspects_of_distributed_infrastructure_2008.pdf; Reykjavik Digital Freedoms talk 14:49, move critical technologies to the household... (2012-05-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmfZfgxayzE&t=889s
- Led to The Future We Deserve: "Facebook for the Five Billion?" (2011): free hardware, then degovernancing. Evidence (implied by the later work): Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (Reykjavik keynote source) (2008-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Reykjavik_Digital_Freedoms_Conference/; The Future We Deserve: Facebook for the Five Billion? (slides) (2011-06-02) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/facebook_for_the_five_billion/Facebook%20for%20the%20five%20billion.pdf#page=19
- Sources (10, by hand first, then by importance): [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md) Hope For The World (2017); [341](https://guptaoption.com/texts/341.md) Vinay Gupta - Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference -... (2012); [238](https://guptaoption.com/texts/238.md) Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (Reykjavik Digital... (2008); [67](https://guptaoption.com/texts/67.md) Rough video from my talk in Iceland | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2008); [61](https://guptaoption.com/texts/61.md) Ending Poverty With Open Hardware | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2009); [58](https://guptaoption.com/texts/58.md) Blog Action Day: Poverty – Ending Poverty with Open... (2008); [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md) TEDxEWB - Vinay Gupta - Enabling Humanitarian Innovation (2010); [369](https://guptaoption.com/texts/369.md) Hexayurt Project - Six Ways To Die (2008); [226](https://guptaoption.com/texts/226.md) Can we build a world with open source? | Victor Keegan |... (2009); [196] Mark Charmer on Open Source Water and Sanitation... (2008) (no text here)

### FREE Guptastan (2008)

- Identity, law and blockchain; idea; thesis; work id guptastan; https://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/free-guptastan-583
- What: Essay on a state-like entity that operates as a guest inside other countries, not as a sovereign.
- Summary: 29 April 2008, for Patri Friedman's Let a Thousand Nations Bloom. Guptastan is the state which is in the box. WSLE: weakly state-like entity, guest not sovereign.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum
- Came from CheapID (2006): the state in the box, public. Evidence (implied by the later work): FREE Guptastan (blog) (2008-04-29) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/free-guptastan-583
- Came from State in a Box (2006): WSLE pitch. Evidence (he says so): FREE Guptastan (blog) (2008-04-29) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/free-guptastan-583
- Sources (1, by hand first, then by importance): [55](https://guptaoption.com/texts/55.md) FREE Guptastan | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2008)

### Health insurance for $10 per year using the network (2008)

- Economics of resources; idea; specified; work id health-insurance-10; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/health-insurance-for-10-per-year-using-the-network-898
- What: Google 10^100 entry: medical expert systems on cell phones, pooled epidemic data, and bicycle-riding pharmacists paid from tiny insurance premiums.
- Summary: About 1,300 words, 15 September 2008, one of his entries to Google's 10^100 project. Deploy medical expert systems on cell phones, assemble global epidemiological data into one database and pool what each user reports to track epidemics, then add bicycle-riding, computer-aided pharmacists who prescribe basic medicines and are paid from very small health insurance premiums. An idea, not a worked-out plan.
- Led to Dog Atheism: on smart contracts, risk, and value networks (2016): insurance carried by the network
- Sources (3, by hand first, then by importance): [63](https://guptaoption.com/texts/63.md) Health insurance for $10 per year using the network |... (2008); [249] A long, difficult conversation about dealing with... (2020) (no text here); [498](https://guptaoption.com/texts/498.md) The Graphic Design Industry After Photoshop (2025)

### How to buy food for disasters (2008)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id food-for-disasters; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/how_to_buy_food_for_disasters.pdf
- What: One-page guide to a two-month emergency food supply for about $100, written the day Iceland's krona stopped trading.
- Summary: Reykjavik, 9 October 2008. About 2,200 calories a day, mostly flatbread, oil and tinned fish; lentils and powdered milk would add protein. Also in the State Failure archive.



# Vinay Gupta: his works and how they connect (part 3 of 9, 2008 to 2009)

> Every work in his career record (175), by year, with what it is, the thread it belongs to, what it came from and led to and why, and the sources in the archive about it. Part 3 of 9, 2008 to 2009; continues in https://guptaoption.com/texts/works-4.md. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt; source ids such as [250] are at https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md.

### Severe Panflu Response Strategies (H5N1) (2008)

- Crisis planning; proposal; specified; work id sprs; https://guptaoption.com/6.SPRS.php
- What: Strategy for a severe flu pandemic, with H5N1 bird flu as the named virus, treated as a whole-systems problem.
- Summary: guptaoption.com/6.SPRS.php. A severe influenza year as a systems problem, written around H5N1, the avian influenza virus behind the severe-panflu work. Homepage: losing 25 percent of the human race in a single year. The plague in Mother of Hydrogen draws on it. Precedes FluSCIM.
- Threads: fiction draws on; nuclear / panflu
- Connects back from Black Elephant (2009): known pandemic, same failure. Evidence (he says so): CommunityZ Chest conversation with Michael Mainelli 9:07 (2020-06-27) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMQPTytHcHg&t=547s; Ideamarket podcast 5:09 (2021-08-02) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHri_FW-OeM&t=309s
- Led to FluSCIM (2010): SPRS precedes FluSCIM. Evidence (implied by the later work): FluSCIM slides, English, p. 1 (Lucas Gonzalez Santa Cruz, 15 December 2011), in the... (2011-12-15) https://resiliencemaps.org/files/fluscim/; Severe Panflu Response Strategies v0.5A (2008-03-03) https://guptaoption.com/6.SPRS.php
- Led to SCIM / INAM (2009): pandemic as systems problem. Evidence (he says so): Severe Panflu Response Strategies v0.5A (2008-03-03) https://guptaoption.com/6.SPRS.php
- Led to Mother of Hydrogen (2012): the plague in the book; severe panflu as systems problem, then as plot
- Led to The Perimeter: Mythos as Science Fiction, and other works (2024): pandemic planning by day, the Mythos at night. Evidence (he says so): The Perimeter: Mythos as Science Fiction, and other works, introduction (2024-12-27) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xa2Yxf8JNFT8kgDETzkRKfVqDgGeVEvdNnVpGmRIm3E/edit
- Led to The Flu Code (2009): a pandemic plan, then a public code. Evidence (implied by the later work): Severe Panflu Response Strategies v0.5A (2008-03-03) https://guptaoption.com/6.SPRS.php; The Flu Code (blog) (2009-04-26) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/personal/the-flu-code-ethical-behavior-to-protect-each-other-1435
- Led to The Living City (2009): pandemic flu as the first city scenario. Evidence (he says so): The Living City talk for Arup 15:19 (2012-11-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vBX8cIqqTI&t=919s; The Living City talk for Arup 12:49 (2012-11-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vBX8cIqqTI&t=769s
- Sources (13, by hand first, then by importance): [32](https://guptaoption.com/texts/32.md) Severe Panflu Response Strategies (2006); [372](https://guptaoption.com/texts/372.md) this is not a video about coronavirus - the hypothetical... (2008); [320](https://guptaoption.com/texts/320.md) The Living City - Buttered Side Down presentation to... (2012); [97](https://guptaoption.com/texts/97.md) The Flu Code | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2009); [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md) FluSCIM-69p-English; [177](https://guptaoption.com/texts/177.md) FluSCIM-84p-Spanish; [179](https://guptaoption.com/texts/179.md) FluSCIM-slides-English; [180](https://guptaoption.com/texts/180.md) FluSCIM-slides-Spanish; [176](https://guptaoption.com/texts/176.md) FluSCIM-6p-Spanish; [175](https://guptaoption.com/texts/175.md) FluSCIM-6p-English; [53](https://guptaoption.com/texts/53.md) Wired notes the Flu Code | The Bucky-Gandhi Design... (2009); [181](https://guptaoption.com/texts/181.md) FluSCIM; ...

### Six ways people die (2008)

- Crisis planning; model; specified; work id six-ways; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqNOcmM9XAY
- What: Framework: people die of heat, cold, hunger, thirst, illness or injury, so infrastructure has to answer all six.
- Summary: Too hot, too cold, hunger, thirst, illness, injury. The map hexayurt forces. STAR-TIDES history: the graphic helped define its infrastructures.
- Threads: STAR-TIDES; hexayurt to chain
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): shelter is not enough. Evidence (he says so): The systemic risks model for survival (blog) (2008-04-20) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/the-systemic-risks-model-for-survival-551; Hexayurt Project: Six Ways To Die video 0:00 (2008-10-07) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqNOcmM9XAY&t=0s
- Led to SCIM / INAM (2009): the map named. Evidence (he says so): Athens Hackerspace talk 13:45 (2012-09-14) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PwmbIFDIR4&t=825s; Gupta State Failure Management Archive reader's guide (Appropedia) http://www.appropedia.org/Gupta_State_Failure_Management_Archive
- Led to Defense Horizons 70 (2009): the six ways as the infrastructure frame. Evidence (he says so): Defense Horizons 70, p. 2 (2009-12) https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-D5_400-PURL-gpo41333/pdf/GOVPUB-D5_400-PURL-gpo41333.pdf#page=2; Defense Horizons 70, p. 3 (2009-12) https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-D5_400-PURL-gpo41333/pdf/GOVPUB-D5_400-PURL-gpo41333.pdf#page=3
- Led to The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019): the six ways explained. Evidence (he says so): The Cities That Will Walk Away talk 43:57 (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=2637s; The Cities That Will Walk Away talk 44:46 (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=2686s
- Led to Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (2008): the needs diagram in the talk. Evidence (he says so): Reykjavik Digital Freedoms talk 14:49, the six ways to die diagram [transcribed] (2012-05-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmfZfgxayzE&t=889s; Ending Poverty With Open Hardware, Reykjavik slides (2008-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Reykjavik_Digital_Freedoms_Conference/
- Led to Six Ways To Die workshops (2009): taught as a design workshop. Evidence (he says so): Six Ways to Die Workshop introductory lecture at Formens Hus (blog) (2009-09-24) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/six-ways-to-die-workshop-introductory-lecture-at-formens-hus-1576
- Led to The Physical Aspects of Distributed Infrastructure (2008): a six ways to die modeling package. Evidence (he says so): PADI p. 11, an infrastructure design aid (2008-06) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/the_physical_aspects_of_distributed_infrastructure_2008.pdf#page=11
- Sources (15, by hand first, then by importance): [753](https://guptaoption.com/texts/753.md) (OHM2013) One network one world designing for a 7 plus... (2013); [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md) TEDxEWB - Vinay Gupta - Enabling Humanitarian Innovation (2010); [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md) STAR-TIDES briefing from Vinay Gupta (2012); [369](https://guptaoption.com/texts/369.md) Hexayurt Project - Six Ways To Die (2008); [70](https://guptaoption.com/texts/70.md) The systemic risks model for survival | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2008); [832](https://guptaoption.com/texts/832.md) Index of /six_ways_to_die (2008); [681](https://guptaoption.com/texts/681.md) Pandemics and the Coronavirus Part 1 with Vinay Gupta (2020); [685](https://guptaoption.com/texts/685.md) Pandemics and the Coronavirus Part 2 with Vinay Gupta (2020); [321](https://guptaoption.com/texts/321.md) Vinay Gupta talking at FreeAndReal / The Telaithrion... (2012); [320](https://guptaoption.com/texts/320.md) The Living City - Buttered Side Down presentation to... (2012); [847](https://guptaoption.com/texts/847.md) The Living City (slides; Mike Bennett & Vinay Gupta,... (2009); [150](https://guptaoption.com/texts/150.md) Reykjavik Hexayurt Briefing; ...

### Soft Development Paths (2008)

- Economics of resources; argument; specified; work id soft-paths; https://guptaoption.com/7.soft_development_paths.php
- What: Essay applying soft energy paths to the poorest half of humanity: shelter as development, not only relief.
- Summary: guptaoption.com. Soft energy path applied to the poorest half of humanity. Hexayurt as development, not only relief.
- Threads: RMI to spiral
- Connects back to Hexayurt (2002): development not only relief. Evidence (he says so): Soft Development Paths (guptaoption.com) (2008) https://guptaoption.com/7.soft_development_paths.php; The Hexayurt in Haiti? (Hexayurt Country), v1.2 (2010-02-16) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/hexayurt_in_haiti_v1.1.pdf#page=1
- Led to Lean Green Mattereum: "We aren't just here to change the world, we're here to fix it" (2020): the soft development path, revisited. Evidence (he says so): Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 40 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view; Soft Development Paths (guptaoption.com) (2008) https://guptaoption.com/7.soft_development_paths.php
- Led to Avoiding Capitalism for the Next Four Billion (2009): the soft development path, taught. Evidence (he says so): Avoiding Capitalism for the Next Four Billion, lecture notes (blog) (2009-01-11) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/personal/avoiding-capitalism-for-the-next-four-billion-lecture-notes-1164
- Sources (3, by hand first, then by importance): [33](https://guptaoption.com/texts/33.md) Soft Development Paths (2008); [161](https://guptaoption.com/texts/161.md) Hexayurts, Distributed Infrastructure, and Maximizing... (2014); [162](https://guptaoption.com/texts/162.md) media ccc de v emf2014 144 hexayurts distributed... (2014)

### Superstruct and URGENT EVOKE (2008 to 2010)

- Survival hardware; built; specified; work id superstruct-evoke; https://web.archive.org/web/20080927121043/http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com:80/blog/superstruct/superstruct-the-gupta-option-919
- What: The Hexayurt in two of Jane McGonigal's games: in Superstruct (2008) he wrote DCAR, a refugee state housed in Hexayurts, as The Gupta Option; URGENT EVOKE (2010) featured the Hexayurt Project and made him a mentor.
- Summary: Superstruct was the Institute for the Future's forecasting game set in 2019, created by Jane McGonigal and launched in October 2008. He played it as The Gupta Option, introduced on his blog on 23 September 2008, an early use of that name. In October 2008 he wrote wiki pages for the Hexayurt and for DCAR, a refugee state that houses much of its population in Hexayurts and runs refugee-built Hexayurt factories, plus CheapID, weakly state-like entities, seasteads and other 2019 technologies, and filmed DCAR field reports; hexayurt.com/superstruct gathered the game material. URGENT EVOKE was the World Bank Institute's 2010 game on social innovation, also directed by McGonigal. Its episode 7, the Urban Resilience week, featured the Hexayurt Project; on 16 April 2010 he posted a video resilience briefing, a note tying the comic to the real Hexayurt, and Dealing in Security as a toolkit for the mission, and on 29 April 2010 the game's blog introduced him as a mentor, of the Hexayurt Project. Players had already written Hexayurts into their own posts, for a climate-refugee camp and for rebuilding Haiti.
- Threads: hexayurt builds
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): the Hexayurt written into two games. Evidence (he says so): Superstruct Report 1, 0:00, DCAR field report: hexayurt factories operating [transcribed] (2008-10-05) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCD2x3EuiPA&t=0s; The Unplugged: The Videos (Shareable) (2010-06-08) https://www.shareable.net/the-unplugged-the-videos/
- Connects back from Dealing in Security (2010): offered as the toolkit for EVOKE's urban resilience mission
- Came from CheapID (2006): CheapID written into Superstruct's 2019
- Sources (5, by hand first, then by importance): [224](https://guptaoption.com/texts/224.md) The Unplugged: The Videos - Shareable (2010); [370](https://guptaoption.com/texts/370.md) Superstruct Report 1 (2008); [368](https://guptaoption.com/texts/368.md) Superstruct Communications Intercept 1 - DCAR (2008); [844](https://guptaoption.com/texts/844.md) Superstruct and Urgent Evoke: research note (2026); [843](https://guptaoption.com/texts/843.md) Superstruct and Urgent Evoke: the Hexayurt in two games (2026)

### The Open Toolbox for Domestic Disaster Response (2008)

- Crisis planning; proposal; specified; work id open-toolbox; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/the-open-toolbox-for-domestic-disaster-response-new-company-new-paper-1056
- What: A consulting company and paper for getting open source appropriate technology into commercial supply chains, on the Red Hat model.
- Summary: 14 October 2008. The Open Toolbox was a consulting brand for getting open source appropriate technology into commercial supply chains with a "Red Hat" approach: consulting, custom engineering and service contracts, the things companies and governments need before they can buy an open source solution. Launched with the paper The Open Toolbox for Domestic Disaster Response.
- Threads: nuclear / panflu
- Came from Networked Domestic Disaster Response (2007): domestic disaster response, as a company. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Open Toolbox for Domestic Disaster Response: new company, new paper (blog) (2008-10-14) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/the-open-toolbox-for-domestic-disaster-response-new-company-new-paper-1056; A novel approach to handling mass refugee situations in the United States (PDF), p. 1 (2007-08-10) https://www.appropedia.org/w/images/b/b1/Hexayurt_mass_evacuation.pdf#page=1
- Sources (1, by hand first, then by importance): [69](https://guptaoption.com/texts/69.md) The Open Toolbox for Domestic Disaster Response – new... (2008)

### The Physical Aspects of Distributed Infrastructure (2008)

- Survival hardware; proposal; specified; work id padi; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/the_physical_aspects_of_distributed_infrastructure_2008.pdf
- What: Design study for ultra-low-cost solar thermal homes off the grid: cooling from the ground and evaporation, a power hub, and one insulated hot box that makes water, food and sewage safe with heat and time.
- Summary: Known as PADI. Full title: The Physical Aspects of Distributed Infrastructure Design for the Developing World. A 33-page illustrated design study, v 0.2, marked proprietary and confidential when written and now linked from hexayurt.com as "a designers guide for ultra-low-cost solar thermal off-the-grid systems". It starts from one axiom: "The primary function of a building is to maintain the body temperature of the people inside at a safe and comfortable level." Without big energy inputs a building has five natural gradients to work with: seasonal, daily, shade, ground sink and evaporation. In hot, dry climates the Hexayurt's shade, reflective skin and ground sink already give a result of 10C cooler inside than outside on dry bulb tests. From there it designs a cold box (a ground-pipe cooler feeding an evaporative refrigerator), a "power funger" hub "driving whatever you need with whatever you have", broad diffuse lighting from one small LED per room, and a hot box built into the wall. One mechanism serves water, food and sewage: 65C for 8 hours kills more or less all pathogens, so a digital solar valve lets a tank be emptied only once it has been hot long enough, and a toilet cycle trucks heat-disinfected buckets to composting. It calls for software to model household and village micro-infrastructure, extended into an integrated six ways to die modeling package, and ends asking whether, in mass production and the right geography, the whole system could cost $200 per household: "much work remains even to assess feasibility".
- Threads: RMI to spiral; standard SKUs
- Came from Hexayurt infrastructure kit (2003): the kit's utilities, designed. Evidence (implied by the later work): PADI p. 11, household and village electrical services (2008-06) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/the_physical_aspects_of_distributed_infrastructure_2008.pdf#page=11; PADI p. 31, the idealized system (2008-06) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/the_physical_aspects_of_distributed_infrastructure_2008.pdf#page=31
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): shade and ground sink: 10C cooler inside. Evidence (he says so): PADI p. 1, Explaining The Hexayurt in hot, dry climates (2008-06) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/the_physical_aspects_of_distributed_infrastructure_2008.pdf#page=1; PADI p. 6, enhancing the ground sink (2008-06) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/the_physical_aspects_of_distributed_infrastructure_2008.pdf#page=6
- Came from Six ways people die (2008): a six ways to die modeling package. Evidence (he says so): PADI p. 11, an infrastructure design aid (2008-06) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/the_physical_aspects_of_distributed_infrastructure_2008.pdf#page=11
- Came from Small is Profitable (2002): small electrical resources, at household scale. Evidence (implied by the later work): PADI p. 11, Whole Systems Optimization of Small Electrical Resources (2008-06) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/the_physical_aspects_of_distributed_infrastructure_2008.pdf#page=11; State in a Box: Identity Services Architecture (guptaoption.com) (2006) https://guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php
- Led to Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (2008): the household utilities, argued in Reykjavik a month later. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Physical Aspects of Distributed Infrastructure, p. 13 (2008-06) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/the_physical_aspects_of_distributed_infrastructure_2008.pdf; Reykjavik Digital Freedoms talk 14:49, move critical technologies to the household... (2012-05-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmfZfgxayzE&t=889s
- Sources (16, by hand first, then by importance): [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md) The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world (2002); [17](https://guptaoption.com/texts/17.md) The Physical Aspects of Distributed Infrastructure (2008); [1](https://guptaoption.com/texts/1.md) Dealing in Security.July2010.en; [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md) Hope For The World (2017); [727](https://guptaoption.com/texts/727.md) Undergraduate Lecture Series 2024: Vinay Gupta & Bryan... (2024); [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md) STAR-TIDES briefing from Vinay Gupta (2012); [740](https://guptaoption.com/texts/740.md) Hexayurt Interviews - Vinay Gupta and Bob Vrtis - at... (2017); [375](https://guptaoption.com/texts/375.md) Folding Hexayurt Briefing (2007); [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md) Defense Horizons 70 (2009); [850] TIDES Boards 2 (2007) (no text here); [137](https://guptaoption.com/texts/137.md) STAR-TIDES (2007); [70](https://guptaoption.com/texts/70.md) The systemic risks model for survival | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2008); ...

### The Second Amendment in Iraq, Combat Robotics, and the Future of Human Liberty (2008)

- Crisis planning; argument; specified; work id combat-robotics-2008; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/bigdeal/the-second-amendment-in-iraq-combat-robotics-and-the-future-of-human-liberty-820
- What: Blog essay arguing that combat robots would end the balance in which an armed population can make an occupation unworkable, so building them must be avoided.
- Summary: About 5,100 words, 2 September 2008, later filed under The Big Deal. Written partly from the population's view and partly from a policy view. The Second Amendment describes a balance both sides can live with: governments keep the monopoly on war between governments, and armed people can make an occupation cost enough that it stops. Combat robots would remove that check, so the drive to build them is a bad long-term move. An early piece on AI in war, sixteen years before Multipolar Realpolitik.
- Threads: cyber and defense
- Led to Multipolar Realpolitik (2024): AI in war: combat robots in 2008, opposing AI systems in 2024. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Second Amendment in Iraq, Combat Robotics, and the Future of Human Liberty (blog) (2008-09-02) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/bigdeal/the-second-amendment-in-iraq-combat-robotics-and-the-future-of-human-liberty-820; Multipolar Realpolitik, Needle 3 (2024-05-06) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AelylfOU517y0BI184sW7p8TnQl_oH8t4ajH6Fe4vH0/edit
- Led to The Big Deal (2011): filed under The Big Deal. Evidence (he says so): The Second Amendment in Iraq, Combat Robotics, and the Future of Human Liberty (blog) (2008-09-02) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/bigdeal/the-second-amendment-in-iraq-combat-robotics-and-the-future-of-human-liberty-820
- Sources (4, by hand first, then by importance): [694](https://guptaoption.com/texts/694.md) EB114 – Vinay Gupta: From Lawyer Capitalism To... (2016); [48](https://guptaoption.com/texts/48.md) The Second Amendment in Iraq, Combat Robotics, and the... (2008); [30](https://guptaoption.com/texts/30.md) Winning the Long Peace (2007); [701](https://guptaoption.com/texts/701.md) Vinay Gupta - Gun Control Precedes Genocide | London Real (2014)

### What is the Global Swadeshi Network? (2008)

- Economics of resources; argument; specified; work id global-swadeshi; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/what-is-the-global-swadeshi-network-598
- What: Founding statement of the Global Swadeshi Network, which he co-founded: Gandhi's swadeshi, economic self-reliance, applied to personal freedom and technical self-reliance worldwide.
- Summary: 1,347 words, 9 May 2008. "Swadeshi is Gandhi's term for economic self reliance": in his time the cloth trade exported India's wealth to England. The network is a community working on personal freedom and economic or technical self-reliance, so people can keep a good standard of living while ceasing to take part in oppression; as people move toward swadeshi, economies of scale emerge, as they did for Linux. The Global Swadeshi Dialogs, recorded conversations, followed that summer.
- Threads: RMI to spiral
- Led to Leashless (2009): swadeshi, then the manifesto. Evidence (he says so): What is the Global Swadeshi Network? (blog) (2008-05-09) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/what-is-the-global-swadeshi-network-598; Leashless (PDF), p. 22 (2009) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/leashless_manifesto.pdf
- Led to Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (2008): the Reykjavik talk closes on swadeshi. Evidence (he says so): Ending Poverty With Open Hardware, Reykjavik slides, closing slide (2008-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Reykjavik_Digital_Freedoms_Conference/; Blog Action Day: Ending Poverty with Open Hardware (blog) (2008-10-15) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/blog-action-day-poverty-ending-poverty-with-open-hardware-1070
- Sources (5, by hand first, then by importance): [56](https://guptaoption.com/texts/56.md) What is the Global Swadeshi Network? | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2008); [333](https://guptaoption.com/texts/333.md) Global Swadeshi Dialogs - Smari McCarthy (Icelandic Fab... (2012); [62](https://guptaoption.com/texts/62.md) Global Swadeshi Dialogs – mostly deborked audio | The... (2008); [340] Interview with Marcin of Open Source Ecology 25May08 (2012) (no text here); [821](https://guptaoption.com/texts/821.md) Index of /FSFI (2008)

### What's going to happen in the future (2008)

- Crisis planning; argument; specified; work id future-2008; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/whats-going-to-happen-in-the-future-670
- What: Blog essay naming four trends for the next twenty years: power as cheap as information, computers and phones everywhere, the poor politicized, and government challenged at every level.
- Summary: About 3,650 words, 1 June 2008. Four trends for the next 20 years: power becoming as cheap as information, the global spread of computers and phones, the politicization of the poor, and a challenge to government at every level.
- Led to The Big Deal (2011): government challenged at every level. Evidence (implied by the later work): What's going to happen in the future (blog) (2008-06-01) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/whats-going-to-happen-in-the-future-670
- Sources (4, by hand first, then by importance): [57](https://guptaoption.com/texts/57.md) What’s going to happen in the future. | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2008); [365](https://guptaoption.com/texts/365.md) social media and local resilience (2010); [511](https://guptaoption.com/texts/511.md) $20-50tr in the Next 5-10 Years (2025); [606] Mattereum Highlights - Rob Knight on the idea behind the... (2018) (no text here)

### Avoiding Capitalism for the Next Four Billion (2009)

- Economics of resources; argument; specified; work id avoiding-capitalism; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/personal/avoiding-capitalism-for-the-next-four-billion-lecture-notes-1164
- What: Lecture at the Temporary School of Thought: poverty means dying of being poor, the death-toll arithmetic behind that, and the soft development path as the answer.
- Summary: Lecture notes posted 11 January 2009, with audio. "Poverty means dying of being poor": every year 60 million people die of all causes, and it counts how many of those die of poverty. Its answer includes the soft development path, since the planet cannot carry 5.5 billion more people living like today's billion capitalists.
- Threads: RMI to spiral
- Came from Soft Development Paths (2008): the soft development path, taught. Evidence (he says so): Avoiding Capitalism for the Next Four Billion, lecture notes (blog) (2009-01-11) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/personal/avoiding-capitalism-for-the-next-four-billion-lecture-notes-1164
- Sources (3, by hand first, then by importance): [94](https://guptaoption.com/texts/94.md) Avoiding Capitalism for the Next Four Billion lecture... (2009); [238](https://guptaoption.com/texts/238.md) Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (Reykjavik Digital... (2008); [854](https://guptaoption.com/texts/854.md) UNCIVILISATION, The Dark Mountain Festival 2010: Vinay... (2010)

### Black Elephant (2009) (he contributed)

- Crisis planning; model; specified; work id black-elephant; https://dougald.nu/black-elephants-skull-jackets-a-conversation-with-vinay-gupta/
- What: The black elephant: a foreseeable disaster that institutions ignore and later call a black swan. Coined by Lloyd Davis in the Institute for Collapsonomics circle, 2009.
- Summary: Elephant in the room plus black swan. Coined by Lloyd Davis on 24 April 2009 in the Institute for Collapsonomics circle (earlier versions of this data said it was named by Gupta with Dougald Hine). A test of whether organizations actually work.
- Threads: black elephant; nuclear / panflu
- Came from Institute for Collapsonomics (2009): the term was coined in this circle. Evidence (he says so): How To Sell Ideas talk, Ethereum DEVCON Berlin 9:02 (2015-02-21) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyX2rwKT9DE&t=542s; Grounded Gabbin' conversation 35:00 (2020-06-20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQQjNBPJ2RE&t=2100s
- Connects back to Nuclear / mass evacuation (2007): known bomb, treated as unthinkable. Evidence (implied by the later work): Nuclear Poker talk, London Educational Games Meetup 5:00 (2016-04-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e9JHcA4MWA&t=300s; Dougald Hine, Black Elephants and Skull Jackets: a conversation with Vinay Gupta (2010-05-01) https://dougald.nu/black-elephants-skull-jackets-a-conversation-with-vinay-gupta/
- Connects back to Severe Panflu Response Strategies (H5N1) (2008): known pandemic, same failure. Evidence (he says so): CommunityZ Chest conversation with Michael Mainelli 9:07 (2020-06-27) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMQPTytHcHg&t=547s; Ideamarket podcast 5:09 (2021-08-02) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHri_FW-OeM&t=309s
- Led to Taming Black Elephants (2017): Singapore government foresight takes the term up. Evidence (he says so): CommunityZ Chest conversation with Michael Mainelli 9:07 (2020-06-27) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMQPTytHcHg&t=547s; Centre for Strategic Futures, Foresight Conference 2015 proceedings, p. 17 (2015-07) https://www.csf.gov.sg/files/media-centre/foresight-conference-2015-proceedings5e5de5d076d766deb7fdff00000cf313.pdf
- Led to Stampeding Black Elephants (2014): the term reaches a New York Times column. Evidence (he says so): How To Sell Ideas talk, Ethereum DEVCON Berlin 10:05 (2015-02-21) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyX2rwKT9DE&t=605s; Word Spy: black elephant https://wordspy.com/words/black-elephant
- Sources (5, by hand first, then by importance): [128](https://guptaoption.com/texts/128.md) Black Elephants & Skull Jackets: A Conversation with... (2010); [303](https://guptaoption.com/texts/303.md) How To Sell Ideas from (from Ethereum DEVCON Berlin) (2015); [773](https://guptaoption.com/texts/773.md) Vinay Gupta — Incentive-based epistemology | Ideamarket... (2021); [117](https://guptaoption.com/texts/117.md) The Black Elephant Lapel Pin & Logo | Metalabel (2009); [200](https://guptaoption.com/texts/200.md) black elephant (2009)

### Buttered Side Down (2009)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id buttered-side-down; https://web.archive.org/web/20150620074811/http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/revising-boyd-for-bureaucracy-ooda-2x2-1613
- What: A historic risk management consultancy set up with Mike Bennett in 2009, behind the OODA 2x2 model and the Living City talk for Arup.
- Summary: Tagline: we solve your real problem. Work under its name includes the OODA 2x2, which redraws Boyd's loop as seeing and doing against beginning and completing, so that senior staff see and begin while junior staff do and complete (blog, 4 November 2009); The Living City, Mike Bennett and Vinay Gupta, on urban resilience for Arup (November 2009); the TEDxEWB 2010 deck; and the 2010 Nuclear Poker sheet.
- Sources (8, by hand first, then by importance): [847](https://guptaoption.com/texts/847.md) The Living City (slides; Mike Bennett & Vinay Gupta,... (2009); [256](https://guptaoption.com/texts/256.md) I'm coming to Malta (2019); [213](https://guptaoption.com/texts/213.md) Vinay | Creativity and Crisis - Vinay Gupta. 29th...; [373](https://guptaoption.com/texts/373.md) Folding Hexayurt Opening and Closing (2007); [376](https://guptaoption.com/texts/376.md) test2 (2016); [290](https://guptaoption.com/texts/290.md) test (2016); [285](https://guptaoption.com/texts/285.md) quick test (2016); [287](https://guptaoption.com/texts/287.md) test edit (2016)

### Defense Horizons 70 (2009) (he contributed)

- Crisis planning; argument; specified; work id dh70; https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/defense-horizons/15/
- What: Co-authored National Defense University paper on supporting stressed populations with distributed talent.
- Summary: STAR-TIDES and Starfish Networks: Supporting Stressed Populations with Distributed Talent. Wells, Hardy, Gupta, Noon. NDU Press. State-level: a Defense Department paper. It is 70, not 71.
- Threads: STAR-TIDES
- Came from Six ways people die (2008): the six ways as the infrastructure frame. Evidence (he says so): Defense Horizons 70, p. 2 (2009-12) https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-D5_400-PURL-gpo41333/pdf/GOVPUB-D5_400-PURL-gpo41333.pdf#page=2; Defense Horizons 70, p. 3 (2009-12) https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-D5_400-PURL-gpo41333/pdf/GOVPUB-D5_400-PURL-gpo41333.pdf#page=3
- Came from STAR-TIDES (2007): co-author with Lin Wells. Evidence (he says so): Defense Horizons 70, p. 1 (2009-12) https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-D5_400-PURL-gpo41333/pdf/GOVPUB-D5_400-PURL-gpo41333.pdf#page=1; NDU Digital Commons record, Defense Horizons 15 (DH70) (2009-12) https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/defense-horizons/15/
- Sources (7, by hand first, then by importance): [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md) Defense Horizons 70 (2009); [121](https://guptaoption.com/texts/121.md) "STAR–TIDES and Starfish Networks: Supporting Stressed... (2009); [20](https://guptaoption.com/texts/20.md) Resilience and Opportunity: Effective Tools for Victory... (2006); [99](https://guptaoption.com/texts/99.md) User:Vinay Gupta/Gupta State Failure Management Archive (2011); [68](https://guptaoption.com/texts/68.md) STAR-TIDES | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2007); [71](https://guptaoption.com/texts/71.md) TIDES – the skinny! | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2007); [182](https://guptaoption.com/texts/182.md) About (2007)

### Free science and engineering in the global public interest (2009)

- Economics of resources; specified; work id free-science-engineering; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Free_science_and_engineering_in_the_global_public_interest.pdf
- What: Talk deck: poverty causes a quarter to a half of 60 million deaths a year, and open source hardware gets everywhere, even the Pentagon.
- Summary: Slides dated October 2009 and a print version. The video file places it at Know How Now, London, 2009, with the EWB Know How Now handout on the Hexayurt Project. The title is also his blog's tagline.
- Sources (13, by hand first, then by importance): [67](https://guptaoption.com/texts/67.md) Rough video from my talk in Iceland | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2008); [247](https://guptaoption.com/texts/247.md) Hexayurt Interviews Hexayurt Footage From The... (2020); [64](https://guptaoption.com/texts/64.md) Hope for the World – my talk from the Emergency Housing... (2009); [844](https://guptaoption.com/texts/844.md) Superstruct and Urgent Evoke: research note (2026); [213](https://guptaoption.com/texts/213.md) Vinay | Creativity and Crisis - Vinay Gupta. 29th...; [189](https://guptaoption.com/texts/189.md) Image(110); [212](https://guptaoption.com/texts/212.md) Strong Angel Day 3. 100_4623.jpg | hexayurt | Flickr; [188](https://guptaoption.com/texts/188.md) Hexayurt Image Gallery (2003); [190](https://guptaoption.com/texts/190.md) Image(80) (2003); [389](https://guptaoption.com/texts/389.md) Big Picture Days 3 (2013); [214](https://guptaoption.com/texts/214.md) Reboot Britain | Benjamin Ellis | Flickr; [290](https://guptaoption.com/texts/290.md) test (2016); ...

### Global Village Development Bank (2009)

- Economics of resources; proposal; thesis; work id gvdb; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Global_Village_Development_Bank_v2.pdf
- What: Design for a decentralized development bank: infrastructure funded by decentralized finance, through legal agreements and software.
- Summary: 12 March 2009, draft 2. A decentralized infrastructure can be funded by decentralized finance. Legal agreements and software protocols. Also economics: how classes of SKUs get capital.
- Threads: RMI to spiral; hexayurt to chain; social enterprise
- Came from SCIM / INAM (2009): fill the cells with capital
- Came from Small is Profitable (2002): small projects as infrastructure. Evidence (he says so): Global Village Development Bank, draft 2, p. 1 (2009-03-12) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Global_Village_Development_Bank_v2.pdf; Reykjavik Digital Freedoms talk 6:07, decentralized infrastructure without World Bank... (2012-05-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmfZfgxayzE&t=367s
- Came from Saving the World on the Cheap (2007): how to fund the engineering. Evidence (implied by the later work): Saving the World on the Cheap (2007) https://guptaoption.com/1.save.php
- Came from Akvo (2008): grant case; the Global Village Development Bank is the loan gap. Evidence (he says so): Global Village Development Bank, draft 2, p. 3 (2009-03-12) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Global_Village_Development_Bank_v2.pdf; Global Village Development Bank, draft 2, p. 2 (2009-03-12) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Global_Village_Development_Bank_v2.pdf
- Came from Resilience and Opportunity: Effective Tools for Victory in Fourth Generation Wars? (2006): microfinance for distributed infrastructure. Evidence (implied by the later work): Resilience and Opportunity in Fourth Generation Wars, p. 4 (co-authored) (2006) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/resilience/Resilience%20and%20Opportunity%20in%20Fourth%20Generation%20Wars%20(Final).pdf; Global Village Development Bank, draft 2, p. 3 (2009-03-12) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Global_Village_Development_Bank_v2.pdf
- Led to Ethereum launch (2015): protocols need a public chain. Evidence (he says so): Breaking Down Real World Assets: Crypto Daily, with Mario Nawfal and Vinay Gupta (2024-08-07) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDu_KLWVCag&t=2400s
- Led to Mattereum (2017): loan sits on the object. Evidence (he says so): Breaking Down Real World Assets: Crypto Daily, with Mario Nawfal and Vinay Gupta (2024-08-07) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDu_KLWVCag&t=2400s
- Led to Three Rules for Designing the Social Enterprise (2009): lending against social capital. Evidence (implied by the later work): Global Village Development Bank, draft 2, p. 1 (2009-03-12) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Global_Village_Development_Bank_v2.pdf; Global Village Development Bank, draft 2, p. 3 (2009-03-12) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Global_Village_Development_Bank_v2.pdf
- Sources (7, by hand first, then by importance): [3](https://guptaoption.com/texts/3.md) The Global Village Development Bank v2 (2009); [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md) TEDxEWB - Vinay Gupta - Enabling Humanitarian Innovation (2010); [341](https://guptaoption.com/texts/341.md) Vinay Gupta - Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference -... (2012); [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md) Vinay Gupta one page summary; [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md) Vinay Gupta feasibility analysis; [1](https://guptaoption.com/texts/1.md) Dealing in Security.July2010.en; [598](https://guptaoption.com/texts/598.md) Mattereum Smart Property Register - David Salgado (2018)

### Guardian (open source) (2009) (about him, by others)

- Press coverage; specified; work id press-guardian-2009; https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/mar/05/open-source
- What: Guardian piece on the Hexayurt as open-source shelter.
- Summary: Victor Keegan, 5 March 2009. Hexayurt as open-source shelter. First major UK broadsheet mention located.
- Sources (8, by hand first, then by importance): [226](https://guptaoption.com/texts/226.md) Can we build a world with open source? | Victor Keegan |... (2009); [161](https://guptaoption.com/texts/161.md) Hexayurts, Distributed Infrastructure, and Maximizing... (2014); [69](https://guptaoption.com/texts/69.md) The Open Toolbox for Domestic Disaster Response – new... (2008); [162](https://guptaoption.com/texts/162.md) media ccc de v emf2014 144 hexayurts distributed... (2014); [829](https://guptaoption.com/texts/829.md) Index of /innovative_sheltering/day_one (2007); [196] Mark Charmer on Open Source Water and Sanitation... (2008) (no text here); [168](https://guptaoption.com/texts/168.md) I'm also interested in this question. Here's two things... (2003); [141](https://guptaoption.com/texts/141.md) technote

### Hope for the World (2009)

- Crisis planning; argument; specified; work id hope-for-the-world; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/hope-for-the-world-my-talk-from-the-emergency-housing-workshop-in-sweden-1330
- What: Talk at an emergency housing workshop in Sweden: disaster relief and development aid are one problem, and relief should restore economic self-sufficiency, designed for scale.
- Summary: Given at the Emergency Housing workshop at Formens Hus, Hällefors, Sweden; video, audio and slides posted 2 March 2009. "There is No Fundamental Difference Between Disaster Relief and Development Aid if Disaster Relief is Understood Fully": the poor die first in disasters because of the poverty already there, so relief should restore economic self-sufficiency. Designing for scale means cost, logistics ("Spend per Disaster Victim is $20 to $100"), no patents, and turning materials already in the global supply chain into survival gear, as hexayurts, solar water disinfection and Sulabh toilets do.
- Led to Six Ways To Die workshops (2009): the same Swedish venue, six months later. Evidence (implied by the later work): Hope For The World talk 10:00 (2017-03-21) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN7q23D4rBo&t=600s; Hope for the World: my talk from the Emergency Housing workshop in Sweden (blog) (2009-03-02) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/hope-for-the-world-my-talk-from-the-emergency-housing-workshop-in-sweden-1330
- Led to The Private Humanitarian Company (2010): relief and development as one problem, then a company to deliver it. Evidence (implied by the later work): Hope for the World slides (Sweden presentation) (2009) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/hope_for_the_world/; The Private Humanitarian Company (2010-11-04) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/in_a_page/The_Private_Humanitarian_Company.pdf
- Sources (30, by hand first, then by importance): [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md) Hope For The World (2017); [64](https://guptaoption.com/texts/64.md) Hope for the World – my talk from the Emergency Housing... (2009); [27](https://guptaoption.com/texts/27.md) Index of /hope_for_the_world (2009); [827](https://guptaoption.com/texts/827.md) The Private Humanitarian Company (2010); [32](https://guptaoption.com/texts/32.md) Severe Panflu Response Strategies (2006); [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md) TEDxEWB - Vinay Gupta - Enabling Humanitarian Innovation (2010); [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md) STAR-TIDES briefing from Vinay Gupta (2012); [369](https://guptaoption.com/texts/369.md) Hexayurt Project - Six Ways To Die (2008); [740](https://guptaoption.com/texts/740.md) Hexayurt Interviews - Vinay Gupta and Bob Vrtis - at... (2017); [8](https://guptaoption.com/texts/8.md) Municipal Administration of Cities in Crisis (2013); [38](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md) Hexayurt Country: The Hexayurt Project plan for relief... (2010); [29](https://guptaoption.com/texts/29.md) Saving the World on the Cheap (2007); ...

### Infrastructure for Anarchists (2009)

- Economics of resources; argument; specified; work id infrastructure-for-anarchists; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/personal/talk-outline-for-jan-7th-in-london-infrastructure-for-anarchists-1144
- What: Two-hour talk at the Temporary School of Thought in London: exercises for seeing the invisible grids people live on, and how seeing them changes politics.
- Summary: Talk of 7 January 2009 at the Temporary School of Thought, London; outline posted 4 January 2009. Visualization exercises for seeing the infrastructure grids that keep people alive, and how that changes politics.
- Threads: hexayurt to chain
- Led to SCIM / INAM (2009): seeing the invisible grids, then mapping them. Evidence (implied by the later work): Talk outline for Jan 7th in London: Infrastructure for Anarchists (blog) (2009-01-04) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/personal/talk-outline-for-jan-7th-in-london-infrastructure-for-anarchists-1144
- Sources (6, by hand first, then by importance): [95](https://guptaoption.com/texts/95.md) Talk outline for Jan 7th in London – Infrastructure for... (2009); [187](https://guptaoption.com/texts/187.md) Six Ways To Die workshops (2009); [89](https://guptaoption.com/texts/89.md) The Gupta State Failure Management Archive – a public... (2011); [366](https://guptaoption.com/texts/366.md) "Through the Looking Glass" - Vinay Gupta - Ireland... (2010); [109](https://guptaoption.com/texts/109.md) akvo.org - Home (2008); [214](https://guptaoption.com/texts/214.md) Reboot Britain | Benjamin Ellis | Flickr

### Institute for Collapsonomics (2009)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id collapsonomics; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/framing-the-collapsonomics-practice-1338
- What: Co-founded a London group studying economies and states at the edge of collapse, formed after the 2008 crash.
- Summary: Co-founders named by Dougald Hine: Kalam Ali, Mike Bennett, Mamading Ceesay, Dougald Hine and Vinay Gupta. Earliest dated trace: the blog post The Collapsonomics Practice, 19 February 2009, followed by the founding essay, Framing The Collapsonomics Practice, 9 March 2009. The black elephant term was coined in this circle.
- Threads: black elephant
- Led to Black Elephant (2009): the term was coined in this circle. Evidence (he says so): How To Sell Ideas talk, Ethereum DEVCON Berlin 9:02 (2015-02-21) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyX2rwKT9DE&t=542s; Grounded Gabbin' conversation 35:00 (2020-06-20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQQjNBPJ2RE&t=2100s
- Led to The Flu Code (2009): a public service from the Institute for Collapsonomics. Evidence (he says so): The Flu Code (blog) (2009-04-26) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/personal/the-flu-code-ethical-behavior-to-protect-each-other-1435
- Sources (4, by hand first, then by importance): [54](https://guptaoption.com/texts/54.md) Framing The Collapsonomics Practice | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2009); [770](https://guptaoption.com/texts/770.md) Grounded Gabbin' with Vinay Gupta (on the meta-crisis) (2020); [96](https://guptaoption.com/texts/96.md) The Collapsonomics Practice | The Bucky-Gandhi Design... (2009); [223](https://guptaoption.com/texts/223.md) Finding Each other in the Ruins - resilience (2025)



# Vinay Gupta: his works and how they connect (part 4 of 9, 2009 to 2010)

> Every work in his career record (175), by year, with what it is, the thread it belongs to, what it came from and led to and why, and the sources in the archive about it. Part 4 of 9, 2009 to 2010; continues in https://guptaoption.com/texts/works-5.md. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt; source ids such as [250] are at https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md.

### Leashless (2009)

- Economics of resources; argument; specified; work id leashless; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/leashless_manifesto.pdf
- What: Manifesto on property and freedom: nobody with unmet needs is free, the Earth owns itself, and land should be leased rather than owned, with the rent shared.
- Summary: A 34-page illustrated manifesto. Its axioms: "The Earth owns itself as we own ourselves", and "The matter of your body belongs to Earth", so we owe a rent for being alive. Existing property rights derive mostly from violence; a sane system would lease land rather than own it, share the lease income among everyone, and phase out subsidies such as limited liability. Taxation is rent on state land and money rather than theft. The remedies are swadeshi, resistance to social control, and owning your own infrastructure through Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps.
- Threads: RMI to spiral
- Came from What is the Global Swadeshi Network? (2008): swadeshi, then the manifesto. Evidence (he says so): What is the Global Swadeshi Network? (blog) (2008-05-09) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/what-is-the-global-swadeshi-network-598; Leashless (PDF), p. 22 (2009) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/leashless_manifesto.pdf
- Led to Copyright and the digital economy: a case for reason (2010): property from land, applied to copying. Evidence (implied by the later work): Leashless (PDF), p. 12 (2009) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/leashless_manifesto.pdf; Leashless (PDF), p. 18 (2009) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/leashless_manifesto.pdf
- Led to The New Economy: out of money, out of time, but not out of ideas (2010): an economy not based on plunder. Evidence (implied by the later work): Leashless (PDF), p. 7 (2009) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/leashless_manifesto.pdf; The New Economy (In a Page) (2010) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/in_a_page/the_new_economy.pdf
- Sources (8, by hand first, then by importance): [831](https://guptaoption.com/texts/831.md) Leashless (2009); [763](https://guptaoption.com/texts/763.md) FutureRant - Vinay Gupta Pt 2/4 - "Survival & Politics" (2016); [65](https://guptaoption.com/texts/65.md) Leashless – a manifesto about freedom | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2009); [56](https://guptaoption.com/texts/56.md) What is the Global Swadeshi Network? | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2008); [453](https://guptaoption.com/texts/453.md) Predatory Debt Economy vs Fair Equity Economy (2025); [441](https://guptaoption.com/texts/441.md) The Necessity, Stability and Feasibility of Real Estate... (2025); [574](https://guptaoption.com/texts/574.md) Wealth Inequality (2022); [585](https://guptaoption.com/texts/585.md) ‘The Complexities of Turning Real Estate in to On Chain... (2022)

### Mapping Authority (2009)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id mapping-authority; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/mapping_authority_vinay_gupta.pdf
- What: Slide deck on why multi-agency operations stall: who can do what, how each group runs the OODA loop, and the layered law each works inside.
- Summary: Actor capacity matrix (force projection, logistics, traits); multi-sector OODA across the international community, government, third sector and press; jurisdictional maps for NGO and military rule sets. Conclusion: explicit maps of capacities and rule sets could streamline cooperation.
- Sources (3, by hand first, then by importance): [1](https://guptaoption.com/texts/1.md) Dealing in Security.July2010.en; [180](https://guptaoption.com/texts/180.md) FluSCIM-slides-Spanish; [176](https://guptaoption.com/texts/176.md) FluSCIM-6p-Spanish

### SCIM / INAM (2009)

- Crisis planning; model; specified; work id scim; https://guptaoption.com/#doc=dealing-in-security-july2010-en
- What: Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps: 18 human needs across 7 scales, from the individual to the world.
- Summary: Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps. INAM is 18 needs x 7 tiers. The diagram is a shared map object. SCIM v1 4 June 2009. Book July 2010.
- Threads: STAR-TIDES; hexayurt to chain; nuclear / panflu
- Came from Six ways people die (2008): the map named. Evidence (he says so): Athens Hackerspace talk 13:45 (2012-09-14) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PwmbIFDIR4&t=825s; Gupta State Failure Management Archive reader's guide (Appropedia) http://www.appropedia.org/Gupta_State_Failure_Management_Archive
- Came from Severe Panflu Response Strategies (H5N1) (2008): pandemic as systems problem. Evidence (he says so): Severe Panflu Response Strategies v0.5A (2008-03-03) https://guptaoption.com/6.SPRS.php
- Came from STAR-TIDES (2007): SCIM as underlying model. Evidence (he says so): Defense Horizons 70, p. 11, note 9 (2009-12) https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-D5_400-PURL-gpo41333/pdf/GOVPUB-D5_400-PURL-gpo41333.pdf#page=11
- Came from Infrastructure for Anarchists (2009): seeing the invisible grids, then mapping them. Evidence (implied by the later work): Talk outline for Jan 7th in London: Infrastructure for Anarchists (blog) (2009-01-04) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/personal/talk-outline-for-jan-7th-in-london-infrastructure-for-anarchists-1144
- Led to Global Village Development Bank (2009): fill the cells with capital
- Led to FluSCIM (2010): Gonzalez applies the map. Evidence (he says so): FluSCIM report, English, 69 pages, p. 1, in the resiliencemaps.org/files/fluscim directory https://resiliencemaps.org/files/fluscim/; FluSCIM blurb (resiliencemaps.org), in the resiliencemaps.org/files/fluscim directory https://resiliencemaps.org/files/fluscim/
- Led to Dealing in Security (2010): the framework, written up as a book. Evidence (he says so): Dealing in Security: Simple Critical Infrastructure Mapping (blog) (2009-06-14) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/dealing-in-security-simple-critical-infrastructure-mapping-1550
- Led to Through the Looking Glass (2010): SCIM presented as risk mapping. Evidence (he says so): Through the Looking Glass talk 30:07 (2020-03-20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm5o-ughyD8&t=1807s; Through the Looking Glass promo, Ireland, 26 to 28 September 2010, 0:22 (2010-09-12) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7cYlKkTUzM&t=22s
- Led to Hexayurt Refugee Shelter (MICA, Baltimore) (2024): the map for planning refugee cities. Evidence (he says so): MICA lecture 17:30, Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps for a population in a new... (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=1050s
- Led to The Living City (2009): the map drawn by who you call, for a city. Evidence (he says so): The Living City talk for Arup 7:49 (2012-11-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vBX8cIqqTI&t=469s; The Living City talk for Arup 10:19 (2012-11-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vBX8cIqqTI&t=619s
- Sources (7, by hand first, then by importance): [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md) Through the Looking Glass - Vinay Gupta on systemic... (2010); [322](https://guptaoption.com/texts/322.md) Vinay Gupta at the Athens Hackerspace, 2012 September 2 (2012); [689](https://guptaoption.com/texts/689.md) Vinay Gupta - Resilience Guru | London Real (2014); [179](https://guptaoption.com/texts/179.md) FluSCIM-slides-English; [180](https://guptaoption.com/texts/180.md) FluSCIM-slides-Spanish; [1](https://guptaoption.com/texts/1.md) Dealing in Security.July2010.en; [821](https://guptaoption.com/texts/821.md) Index of /FSFI (2008)

### Six Ways To Die workshops (2009)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id six-ways-workshops; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/six-ways-to-die-workshop-introductory-lecture-at-formens-hus-1576
- What: Week-long design workshops built on Six Ways To Die: at Formens Hus in Sweden with the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, and in Eindhoven.
- Summary: September 2009 at Formens Hus, Hällefors, Sweden, an Emergency Housing Project workshop with the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB): an introductory lecture, a field exercise, and team designs for each way to die, including a water-carrying backpack with purification, an integrated kitchen, a containerized biogas toilet block and an airdrop first aid kit. A shelter workshop in Eindhoven followed in October 2009.
- Came from Six ways people die (2008): taught as a design workshop. Evidence (he says so): Six Ways to Die Workshop introductory lecture at Formens Hus (blog) (2009-09-24) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/six-ways-to-die-workshop-introductory-lecture-at-formens-hus-1576
- Came from Hope for the World (2009): the same Swedish venue, six months later. Evidence (implied by the later work): Hope For The World talk 10:00 (2017-03-21) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN7q23D4rBo&t=600s; Hope for the World: my talk from the Emergency Housing workshop in Sweden (blog) (2009-03-02) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/hope-for-the-world-my-talk-from-the-emergency-housing-workshop-in-sweden-1330
- Sources (4, by hand first, then by importance): [187](https://guptaoption.com/texts/187.md) Six Ways To Die workshops (2009); [247](https://guptaoption.com/texts/247.md) Hexayurt Interviews Hexayurt Footage From The... (2020); [84](https://guptaoption.com/texts/84.md) Six Ways to Die Workshop introductory lecture at Formens... (2009); [832](https://guptaoption.com/texts/832.md) Index of /six_ways_to_die (2008)

### The Flu Code (2009)

- Crisis planning; proposal; specified; work id flu-code; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/personal/the-flu-code-ethical-behavior-to-protect-each-other-1435
- What: Four rules of responsible behavior in a pandemic, a public service from the Institute for Collapsonomics; Wired's swine flu primer pointed readers to it.
- Summary: Flu Code 0.1 beta, 26 April 2009, "a public service from The Institute for Collapsonomics". Four rules for anyone in a pandemic-affected area: stay at home at any sign of flu; stay away from crowds and always wear a mask in public; cleanse your hands at the doorway on arrival; and encourage others to follow the rules: "The key principle is to protect each other by being responsible." Wired's swine flu primer cited it two days later.
- Threads: nuclear / panflu
- Came from Severe Panflu Response Strategies (H5N1) (2008): a pandemic plan, then a public code. Evidence (implied by the later work): Severe Panflu Response Strategies v0.5A (2008-03-03) https://guptaoption.com/6.SPRS.php; The Flu Code (blog) (2009-04-26) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/personal/the-flu-code-ethical-behavior-to-protect-each-other-1435
- Came from Institute for Collapsonomics (2009): a public service from the Institute for Collapsonomics. Evidence (he says so): The Flu Code (blog) (2009-04-26) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/personal/the-flu-code-ethical-behavior-to-protect-each-other-1435
- Sources (3, by hand first, then by importance): [97](https://guptaoption.com/texts/97.md) The Flu Code | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2009); [53](https://guptaoption.com/texts/53.md) Wired notes the Flu Code | The Bucky-Gandhi Design... (2009); [178](https://guptaoption.com/texts/178.md) FluSCIM-blurb

### The Living City (2009)

- Crisis planning; argument; specified; work id living-city; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Living_City__Arup__Nov2009__Cold_Katrina.pdf
- What: A Buttered Side Down talk to the engineering firm Arup, with Mike Bennett: how cities learned to beat fire, and two risks they have not, a pandemic and Cold Katrina, a winter failure of the US power grid.
- Summary: A presentation by Mike Bennett and Vinay Gupta of Buttered Side Down, their risk consultancy, to the engineering firm Arup, London, November 2009, with 23 slides. Bennett opens on the city as a rain forest and on how cities beat fire after Chicago, London and Tokyo burned: changed behavior, better buildings, public fire brigades and enforced building codes, change at every level from the individual to the state. Gupta sorts risks into old or new and point or systemic, and maps them with the six ways to die and Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps, drawn by tiers of bureaucracy rather than geography, because in a crisis what matters is who you call. Scenario one is a pandemic: H1N1 in 2009 against the 1918 flu, buildings flu-hardened through temperature and humidity, quarantine supply chains (about a kilogram of food per person per day, 10,000 tons a day for New York) and drugs such as insulin. Scenario two, Cold Katrina, is an attack that takes down the US electrical grid for a sustained period in winter, met by an incompetent federal response. Since nobody expects the grid can be hardened enough, the talk argues for unmaking the risk by visionary adaptation, changing systems before the crisis rather than after it, against the mind's habit of under-reacting to rare, vast risks. It closes with recommendations: resilience now plans for organizations and a pilot project with Arup. Gupta's 2012 upload notes that the discussion after the Cold Katrina section may bear on the follow-up to Hurricane Sandy; his 2021 upload says it looks prophetic in hindsight.
- Threads: hexayurt to chain; nuclear / panflu
- Came from SCIM / INAM (2009): the map drawn by who you call, for a city. Evidence (he says so): The Living City talk for Arup 7:49 (2012-11-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vBX8cIqqTI&t=469s; The Living City talk for Arup 10:19 (2012-11-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vBX8cIqqTI&t=619s
- Came from Severe Panflu Response Strategies (H5N1) (2008): pandemic flu as the first city scenario. Evidence (he says so): The Living City talk for Arup 15:19 (2012-11-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vBX8cIqqTI&t=919s; The Living City talk for Arup 12:49 (2012-11-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vBX8cIqqTI&t=769s
- Led to The Gupta State Failure Management Archive (2011): the recording, released in the archive. Evidence (he says so): Gupta State Failure Management Archive reader's guide (Appropedia) http://www.appropedia.org/Gupta_State_Failure_Management_Archive
- Led to Municipal Administration of Cities in Crisis (2013): lessons for city governments, four years on. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Living City talk for Arup 19:36 (2012-11-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vBX8cIqqTI&t=1176s; Municipal Administration of Cities in Crisis, p. 9 (2013-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/SMART_CITIES/Municipal_Administration_of_Cities_in_Crisis.Vinay_Gupta.pdf
- Sources (26, by hand first, then by importance): [320](https://guptaoption.com/texts/320.md) The Living City - Buttered Side Down presentation to... (2012); [847](https://guptaoption.com/texts/847.md) The Living City (slides; Mike Bennett & Vinay Gupta,... (2009); [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md) Through the Looking Glass - Vinay Gupta on systemic... (2010); [32](https://guptaoption.com/texts/32.md) Severe Panflu Response Strategies (2006); [341](https://guptaoption.com/texts/341.md) Vinay Gupta - Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference -... (2012); [689](https://guptaoption.com/texts/689.md) Vinay Gupta - Resilience Guru | London Real (2014); [8](https://guptaoption.com/texts/8.md) Municipal Administration of Cities in Crisis (2013); [681](https://guptaoption.com/texts/681.md) Pandemics and the Coronavirus Part 1 with Vinay Gupta (2020); [63](https://guptaoption.com/texts/63.md) Health insurance for $10 per year using the network |... (2008); [685](https://guptaoption.com/texts/685.md) Pandemics and the Coronavirus Part 2 with Vinay Gupta (2020); [372](https://guptaoption.com/texts/372.md) this is not a video about coronavirus - the hypothetical... (2008); [60](https://guptaoption.com/texts/60.md) Dealing in Security – Simple Critical Infrastructure... (2009); ...

### Three Rules for Designing the Social Enterprise (2009)

- Economics of resources; model; specified; work id three-rules-social-enterprise; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Three_Rules_for_Designing_the_Social_Enterprise.pdf
- What: Two-page paper defining a social enterprise by how it converts financial capital into social capital and back, using the capital conversion matrix first seen at the Rocky Mountain Institute.
- Summary: There is no rigorous definition of social enterprise, so the paper builds one from triple bottom line accounting and the Capital Conversion Matrix, "a sort of 2D balance sheet" first drawn on a whiteboard at the Rocky Mountain Institute. Grameenphone is the worked example: network spending raises customers' social connectivity, which the phone ladies turn back into sales. The rules: (i) convert financial capital into social capital and back again, in an identifiable positive loop; (ii) use alignment with customers to cut conflict and transaction costs, "as trust is value"; (iii) be net positive in both, self-supporting financially and producing objectively measurable social value. Corporate social responsibility programs fail the first two rules and charities usually fail the first and third. Reprinted in the Lean Green Mattereum deck (2020).
- Threads: social enterprise
- Came from Small is Profitable (2002): the capital conversion matrix, first seen at the Rocky Mountain Institute. Evidence (implied by the later work): Three Rules for Designing the Social Enterprise, p. 1 (2009) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Three_Rules_for_Designing_the_Social_Enterprise.pdf
- Came from Global Village Development Bank (2009): lending against social capital. Evidence (implied by the later work): Global Village Development Bank, draft 2, p. 1 (2009-03-12) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Global_Village_Development_Bank_v2.pdf; Global Village Development Bank, draft 2, p. 3 (2009-03-12) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Global_Village_Development_Bank_v2.pdf
- Led to The Private Humanitarian Company (2010): a social enterprise for aid
- Led to Hexayurt Capital Partners (2016): from social enterprise to a venture model. Evidence (implied by the later work): Capital Partners transcript, August 2016, p. 6 (2016-08) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/hexayurt_guy_capital_partners.pdf; Dog Atheism (Google Doc) (2016) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1irVQ7bHgWAn5dkf7ucKkiXW_PauTFXB7EnPNzCzKR9E/edit
- Led to Lean Green Mattereum: "We aren't just here to change the world, we're here to fix it" (2020): reprinted in the 2020 deck. Evidence (he says so): Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 107 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view
- Led to A Feather for Lifting Anvils: EdgeRyders 2.0 (2012): venture social capital. Evidence (implied by the later work): Three Rules for Designing the Social Enterprise, p. 1 (2009) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Three_Rules_for_Designing_the_Social_Enterprise.pdf; A Feather for Lifting Anvils: EdgeRyders 2.0 (blog) (2012-11-26) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/a-feather-for-lifting-anvils-edgeryders-2-0-plans-to-change-the-world-3350
- Sources (3, by hand first, then by importance): [714](https://guptaoption.com/texts/714.md) Autonomous A1 - Taming Capitalism with Vinay Gupta of... (2021); [24](https://guptaoption.com/texts/24.md) Three Rules for Designing the Social Enterprise (2009); [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md) The Mattereum Top Down Deck Day 6 (Lean Green Mattereum) (2020)

### Visionary Adaptation (2009)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id visionary-adaptation; https://web.archive.org/web/20141109073410/http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/beyond-resilience-visionary-adaptation-1374
- What: Four models of change, and the argument that crisis response must choose between restoring a system and priming it for revolution.
- Summary: Resilience, adaptation, revolutionary change and pathological resilience, where a failure to adapt leads to crisis and back to the same state. Diagram deck dated 4/4/2009 and blog post the same day.
- Sources (1, by hand first, then by importance): [320](https://guptaoption.com/texts/320.md) The Living City - Buttered Side Down presentation to... (2012)

### "Complex systems behave unpredictably": Gupta's law of complex systems (2010)

- Writing and inner practice; model; specified; work id gupta-law-complex-systems; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/a-little-intellectual-history-1776
- What: Blog essay tracing his turn from physics to complexity in his 1980s schooling, and the law he draws from it: complex systems behave unpredictably.
- Summary: About 950 words, 26 June 2010. An intellectual history from his 1980s schooling, turning from physics to complexity, and the working rule he takes from it: complex systems behave unpredictably.
- Threads: goat rodeo to warlords
- Led to The Goat Rodeo Index (2010): complexity, then a scale for governance messes. Evidence (implied by the later work): Complex systems behave unpredictably: Gupta's law of complex systems (blog) (2010-06-26) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/a-little-intellectual-history-1776; The Goat Rodeo Index (blog) (2010-10-22) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-goat-rodeo-complexdifficult-situation-scale-2064
- Sources (3, by hand first, then by importance): [74](https://guptaoption.com/texts/74.md) “Complex systems behave unpredictably” – Gupta’s law of... (2010); [159](https://guptaoption.com/texts/159.md) Taming Black Elephants (2017); [385](https://guptaoption.com/texts/385.md) test (2013)

### Above the Basin and Tashkent Horizons (2010)

- Writing and inner practice; specified; work id two-stories-2010; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Tashkent%20Horizons.pdf
- What: Two short stories: an outbreak on an orbital factory, and an agent of a guerrilla EPA in a post-crash high-tech anarchy.
- Summary: Both printed Vinay Gupta, May 20, 2010, four pages each.
- Sources (1, by hand first, then by importance): [155](https://guptaoption.com/texts/155.md) Mother of Hydrogen (2012)

### Camp Danger hinge (2010) (he contributed)

- Survival hardware; built; specified; work id hy-hinge; https://www.appropedia.org/Camp_Danger_Hexayurt_Hinge_Technique
- What: Community-designed folding Hexayurt held together by tape hinges.
- Summary: Tape-hinge folding hexayurt. Julie Danger and Chris Camp. Built at Burning Man 2010. The videos became the easiest way to learn a playa hexayurt.
- Threads: hexayurt builds
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): folding tape hinge. Evidence (he says so): Vinay Gupta and Julie Danger on Camp Danger Semi Folding Hexayurt 0:00, tape hinges... (2011-05-19) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLBPY3-CpwM&t=0s; Vinay Gupta and Julie Danger on Camp Danger Semi Folding Hexayurt 2:30, the hinge on... (2011-05-19) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLBPY3-CpwM&t=150s
- Sources (14, by hand first, then by importance): [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md) The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world (2002); [98](https://guptaoption.com/texts/98.md) Hexayurt project/Camp danger Hexayurt hinge technique (2010); [751](https://guptaoption.com/texts/751.md) Vinay Gupta and Julie Danger on Camp Danger Semi Folding... (2011); [294](https://guptaoption.com/texts/294.md) Practice Safe Hex - Burning Man Hexayurt Safety Checklist! (2015); [364](https://guptaoption.com/texts/364.md) burning ice brussels seven minute tour (2011); [374](https://guptaoption.com/texts/374.md) The Hexayurt Project 2007 Intro Video (2007); [329](https://guptaoption.com/texts/329.md) RAW FOOTAGE Hexayurt Folding Combined Endeavor (2012); [336](https://guptaoption.com/texts/336.md) RAW FOOTAGE Hexayurt Roof Cone Combined Endeavor (2012); [339](https://guptaoption.com/texts/339.md) 15 minute video on how to make Hexayurts for Burning Man (2012); [104](https://guptaoption.com/texts/104.md) Hexayurt project/Hexayurt H13 (2010); [290](https://guptaoption.com/texts/290.md) test (2016); [289](https://guptaoption.com/texts/289.md) test (2016); ...

### Copyright and the digital economy: a case for reason (2010)

- Economics of resources; argument; specified; work id copyright-digital-economy; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/COPYRIGHT_NESTA.pdf
- What: Short paper proposing land law, with rights of way and trespass, as a better model for copying than theft: "digital trespass rather than theft".
- Summary: With labor automated, fights over copyright and patents are capital and talent dividing the pie. Theft metaphors give no insight; land law does, with rights of way, trespass and nuisance. Markets rightly absorb the risk of creative work, and the law should separate "a 14 year old sending a copy of a song to five friends" from organized leaks. It ends: "discuss digital trespass rather than theft as our core terrain." The file name ties it to NESTA.
- Threads: RMI to spiral
- Came from Leashless (2009): property from land, applied to copying. Evidence (implied by the later work): Leashless (PDF), p. 12 (2009) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/leashless_manifesto.pdf; Leashless (PDF), p. 18 (2009) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/leashless_manifesto.pdf
- Sources (48, by hand first, then by importance): [820](https://guptaoption.com/texts/820.md) Copyright and the digital economy: a case for reason (2010); [252](https://guptaoption.com/texts/252.md) Vinay Gupta / Mattereum Manifesto keynote at the London... (2019); [86](https://guptaoption.com/texts/86.md) Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the... (2012); [831](https://guptaoption.com/texts/831.md) Leashless (2009); [647](https://guptaoption.com/texts/647.md) Vinay Gupta - Internet of Agreements conference (2017); [314](https://guptaoption.com/texts/314.md) EMF2014 hexayurt talk Hexayurts, Distributed... (2014); [657](https://guptaoption.com/texts/657.md) Legal Panel - Internet of Agreements conference (2017); [6](https://guptaoption.com/texts/6.md) Blind in the Panopticon: The decreasing marginal utility... (2012); [763](https://guptaoption.com/texts/763.md) FutureRant - Vinay Gupta Pt 2/4 - "Survival & Politics" (2016); [257](https://guptaoption.com/texts/257.md) Vinay Gupta - Oslo Blockchain Day - Merging the Physical... (2019); [330](https://guptaoption.com/texts/330.md) Global Swadeshi Dialogs - Smari McCarthy (Icelandic Fab... (2012); [851](https://guptaoption.com/texts/851.md) Global governance in the era of blockchain. (2018); ...

### Dealing in Security (2010)

- Crisis planning; model; specified; work id dealing-in-security; https://guptaoption.com/#doc=dealing-in-security-july2010-en
- What: Book setting out Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps: the 18 needs every population must meet, across 7 scales.
- Summary: July 2010, version 3.2. The source of the needs-by-scale matrix used on this page. Author: Vinay Gupta (PDF metadata).
- Threads: hexayurt to chain; nuclear / panflu
- Came from SCIM / INAM (2009): the framework, written up as a book. Evidence (he says so): Dealing in Security: Simple Critical Infrastructure Mapping (blog) (2009-06-14) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/dealing-in-security-simple-critical-infrastructure-mapping-1550
- Led to The Gupta State Failure Management Archive (2011): released into the public domain. Evidence (he says so): The Gupta State Failure Management Archive: a public resource for hard times (blog) (2011-08-06) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-gupta-state-failure-management-archive-a-public-resource-for-hard-times-2636
- Connects back to Superstruct and URGENT EVOKE (2008): offered as the toolkit for EVOKE's urban resilience mission
- Sources (2, by hand first, then by importance): [685](https://guptaoption.com/texts/685.md) Pandemics and the Coronavirus Part 2 with Vinay Gupta (2020); [60](https://guptaoption.com/texts/60.md) Dealing in Security – Simple Critical Infrastructure... (2009)

### Enabling humanitarian innovation (TEDxEWB) (2010)

- Economics of resources; specified; work id tedxewb-2010; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/enabling_humanitarian_innovation_TEDxEWB_2010.pdf
- What: Talk for Engineers Without Borders: poverty is a permanent disaster that kills about 20 million a year, and household infrastructure protects people.
- Summary: Six ways to die as the frame; a global Ghost Map of water, sanitation, stoves and farming; Small is Profitable on why it is not done yet.
- Sources (12, by hand first, then by importance): [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md) TEDxEWB - Vinay Gupta - Enabling Humanitarian Innovation (2010); [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md) Hope For The World (2017); [727](https://guptaoption.com/texts/727.md) Undergraduate Lecture Series 2024: Vinay Gupta & Bryan... (2024); [38](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md) Hexayurt Country: The Hexayurt Project plan for relief... (2010); [267](https://guptaoption.com/texts/267.md) The future of humanitarian innovation (2017); [145](https://guptaoption.com/texts/145.md) Sweden Presentation; [13](https://guptaoption.com/texts/13.md) Hexayurt Country (2010); [832](https://guptaoption.com/texts/832.md) Index of /six_ways_to_die (2008); [58](https://guptaoption.com/texts/58.md) Blog Action Day: Poverty – Ending Poverty with Open... (2008); [84](https://guptaoption.com/texts/84.md) Six Ways to Die Workshop introductory lecture at Formens... (2009); [332] Global Swadeshi Dialogs - Mark Charmer of AKVO and Chris... (2012) (no text here); [196] Mark Charmer on Open Source Water and Sanitation... (2008) (no text here)

### FluSCIM (2010) (about him, by others)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id fluscim; https://resiliencemaps.org/files/fluscim/
- What: Another author's application of the SCIM framework to pandemic flu.
- Summary: Lucas Gonzalez Santa Cruz applies SCIM to pandemic influenza. Hosted on resiliencemaps.org. Comes after SPRS.
- Threads: hexayurt to chain; nuclear / panflu
- Came from Severe Panflu Response Strategies (H5N1) (2008): SPRS precedes FluSCIM. Evidence (implied by the later work): FluSCIM slides, English, p. 1 (Lucas Gonzalez Santa Cruz, 15 December 2011), in the... (2011-12-15) https://resiliencemaps.org/files/fluscim/; Severe Panflu Response Strategies v0.5A (2008-03-03) https://guptaoption.com/6.SPRS.php
- Came from SCIM / INAM (2009): Gonzalez applies the map. Evidence (he says so): FluSCIM report, English, 69 pages, p. 1, in the resiliencemaps.org/files/fluscim directory https://resiliencemaps.org/files/fluscim/; FluSCIM blurb (resiliencemaps.org), in the resiliencemaps.org/files/fluscim directory https://resiliencemaps.org/files/fluscim/
- Sources (17, by hand first, then by importance): [303](https://guptaoption.com/texts/303.md) How To Sell Ideas from (from Ethereum DEVCON Berlin) (2015); [689](https://guptaoption.com/texts/689.md) Vinay Gupta - Resilience Guru | London Real (2014); [681](https://guptaoption.com/texts/681.md) Pandemics and the Coronavirus Part 1 with Vinay Gupta (2020); [173](https://guptaoption.com/texts/173.md) Index of /files/fluscim (2010); [179](https://guptaoption.com/texts/179.md) FluSCIM-slides-English; [180](https://guptaoption.com/texts/180.md) FluSCIM-slides-Spanish; [97](https://guptaoption.com/texts/97.md) The Flu Code | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2009); [685](https://guptaoption.com/texts/685.md) Pandemics and the Coronavirus Part 2 with Vinay Gupta (2020); [372](https://guptaoption.com/texts/372.md) this is not a video about coronavirus - the hypothetical... (2008); [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md) FluSCIM-69p-English; [177](https://guptaoption.com/texts/177.md) FluSCIM-84p-Spanish; [176](https://guptaoption.com/texts/176.md) FluSCIM-6p-Spanish; ...

### Free housing and 21st Century Leadership (2010)

- Writing and inner practice; model; specified; work id free-housing-leadership; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/free-housing-and-21st-century-leadership-1930
- What: Blog essay on the model of personal effectiveness he adopted after inventing the Hexayurt in 2002, with Fuller, Gandhi and Richard Stallman as the examples.
- Summary: About 1,400 words, 27 August 2010. "Buckminster Fuller and Mahatma Gandhi showed that single individuals could transform the world." After inventing the Hexayurt in 2002 he looked for a model of how to be effective, and this is roughly what he came to: institutions that own humanitarian problems have been ineffective for generations; government is slow, though the Pentagon has developed some good technology; leaders are turned into managers by building funded organizations; the right times for things come but cannot be predicted; and "all roads lead to Richard Stallman".
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): how to be effective after 2002. Evidence (he says so): Free housing and 21st Century Leadership (blog) (2010-08-27) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/free-housing-and-21st-century-leadership-1930
- Sources (6, by hand first, then by importance): [711](https://guptaoption.com/texts/711.md) Vinay Gupta – Hexayurts, Distributed Infrastructure, and... (2014); [76](https://guptaoption.com/texts/76.md) Free housing and 21st Century Leadership | The... (2010); [251](https://guptaoption.com/texts/251.md) ODM 6981 Oxford Technology and Media Network Climate Change (2020); [315](https://guptaoption.com/texts/315.md) Three Bureaucracies of Sharing: Owners, Managers and... (2014); [114](https://guptaoption.com/texts/114.md) Tools To Not Die With: An Interview with Vinay Gupta,... (2011); [65](https://guptaoption.com/texts/65.md) Leashless – a manifesto about freedom | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2009)

### H13 (2010) (he contributed)

- Survival hardware; built; specified; work id hy-h13; https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_project/Hexayurt_H13
- What: Community-designed Hexayurt with a full-height door.
- Summary: One extra panel on the classic H12. Full-height doorway and more standing room. Designed by Scott Davis and Dylan Toymaker. First year on the playa: 2011.
- Threads: hexayurt builds
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): full-height door. Evidence (he says so): Appropedia: Hexayurt H13 https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_project/Hexayurt_H13; hexayurt.com history timeline https://hexayurt.com/
- Sources (3, by hand first, then by importance): [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md) The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world (2002); [364](https://guptaoption.com/texts/364.md) burning ice brussels seven minute tour (2011); [104](https://guptaoption.com/texts/104.md) Hexayurt project/Hexayurt H13 (2010)

### Hexayurt Country (2010)

- Crisis planning; proposal; thesis; work id hexayurt-country; https://hexayurt.com/hexayurt_country/
- What: Plan to rehouse Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake in Hexayurts, financed with the money that would otherwise go on relief tents that rot within a year.
- Summary: hexayurt.com, 22 January 2010: "We can finance stable housing for Haiti for the same money that would otherwise be wasted on disposable relief tents." Hexayurt Country "is not a state of mind, it's a death rate: over 1%"; Haiti, with 10 million people and 200,000 dead so far, is Hexayurt Country. It applies Six Ways To Die and SCIM, and proposes counting the dead, with a photograph and a cause of death, to draw mortality maps that set priorities. Relief tents last a year: a million homeless people at five to a home is 200,000 homes, and $1,000 transitional shelters plus $400 first tents come to about $280 million before water and sanitation. The Hexayurt is "a tent for the real world". Three documents followed: Healing Haiti (February 2010), on development rather than rebuilding, with the Big Five priced per household; The Hexayurt in Haiti (v1.2, 16 February 2010), a 16-page plywood engineering briefing for Engineers Without Borders, at $100 per basic shelter and $200 to $500 storm-resistant; and a one-page cost spreadsheet.
- Threads: nuclear / panflu
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): Haiti. Evidence (he says so): Hexayurt Country: the Hexayurt Project plan for relief and reconstruction in Haiti (2010-01-22) https://hexayurt.com/hexayurt_country/
- Led to Municipal Administration of Cities in Crisis (2013): Haiti, then Katrina and Sandy, for city governments
- Sources (17, by hand first, then by importance): [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md) TEDxEWB - Vinay Gupta - Enabling Humanitarian Innovation (2010); [14](https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md) Hexayurt Country (2010); [38](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md) Hexayurt Country: The Hexayurt Project plan for relief... (2010); [16](https://guptaoption.com/texts/16.md) Hexayurt Country (2010); [13](https://guptaoption.com/texts/13.md) Hexayurt Country (2010); [90](https://guptaoption.com/texts/90.md) The Hexayurt in Haiti – a technical description | The... (2010); [101](https://guptaoption.com/texts/101.md) Hexayurt project/Mass evacuation (2007); [15](https://guptaoption.com/texts/15.md) Nuclear / mass evacuation (2007); [145](https://guptaoption.com/texts/145.md) Sweden Presentation; [150](https://guptaoption.com/texts/150.md) Reykjavik Hexayurt Briefing; [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md) Vinay Gupta feasibility analysis; [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md) Wisdom spirals and doom loops: the deck (2026); ...

### In a Page (2010)

- Economics of resources; specified; work id in-a-page; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/in_a_page/
- What: A series of one-page papers, mostly from spring 2010, each putting one argument on a single sheet.
- Summary: Already in the graph: Why Nothing Works, The New Economy, The Private Humanitarian Company, the NESTA copyright piece. Not yet: seven thousand einsteins (talent coming online), summum bonum (predators with technology), the future in a page (an individual with a foreign policy: the Hexayurt Project), The New Politics (the black world of secret budgets), the seventh seal, why you need to get off your ass, will the next generation act? (with Edmund Harriss, Cloughjordan, 2011), a theory of history (2015), What is freedom? (2020). The Democratic Empire and Sharing our fear can make peace are proposed separately.
- Sources (43, by hand first, then by importance): [826](https://guptaoption.com/texts/826.md) Index of /in_a_page (2010); [91](https://guptaoption.com/texts/91.md) The imperialists of the future are imperialists of the... (2010); [148](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md) Mother of Hydrogen (2012); [155](https://guptaoption.com/texts/155.md) Mother of Hydrogen (2012); [322](https://guptaoption.com/texts/322.md) Vinay Gupta at the Athens Hackerspace, 2012 September 2 (2012); [66](https://guptaoption.com/texts/66.md) My State In A Box – Identity Services Architecture paper... (2007); [106](https://guptaoption.com/texts/106.md) The Future We Deserve (2012); [210](https://guptaoption.com/texts/210.md) The Future We Deserve (2012); [240](https://guptaoption.com/texts/240.md) The Future We Deserve — Introduction (2012); [52](https://guptaoption.com/texts/52.md) When? | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2011); [354](https://guptaoption.com/texts/354.md) The Future We Deserve - 2 (2012); [77] I went to the same school as Julian Assange, but we... (2011) (no text here); ...

### New and Developing (Africa Gathering London 2010) (2010)

- Economics of resources; specified; work id africa-gathering-2010; https://web.archive.org/web/20140907192521/http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/new-and-developed-vinay-gupta-hexayurt-project-africa-gathering-london-2010-1790
- What: Talk: the Big Five household interventions, the end of aid, and where growth will come from.
- Summary: Stop smoking, filtered water, smokeless cooking, effective sanitation, improved agriculture. With the US, Europe and China constrained, growth will come from places with room for 50 percent growth in ten years.
- Sources (1, by hand first, then by importance): [359](https://guptaoption.com/texts/359.md) ZOOM0004 (2011)

### Nuclear Poker (2010)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id nuclear-poker; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/nuclear_poker_card_game_proliferation.pdf
- What: A card game about nuclear proliferation and deterrence, with a 2014 Playa Edition and a half-scale quad dome bunker for Electromagnetic Field.
- Summary: 2010 sheet by Vinay Gupta and Dan Carter, GNU FDL: build from Uranium to Superpower, trade by diplomacy, test, then strike, disarm or declare Mutually Assured Destruction. 2014 Playa Edition, art by Ian Willey, rules mostly his, crowdfunded with the Nuclear Poker Hexa-Bunker for Electromagnetic Field 2014.
- Sources (1, by hand first, then by importance): [776](https://guptaoption.com/texts/776.md) Vinay Gupta presents "Nuclear Poker" to the London... (2016)

### Systems reformulated (2010)

- Writing and inner practice; specified; work id meditation-reformulation
- What: Meditation methods reworked and bench-tested privately with a few people.
- Summary: 2015 London talks: went back and re-formulated the systems in 2010 or 2011, bench-testing with a small number of people in secret.
- Threads: solo practice to the cutting machinery
- Came from Internal dialogue stops (1993): then the system, rewritten. Evidence (implied by the later work): My Thoughtmenu on Enlightenment (2020) https://web.archive.org/web/20181006171655/http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/my-thoughtmenu-on-enlightenment-3644
- Came from Nath Sampradaya initiation (2004): lineage practice, rewritten
- Led to The cutting machinery (2015): bench test becomes teaching
- Sources (2, by hand first, then by importance): [576](https://guptaoption.com/texts/576.md) '12 Percent US Inflation The Flight in to Hard, Real... (2022); [389](https://guptaoption.com/texts/389.md) Big Picture Days 3 (2013)

### The Democratic Empire (2010)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id democratic-empire; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/in_a_page/the_democratic_empire.pdf
- What: One-page scenario of global bankruptcy: the US withdraws, China struggles for unity, core Europe huddles, and much of the developing world falls into anarchy.
- Summary: Printed London, 9 June 2010. Maps the political umbrella each nuclear arsenal would cast after a severe global financial crash.

### The Goat Rodeo Index (2010)

- Crisis planning; model; specified; work id goat-rodeo; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-goat-rodeo-complexdifficult-situation-scale-2064
- What: A ten-level scale for how hard a governance mess is: many actors, competing incentives, some irrational, and few good outcomes.
- Summary: Blog post, 22 October 2010: The Goat Rodeo Index, a persistent governance antipattern. Rated I (a divorce) to X (future regulation of AI and similar technologies). Expanded in the one-page Why Nothing Works (2011). Taken further as the core of Of Warlords and Rodeos, the opening chapter of Warlords, Inc. (2015).
- Threads: goat rodeo to warlords
- Came from "Complex systems behave unpredictably": Gupta's law of complex systems (2010): complexity, then a scale for governance messes. Evidence (implied by the later work): Complex systems behave unpredictably: Gupta's law of complex systems (blog) (2010-06-26) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/a-little-intellectual-history-1776; The Goat Rodeo Index (blog) (2010-10-22) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-goat-rodeo-complexdifficult-situation-scale-2064
- Led to Why Nothing Works: identifying and quantifying the Goat Rodeo governance antipattern (2010): the index, written up in a page. Evidence (he says so): The Goat Rodeo Index, a persistent governance antipattern (blog) (2010-10-22) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-goat-rodeo-complexdifficult-situation-scale-2064; Why Nothing Works (In a Page PDF) (2011-06-13) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/in_a_page/why_nothing_works_the_Goat_Rodeo_Index.pdf
- Sources (4, by hand first, then by importance): [88](https://guptaoption.com/texts/88.md) The Goat Rodeo Index – a persistent Governance... (2010); [725](https://guptaoption.com/texts/725.md) Vinay Gupta l Plausible utopias | Meaning 2012 (2012); [25](https://guptaoption.com/texts/25.md) The Goat Rodeo Index (2011); [194](https://guptaoption.com/texts/194.md) Of Warlords and Rodeos: Why Nothing Works - North... (2015)



# Vinay Gupta: his works and how they connect (part 5 of 9, 2010 to 2012)

> Every work in his career record (175), by year, with what it is, the thread it belongs to, what it came from and led to and why, and the sources in the archive about it. Part 5 of 9, 2010 to 2012; continues in https://guptaoption.com/texts/works-6.md. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt; source ids such as [250] are at https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md.

### The New Economy: out of money, out of time, but not out of ideas (2010)

- Economics of resources; argument; specified; work id new-economy; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/in_a_page/the_new_economy.pdf
- What: One-page paper: the richest fifth are eating the planet, so the next economy has to be at peace with other people and with the planet.
- Summary: One of the "In a Page" papers. "Sixty million people, 1% of the human population, die every year", around a third of them early because they are poor. Of three outlets for aggression, against other species, other humans and the unknown, only the last depletes nothing. The new economy is anything with clean inputs and non-destructive outputs. It closes: "with the exception of cheap renewable electricity, you will be poorer in an economy which is not based on plunder. But we will all be richer, together."
- Threads: RMI to spiral
- Came from Leashless (2009): an economy not based on plunder. Evidence (implied by the later work): Leashless (PDF), p. 7 (2009) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/leashless_manifesto.pdf; The New Economy (In a Page) (2010) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/in_a_page/the_new_economy.pdf
- Led to Plausible Utopias (2012): abundance breaks the financial system. Evidence (implied by the later work): The New Economy (In a Page) (2010) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/in_a_page/the_new_economy.pdf; Plausible Utopias (Meaning 2012 slides) (2012) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Vinay%20Gupta%20meaning%20slides%20FINAL.pdf
- Sources (110, by hand first, then by importance): [828](https://guptaoption.com/texts/828.md) The New Economy: out of money, out of time, but not out... (2010); [91](https://guptaoption.com/texts/91.md) The imperialists of the future are imperialists of the... (2010); [148](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md) Mother of Hydrogen (2012); [108](https://guptaoption.com/texts/108.md) User:Vinay Gupta/The Unplugged (2006); [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md) Through the Looking Glass - Vinay Gupta on systemic... (2010); [753](https://guptaoption.com/texts/753.md) (OHM2013) One network one world designing for a 7 plus... (2013); [128](https://guptaoption.com/texts/128.md) Black Elephants & Skull Jackets: A Conversation with... (2010); [823](https://guptaoption.com/texts/823.md) Plausible Utopias (2012); [239](https://guptaoption.com/texts/239.md) The Future of Stuff (2020); [252](https://guptaoption.com/texts/252.md) Vinay Gupta / Mattereum Manifesto keynote at the London... (2019); [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md) Vinay Gupta: The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019); [724](https://guptaoption.com/texts/724.md) Roundtable Discussion with Vinay Gupta and Bryan... (2024); ...

### The Private Humanitarian Company (2010)

- Economics of resources; idea; specified; work id private-humanitarian-company; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/in_a_page/The_Private_Humanitarian_Company.pdf
- What: One-page sketch of a company modeled on private military companies, using operations and logistics talent to deliver essential services in disasters.
- Summary: London, 4 November 2010. Humanitarian aid is in crisis because proven innovations deploy too slowly: "Over $10 billion was raised for relief and reconstruction in Haiti", yet nearly a year after the earthquake most of those made homeless still were. The tools exist, from biosand filters and solar water disinfection to the hexayurt and the cell phone. Private military companies supply force to clients who lack it; a private humanitarian company would supply essential services and supply chains, hired by governments and charity consortiums as an integrated package, staffed in part by veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. "Some project 150 million climate refugees by 2050."
- Threads: social enterprise
- Came from Three Rules for Designing the Social Enterprise (2009): a social enterprise for aid
- Came from Hope for the World (2009): relief and development as one problem, then a company to deliver it. Evidence (implied by the later work): Hope for the World slides (Sweden presentation) (2009) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/hope_for_the_world/; The Private Humanitarian Company (2010-11-04) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/in_a_page/The_Private_Humanitarian_Company.pdf
- Sources (9, by hand first, then by importance): [827](https://guptaoption.com/texts/827.md) The Private Humanitarian Company (2010); [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md) Hope For The World (2017); [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md) TEDxEWB - Vinay Gupta - Enabling Humanitarian Innovation (2010); [8](https://guptaoption.com/texts/8.md) Municipal Administration of Cities in Crisis (2013); [267](https://guptaoption.com/texts/267.md) The future of humanitarian innovation (2017); [145](https://guptaoption.com/texts/145.md) Sweden Presentation; [137](https://guptaoption.com/texts/137.md) STAR-TIDES (2007); [331](https://guptaoption.com/texts/331.md) STAR-TIDES Talk at FAHUM 08 (2012); [13](https://guptaoption.com/texts/13.md) Hexayurt Country (2010)

### The Tiny Army (2010)

- Writing and inner practice; specified; work id tiny-army; https://www.appropedia.org/The_Future_We_Deserve/The_Tiny_Army_-_Vinay_Gupta
- What: Short story about a seven-person army.
- Summary: Short fiction in The Future We Deserve. A seven-person army and a humanitarian pandemic organism. Collected with the essays; it is the fiction piece in that book.
- Threads: fiction draws on
- Led to The Future We Deserve (2012): collected in the book. Evidence (he says so): Appropedia: The Future We Deserve/The Tiny Army - Vinay Gupta (2010) https://www.appropedia.org/The_Future_We_Deserve/The_Tiny_Army_-_Vinay_Gupta; Appropedia: The Future We Deserve, list of articles https://www.appropedia.org/The_Future_We_Deserve
- Sources (1, by hand first, then by importance): [107](https://guptaoption.com/texts/107.md) The Future We Deserve/The Tiny Army - Vinay Gupta (2010)

### Through the Looking Glass (2010)

- Crisis planning; model; specified; work id through-the-looking-glass; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm5o-ughyD8
- What: Talk for FEASTA in Ireland on systemic risk: government is the wrong place to manage big risks, so describe each risk by scope, severity, complexity, source and odds, and map what keeps people alive with SCIM.
- Summary: Talk for FEASTA, the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability, in Ireland, September 2010, with 175 slides. The state's failure to manage risk returns risk to us. Threat-focused groups detect, avoid and mitigate; reaction-focused groups such as the Red Cross help people recover; both are needed. Risks are described by scope, severity, complexity, source and odds, and climate change and financial collapse share deep complexity and global scope. Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps, adapted from the State in a Box method, and the Integrated Needs Analysis Matrix bridge threat and response groups. It closes on agro-industrial auto-catalysis (aiac), the loop of cheap food, energy and tools that civilization runs on, and on managing a systemic crisis without government support.
- Threads: nuclear / panflu
- Came from SCIM / INAM (2009): SCIM presented as risk mapping. Evidence (he says so): Through the Looking Glass talk 30:07 (2020-03-20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm5o-ughyD8&t=1807s; Through the Looking Glass promo, Ireland, 26 to 28 September 2010, 0:22 (2010-09-12) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7cYlKkTUzM&t=22s
- Came from State in a Box (2006): the State in a Box method, reused for civilian risk. Evidence (he says so): Through the Looking Glass talk 24:58 (2020-03-20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm5o-ughyD8&t=1498s
- Led to The Resilience Dividend (2011): point and systemic crisis, carried into a service for families. Evidence (implied by the later work): Through the Looking Glass talk 39:14 (2020-03-20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm5o-ughyD8&t=2354s; Through the Looking Glass talk 18:35 (2020-03-20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm5o-ughyD8&t=1115s
- Sources (39, by hand first, then by importance): [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md) Through the Looking Glass - Vinay Gupta on systemic... (2010); [849] Through the Looking Glass (slides) (2010) (no text here); [366](https://guptaoption.com/texts/366.md) "Through the Looking Glass" - Vinay Gupta - Ireland... (2010); [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md) Multipolar Realpolitik (Omnibus draft) (2024); [32](https://guptaoption.com/texts/32.md) Severe Panflu Response Strategies (2006); [1](https://guptaoption.com/texts/1.md) Dealing in Security.July2010.en; [8](https://guptaoption.com/texts/8.md) Municipal Administration of Cities in Crisis (2013); [681](https://guptaoption.com/texts/681.md) Pandemics and the Coronavirus Part 1 with Vinay Gupta (2020); [20](https://guptaoption.com/texts/20.md) Resilience and Opportunity: Effective Tools for Victory... (2006); [685](https://guptaoption.com/texts/685.md) Pandemics and the Coronavirus Part 2 with Vinay Gupta (2020); [2](https://guptaoption.com/texts/2.md) Of Warlords and Rodeos Why Nothing Works proofs; [372](https://guptaoption.com/texts/372.md) this is not a video about coronavirus - the hypothetical... (2008); ...

### To bite the hand that feeds: survival (2010)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id bite-the-hand; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/the_condition_of_our_condition.pdf
- What: Four-page essay: Nash equilibria lock each of us into breaking the world, so the way out is a new, enforced law for the planet.
- Summary: First draft, London, 15 August 2010. Even the most powerful individual cannot change the outcome alone; Kyoto and Copenhagen are indictments of democracy; free ourselves, then preach the new law.
- Sources (18, by hand first, then by importance): [725](https://guptaoption.com/texts/725.md) Vinay Gupta l Plausible utopias | Meaning 2012 (2012); [706](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md) Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin - with Vinay Gupta | Virtual... (2018); [305](https://guptaoption.com/texts/305.md) ChangeHow - rough camera video of Vinay Gupta's talk on... (2015); [54](https://guptaoption.com/texts/54.md) Framing The Collapsonomics Practice | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2009); [686](https://guptaoption.com/texts/686.md) VINAY GUPTA, Future of Europe Seminar, Nov 2012 (2013); [709](https://guptaoption.com/texts/709.md) Can blockchain solve the accountability gap? | Vinay Gupta (2017); [286](https://guptaoption.com/texts/286.md) Ouishare on global democracy and the real sharing economy (2016); [368](https://guptaoption.com/texts/368.md) Superstruct Communications Intercept 1 - DCAR (2008); [363](https://guptaoption.com/texts/363.md) Culture Control Group - Brussels Cheese Crisis Report -... (2011); [696](https://guptaoption.com/texts/696.md) Vinay Gupta - Pandemic means Death? | London Real (2014); [159](https://guptaoption.com/texts/159.md) Taming Black Elephants (2017); [863](https://guptaoption.com/texts/863.md) Vinay Gupta - Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin (2016); ...

### Why Nothing Works: identifying and quantifying the Goat Rodeo governance antipattern (2010)

- Crisis planning; model; specified; work id why-nothing-works; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/in_a_page/why_nothing_works_the_Goat_Rodeo_Index.pdf
- What: One-page paper: warlord entrepreneurs fill the gap when accountability fails, and the goat rodeo, different players with different goals, is how it fails.
- Summary: A one-page piece with a 2x2 of players against goals (cartel, competition, cooperation, goat rodeo) and the I to X Goat Rodeo scale, from a divorce to nanobio regulation. Its opening paragraph is close to the opening of the 2015 chapter Of Warlords and Rodeos.
- Threads: goat rodeo to warlords
- Came from The Goat Rodeo Index (2010): the index, written up in a page. Evidence (he says so): The Goat Rodeo Index, a persistent governance antipattern (blog) (2010-10-22) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-goat-rodeo-complexdifficult-situation-scale-2064; Why Nothing Works (In a Page PDF) (2011-06-13) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/in_a_page/why_nothing_works_the_Goat_Rodeo_Index.pdf
- Led to Warlords, Inc.: Black Markets, Broken States, and the Rise of the Warlord Entrepreneur (2015): the one-pager grows into the book chapter. Evidence (he says so): Why Nothing Works (In a Page PDF) (2011-06-13) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/in_a_page/why_nothing_works_the_Goat_Rodeo_Index.pdf; North Atlantic Books excerpt: Of Warlords and Rodeos: Why Nothing Works (archived) (2015-04-28) https://web.archive.org/web/20200516222520/https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/blog/of-warlords-and-rodeos-why-nothing-works/
- Led to The Big Deal (2011): a scale for government's limits, then the case for civil society. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Synthesis (Big Deal essay) (2011-02-05) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/bigdeal/the-synthesis-2243; Why Nothing Works (In a Page PDF) (2011-06-13) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/in_a_page/why_nothing_works_the_Goat_Rodeo_Index.pdf
- Led to The Gupta State Failure Management Archive (2011): part of the archive. Evidence (he says so): Gupta State Failure Management Archive reader's guide (Appropedia) http://www.appropedia.org/Gupta_State_Failure_Management_Archive
- Sources (3, by hand first, then by importance): [25](https://guptaoption.com/texts/25.md) The Goat Rodeo Index (2011); [88](https://guptaoption.com/texts/88.md) The Goat Rodeo Index – a persistent Governance... (2010); [194](https://guptaoption.com/texts/194.md) Of Warlords and Rodeos: Why Nothing Works - North... (2015)

### Avoid Winter War: Hexayurts and #Occupy (2011)

- Crisis planning; argument; specified; work id occupy-winter-war; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/advice-for-occupy-avoid-winter-war-2881
- What: Reply to requests to supply the Occupy camps for winter: after listing the winter kit, including folding Hexayurts, it calls that tactical answer "totally wrong" and advises going home for Thanksgiving, then coming back in spring to plant.
- Summary: About 800 words, 29 October 2011. He sets out his political stance first: sympathetic, but Occupy lacks a global platform, so "this is not for me". Then the winter advice people expected: thermal underwear, layered "synergy beds", big thermos flasks, small folding corrugated plastic Hexayurts, and SCIM to run camp meetings. "But this is totally wrong. It's a tactical approach to a fundamentally strategic and political problem." Whether Stalingrad, Valley Forge or the Winter War, winter is not the friend of those in struggle. So: go home for Thanksgiving, declare victory, leave no trace, plan over the winter, and in spring take and hold land to plant wild flowers and grow food. He says Adbusters Tactical Briefing 18 was built on this piece but "misses two important points".
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): the winter kit, and why it is the wrong answer. Evidence (he says so): Avoid Winter War: Hexayurts and #Occupy (blog) (2011-10-29) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/advice-for-occupy-avoid-winter-war-2881
- Sources (13, by hand first, then by importance): [75](https://guptaoption.com/texts/75.md) Avoid Winter War: Hexayurts and #Occupy | The... (2011); [323](https://guptaoption.com/texts/323.md) Vinay Gupta at the Athens Hackerspace (highlights) (2012); [202](https://guptaoption.com/texts/202.md) TACTICAL BRIEFING #18 | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters (2011); [55](https://guptaoption.com/texts/55.md) FREE Guptastan | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2008); [67](https://guptaoption.com/texts/67.md) Rough video from my talk in Iceland | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2008); [776](https://guptaoption.com/texts/776.md) Vinay Gupta presents "Nuclear Poker" to the London... (2016); [37](https://guptaoption.com/texts/37.md) http://hexayurt.com/coat (2023); [696](https://guptaoption.com/texts/696.md) Vinay Gupta - Pandemic means Death? | London Real (2014); [71](https://guptaoption.com/texts/71.md) TIDES – the skinny! | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2007); [782](https://guptaoption.com/texts/782.md) FutureRant w/ Gabriel D Vine - Vinay Gupta TEASER (2016); [361](https://guptaoption.com/texts/361.md) Reading Hipster Hitler at the Führerbunker (2011); [234](https://guptaoption.com/texts/234.md) zenpundit.com » Blog Archive » WARLORDS, INC BOOK LAUNCH!!! (2015); ...

### Boing Boing (2011) (about him, by others)

- Press coverage; specified; work id press-boingboing-2011; https://boingboing.net/2011/10/24/tools-to-not-die-with-an-interview-with-vinay-gupta.html
- What: Boing Boing interview on the Hexayurt: Tools To Not Die With.
- Summary: Tools To Not Die With, 24 October 2011. Hexayurt interview. Farm sheet-waste origin story.
- Sources (1, by hand first, then by importance): [114](https://guptaoption.com/texts/114.md) Tools To Not Die With: An Interview with Vinay Gupta,... (2011)

### Buy a Castle: Finding Next Generation Resilience in Ireland (2011)

- Economics of resources; specified; work id buy-a-castle; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/castle/9355a9f9948fa985b84e4e369b5245f3/Finding%20Next%20Generation%20Resilience%20in%20Ireland.screen..pdf
- What: Proposal deck to buy 86 acres with Glengarriff Castle as a dense, resilient community with farming, water, power and a deep-water port.
- Summary: Land as the only stable hedge as globalization unwinds; four million euros with planning permission for castle restoration and 18 apartments.
- Sources (6, by hand first, then by importance): [754](https://guptaoption.com/texts/754.md) Vinay Gupta shares his vision of a rural future (2013); [401](https://guptaoption.com/texts/401.md) Meaning Conf Livestream 7 @meaningconf (2012); [497](https://guptaoption.com/texts/497.md) Debt vs Equity (2025); [517](https://guptaoption.com/texts/517.md) The Global Asset Pool is About to Massively Increase (2025); [592](https://guptaoption.com/texts/592.md) ‘800 Year Old Goat Hide Parchments: Real Estate ’ (2022); [351] John Barlow at the Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference... (2012) (no text here)

### C-WASP: Applying Lessons Learned from the War on Drugs to Win the War on Terror (2011)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id cwasp; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/CWASP.pdf
- What: Satire, co-authored with Lucy Wills: the gangs won the war on drugs, so give them air support.
- Summary: Signed Vinay Gupta and Lucy Wills, April 1, 2011 (backdated).
- Sources (1, by hand first, then by importance): [327](https://guptaoption.com/texts/327.md) Papa Bill's Stew-Stick Jam - Marmaduke Dando - Second Song (2012)

### Creation and Crisis (2011)

- Writing and inner practice; specified; work id creativity-and-crisis; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Creativity%20and%20Crisis.pdf
- What: Talk at the Thursday Club, Goldsmiths, on how science fiction shaped his work, from Bruce Sterling's Sarvodaya technicians to Shockwave Rider.
- Summary: Goldsmiths, London, 28 September 2011. 44 slides. Opens on Sterling's Green Days in Brunei (1985), with Sarvodaya's Buddhist technicians in a story set around 2025; the next slide notes that Sarvodaya turns out to exist and built its first hexayurt the previous year.
- Sources (2, by hand first, then by importance): [704](https://guptaoption.com/texts/704.md) Vinay Gupta: Liberation, Culture, Conflict and Catastrophe (2024); [213](https://guptaoption.com/texts/213.md) Vinay | Creativity and Crisis - Vinay Gupta. 29th...

### Laziness, Impatience and Hubris (2011)

- Survival hardware; specified; work id laziness-impatience-hubris; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/laziness_impatience_and_hubris/index.html
- What: Talk at c-base, Berlin: Larry Wall's three virtues of a programmer applied to building, by a hackitect.
- Summary: Easy, fast, scalable building: 7 hexayurts and 150 square meters in two days at Burning Ice, Brussels; 40 hexayurts at Maslowtopia, Burning Man. The video runs 30 minutes, with the folding hexayurt videos from the 20-minute mark.
- Sources (15, by hand first, then by importance): [321](https://guptaoption.com/texts/321.md) Vinay Gupta talking at FreeAndReal / The Telaithrion... (2012); [364](https://guptaoption.com/texts/364.md) burning ice brussels seven minute tour (2011); [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md) vinay gupta | be you. (2014); [830](https://guptaoption.com/texts/830.md) Laziness, Impatience and Hubris: Vinay Gupta of the... (2011); [294](https://guptaoption.com/texts/294.md) Practice Safe Hex - Burning Man Hexayurt Safety Checklist! (2015); [118](https://guptaoption.com/texts/118.md) File:Hexayurt at Burning Man 2010.jpg - Wikimedia Commons (2010); [78](https://guptaoption.com/texts/78.md) Living Video and the Akvo Video Strategy | The... (2011); [374](https://guptaoption.com/texts/374.md) The Hexayurt Project 2007 Intro Video (2007); [247](https://guptaoption.com/texts/247.md) Hexayurt Interviews Hexayurt Footage From The... (2020); [310](https://guptaoption.com/texts/310.md) Engineers Without Borders Sheffield Plywood Hexayurt How To (2015); [339](https://guptaoption.com/texts/339.md) 15 minute video on how to make Hexayurts for Burning Man (2012); [360](https://guptaoption.com/texts/360.md) ZOOM0003 (2011); ...

### Quaddome (2011) (he contributed)

- Survival hardware; built; specified; work id hy-quaddome; https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_project/Nearodesic
- What: Community-designed dome in which every triangle is half a 4x8 sheet.
- Summary: Nearodesic quad-dome. Every triangle is half a 4x8 sheet. Designed by Edmund Harriss. Morgan Engel built one at Burning Man 2011. Vinay posted a built example 23 March 2026: about 14 feet in radius, not a rendering. Appropedia's Nearodesic page lists the Quaddome (H30) at 30 sheets and 448 square feet, with 4-foot and 8-foot stretched versions.
- Threads: hexayurt builds
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): zero-waste large dome. Evidence (he says so): Stamps talk 37:21, Edmund Harriss's domes built at Burning Man from downloaded designs... (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=2241s; MICA lecture 12:30, the big domes: 14 feet high, 28 across, about 450 square feet for... (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=750s
- Came from H18 (2006): larger still, same sheets. Evidence (implied by the later work): Appropedia: Hexayurt project, sizes https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt; Appropedia: Hexayurt project/Nearodesic https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_project/Nearodesic
- Sources (7, by hand first, then by importance): [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md) The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world (2002); [322](https://guptaoption.com/texts/322.md) Vinay Gupta at the Athens Hackerspace, 2012 September 2 (2012); [303](https://guptaoption.com/texts/303.md) How To Sell Ideas from (from Ethereum DEVCON Berlin) (2015); [185](https://guptaoption.com/texts/185.md) Hexayurt (2002); [233](https://guptaoption.com/texts/233.md) Quaddome (2020); [193](https://guptaoption.com/texts/193.md) Nearodesic Polyhedron Hexayurt Dome – Morgan Engel's Site (2011); [105](https://guptaoption.com/texts/105.md) Hexayurt project/Nearodesic (2011)

### RCDS cyber (Tibbs) (2011) (he contributed)

- Identity, law and blockchain; argument; specified; work id tibbs-cyber; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/cyber/Defense_Security_Resilience_and_rapid_technological_change.pdf
- What: Interview for the UK Royal College of Defence Studies' cyber research, run by Hardin Tibbs of Synthesys: cryptography can replace the state's role in creating artificial scarcity.
- Summary: Hardin Tibbs interview, Defence, Security and Resilience under Rapid Technological Change. The client was the UK Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS); Synthesys ran the cyber research. Cryptography can replace the State function of manufacturing artificial scarcity. Seedbed for Mattereum. S4inet is the companion Synthesys paper.
- Threads: cryptographic applications; cyber and defense; fiction draws on
- Came from Cypherpunks (1992): applied to the State. Evidence (implied by the later work): Mattereum is Blockchain Cypherpunk (2022-03-01) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yaXwqx-XzA&t=0s; Defence, Security and Resilience under Rapid Technological Change (Hardin Tibbs... (2011) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/cyber/Defense_Security_Resilience_and_rapid_technological_change.pdf#page=2
- Came from CheapID (2006): defense clients: US OSD, then UK RCDS. Evidence (he says so): Breaking Down Real World Assets: Crypto Daily, with Mario Nawfal and Vinay Gupta (2024-08-07) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDu_KLWVCag&t=2250s; Mattereum is Blockchain Cypherpunk (2022-03-01) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yaXwqx-XzA&t=0s
- Led to Ethereum launch (2015): crypto replaces manufactured scarcity. Evidence (implied by the later work): Defence, Security and Resilience under Rapid Technological Change (Hardin Tibbs... (2011) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/cyber/Defense_Security_Resilience_and_rapid_technological_change.pdf#page=2; Startup Societies Podcast, Episode 34 (2019-05-10) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB788hhEwqM&t=641s
- Led to Mother of Hydrogen (2012): smallpox genome and a printer. Evidence (implied by the later work): Defense, Security, Resilience and rapid technological change (RCDS cyber paper), p. 12 (2011) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/cyber/Defense_Security_Resilience_and_rapid_technological_change.pdf#page=12; Mother of Hydrogen: Permanent Reds and replicators (2012-11) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/mother_of_hydrogen.txt
- Led to Multipolar Realpolitik (2024): cryptography in state security, then AI. Evidence (implied by the later work): Defence, Security and Resilience under Rapid Technological Change (Hardin Tibbs... https://files.howtolivewiki.com/cyber/Defense_Security_Resilience_and_rapid_technological_change.pdf; Multipolar Realpolitik, The solution (2024-05-06) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AelylfOU517y0BI184sW7p8TnQl_oH8t4ajH6Fe4vH0/edit
- Led to The Global Cyber Game: Achieving strategic resilience in the global knowledge society (2013): S4inet cited in the Inquiry's report. Evidence (implied by the later work): S4inet: a simple safe secure subsystem of the internet (for Synthesys) (2011) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/cyber/S4inet-a_safer_internet_public.pdf#page=4; The Global Cyber Game (Defence Academy Cyber Inquiry Report) (2013-05-08) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/cyber/20130508-Cyber_report_final_U.pdf#page=48
- Sources (2, by hand first, then by importance): [21](https://guptaoption.com/texts/21.md) RCDS cyber (Tibbs) (2011); [11](https://guptaoption.com/texts/11.md) RCDS cyber (Tibbs) (2011)

### The Big Deal (2011)

- Crisis planning; argument; specified; work id big-deal; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/bigdeal/the-summary-in-part-2282
- What: Four-essay blog series arguing that government has hit hard limits, so civil society, working with progressive incumbents, has to carry the load: a critique and extension of Britain's Big Society.
- Summary: Four essays of around 3,000 words each, 2 to 6 February 2011, tagged #thebigdeal. Reawakening the Enlightenment: democracy has failed to deliver on the environment and human rights. The Synthesis: government has hit hard limits of evolution, complexity, urgency and unity, so people must act together on real problems without creating a global government. The Only Way Out Is UP: the 20th century put the plutonium in the wrong end of the rockets, as warheads rather than engines. The Beautiful World: voluntary cooperation with progressive incumbents to solve the problems that feed repressive ones, a superset of the free software movement's approach. A follow-up, When? (16 August 2011), turns to positive action from the global economic crisis, and tells how in 2003 he chose to store his wealth as reputation capital because two reserve currencies looked likely to crash the global economy within ten years. The background work was The Future We Deserve book project.
- Threads: goat rodeo to warlords
- Came from The Second Amendment in Iraq, Combat Robotics, and the Future of Human Liberty (2008): filed under The Big Deal. Evidence (he says so): The Second Amendment in Iraq, Combat Robotics, and the Future of Human Liberty (blog) (2008-09-02) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/bigdeal/the-second-amendment-in-iraq-combat-robotics-and-the-future-of-human-liberty-820
- Came from Why Nothing Works: identifying and quantifying the Goat Rodeo governance antipattern (2010): a scale for government's limits, then the case for civil society. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Synthesis (Big Deal essay) (2011-02-05) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/bigdeal/the-synthesis-2243; Why Nothing Works (In a Page PDF) (2011-06-13) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/in_a_page/why_nothing_works_the_Goat_Rodeo_Index.pdf
- Came from What's going to happen in the future (2008): government challenged at every level. Evidence (implied by the later work): What's going to happen in the future (blog) (2008-06-01) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/whats-going-to-happen-in-the-future-670
- Led to The Future We Deserve (2012): the book project behind the essays. Evidence (he says so): The Summary: an introduction to #TheBigDeal (blog) (2011-02-06) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/bigdeal/the-summary-in-part-2282
- Led to Multipolar Realpolitik (2024): act together without a global government. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Synthesis (Big Deal essay) (2011-02-05) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/bigdeal/the-synthesis-2243; Multipolar Realpolitik, introduction (2024-05-06) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AelylfOU517y0BI184sW7p8TnQl_oH8t4ajH6Fe4vH0/edit
- Sources (141, by hand first, then by importance): [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md) Through the Looking Glass - Vinay Gupta on systemic... (2010); [50](https://guptaoption.com/texts/50.md) The Synthesis | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2011); [52](https://guptaoption.com/texts/52.md) When? | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2011); [46](https://guptaoption.com/texts/46.md) Reawakening the Enlightenment | The Bucky-Gandhi Design... (2011); [47](https://guptaoption.com/texts/47.md) The Beautiful World | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2011); [51](https://guptaoption.com/texts/51.md) The Only Way Out Is UP | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2011); [49](https://guptaoption.com/texts/49.md) The Summary – an introduction to #TheBigDeal | The... (2011); [148](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md) Mother of Hydrogen (2012); [128](https://guptaoption.com/texts/128.md) Black Elephants & Skull Jackets: A Conversation with... (2010); [322](https://guptaoption.com/texts/322.md) Vinay Gupta at the Athens Hackerspace, 2012 September 2 (2012); [822](https://guptaoption.com/texts/822.md) Mother of Hydrogen, a novel (2012); [724](https://guptaoption.com/texts/724.md) Roundtable Discussion with Vinay Gupta and Bryan... (2024); ...

### The Fiends Give Sudden Chase (2011)

- Writing and inner practice; specified; work id fiends-sudden-chase; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-atrocity-archives-and-a-little-new-fiction-2099
- What: Five very short horror stories, written after reading Charles Stross's The Atrocity Archives.
- Summary: Published on the blog on 9 January 2011 in a post about Stross's The Atrocity Archives: five very short horror stories.
- Threads: fiction draws on
- Led to The Perimeter: Mythos as Science Fiction, and other works (2024): horror shorts, then the Mythos collection. Evidence (he says so): The Atrocity Archives, and a little new fiction (blog) (2011-01-09) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-atrocity-archives-and-a-little-new-fiction-2099; The Perimeter, table of contents (2024-12-27) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xa2Yxf8JNFT8kgDETzkRKfVqDgGeVEvdNnVpGmRIm3E/edit
- Sources (6, by hand first, then by importance): [235](https://guptaoption.com/texts/235.md) The Perimeter: Mythos as Science Fiction and other works (2024); [87](https://guptaoption.com/texts/87.md) The Atrocity Archives, and a little new fiction. | The... (2011); [389](https://guptaoption.com/texts/389.md) Big Picture Days 3 (2013); [356](https://guptaoption.com/texts/356.md) Winter Wonderland, Trouble, Seven Sisters - Andrew C... (2011); [357](https://guptaoption.com/texts/357.md) Mexico - Bleak Blues - Makerhood Christmas Party (2011); [358](https://guptaoption.com/texts/358.md) Run for Cover, Last Christmas - Bleak Blues - Makerhood... (2011)

### The Free City State (2011)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id free-city-state; https://web.archive.org/web/20160114162423/http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-free-city-state-2359
- What: Two talks at The Free School, London: city states, rational borders, matrix government and peaceful villages as a political model around SCIM.
- Summary: If each service chief were elected separately, a city state might need no overall municipal ruler. Tentative early work toward an infrastructure-centered politics. Also in the State Failure archive.

### The Future We Deserve: "Facebook for the Five Billion?" (2011)

- Identity, law and blockchain; argument; specified; work id facebook-five-billion; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/facebook_for_the_five_billion/Facebook%20for%20the%20five%20billion.pdf
- What: Talk deck at Aston Business School: identity, money and culture are being rebuilt from below, and household-scale infrastructure plus free hardware can provide basic needs without the bureaucracies of sharing.
- Summary: 25 slides in four parts: digital identity, digital currency, digital culture, breakthrough. Slide 2 is titled "Tell me who you are", the question the 2015 essay takes as its title. Identity: people born without state registration rely on social identity, and Grameen Bank lent against social standing. Money: he was paid in e-gold in the 1990s; Bitcoin and M-PESA follow. Small Is Profitable shows right-sized infrastructure carries less risk. Scaling infrastructure to the household removes the bureaucracies of sharing, so "you could run a poor country this way". Free hardware is the way forward.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum; RMI to spiral
- Came from CheapID (2006): identity rebuilt from below. Evidence (implied by the later work): CheapID (guptaoption.com/cheapid) (2006) https://guptaoption.com/cheapid/; The Future We Deserve: Facebook for the Five Billion? (slides) (2011-06-02) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/facebook_for_the_five_billion/Facebook%20for%20the%20five%20billion.pdf#page=1
- Came from Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (2008): free hardware, then degovernancing. Evidence (implied by the later work): Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (Reykjavik keynote source) (2008-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Reykjavik_Digital_Freedoms_Conference/; The Future We Deserve: Facebook for the Five Billion? (slides) (2011-06-02) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/facebook_for_the_five_billion/Facebook%20for%20the%20five%20billion.pdf#page=19
- Led to Tell Me Who You Are: Identity, institutional memory, and the persistent illusion of the self (2015): slide 2: tell me who you are. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Future We Deserve: Facebook for the Five Billion? (slides) (2011-06-02) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/facebook_for_the_five_billion/Facebook%20for%20the%20five%20billion.pdf#page=1; Tell Me Who You Are (ConsenSys, Medium) (2015-12-23) https://medium.com/@Consensys/tell-me-who-you-are-258268bf3180
- Sources (135, by hand first, then by importance): [144](https://guptaoption.com/texts/144.md) The Future We Deserve: "Facebook for the Five Billion?" (2011); [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md) guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php (2006); [266](https://guptaoption.com/texts/266.md) "Blockchain: IoT's trust broker?" talk on the fly by... (2017); [163](https://guptaoption.com/texts/163.md) Tell Me Who You Are. Identity, institutional memory, and... (2019); [694](https://guptaoption.com/texts/694.md) EB114 – Vinay Gupta: From Lawyer Capitalism To... (2016); [35](https://guptaoption.com/texts/35.md) CheapID (2006); [730](https://guptaoption.com/texts/730.md) The Bitcoin Podcast Interview #343- Vinay Gupta CEO Of... (2021); [82](https://guptaoption.com/texts/82.md) On Un-Designing the Cryptographic Utopia | The... (2012); [695](https://guptaoption.com/texts/695.md) Vinay Gupta - Dangerous Old Men: cypherpunk's failure,... (2015); [775](https://guptaoption.com/texts/775.md) Vinay Gupta - Foreign Policy By Internet Protocol (2015); [83](https://guptaoption.com/texts/83.md) People’s Cloud architecture and futures in 1000 words |... (2013); [24](https://guptaoption.com/texts/24.md) Three Rules for Designing the Social Enterprise (2009); ...

### The Gupta State Failure Management Archive (2011)

- Crisis planning; built; specified; work id state-failure-archive; http://www.archive.org/details/TheGuptaStateFailureManagementArchive
- What: 4.3 GB of lectures and documents on state failure and contingency management, released into the public domain on Archive.org.
- Summary: Released 6 August 2011: "4.3gb of files on State Failure and contingency management into the public domain at Archive.org", with a collaborative reader's guide on Appropedia. It starts with Dealing in Security and includes Why Nothing Works and recorded talks such as The Living City for Arup, Through the Looking Glass and Modeling State Failure With SCIM in Ireland, and The Future We Deserve at Winchester School of Art.
- Threads: nuclear / panflu
- Came from Dealing in Security (2010): released into the public domain. Evidence (he says so): The Gupta State Failure Management Archive: a public resource for hard times (blog) (2011-08-06) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-gupta-state-failure-management-archive-a-public-resource-for-hard-times-2636
- Came from Why Nothing Works: identifying and quantifying the Goat Rodeo governance antipattern (2010): part of the archive. Evidence (he says so): Gupta State Failure Management Archive reader's guide (Appropedia) http://www.appropedia.org/Gupta_State_Failure_Management_Archive
- Came from The Living City (2009): the recording, released in the archive. Evidence (he says so): Gupta State Failure Management Archive reader's guide (Appropedia) http://www.appropedia.org/Gupta_State_Failure_Management_Archive
- Sources (7, by hand first, then by importance): [52](https://guptaoption.com/texts/52.md) When? | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2011); [99](https://guptaoption.com/texts/99.md) User:Vinay Gupta/Gupta State Failure Management Archive (2011); [89](https://guptaoption.com/texts/89.md) The Gupta State Failure Management Archive – a public... (2011); [824](https://guptaoption.com/texts/824.md) Index of /__CRASHPAD (2011); [60](https://guptaoption.com/texts/60.md) Dealing in Security – Simple Critical Infrastructure... (2009); [366](https://guptaoption.com/texts/366.md) "Through the Looking Glass" - Vinay Gupta - Ireland... (2010); [378](https://guptaoption.com/texts/378.md) Vinay Gupta Live Stream (2016)

### The Resilience Dividend (2011)

- Crisis planning; proposal; specified; work id resilience-dividend; https://resiliencedesigner.com/
- What: Four-page paper: after the 2011 debt-ceiling crisis and riots, resilience can reach ordinary families through a service ecology of resilience designers, guides and coaches, modeled on home improvement.
- Summary: Dated 14 August 2011 and published at resiliencedesigner.com under the heading About the Service Ecology of Resilience. With the US within hours of sovereign default and riots in Britain, governments had validated the sense of crisis, so resilience could move from true believers to innovators on Rogers' diffusion model. Transition Towns, survivalism and Civil Contingencies each miss ordinary people; Civil Contingencies handles a point crisis like a flood, not a systemic one. Innovators buy services, so a resilience designer or guide plans a family's path through five steps: 72-hour kits, household resilience, lifestyle, financial resilience, and psychological and spiritual resilience.
- Came from Through the Looking Glass (2010): point and systemic crisis, carried into a service for families. Evidence (implied by the later work): Through the Looking Glass talk 39:14 (2020-03-20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm5o-ughyD8&t=2354s; Through the Looking Glass talk 18:35 (2020-03-20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm5o-ughyD8&t=1115s
- Sources (5, by hand first, then by importance): [848] The Resilience Dividend (2011) (no text here); [365](https://guptaoption.com/texts/365.md) social media and local resilience (2010); [363](https://guptaoption.com/texts/363.md) Culture Control Group - Brussels Cheese Crisis Report -... (2011); [223](https://guptaoption.com/texts/223.md) Finding Each other in the Ruins - resilience (2025); [182](https://guptaoption.com/texts/182.md) About (2007)

### Truth and Beauty (2011)

- Writing and inner practice; specified; work id truth-and-beauty; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/TRUTHANDBEAUTY/
- What: Hosted a London talk series; speakers included Richard Stallman and Jamais Cascio.
- Summary: Hosted series at The Hub Westminster. The season page is archived at files.howtolivewiki.com/TRUTHANDBEAUTY/. Talks on that page: Richard Stallman on free software; Nathan Koren on rocket science; Vinay Gupta on The Future We Deserve and comprehensive governance; Jamais Cascio on geoengineering; The Beauty of Truth and Beauty; Curtis Faith on cooperation; Lloyd Davis, All of Me; David Bovill, Liquid Law; James Hester on the three lessons of history.
- Threads: fiction draws on
- Led to The Future We Deserve (2012): the talks, then the book. Evidence (he says so): Truth and Beauty, or "what in the hell is going on, Vinay?" (blog) (2011-10-18) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/truth-and-beauty-or-what-in-the-hell-is-going-on-vinay-2877; The Future We Deserve 2, video 0:00, about a year and a half since the project began... (2012-02-15) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9irdzMI13I&t=0s
- Led to Swarm Cooperatives (Big Picture Days) (2013): another London series. Evidence (implied by the later work): Truth and Beauty (blog) (2011-10-18) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/truth-and-beauty-or-what-in-the-hell-is-going-on-vinay-2877; Swarm Cooperatives Schedule (blog) (2013-05-18) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/swarm-cooperatives-more-event-details-including-speakers-3406
- Sources (6, by hand first, then by importance): [92](https://guptaoption.com/texts/92.md) Truth and Beauty, or “what in the hell is going on,... (2011); [26](https://guptaoption.com/texts/26.md) Index of /TRUTHANDBEAUTY (2010); [256](https://guptaoption.com/texts/256.md) I'm coming to Malta (2019); [213](https://guptaoption.com/texts/213.md) Vinay | Creativity and Crisis - Vinay Gupta. 29th...; [139](https://guptaoption.com/texts/139.md) index; [214](https://guptaoption.com/texts/214.md) Reboot Britain | Benjamin Ellis | Flickr

### A Feather for Lifting Anvils: EdgeRyders 2.0 (2012)

- Economics of resources; proposal; specified; work id edgeryders-venture-social-capital; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/a-feather-for-lifting-anvils-edgeryders-2-0-plans-to-change-the-world-3350
- What: The EdgeRyders plan for Venture Social Capital: financing local projects through a commitment-based social network.
- Summary: About 1,500 words, 26 November 2012. "The EdgeRyders community has decided to take a crack solving the world's problems by inventing a new collective structure: Venture Social Capital." Local projects are financed by the collective power of an extended social network, with a commitment-based structure so the group can make decisions in a timely, business-like way: "we're going into the banking business."
- Threads: social enterprise
- Came from Three Rules for Designing the Social Enterprise (2009): venture social capital. Evidence (implied by the later work): Three Rules for Designing the Social Enterprise, p. 1 (2009) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Three_Rules_for_Designing_the_Social_Enterprise.pdf; A Feather for Lifting Anvils: EdgeRyders 2.0 (blog) (2012-11-26) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/a-feather-for-lifting-anvils-edgeryders-2-0-plans-to-change-the-world-3350
- Led to Hexayurt Capital Partners (2016): social capital, then a venture model. Evidence (implied by the later work): A Feather for Lifting Anvils: EdgeRyders 2.0 (blog) (2012-11-26) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/a-feather-for-lifting-anvils-edgeryders-2-0-plans-to-change-the-world-3350; Capital Partners transcript, August 2016, p. 8 (2016-08) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/hexayurt_guy_capital_partners.pdf
- Sources (6, by hand first, then by importance): [72](https://guptaoption.com/texts/72.md) A Feather for Lifting Anvils – EdgeRyders 2.0 plans to... (2012); [24](https://guptaoption.com/texts/24.md) Three Rules for Designing the Social Enterprise (2009); [277](https://guptaoption.com/texts/277.md) a thesis: hexayurt guy capital partners? (2016); [402](https://guptaoption.com/texts/402.md) Meaning Conference hangout 6 @meaningconf (2012); [388] Big Picture Days Hangout 4 (2013) (no text here); [646] Jeremy Silver - Internet of Agreement conference (2017) (no text here)



# Vinay Gupta: his works and how they connect (part 6 of 9, 2012 to 2013)

> Every work in his career record (175), by year, with what it is, the thread it belongs to, what it came from and led to and why, and the sources in the archive about it. Part 6 of 9, 2012 to 2013; continues in https://guptaoption.com/texts/works-7.md. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt; source ids such as [250] are at https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md.

### Blind in the Panopticon: The decreasing marginal utility of access to information as an aspect of cyber policy (2012)

- Identity, law and blockchain; argument; specified; work id blind-panopticon; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/cyber/blind%20in%20the%20panopticon.pdf
- What: Cyber policy essay: past a point, more surveillance data has negative value, because a state can collect far more than it can act on.
- Summary: Seven pages. Information has no clear price because its future use is unknown, so institutions stockpile and hoard it, with diminishing returns. The worked example is a notional state where homosexuality is illegal: network traffic can now incriminate some 1% to 3% of citizens, far more than the courts can process, so enforcement turns arbitrary and the law loses its appearance of uniform enforcement. Past that point each new data point has negative marginal value, and the skill that matters is separating the relevant from the irrelevant. Cyber is better framed as espionage, like ENIGMA and radar, than as a total-war weapon alongside nuclear, biological and chemical arms.
- Threads: cyber and defense; rich data capitalism
- Came from CheapID (2006): data the state should not hold. Evidence (implied by the later work): State In A Box: Identity Services Architecture (2006) https://guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php; Blind in the Panopticon (2012) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/cyber/blind%20in%20the%20panopticon.pdf#page=2
- Led to One Network, One World: Designing for a 7+ Billion Person World (2013): what cheap information is worth. Evidence (implied by the later work): Blind in the Panopticon, p. 5 (2012) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/cyber/blind%20in%20the%20panopticon.pdf#page=5; OHM2013 talk 37:30, rich networks out-compete price signals [transcribed] (2013-09-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMcxS1nLpig&t=2250s
- Sources (21, by hand first, then by importance): [6](https://guptaoption.com/texts/6.md) Blind in the Panopticon: The decreasing marginal utility... (2012); [81](https://guptaoption.com/texts/81.md) On the ethics (and pragmatics) of cryptography | The... (2012); [21](https://guptaoption.com/texts/21.md) RCDS cyber (Tibbs) (2011); [77] I went to the same school as Julian Assange, but we... (2011) (no text here); [11](https://guptaoption.com/texts/11.md) RCDS cyber (Tibbs) (2011); [820](https://guptaoption.com/texts/820.md) Copyright and the digital economy: a case for reason (2010); [693](https://guptaoption.com/texts/693.md) Interview with Vinay Gupta by Paul Tanasyuk |... (2017); [368](https://guptaoption.com/texts/368.md) Superstruct Communications Intercept 1 - DCAR (2008); [64](https://guptaoption.com/texts/64.md) Hope for the World – my talk from the Emergency Housing... (2009); [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md) The Global Cyber Game: Achieving strategic resilience in... (2013); [446](https://guptaoption.com/texts/446.md) Complete Privacy in Crypto is a Bad Thing (2025); [674](https://guptaoption.com/texts/674.md) ‘Reputation Systems are ‘Prejudice as a Service’’ (2022); ...

### Complexity Kills (2012)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id complexity-kills; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/complexity_kills/Complexity_Kills__Dealing_in_Security__Vinay_Gupta.pdf
- What: Talk on surviving a systemic collapse: pick your team with a Social Thermometer, then map threats to assets with SCIM.
- Summary: Simple rules produce complex behavior; checklists for life. A talk version of Dealing in Security.
- Sources (1, by hand first, then by importance): [492](https://guptaoption.com/texts/492.md) US vs MiCA (2025)

### Mother of Hydrogen (2012)

- Writing and inner practice; specified; work id moh; https://github.com/rrthomas/moh
- What: Novel drawing on the shelter, meditation and pandemic work.
- Summary: Novel, 2012 draft. Decoder ring. Draws on hexayurt (Harappa), meditation (Puppet, Nuit/Shakti), and plague from the H5N1 / SPRS work (Second Holocaust 2029). Also the smallpox-genome-and-printer register. Not a SCIM need.
- Threads: fiction draws on; hexayurt to chain
- Came from The Future We Deserve (2012): companion novel
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): Harappa, hexayurt city. Evidence (he says so): Mother of Hydrogen: arrival at Harappa (2012-11) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/mother_of_hydrogen.txt; Mother of Hydrogen: the compound (2012-11) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/mother_of_hydrogen.txt
- Came from Hexayurt infrastructure kit (2003): sun, toilets, one storey. Evidence (implied by the later work): Mother of Hydrogen: point-of-use utilities in Harappa (2012-11) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/mother_of_hydrogen.txt
- Came from Solo meditation (1987): the interior practice, as fiction. Evidence (implied by the later work): Mother of Hydrogen: Harry and Peter sit (2012-11) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/mother_of_hydrogen.txt
- Came from Internal dialogue stops (1993): Puppet, Nuit, Shakti. Evidence (implied by the later work): Mother of Hydrogen: Nuit and Shakti (2012-11) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/mother_of_hydrogen.txt; Mother of Hydrogen: the Puppet totem (2012-11) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/mother_of_hydrogen.txt
- Came from Severe Panflu Response Strategies (H5N1) (2008): the plague in the book; severe panflu as systems problem, then as plot
- Came from RCDS cyber (Tibbs) (2011): smallpox genome and a printer. Evidence (implied by the later work): Defense, Security, Resilience and rapid technological change (RCDS cyber paper), p. 12 (2011) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/cyber/Defense_Security_Resilience_and_rapid_technological_change.pdf#page=12; Mother of Hydrogen: Permanent Reds and replicators (2012-11) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/mother_of_hydrogen.txt
- Came from The Unplugged (2006): nine billion lifestyle, then the novel. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Unplugged (2006-02-20) https://www.appropedia.org/User:Vinay_Gupta/The_Unplugged; Mother of Hydrogen: point-of-use utilities in Harappa (2012-11) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/mother_of_hydrogen.txt
- Sources (4, by hand first, then by importance): [148](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md) Mother of Hydrogen (2012); [155](https://guptaoption.com/texts/155.md) Mother of Hydrogen (2012); [822](https://guptaoption.com/texts/822.md) Mother of Hydrogen, a novel (2012); [256](https://guptaoption.com/texts/256.md) I'm coming to Malta (2019)

### On Un-Designing the Cryptographic Utopia (2012)

- Identity, law and blockchain; argument; specified; work id crypto-utopia; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/on-un-designing-the-cryptographic-utopia-2991
- What: Blog essay taking apart the cypherpunk dream of a code-made society, and sketching the few cryptographic primitives a politically sophisticated internet would need instead.
- Summary: About 2,550 words, 4 February 2012, the middle of a three-post series. Its companion, On the ethics (and pragmatics) of cryptography, written the same day, says a political order should not be accepted just because it drops out of the code: implement what is known to work, with "a Jefferson at the Keyboard". Un-designing the utopia starts from the bind that with current technology one must choose between free speech and enforceable copyright. It sketches end-to-end encryption by default, carrying neighbors' encrypted traffic as a common-carrier courtesy, identities split by secret sharing, community accountability, and forks when a community refuses subpoenas, and ends on "a handful of well-designed cryptographic primitives" for a digital backbone built on untrusted networks.
- Threads: cryptographic applications
- Came from Cypherpunks (1992): the cypherpunk utopia, un-designed. Evidence (he says so): On the ethics (and pragmatics) of cryptography (blog) (2012-02-04) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/on-the-ethics-and-pragmatics-of-cryptography-2985
- Led to Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the ESCROWNYM) (2012): from principles to a practical system. Evidence (he says so): Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the ESCROWNYM) (2012-02-05) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/taking-a-crack-at-a-practical-system-introducing-the-escrownym-3004
- Led to People's Cloud architecture and futures in 1000 words (2013): peer-to-peer stacks will replace the data center. Evidence (implied by the later work): On Un-Designing the Cryptographic Utopia (blog) (2012-02-04) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/on-un-designing-the-cryptographic-utopia-2991; People's Cloud architecture and futures in 1000 words (blog) (2013-04-29) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/peoples-cloud-architecture-and-futures-in-1000-words-3383
- Led to Governing Bitcoin: what the future holds for our favourite currency (2013): how bitcoin is governed. Evidence (implied by the later work): On the ethics (and pragmatics) of cryptography (blog) (2012-02-04) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/on-the-ethics-and-pragmatics-of-cryptography-2985; Governing Bitcoin: what the future holds for our favourite currency (transcript) (2014-02-02) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/my-bitcoin-expo-london-talk-nov-2013-with-transcript-3539
- Sources (11, by hand first, then by importance): [322](https://guptaoption.com/texts/322.md) Vinay Gupta at the Athens Hackerspace, 2012 September 2 (2012); [82](https://guptaoption.com/texts/82.md) On Un-Designing the Cryptographic Utopia | The... (2012); [81](https://guptaoption.com/texts/81.md) On the ethics (and pragmatics) of cryptography | The... (2012); [763](https://guptaoption.com/texts/763.md) FutureRant - Vinay Gupta Pt 2/4 - "Survival & Politics" (2016); [86](https://guptaoption.com/texts/86.md) Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the... (2012); [719](https://guptaoption.com/texts/719.md) Cyberpunk to blockchains: Cultural history of... (2016); [580](https://guptaoption.com/texts/580.md) 'Unvaulted Assets' (2022); [353](https://guptaoption.com/texts/353.md) Eben Moglen clip - Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference (2012); [342] FSFI - Smári McCarthy (2012) (no text here); [344] John Perry Barlow - 4th of July 2008, Thingvellir,... (2012) (no text here); [343] John Barlow at the Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference... (2012) (no text here)

### Plausible Utopias (2012)

- Economics of resources; argument; specified; work id plausible-utopias; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Vinay%20Gupta%20meaning%20slides%20FINAL.pdf
- What: Talk deck for the Meaning conference: abundance breaks the financial system, because housing is accommodation, a store of wealth and a speculation at once.
- Summary: Slides for the Meaning conference talk, posted on the blog on 19 October 2012. Housing plays three roles, so building millions and then billions of new homes means "abundance breaks the financial system". Printed figures include "Spain: 1.5m units (1.5m young unemployed)", "Ireland: 200,000 empty units (4.5m population)" and "Quarter trillion $ per million homes". Its new economists are Coase, Nash and Benkler; Valve and the Quaddome are its examples of commons-based production. It ends on three futures: cheap energy and information, scarcity and war, or decentralism.
- Threads: RMI to spiral; rich data capitalism
- Came from The New Economy: out of money, out of time, but not out of ideas (2010): abundance breaks the financial system. Evidence (implied by the later work): The New Economy (In a Page) (2010) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/in_a_page/the_new_economy.pdf; Plausible Utopias (Meaning 2012 slides) (2012) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Vinay%20Gupta%20meaning%20slides%20FINAL.pdf
- Led to Coase's Blockchain: Can Equity Crowdfunding Accelerate Past Venture Capital? (2015): Coase, Nash and Benkler. Evidence (implied by the later work): Plausible Utopias (Meaning conference slides) (2012) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Vinay%20Gupta%20meaning%20slides%20FINAL.pdf#page=21; Coase's Blockchain (mic audio), ICT Spring 2015 (2015-06-02) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R44AdHVWPmk&t=1275s
- Led to Why there's no money: the imaginary part of financial systems (2013): abundance, and wealth frozen solid. Evidence (implied by the later work): Meaning 2012 talk 7:38, billions of cheap homes and the end of the mortgage [transcribed] (2012-10-15) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BORHRKg-VoI&t=458s; Plausible Utopias (Meaning 2012 slides) (2012) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Vinay%20Gupta%20meaning%20slides%20FINAL.pdf
- Sources (9, by hand first, then by importance): [725](https://guptaoption.com/texts/725.md) Vinay Gupta l Plausible utopias | Meaning 2012 (2012); [823](https://guptaoption.com/texts/823.md) Plausible Utopias (2012); [79](https://guptaoption.com/texts/79.md) Meaning: Plausible Utopias | The Bucky-Gandhi Design... (2012); [321](https://guptaoption.com/texts/321.md) Vinay Gupta talking at FreeAndReal / The Telaithrion... (2012); [93](https://guptaoption.com/texts/93.md) Why there’s no money: the imaginary part of financial... (2013); [530](https://guptaoption.com/texts/530.md) Transforming Real Estate (2025); [675](https://guptaoption.com/texts/675.md) '5 -15%' (2022); [497](https://guptaoption.com/texts/497.md) Debt vs Equity (2025); [671](https://guptaoption.com/texts/671.md) ‘Expensive and Uncertain: The Markets Where Mattereum... (2022)

### Sharing our fear can make peace: envisaging military cooperation to avoid Mutually Assured Starvation (2012)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id mutually-assured-starvation; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/in_a_page/avoiding_mutually_assured_starvation.pdf
- What: One-page paper: the rational elites who kept nuclear deterrence stable could cooperate the same way to avoid a spiral of resource scarcity and conflict.
- Summary: No lifestyle yet lets 9 billion people live in comfort, so every political fix runs into resource limits. Mutually Assured Destruction rested on rational elites; the same military cooperation could keep constraint from causing conflict that causes more constraint. An early statement of the great-power truce in Multipolar Realpolitik.
- Sources (15, by hand first, then by importance): [319](https://guptaoption.com/texts/319.md) A sleepless night trying to find words (2013); [706](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md) Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin - with Vinay Gupta | Virtual... (2018); [52](https://guptaoption.com/texts/52.md) When? | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2011); [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md) Multipolar Realpolitik (Omnibus draft) (2024); [34](https://guptaoption.com/texts/34.md) State in a Box (2006); [849] Through the Looking Glass (slides) (2010) (no text here); [20](https://guptaoption.com/texts/20.md) Resilience and Opportunity: Effective Tools for Victory... (2006); [48](https://guptaoption.com/texts/48.md) The Second Amendment in Iraq, Combat Robotics, and the... (2008); [47](https://guptaoption.com/texts/47.md) The Beautiful World | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2011); [87](https://guptaoption.com/texts/87.md) The Atrocity Archives, and a little new fiction. | The... (2011); [249] A long, difficult conversation about dealing with... (2020) (no text here); [30](https://guptaoption.com/texts/30.md) Winning the Long Peace (2007); ...

### Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the ESCROWNYM) (2012)

- Identity, law and blockchain; proposal; specified; work id escrownym; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/taking-a-crack-at-a-practical-system-introducing-the-escrownym-3004
- What: Blog essay proposing the escrownym: an identity lodged with escrow brokers under a legally binding agreement, which can issue pseudonyms. Its summary: build the courts first.
- Summary: About 3,200 words, 5 February 2012, the practical end of the series. "If you want the summary: build the courts first, and build them now, if you want to protect the Electronic Frontier, and, indeed, the People." The worked problem is peer caching of video, such as the Truth and Beauty talks. The protocol lodges a signed identity document with escrow brokers, possibly split into shares, under a legally binding agreement; brokers can then issue pseudonyms (subsidiary keys) at any level of security. What he wants is "PSEUDONYMITY and REASONABLE COURTS": the identity behind a pseudonym can be revealed in a legally binding form, but forcing that is deliberately hard. It ends: the internet is not going to police itself, and if we do not do it, the State will. The same move as CheapID's court-order disclosure, and an early form of Mattereum's identity disclosed on dispute.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum; cryptographic applications
- Came from On Un-Designing the Cryptographic Utopia (2012): from principles to a practical system. Evidence (he says so): Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the ESCROWNYM) (2012-02-05) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/taking-a-crack-at-a-practical-system-introducing-the-escrownym-3004
- Came from CheapID (2006): identity held in escrow, disclosed by due process. Evidence (he says so): Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the ESCROWNYM) (2012-02-05) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/taking-a-crack-at-a-practical-system-introducing-the-escrownym-3004
- Led to UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules (2021): build the courts first. Evidence (implied by the later work): Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the ESCROWNYM) (2012-02-05) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/taking-a-crack-at-a-practical-system-introducing-the-escrownym-3004; UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules, rule 13 (2021-04-22) https://mattereum.com/ukjt#page=7
- Led to Mattereum (2017): pseudonyms backed by binding agreements. Evidence (implied by the later work): Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the ESCROWNYM) (2012-02-05) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/taking-a-crack-at-a-practical-system-introducing-the-escrownym-3004; How do we control the material world with smart contracts? (Devcon4) (2018-12-11) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoFRfA0TKSg&t=0s
- Sources (124, by hand first, then by importance): [86](https://guptaoption.com/texts/86.md) Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the... (2012); [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md) guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php (2006); [716](https://guptaoption.com/texts/716.md) How do we control the material world with smart... (2018); [163](https://guptaoption.com/texts/163.md) Tell Me Who You Are. Identity, institutional memory, and... (2019); [66](https://guptaoption.com/texts/66.md) My State In A Box – Identity Services Architecture paper... (2007); [714](https://guptaoption.com/texts/714.md) Autonomous A1 - Taming Capitalism with Vinay Gupta of... (2021); [82](https://guptaoption.com/texts/82.md) On Un-Designing the Cryptographic Utopia | The... (2012); [647](https://guptaoption.com/texts/647.md) Vinay Gupta - Internet of Agreements conference (2017); [81](https://guptaoption.com/texts/81.md) On the ethics (and pragmatics) of cryptography | The... (2012); [735](https://guptaoption.com/texts/735.md) Vinay Gupta - Mattereum (2022); [780](https://guptaoption.com/texts/780.md) Vinay Gupta and Ian Grigg Speak On Arbitration and... (2023); [21](https://guptaoption.com/texts/21.md) RCDS cyber (Tibbs) (2011); ...

### The Future We Deserve (2012) (he edited)

- Writing and inner practice; specified; work id tfwd; https://www.appropedia.org/The_Future_We_Deserve
- What: Essay collection co-edited with Cat Lupton and Noah Raford, released March 2012; includes the short story The Tiny Army.
- Summary: Released 3 March 2012, online, as a download and in print. Edited by Vinay Gupta, Cat Lupton and Noah Raford. Holds The Tiny Army as the fiction piece.
- Threads: fiction draws on; hexayurt to chain
- Came from Truth and Beauty (2011): the talks, then the book. Evidence (he says so): Truth and Beauty, or "what in the hell is going on, Vinay?" (blog) (2011-10-18) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/truth-and-beauty-or-what-in-the-hell-is-going-on-vinay-2877; The Future We Deserve 2, video 0:00, about a year and a half since the project began... (2012-02-15) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9irdzMI13I&t=0s
- Came from The Tiny Army (2010): collected in the book. Evidence (he says so): Appropedia: The Future We Deserve/The Tiny Army - Vinay Gupta (2010) https://www.appropedia.org/The_Future_We_Deserve/The_Tiny_Army_-_Vinay_Gupta; Appropedia: The Future We Deserve, list of articles https://www.appropedia.org/The_Future_We_Deserve
- Came from The Big Deal (2011): the book project behind the essays. Evidence (he says so): The Summary: an introduction to #TheBigDeal (blog) (2011-02-06) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/bigdeal/the-summary-in-part-2282
- Led to Mother of Hydrogen (2012): companion novel
- Sources (6, by hand first, then by importance): [241](https://guptaoption.com/texts/241.md) The Future We Deserve — Our Future and the Sun — Vinay Gupta; [106](https://guptaoption.com/texts/106.md) The Future We Deserve (2012); [210](https://guptaoption.com/texts/210.md) The Future We Deserve (2012); [240](https://guptaoption.com/texts/240.md) The Future We Deserve — Introduction (2012); [354](https://guptaoption.com/texts/354.md) The Future We Deserve - 2 (2012); [107](https://guptaoption.com/texts/107.md) The Future We Deserve/The Tiny Army - Vinay Gupta (2010)

### Tools and language: why government can't manage the 21st century, but we can (2012)

- Economics of resources; specified; work id pixelache-2012; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/PIXELACHE_KEYNOTE/PIXELACHE%20KEYNOTE%20SLIDES.pdf
- What: Keynote opening Camp Pixelache 2012 in Helsinki: the Hexayurt Project, SCIM and EdgeRyders as working models of cooperation, then Coase and Nash.
- Summary: Friday 11 May 2012 at Arbis, Helsinki. The state is bad at complexity and cooperation is the 21st century's main mode. A hexayurt sauna was built for the festival. He went on to Tallinn to talk on infrastructure-centric politics for Ptarmigan.
- Sources (1, by hand first, then by importance): [158](https://guptaoption.com/texts/158.md) Pixelache Festival 2015

### Exploring Data Generated by Pocket Devices (2013)

- Economics of resources; argument; specified; work id pocket-devices; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/SMART_CITIES/The_Smart_City.To_Whos_Advantage.Pocket_Devices_and_Data_Trails.Vinay_Gupta.pdf
- What: UCL Institute for Security and Resilience Studies paper: smart devices turn physical capital into networked property rights, and the fight is over who captures "the economies of omniscience".
- Summary: July 2013, for the Institute for Security and Resilience Studies at University College London, marked limited distribution. The fight over smart technology is a fight over who captures the gains from better information and better automated decisions: "One might even refer to these as the economies of omniscience." AirBnB, Uber, cycle hire and automated transport make physical capital legible and liquid, and the phone becomes the terminal for networked property rights. It sketches three futures and ends on who runs and regulates the natural monopoly in information synthesis. The earliest written form of the idea behind Mattereum.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum; rich data capitalism
- Led to The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019): economies of omniscience, named in 2013. Evidence (implied by the later work): Exploring Data Generated by Pocket Devices, p. 4 (2013-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/SMART_CITIES/The_Smart_City.To_Whos_Advantage.Pocket_Devices_and_Data_Trails.Vinay_Gupta.pdf; The Cities That Will Walk Away talk 1:01:53 (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=3713s
- Led to Mattereum (2017): networked property rights. Evidence (implied by the later work): Exploring Data Generated by Pocket Devices (2013-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/SMART_CITIES/The_Smart_City.To_Whos_Advantage.Pocket_Devices_and_Data_Trails.Vinay_Gupta.pdf#page=4; Exploring Data Generated by Pocket Devices (2013-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/SMART_CITIES/The_Smart_City.To_Whos_Advantage.Pocket_Devices_and_Data_Trails.Vinay_Gupta.pdf#page=10
- Sources (114, by hand first, then by importance): [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md) Vinay Gupta: The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019); [18](https://guptaoption.com/texts/18.md) Exploring Data Generated by Pocket Devices (2013); [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md) Multipolar Realpolitik (Omnibus draft) (2024); [242](https://guptaoption.com/texts/242.md) Dog Atheism: on smart contracts, risk, and value networks (2016); [237](https://guptaoption.com/texts/237.md) The Internet of Agreements (Hexayurt Capital section,... (2017); [266](https://guptaoption.com/texts/266.md) "Blockchain: IoT's trust broker?" talk on the fly by... (2017); [271](https://guptaoption.com/texts/271.md) Introducing the Internet of Agreements (2017); [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md) The Mattereum Manifesto: green capitalism, product... (2019); [793](https://guptaoption.com/texts/793.md) COP26 Event: The Circular Economy - Finance and Data for... (2021); [716](https://guptaoption.com/texts/716.md) How do we control the material world with smart... (2018); [379](https://guptaoption.com/texts/379.md) Blockchains, databases, reification: are bottom up... (2015); [723](https://guptaoption.com/texts/723.md) "Saving the Climate with Real World Asset NFTs" by Vinay... (2020); ...

### Governing Bitcoin: what the future holds for our favourite currency (2013)

- Identity, law and blockchain; argument; specified; work id governing-bitcoin; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/my-bitcoin-expo-london-talk-nov-2013-with-transcript-3539
- What: Bitcoin Expo London talk, November 2013: how bitcoin is governed, its competitors and its resilience to change, ending on whether it is an anarchist or a libertarian breakthrough.
- Summary: Given at the Bitcoin Expo in London in November 2013; posted 2 February 2014 with subtitled video and a full transcript (about 3,700 words). It covers bitcoin governance, its competitors, its resilience to change, the Hexayurt and a nine-billion-person world, and closes on whether bitcoin is an anarchist or a libertarian breakthrough. The talk came the year before he joined Ethereum.
- Threads: cryptographic applications
- Came from On Un-Designing the Cryptographic Utopia (2012): how bitcoin is governed. Evidence (implied by the later work): On the ethics (and pragmatics) of cryptography (blog) (2012-02-04) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/on-the-ethics-and-pragmatics-of-cryptography-2985; Governing Bitcoin: what the future holds for our favourite currency (transcript) (2014-02-02) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/my-bitcoin-expo-london-talk-nov-2013-with-transcript-3539
- Led to Ethereum launch (2015): the year before Ethereum. Evidence (he says so): Governing Bitcoin: what the future holds for our favourite currency (transcript) (2014-02-02) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/my-bitcoin-expo-london-talk-nov-2013-with-transcript-3539; Mattereum is Blockchain Cypherpunk (2022-03-01) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yaXwqx-XzA&t=0s
- Sources (13, by hand first, then by importance): [317](https://guptaoption.com/texts/317.md) Vinay Gupta (@leashless) of Hexayurt Project at the... (2013); [80](https://guptaoption.com/texts/80.md) Governing Bitcoin: what the future holds for our... (2014); [742](https://guptaoption.com/texts/742.md) Vinay Gupta - Bitcoin Will Die | London Real (2014); [39](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md) Internet of Agreements (2017); [680](https://guptaoption.com/texts/680.md) Blockchain technology, trade-offs, and helping launch... (2021); [112](https://guptaoption.com/texts/112.md) ‘Bitcoin Is Teaching Realism To Libertarians’: An... (2014); [437](https://guptaoption.com/texts/437.md) The Forgotten Crypto Futures of the 1990s (2025); [697](https://guptaoption.com/texts/697.md) Vinay Gupta - Resilience Guru - TRAILER | London Real (2014); [522](https://guptaoption.com/texts/522.md) Fiat Assets vs Self Sovereign Assets (2025); [421](https://guptaoption.com/texts/421.md) SEC, Crypto and Securities (2026); [462](https://guptaoption.com/texts/462.md) The Invisible Crypto War (2025); [218](https://guptaoption.com/texts/218.md) Blockchain to be breakthrough tech for Dubai and... (2017); ...

### Hexayurt Project: from sheds to sustainability (2013)

- Survival hardware; specified; work id emf-wave-2013; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Electromagnetic%20Wave%202013%20London%20-%20Vinay%20Gupta%20Hexayurt%20Project.pdf
- What: Talk at Electromagnetic Wave 2013, London: what a small shed can do for nine billion people living within one planet's yield.
- Summary: Opens on all the people: 2 billion urban rich, 1 billion urban poor, half a billion rural rich, 3.5 billion rural poor. Then sustainable yield shared by 9 billion, and what a small shed can do toward it.
- Sources (10, by hand first, then by importance): [169](https://guptaoption.com/texts/169.md) OHM2013 Program (2013); [101](https://guptaoption.com/texts/101.md) Hexayurt project/Mass evacuation (2007); [76](https://guptaoption.com/texts/76.md) Free housing and 21st Century Leadership | The... (2010); [10](https://guptaoption.com/texts/10.md) Course of Action (2006); [33](https://guptaoption.com/texts/33.md) Soft Development Paths (2008); [103](https://guptaoption.com/texts/103.md) Hexayurt project/Assembly (2006); [16](https://guptaoption.com/texts/16.md) Hexayurt Country (2010); [161](https://guptaoption.com/texts/161.md) Hexayurts, Distributed Infrastructure, and Maximizing... (2014); [162](https://guptaoption.com/texts/162.md) media ccc de v emf2014 144 hexayurts distributed... (2014); [188](https://guptaoption.com/texts/188.md) Hexayurt Image Gallery (2003)

### Municipal Administration of Cities in Crisis (2013)

- Crisis planning; argument; specified; work id cities-in-crisis; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/SMART_CITIES/Municipal_Administration_of_Cities_in_Crisis.Vinay_Gupta.pdf
- What: UCL Institute for Security and Resilience Studies paper drawing lessons for city governments from Hurricane Katrina, the Haiti earthquake and Hurricane Sandy.
- Summary: July 2013, for the Institute for Security and Resilience Studies at University College London, marked limited distribution. Lessons from Katrina, Haiti and Sandy, then cascade failures, wicked problems, network mapping against stocks-and-buffers resilience, and a reconfigurable smart city designed together with its responders.
- Threads: nuclear / panflu
- Came from Hexayurt Country (2010): Haiti, then Katrina and Sandy, for city governments
- Came from The Living City (2009): lessons for city governments, four years on. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Living City talk for Arup 19:36 (2012-11-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vBX8cIqqTI&t=1176s; Municipal Administration of Cities in Crisis, p. 9 (2013-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/SMART_CITIES/Municipal_Administration_of_Cities_in_Crisis.Vinay_Gupta.pdf
- Sources (10, by hand first, then by importance): [689](https://guptaoption.com/texts/689.md) Vinay Gupta - Resilience Guru | London Real (2014); [8](https://guptaoption.com/texts/8.md) Municipal Administration of Cities in Crisis (2013); [320](https://guptaoption.com/texts/320.md) The Living City - Buttered Side Down presentation to... (2012); [365](https://guptaoption.com/texts/365.md) social media and local resilience (2010); [176](https://guptaoption.com/texts/176.md) FluSCIM-6p-Spanish; [366](https://guptaoption.com/texts/366.md) "Through the Looking Glass" - Vinay Gupta - Ireland... (2010); [363](https://guptaoption.com/texts/363.md) Culture Control Group - Brussels Cheese Crisis Report -... (2011); [208](https://guptaoption.com/texts/208.md) Taming Black Elephants (2016); [157](https://guptaoption.com/texts/157.md) The Black Elephant Challenge for Governments | IPS Commons (2017); [182](https://guptaoption.com/texts/182.md) About (2007)

### One Network, One World: Designing for a 7+ Billion Person World (2013)

- Survival hardware; argument; specified; work id ohm-2013; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMcxS1nLpig
- What: Talk at the OHM2013 hacker camp: housing everyone at one planet's worth of consumption, and why information-rich systems out-compete price signals.
- Summary: Observe Hack Make 2013, Netherlands, uploaded 3 September 2013 (49 minutes). The core design principle of the Hexayurt: a family living at one planet's worth of consumption in relative comfort. Numbers for housing everyone (about 3 billion Hexayurts, 36 billion sheets, roughly 100 million tons of panels); Hexayurt adoption doubling yearly, with about 1,000 units at Burning Man in 2012 and test units in Sri Lanka and Haiti; the original guess of 15 years from first Hexayurt to the first large refugee camp deployment; Appropedia as an on-ramp for the 5 billion people about to come online. From 36:24, information theory and economics: feudalism pushes decisions down a hierarchy, capitalism exchanges information through price signals that carry only a few bits, and richer networks now displace price signaling. Wikipedia could not have been built with any amount of money; what replaces capitalism is a more information-rich, more equitable system.
- Threads: hexayurt to chain; rich data capitalism
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): one planet's worth of consumption. Evidence (he says so): OHM2013 talk 40:00, the core design principle: a family at one planet's worth of... (2013-09-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMcxS1nLpig&t=2400s; OHM2013 talk 2:30, we are at 4 to 8 times consumption [transcribed] (2013-09-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMcxS1nLpig&t=150s
- Came from Blind in the Panopticon: The decreasing marginal utility of access to information as an aspect of cyber policy (2012): what cheap information is worth. Evidence (implied by the later work): Blind in the Panopticon, p. 5 (2012) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/cyber/blind%20in%20the%20panopticon.pdf#page=5; OHM2013 talk 37:30, rich networks out-compete price signals [transcribed] (2013-09-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMcxS1nLpig&t=2250s
- Led to Coase's Blockchain: Can Equity Crowdfunding Accelerate Past Venture Capital? (2015): price signals carry a few bits; blockchains make transactions nearly free. Evidence (implied by the later work): (OHM2013) One network one world: designing for a 7 plus billion person world (2013-09-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMcxS1nLpig&t=2100s; (OHM2013) One network one world: designing for a 7 plus billion person world (2013-09-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMcxS1nLpig&t=2250s
- Sources (46, by hand first, then by importance): [753](https://guptaoption.com/texts/753.md) (OHM2013) One network one world designing for a 7 plus... (2013); [169](https://guptaoption.com/texts/169.md) OHM2013 Program (2013); [725](https://guptaoption.com/texts/725.md) Vinay Gupta l Plausible utopias | Meaning 2012 (2012); [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md) The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world (2002); [100](https://guptaoption.com/texts/100.md) Hexayurt project (2002); [79](https://guptaoption.com/texts/79.md) Meaning: Plausible Utopias | The Bucky-Gandhi Design... (2012); [66](https://guptaoption.com/texts/66.md) My State In A Box – Identity Services Architecture paper... (2007); [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md) Vinay Gupta: The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019); [711](https://guptaoption.com/texts/711.md) Vinay Gupta – Hexayurts, Distributed Infrastructure, and... (2014); [727](https://guptaoption.com/texts/727.md) Undergraduate Lecture Series 2024: Vinay Gupta & Bryan... (2024); [245](https://guptaoption.com/texts/245.md) Vinay Gupta - Fab 16 presentation (2021); [303](https://guptaoption.com/texts/303.md) How To Sell Ideas from (from Ethereum DEVCON Berlin) (2015); ...

### People's Cloud architecture and futures in 1000 words (2013)

- Identity, law and blockchain; argument; specified; work id peoples-cloud; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/peoples-cloud-architecture-and-futures-in-1000-words-3383
- What: Blog essay: the data center is doomed, its efficiency is bought with centralization and monitoring, and peer-to-peer stacks, proven by Bitcoin and BitTorrent, will mature and draw the talent.
- Summary: About 1,000 words, 29 April 2013, part of a #peoplescloud series. Computer power keeps getting cheaper, so the data center is doomed, and its efficiency is bought at the price of centralization and inevitable monitoring, with investors and the State shaping what happens to the data. Bitcoin and BitTorrent show peer-to-peer architectures are mature; their hard parts will be standardized into easy stacks, as LAMP was for the web, and programming talent will migrate to them. Two years before Ethereum's launch.
- Threads: cryptographic applications
- Came from On Un-Designing the Cryptographic Utopia (2012): peer-to-peer stacks will replace the data center. Evidence (implied by the later work): On Un-Designing the Cryptographic Utopia (blog) (2012-02-04) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/on-un-designing-the-cryptographic-utopia-2991; People's Cloud architecture and futures in 1000 words (blog) (2013-04-29) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/peoples-cloud-architecture-and-futures-in-1000-words-3383
- Sources (34, by hand first, then by importance): [83](https://guptaoption.com/texts/83.md) People’s Cloud architecture and futures in 1000 words |... (2013); [280](https://guptaoption.com/texts/280.md) Vinay Gupta Digital 2016 Newport Wales (2016); [164](https://guptaoption.com/texts/164.md) Programmable blockchains in context: Ethereum’s Future –... (2015); [299](https://guptaoption.com/texts/299.md) Mic audio: Coase's Blockchain: can equity crowdfunding... (2015); [113](https://guptaoption.com/texts/113.md) The Ethereum Launch Process | Ethereum Foundation Blog (2015); [153](https://guptaoption.com/texts/153.md) Financial Cryptography: Coase's Blockchain - the first... (2015); [379](https://guptaoption.com/texts/379.md) Blockchains, databases, reification: are bottom up... (2015); [303](https://guptaoption.com/texts/303.md) How To Sell Ideas from (from Ethereum DEVCON Berlin) (2015); [244](https://guptaoption.com/texts/244.md) Coase’s Blockchain: Can Equity Crowdfunding Accelerate... (2015); [695](https://guptaoption.com/texts/695.md) Vinay Gupta - Dangerous Old Men: cypherpunk's failure,... (2015); [564](https://guptaoption.com/texts/564.md) Vinay Gupta at 'A Decade of #Ethereum' (2024); [688](https://guptaoption.com/texts/688.md) Vinay Gupta on the beginning of blockchain (360,... (2016); ...

### Swarm Cooperatives (Big Picture Days) (2013)

- Writing and inner practice; specified; work id swarm-cooperatives; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/swarm-cooperatives-more-event-details-including-speakers-3406
- What: First of six Big Picture Days at the Limewharf Annex Culture Lab in London, on hackathons, unconferences, free schools and other temporary structures.
- Summary: Schedule posted 18 May 2013: Swarm Cooperatives, the first of six Big Picture Days at the Limewharf Annex Culture Lab, on hackathons, unconferences, free schools and similar temporary structures.
- Came from Truth and Beauty (2011): another London series. Evidence (implied by the later work): Truth and Beauty (blog) (2011-10-18) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/truth-and-beauty-or-what-in-the-hell-is-going-on-vinay-2877; Swarm Cooperatives Schedule (blog) (2013-05-18) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/swarm-cooperatives-more-event-details-including-speakers-3406
- Sources (2, by hand first, then by importance): [85](https://guptaoption.com/texts/85.md) Swarm Cooperatives Schedule | The Bucky-Gandhi Design... (2013); [388] Big Picture Days Hangout 4 (2013) (no text here)

### The Global Cyber Game: Achieving strategic resilience in the global knowledge society (2013) (he contributed)

- Identity, law and blockchain; specified; work id global-cyber-game; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/cyber/20130508-Cyber_report_final_U.pdf
- What: Hardin Tibbs's 2013 report of the UK Defence Academy Cyber Inquiry for the Ministry of Defence, which cites commentary submitted by Vinay Gupta.
- Summary: The Defence Academy Cyber Inquiry Report, 127 pages, May 2013. Written by Hardin Tibbs of Synthesys Strategic Consulting under a Ministry of Defence contract; the Inquiry team was Susan Ambler-Edwards, Michael J Corcoran and Hardin Tibbs, and its question was how the cyber domain should be conceptualized. Two passages cite commentary submitted to the Inquiry by Vinay Gupta: that software people understand scarcity differently, with code free and talent scarce, and that fast actors such as tech firms, internet culture and criminal groups move inside the state's decision loop, the argument of the "Actors, fast and slow" section of S4inet. Vinay Gupta names the Royal College of Defence Studies, part of the Defence Academy, as the client for this work.
- Threads: cyber and defense
- Came from RCDS cyber (Tibbs) (2011): S4inet cited in the Inquiry's report. Evidence (implied by the later work): S4inet: a simple safe secure subsystem of the internet (for Synthesys) (2011) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/cyber/S4inet-a_safer_internet_public.pdf#page=4; The Global Cyber Game (Defence Academy Cyber Inquiry Report) (2013-05-08) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/cyber/20130508-Cyber_report_final_U.pdf#page=48
- Sources (2, by hand first, then by importance): [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md) The Global Cyber Game: Achieving strategic resilience in... (2013); [21](https://guptaoption.com/texts/21.md) RCDS cyber (Tibbs) (2011)

### Why there's no money: the imaginary part of financial systems (2013)

- Economics of resources; model; specified; work id why-no-money; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/why-theres-no-money-the-imaginary-part-of-financial-systems-3235
- What: Blog essay: money has a fluid phase, pocket change, and a solid phase, mortgages, debts and fixed assets, so the world's wealth cannot flow from destructive uses to creative ones.
- Summary: About 1,450 words, 28 February 2013. Nearly all the world's wealth seems tied up in destructive forms; if money is fluid, why can it not flow to creative ones? Because money has phases, like gas, liquid and solid: pocket change is fluid, but it gathers into hundred-year contracts, debts and fixed assets with "an appalling fixity and permanence".
- Threads: RMI to spiral
- Came from Plausible Utopias (2012): abundance, and wealth frozen solid. Evidence (implied by the later work): Meaning 2012 talk 7:38, billions of cheap homes and the end of the mortgage [transcribed] (2012-10-15) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BORHRKg-VoI&t=458s; Plausible Utopias (Meaning 2012 slides) (2012) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Vinay%20Gupta%20meaning%20slides%20FINAL.pdf
- Led to Half a Trillion Dollars a Year of Magic: Blockchain, AI, and the Future of the Built Environment (2026): making fixed assets liquid. Evidence (implied by the later work): Why there's no money (blog) (2013-02-28) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/why-theres-no-money-the-imaginary-part-of-financial-systems-3235; Half a Trillion Dollars a Year of Magic (Mattereum, Medium) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79
- Sources (17, by hand first, then by importance): [93](https://guptaoption.com/texts/93.md) Why there’s no money: the imaginary part of financial... (2013); [768](https://guptaoption.com/texts/768.md) #03 - Vinay Gupta : History of Money, Foundations of... (2021); [441](https://guptaoption.com/texts/441.md) The Necessity, Stability and Feasibility of Real Estate... (2025); [431](https://guptaoption.com/texts/431.md) The Asset Of The Future: Gold, Bitcoin, Real Estate (2025); [501](https://guptaoption.com/texts/501.md) Crypto is Fiat. The Real Revolution is RWA (2025); [429](https://guptaoption.com/texts/429.md) The Great Leap Forwards (2026); [426](https://guptaoption.com/texts/426.md) Why Bitcoin? (2026); [438](https://guptaoption.com/texts/438.md) Universal Asset Liquidity (2025); [467](https://guptaoption.com/texts/467.md) The Currency Crisis: Fiat, Crypto, Free-Banking (2025); [480](https://guptaoption.com/texts/480.md) The Real Relationship Between Crypto and Government (2025); [466](https://guptaoption.com/texts/466.md) The Future Of Money (2025); [448](https://guptaoption.com/texts/448.md) What Does an Actually Stable Coin Look Like? (2025); ...



# Vinay Gupta: his works and how they connect (part 7 of 9, 2014 to 2016)

> Every work in his career record (175), by year, with what it is, the thread it belongs to, what it came from and led to and why, and the sources in the archive about it. Part 7 of 9, 2014 to 2016; continues in https://guptaoption.com/texts/works-8.md. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt; source ids such as [250] are at https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md.

### A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine (2014)

- Survival hardware; model; specified; work id gupta-doctrine; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/a-little-insight-into-the-gupta-doctrine-3571
- What: His "very conservative vision" for global change: six or maybe eight machines everyone on earth should have, from a smokeless stove and a water filter to a solar light, a tablet, a toilet and a bicycle.
- Summary: About 750 words, 30 June 2014, a reply to a reader's question on "Moonshots and Slingshots". "I have a very conservative vision for global change": six or maybe eight machines everybody on earth has access to, a smokeless cooking stove, a water filter, a solar powered light, a tablet computer, shelter and clothing, a toilet, maybe a mesh network and a bicycle. "That's pretty much all I want for humanity. That, and food."
- Threads: standard SKUs
- Came from Hexayurt infrastructure kit (2003): the household kit, restated as six to eight machines. Evidence (implied by the later work): A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine (blog) (2014-06-30) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/a-little-insight-into-the-gupta-doctrine-3571; State in a Box: Identity Services Architecture (guptaoption.com) (2006) https://guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php
- Sources (218, by hand first, then by importance): [73](https://guptaoption.com/texts/73.md) A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine | The... (2014); [148](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md) Mother of Hydrogen (2012); [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md) Multipolar Realpolitik (Omnibus draft) (2024); [108](https://guptaoption.com/texts/108.md) User:Vinay Gupta/The Unplugged (2006); [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md) Through the Looking Glass - Vinay Gupta on systemic... (2010); [753](https://guptaoption.com/texts/753.md) (OHM2013) One network one world designing for a 7 plus... (2013); [725](https://guptaoption.com/texts/725.md) Vinay Gupta l Plausible utopias | Meaning 2012 (2012); [34](https://guptaoption.com/texts/34.md) State in a Box (2006); [128](https://guptaoption.com/texts/128.md) Black Elephants & Skull Jackets: A Conversation with... (2010); [823](https://guptaoption.com/texts/823.md) Plausible Utopias (2012); [239](https://guptaoption.com/texts/239.md) The Future of Stuff (2020); [322](https://guptaoption.com/texts/322.md) Vinay Gupta at the Athens Hackerspace, 2012 September 2 (2012); ...

### Hexayurts, Distributed Infrastructure, and Maximizing Global Minimalism (2014)

- Survival hardware; specified; work id emf-2014-talk; https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2014-144-hexayurts-distributed-infrastructure-and-maximizing-global-minim
- What: Talk at Electromagnetic Field 2014: the Hexayurt as engineering outside the market, for the three billion people who live largely outside it.
- Summary: Abstract: an open source housing project with more than 1,000 units deployed each year, and a vision of how engineering outside the market can change the world in ways markets cannot. About 27 minutes. The graph already holds a photo from this talk (emf-2014). The same festival hosted the Nuclear Poker Hexa-Bunker.
- Sources (43, by hand first, then by importance): [711](https://guptaoption.com/texts/711.md) Vinay Gupta – Hexayurts, Distributed Infrastructure, and... (2014); [314](https://guptaoption.com/texts/314.md) EMF2014 hexayurt talk Hexayurts, Distributed... (2014); [161](https://guptaoption.com/texts/161.md) Hexayurts, Distributed Infrastructure, and Maximizing... (2014); [162](https://guptaoption.com/texts/162.md) media ccc de v emf2014 144 hexayurts distributed... (2014); [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md) The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world (2002); [100](https://guptaoption.com/texts/100.md) Hexayurt project (2002); [79](https://guptaoption.com/texts/79.md) Meaning: Plausible Utopias | The Bucky-Gandhi Design... (2012); [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md) Vinay Gupta: The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019); [849] Through the Looking Glass (slides) (2010) (no text here); [101](https://guptaoption.com/texts/101.md) Hexayurt project/Mass evacuation (2007); [15](https://guptaoption.com/texts/15.md) Nuclear / mass evacuation (2007); [375](https://guptaoption.com/texts/375.md) Folding Hexayurt Briefing (2007); ...

### How to sell ideas (2014)

- Writing and inner practice; specified; work id how-to-sell-ideas; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/howtosellideas2.pdf
- What: Talk at DEVCON0, Ethereum's first developer conference, on spreading ideas: change behavior, extend the Overton window, one unpleasant truth at a time.
- Summary: Given at DEVCON0, Ethereum's first developer conference, in November 2014 (Vinay Gupta, 9 November 2026); the slides are filed on his server as ETHEREUM_SLIDES.pdf. Ideas are bigger than products; Collapsonomics and black elephants went from fringe to mainstream. The 2015 version adds four technologies going critical: VR, drones, blockchains and AI.
- Sources (1, by hand first, then by importance): [303](https://guptaoption.com/texts/303.md) How To Sell Ideas from (from Ethereum DEVCON Berlin) (2015)

### Stampeding Black Elephants (2014) (about him, by others)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id nyt-black-elephants; https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/23/opinion/sunday/thomas-l-friedman-stampeding-black-elephants.html
- What: Thomas L. Friedman's New York Times column on black elephants.
- Summary: The New York Times, Sunday Review, 23 November 2014: a column on black elephants, five years after the term was coined in the Institute for Collapsonomics circle. The archived copy is a Wayback Machine snapshot; the column's text is not kept in this file.
- Threads: black elephant
- Came from Black Elephant (2009): the term reaches a New York Times column. Evidence (he says so): How To Sell Ideas talk, Ethereum DEVCON Berlin 10:05 (2015-02-21) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyX2rwKT9DE&t=605s; Word Spy: black elephant https://wordspy.com/words/black-elephant
- Sources (4, by hand first, then by importance): [303](https://guptaoption.com/texts/303.md) How To Sell Ideas from (from Ethereum DEVCON Berlin) (2015); [117](https://guptaoption.com/texts/117.md) The Black Elephant Lapel Pin & Logo | Metalabel (2009); [223](https://guptaoption.com/texts/223.md) Finding Each other in the Ruins - resilience (2025); [200](https://guptaoption.com/texts/200.md) black elephant (2009)

### Coase's Blockchain: Can Equity Crowdfunding Accelerate Past Venture Capital? (2015)

- Identity, law and blockchain; argument; thesis; work id coase-blockchain; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R44AdHVWPmk
- What: Talk arguing that blockchains bring the change to the firm Coase expected from computers: near-free transactions and companies owned by their users.
- Summary: ICT Spring 2015, uploaded 2 June 2015 (26 minutes), given while coordinating the Ethereum launch. Starts from Ronald Coase's question of why firms exist: good decisions are expensive, and a company spreads that cost across its whole structure. Computers made communication and knowledge cheap but barely changed how business is organized, because separate databases never joined up cheaply. Blockchains, databases that work like the network, cut transaction costs to almost nothing. That allows equity crowdfunding and companies owned and governed by their users, which the talk calls participatory capitalism. Recommends Yochai Benkler's Coase's Penguin and The Wealth of Networks.
- Threads: rich data capitalism
- Came from One Network, One World: Designing for a 7+ Billion Person World (2013): price signals carry a few bits; blockchains make transactions nearly free. Evidence (implied by the later work): (OHM2013) One network one world: designing for a 7 plus billion person world (2013-09-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMcxS1nLpig&t=2100s; (OHM2013) One network one world: designing for a 7 plus billion person world (2013-09-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMcxS1nLpig&t=2250s
- Came from Plausible Utopias (2012): Coase, Nash and Benkler. Evidence (implied by the later work): Plausible Utopias (Meaning conference slides) (2012) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Vinay%20Gupta%20meaning%20slides%20FINAL.pdf#page=21; Coase's Blockchain (mic audio), ICT Spring 2015 (2015-06-02) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R44AdHVWPmk&t=1275s
- Led to Ethereum launch (2015): given while coordinating the launch. Evidence (he says so): Coase's Blockchain: Can Equity Crowdfunding Accelerate Past Venture Capital? (slides) (2015) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lE4FetnPPgN5NUnVQERzxYg8_VI4pZjlhWjNlCo_dXc/edit?usp=sharing; Programmable blockchains in context: Ethereum's Future (ConsenSys Media) (2015-10-21) https://medium.com/consensys-media/programmable-blockchains-in-context-ethereum-s-future-cd8451eb421e
- Led to Internet of Agreements (2017): near-free transactions to frictionless commerce. Evidence (implied by the later work): Financial Cryptography: Coase's Blockchain, the first half block (transcript) (2015-06-05) https://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001564.html; The Internet of Agreements (Hexayurt Capital section of Building the Hyperconnected... (2017-02) https://internetofagreements.com/files/WorldGovernmentSummit-Dubai2017.pdf#page=11
- Led to Dog Atheism: on smart contracts, risk, and value networks (2016): transaction costs and the firm, worked into new instruments. Evidence (implied by the later work): Dog Atheism (Google Doc) (2016) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1irVQ7bHgWAn5dkf7ucKkiXW_PauTFXB7EnPNzCzKR9E/edit
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### ConsenSys (2015) (he contributed)

- Identity, law and blockchain; specified; work id consensys; https://consensys.com/
- What: Strategic architect at ConsenSys after the Ethereum launch.
- Summary: After the Ethereum launch.
- Threads: cryptographic applications; hexayurt to chain
- Came from Ethereum launch (2015): after launch; strategic architect after launch. Evidence (he says so): FutureRant, Vinay Gupta Pt 4/4, Cypherpunk to Cyberpunk (2016-08-31) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTsrE63u6OM&t=830s; Vinay Gupta to talk about Mattereum at Disrupt Berlin (TechCrunch) (2018-09-27) https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/vinay-gupta-to-talk-about-mattereum-at-disrupt-berlin/
- Came from Programmable Blockchains in Context (2015): published at Consensys Media. Evidence (he says so): Programmable blockchains in context: Ethereum's Future (Medium, ConsenSys Media) (2015-10-21) https://medium.com/consensys-media/programmable-blockchains-in-context-ethereum-s-future-cd8451eb421e
- Led to Internet of Agreements (2017): Hexayurt Capital with Consensys. Evidence (he says so): Hexayurt Capital presents the Internet of Agreements at the World Government Summit... (2017-02-13) https://www.prlog.org/12619555-hexayurt-capital-presents-the-internet-of-agreements-at-the-world-government-summit.html; The Hexayurt Project (hexayurt.com) (2016) https://hexayurt.com/
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### Dangerous Old Men: Cypherpunk's Failure, Ethereum's Success (2015)

- Identity, law and blockchain; argument; specified; work id devcon1-talk; https://archive.devcon.org/devcon-1/dangerous-old-men-cypherpunks-failure-ethereums-success
- What: Talk at Devcon 1, the Ethereum developer conference in London, on why cypherpunk failed and Ethereum succeeded.
- Summary: Devcon 1, London, November 2015. Imogen Heap is listed as co-speaker. The archive page shows a wrong date; the November 2015 date is from CoinDesk.
- Threads: cryptographic applications
- Came from Cypherpunks (1992): cypherpunk's failure. Evidence (he says so): Vinay Gupta, Dangerous Old Men: cypherpunk's failure, Ethereum's success (2015-11-14) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iNiUasJiEc&t=0s
- Came from Ethereum launch (2015): Ethereum's success. Evidence (he says so): Vinay Gupta, Dangerous Old Men: cypherpunk's failure, Ethereum's success (2015-11-14) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iNiUasJiEc&t=0s; Vinay Gupta, Dangerous Old Men: cypherpunk's failure, Ethereum's success (2015-11-14) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iNiUasJiEc&t=450s
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### Ethereum launch (2015) (he contributed)

- Identity, law and blockchain; built; specified; work id ethereum; https://ethereum.org/
- What: Release coordinator for the July 2015 launch of Ethereum, the programmable blockchain.
- Summary: Ethereum Foundation 2014. Launch July 2015. Public chain for the 2009 protocols. Role is coordinator, not founder. Then ConsenSys.
- Threads: cryptographic applications; environment / green capitalism; hexayurt to chain; rich data capitalism
- Came from Global Village Development Bank (2009): protocols need a public chain. Evidence (he says so): Breaking Down Real World Assets: Crypto Daily, with Mario Nawfal and Vinay Gupta (2024-08-07) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDu_KLWVCag&t=2400s
- Came from CheapID (2006): signed card to programmable chain. Evidence (implied by the later work): Global real estate rail (Humanizing the Singularity) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79; Compilation: Vinay Gupta (Mattereum / Ethereum) on Visa, Insurance Claims, and Digital... (2023-06-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1llN53VUBk&t=0s
- Came from Asset Passport conceived (2006): the chain those hashes needed. Evidence (he says so): Global real estate rail (Humanizing the Singularity) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79; The Mattereum Manifesto: green capitalism, product information markets, and the blockchain (2019-09) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/how-post-industrial-capitalism-and-a-new-type-of-big-data-will-save-the-planet-6574b1d75bf6
- Came from RCDS cyber (Tibbs) (2011): crypto replaces manufactured scarcity. Evidence (implied by the later work): Defence, Security and Resilience under Rapid Technological Change (Hardin Tibbs... (2011) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/cyber/Defense_Security_Resilience_and_rapid_technological_change.pdf#page=2; Startup Societies Podcast, Episode 34 (2019-05-10) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB788hhEwqM&t=641s
- Came from Coase's Blockchain: Can Equity Crowdfunding Accelerate Past Venture Capital? (2015): given while coordinating the launch. Evidence (he says so): Coase's Blockchain: Can Equity Crowdfunding Accelerate Past Venture Capital? (slides) (2015) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lE4FetnPPgN5NUnVQERzxYg8_VI4pZjlhWjNlCo_dXc/edit?usp=sharing; Programmable blockchains in context: Ethereum's Future (ConsenSys Media) (2015-10-21) https://medium.com/consensys-media/programmable-blockchains-in-context-ethereum-s-future-cd8451eb421e
- Came from Governing Bitcoin: what the future holds for our favourite currency (2013): the year before Ethereum. Evidence (he says so): Governing Bitcoin: what the future holds for our favourite currency (transcript) (2014-02-02) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/my-bitcoin-expo-london-talk-nov-2013-with-transcript-3539; Mattereum is Blockchain Cypherpunk (2022-03-01) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yaXwqx-XzA&t=0s
- Came from The Ethereum Launch Process (2015): the launch plan, set out before the July release. Evidence (he says so): The Ethereum Launch Process (Ethereum Foundation blog) (2015-03-03) https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/03/03/ethereum-launch-process
- Led to Mattereum (2017): legal object on the chain; on-chain hashes, not reputation. Evidence (he says so): Startup Societies Podcast, Episode 34 (2019-05-10) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB788hhEwqM&t=641s; Startup Societies Podcast, Episode 34 (2019-05-10) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB788hhEwqM&t=791s
- Led to ConsenSys (2015): after launch; strategic architect after launch. Evidence (he says so): FutureRant, Vinay Gupta Pt 4/4, Cypherpunk to Cyberpunk (2016-08-31) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTsrE63u6OM&t=830s; Vinay Gupta to talk about Mattereum at Disrupt Berlin (TechCrunch) (2018-09-27) https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/vinay-gupta-to-talk-about-mattereum-at-disrupt-berlin/
- Led to Programmable Blockchains in Context (2015): standard launch explainer. Evidence (he says so): Permanent Summer: the new MATR token (Mattereum) (2024-02-29) https://mattereum.com/2024/02/29/permanent-summer-the-new-matr-tokenand-why-the-rwa-bull-market-goes-on-forever/; Dog Atheism: on smart contracts, risk, and value networks (2016) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1irVQ7bHgWAn5dkf7ucKkiXW_PauTFXB7EnPNzCzKR9E/edit
- Led to Product information markets (2019): blockchain as the information rail. Evidence (he says so): The Mattereum Manifesto (Medium) (2019-09-30) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/how-post-industrial-capitalism-and-a-new-type-of-big-data-will-save-the-planet-6574b1d75bf6; Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 97 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view
- Led to Dangerous Old Men: Cypherpunk's Failure, Ethereum's Success (2015): Ethereum's success. Evidence (he says so): Vinay Gupta, Dangerous Old Men: cypherpunk's failure, Ethereum's success (2015-11-14) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iNiUasJiEc&t=0s; Vinay Gupta, Dangerous Old Men: cypherpunk's failure, Ethereum's success (2015-11-14) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iNiUasJiEc&t=450s
- Sources (10, by hand first, then by importance): [164](https://guptaoption.com/texts/164.md) Programmable blockchains in context: Ethereum’s Future –... (2015); [113](https://guptaoption.com/texts/113.md) The Ethereum Launch Process | Ethereum Foundation Blog (2015); [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md) Vinay Gupta: The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019); [783](https://guptaoption.com/texts/783.md) Vinay Gupta / DCxPrague (2023); [564](https://guptaoption.com/texts/564.md) Vinay Gupta at 'A Decade of #Ethereum' (2024); [680](https://guptaoption.com/texts/680.md) Blockchain technology, trade-offs, and helping launch... (2021); [132](https://guptaoption.com/texts/132.md) Ethereum - The complete guide from ethereum.org (2015); [220](https://guptaoption.com/texts/220.md) OpenExO OS Pilot (2026); [485](https://guptaoption.com/texts/485.md) Ethereum: The Trillion Dollar Testnet (2025); [119](https://guptaoption.com/texts/119.md) Consensys - Building the Era of Decentralized Finance (2015)

### Guardian (Heap) (2015) (about him, by others)

- Press coverage; specified; work id press-guardian-2015; https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/06/imogen-heap-saviour-of-music-industry
- What: Guardian piece on blockchain for music, quoting Gupta for Ethereum.
- Summary: 6 September 2015. Imogen Heap / Mycelia. Gupta quoted as Ethereum, on blockchain for music.
- Sources (5, by hand first, then by importance): [225](https://guptaoption.com/texts/225.md) Imogen Heap: saviour of the music industry? | Imogen... (2015); [185](https://guptaoption.com/texts/185.md) Hexayurt (2002); [27](https://guptaoption.com/texts/27.md) Index of /hope_for_the_world (2009); [233](https://guptaoption.com/texts/233.md) Quaddome (2020); [328](https://guptaoption.com/texts/328.md) Papa Bill's Stew-Stick Jam - Marmaduke Dando - First... (2012)

### Programmable Blockchains in Context (2015)

- Identity, law and blockchain; argument; specified; work id pbic; https://medium.com/consensys-media/programmable-blockchains-in-context-ethereum-s-future-cd8451eb421e
- What: The launch explainer for Ethereum: where programmable blockchains sit in the line from databases to the web.
- Summary: 21 October 2015, ConsenSys Media: the explainer that went with the Ethereum launch, published three months after the July 2015 release. SQL, then the web, then programmable chains. A keystone piece (Vinay Gupta, 8 November 2026).
- Threads: cryptographic applications; hexayurt to chain
- Came from Ethereum launch (2015): standard launch explainer. Evidence (he says so): Permanent Summer: the new MATR token (Mattereum) (2024-02-29) https://mattereum.com/2024/02/29/permanent-summer-the-new-matr-tokenand-why-the-rwa-bull-market-goes-on-forever/; Dog Atheism: on smart contracts, risk, and value networks (2016) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1irVQ7bHgWAn5dkf7ucKkiXW_PauTFXB7EnPNzCzKR9E/edit
- Came from The Ethereum Launch Process (2015): from the launch plan to the launch explainer. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Ethereum Launch Process (Ethereum Foundation blog) (2015-03-03) https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/03/03/ethereum-launch-process; Programmable blockchains in context: Ethereum's Future (ConsenSys Media) (2015-10-21) https://medium.com/consensys-media/programmable-blockchains-in-context-ethereum-s-future-cd8451eb421e
- Led to ConsenSys (2015): published at Consensys Media. Evidence (he says so): Programmable blockchains in context: Ethereum's Future (Medium, ConsenSys Media) (2015-10-21) https://medium.com/consensys-media/programmable-blockchains-in-context-ethereum-s-future-cd8451eb421e
- Led to Internet of Agreements (2017): programmable chain to industrial agreements. Evidence (implied by the later work): 10 Years of Ethereum... Tokenization is here (Vinay Gupta and Ray Buckton) (2025-07-29) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUtWoCdXmEg&t=300s; The Internet of Agreements (Hexayurt Capital section of Building the Hyperconnected... (2017-02) https://internetofagreements.com/files/WorldGovernmentSummit-Dubai2017.pdf#page=8
- Led to Tell Me Who You Are: Identity, institutional memory, and the persistent illusion of the self (2015): the series, second piece. Evidence (he says so): Dog Atheism: on smart contracts, risk, and value networks (2016) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1irVQ7bHgWAn5dkf7ucKkiXW_PauTFXB7EnPNzCzKR9E/edit
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### Tell Me Who You Are: Identity, institutional memory, and the persistent illusion of the self (2015)

- Identity, law and blockchain; argument; specified; work id tell-me-who-you-are; https://medium.com/@Consensys/tell-me-who-you-are-258268bf3180
- What: ConsenSys essay on what identity is, and how to build identity people can live with: profiles kept apart, actions proven by payments.
- Summary: Published by ConsenSys on Medium, 23 December 2015, a 56-minute read and the second piece in the series between Programmable Blockchains in Context and Dog Atheism. Part I takes its title from the Enlightenment Intensive question "tell me who you are" and shows how slippery identity is, then looks at credit ratings, social networks, names and surveillance databases. Part II looks at what works: medical records, usernames and passwords (and how Eternal September broke their chain of accountability), machine identity, biometrics and DNA, where the danger is not the data but correlating it. Part III splits identity into profiles, other people's stories about you that should not be merged, and actions, a register of choices proven by payments. It proposes blockchains for organizations' public keys and revocations, zero-knowledge proofs such as proof of age, and compartmentalized roles. Dog Atheism credits it with bringing real clarity to the digital identity debate.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum
- Came from Programmable Blockchains in Context (2015): the series, second piece. Evidence (he says so): Dog Atheism: on smart contracts, risk, and value networks (2016) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1irVQ7bHgWAn5dkf7ucKkiXW_PauTFXB7EnPNzCzKR9E/edit
- Came from CheapID (2006): keep biometrics and reputation apart, worked through for the blockchain era. Evidence (implied by the later work): State In A Box: Identity Services Architecture (2006) https://guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php; Tell Me Who You Are (ConsenSys, Medium) (2015-12-23) https://medium.com/@Consensys/tell-me-who-you-are-258268bf3180
- Came from The Future We Deserve: "Facebook for the Five Billion?" (2011): slide 2: tell me who you are. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Future We Deserve: Facebook for the Five Billion? (slides) (2011-06-02) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/facebook_for_the_five_billion/Facebook%20for%20the%20five%20billion.pdf#page=1; Tell Me Who You Are (ConsenSys, Medium) (2015-12-23) https://medium.com/@Consensys/tell-me-who-you-are-258268bf3180
- Led to Dog Atheism: on smart contracts, risk, and value networks (2016): the series, third piece. Evidence (he says so): Dog Atheism (Google Doc), opening (2016) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1irVQ7bHgWAn5dkf7ucKkiXW_PauTFXB7EnPNzCzKR9E/edit
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### The Ethereum Launch Process (2015)

- Identity, law and blockchain; proposal; specified; work id ethereum-launch-process; https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/03/03/ethereum-launch-process
- What: Ethereum Foundation blog post, written as the new release coordinator, setting out the launch in stages: Frontier, Homestead, Metropolis and Serenity.
- Summary: Ethereum Foundation blog, 3 March 2015. Introduces him as the newly minted release coordinator, splitting his time between communications and release coordination, and lays out the release steps: first Frontier, a command-line release on which real Ether can be mined, then Homestead, Metropolis and Serenity, with the safeguards planned for early users' Ether.
- Threads: cryptographic applications
- Led to Ethereum launch (2015): the launch plan, set out before the July release. Evidence (he says so): The Ethereum Launch Process (Ethereum Foundation blog) (2015-03-03) https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/03/03/ethereum-launch-process
- Led to Programmable Blockchains in Context (2015): from the launch plan to the launch explainer. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Ethereum Launch Process (Ethereum Foundation blog) (2015-03-03) https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/03/03/ethereum-launch-process; Programmable blockchains in context: Ethereum's Future (ConsenSys Media) (2015-10-21) https://medium.com/consensys-media/programmable-blockchains-in-context-ethereum-s-future-cd8451eb421e
- Sources (3, by hand first, then by importance): [113](https://guptaoption.com/texts/113.md) The Ethereum Launch Process | Ethereum Foundation Blog (2015); [565](https://guptaoption.com/texts/565.md) Coin Telegraph AMA with Mattereum's Vinay Gupta 14th... (2023); [295](https://guptaoption.com/texts/295.md) Singapore talk (2015)

### The cutting machinery (2015)

- Writing and inner practice; specified; work id cutting-machinery
- What: A meditation system of three techniques, taught to individuals since 2015.
- Summary: Teaching started 2015. Three techniques, ten minutes each, one hour a day. Individual practitioners, no group. 2025: ten-year test, manual public. hexayurt.com: Cutting Machinery meditation app.
- Threads: solo practice to the cutting machinery
- Came from Systems reformulated (2010): bench test becomes teaching
- Sources (2, by hand first, then by importance): [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md) The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world (2002); [764] FutureRant - Vinay Gupta Pt 1/4 - "The Mind of Design" (2016) (no text here)

### VICE (resilience guru) (2015) (about him, by others)

- Press coverage; specified; work id press-vice-2015; https://www.vice.com/en/article/global-resilience-guru/
- What: VICE profile: the man whose job is to imagine the total collapse of humanity in order to save it.
- Summary: Joe Banks, 15 October 2015. The Man Whose Job It Is to Constantly Imagine the Total Collapse of Humanity in Order to Save It.
- Sources (2, by hand first, then by importance): [229](https://guptaoption.com/texts/229.md) The Man Whose Job It Is to Constantly Imagine the Total... (2015); [228](https://guptaoption.com/texts/228.md) www vice com

### Warlords, Inc.: Black Markets, Broken States, and the Rise of the Warlord Entrepreneur (2015) (he contributed)

- Crisis planning; model; specified; work id warlords-inc; https://guptaoption.com/#doc=of-warlords-and-rodeos-why-nothing-works-proofs
- What: Contributor: wrote chapter 1, Of Warlords and Rodeos: Why Nothing Works, for a collection on warlords as entrepreneurs in broken states, edited by Noah Raford and Andrew Trabulsi.
- Summary: North Atlantic Books, 12 May 2015. Edited by Noah Raford and Andrew Trabulsi, foreword by Robert J. Bunker. Gupta wrote chapter 1, Of Warlords and Rodeos: Why Nothing Works (book pages 3 to 7, opening Part 1, The Dark Side), which includes the Goat Rodeo Index table. The chapter's proof pages are embedded in this file; the publisher ran it as an excerpt on 28 April 2015.
- Threads: goat rodeo to warlords
- Came from Why Nothing Works: identifying and quantifying the Goat Rodeo governance antipattern (2010): the one-pager grows into the book chapter. Evidence (he says so): Why Nothing Works (In a Page PDF) (2011-06-13) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/in_a_page/why_nothing_works_the_Goat_Rodeo_Index.pdf; North Atlantic Books excerpt: Of Warlords and Rodeos: Why Nothing Works (archived) (2015-04-28) https://web.archive.org/web/20200516222520/https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/blog/of-warlords-and-rodeos-why-nothing-works/
- Sources (7, by hand first, then by importance): [25](https://guptaoption.com/texts/25.md) The Goat Rodeo Index (2011); [194](https://guptaoption.com/texts/194.md) Of Warlords and Rodeos: Why Nothing Works - North... (2015); [115](https://guptaoption.com/texts/115.md) Warlords, Inc.: Black Markets, Broken States, and the... (2015); [234](https://guptaoption.com/texts/234.md) zenpundit.com » Blog Archive » WARLORDS, INC BOOK LAUNCH!!! (2015); [88](https://guptaoption.com/texts/88.md) The Goat Rodeo Index – a persistent Governance... (2010); [155](https://guptaoption.com/texts/155.md) Mother of Hydrogen (2012); [2](https://guptaoption.com/texts/2.md) Of Warlords and Rodeos Why Nothing Works proofs

### Dog Atheism: on smart contracts, risk, and value networks (2016)

- Economics of resources; argument; thesis; work id dog-atheism; https://docs.google.com/document/d/1irVQ7bHgWAn5dkf7ucKkiXW_PauTFXB7EnPNzCzKR9E/edit
- What: Essay drafted live in public: smart contracts as capitalism's calculus, with richer instruments than cash and equity to align whole value networks.
- Summary: About 22,700 words, written live in an open Google Doc as the third piece in a series after Programmable Blockchains in Context and Tell Me Who You Are, and meant for the ConsenSys blog. The title comes from the opening: "There is no such thing as a dog." Dogs, wolves and coyotes interbreed freely, so "dog" is a comfortable folk model hiding a stranger reality, and money, equity and the joint stock company are the same kind of 400-year-old construct. Business factors form a ladder like the derivatives in calculus (creation, equity, capital, capacity, cash flow, profit), but companies align interests only on the crudest rungs, price and equity, so partners in a value network fight over price while sharing outcomes. Smart contracts make it cheap to build richer instruments: decaying equity, revenue and profit shares, a Dotcom Mutual Union pooling startup equity, consultancy paid only while advice keeps paying off, and 60-firm consortia linked by Ricardian contracts and simulated before signing. Lower transaction costs, as Coase argued, let networks of small firms match the cohesion of large companies. The aim: "do for capitalism what calculus did for mechanical engineering." An unfinished draft: three sections are headings only and the closing case studies are notes.
- Threads: rich data capitalism
- Came from Coase's Blockchain: Can Equity Crowdfunding Accelerate Past Venture Capital? (2015): transaction costs and the firm, worked into new instruments. Evidence (implied by the later work): Dog Atheism (Google Doc) (2016) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1irVQ7bHgWAn5dkf7ucKkiXW_PauTFXB7EnPNzCzKR9E/edit
- Came from Tell Me Who You Are: Identity, institutional memory, and the persistent illusion of the self (2015): the series, third piece. Evidence (he says so): Dog Atheism (Google Doc), opening (2016) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1irVQ7bHgWAn5dkf7ucKkiXW_PauTFXB7EnPNzCzKR9E/edit
- Came from Health insurance for $10 per year using the network (2008): insurance carried by the network
- Led to Internet of Agreements (2017): smart contracts across whole value networks, then agreements at industrial scale. Evidence (implied by the later work): Dog Atheism: on smart contracts, risk, and value networks (2016) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1irVQ7bHgWAn5dkf7ucKkiXW_PauTFXB7EnPNzCzKR9E/edit; The Internet of Agreements (Hexayurt Capital section of Building the Hyperconnected... (2017-02) https://internetofagreements.com/files/WorldGovernmentSummit-Dubai2017.pdf#page=11
- Sources (84, by hand first, then by importance): [242](https://guptaoption.com/texts/242.md) Dog Atheism: on smart contracts, risk, and value networks (2016); [163](https://guptaoption.com/texts/163.md) Tell Me Who You Are. Identity, institutional memory, and... (2019); [694](https://guptaoption.com/texts/694.md) EB114 – Vinay Gupta: From Lawyer Capitalism To... (2016); [164](https://guptaoption.com/texts/164.md) Programmable blockchains in context: Ethereum’s Future –... (2015); [299](https://guptaoption.com/texts/299.md) Mic audio: Coase's Blockchain: can equity crowdfunding... (2015); [823](https://guptaoption.com/texts/823.md) Plausible Utopias (2012); [271](https://guptaoption.com/texts/271.md) Introducing the Internet of Agreements (2017); [153](https://guptaoption.com/texts/153.md) Financial Cryptography: Coase's Blockchain - the first... (2015); [716](https://guptaoption.com/texts/716.md) How do we control the material world with smart... (2018); [303](https://guptaoption.com/texts/303.md) How To Sell Ideas from (from Ethereum DEVCON Berlin) (2015); [18](https://guptaoption.com/texts/18.md) Exploring Data Generated by Pocket Devices (2013); [244](https://guptaoption.com/texts/244.md) Coase’s Blockchain: Can Equity Crowdfunding Accelerate... (2015); ...

### Dubai Blockchain Strategy (2016) (he contributed)

- Identity, law and blockchain; specified; work id dubai-blockchain-strategy; https://www.khaleejtimes.com/nation/dubai/blockchain-to-be-breakthrough-tech-for-dubai-and-government
- What: Helped create Dubai's government blockchain strategy, which aimed to run all applicable government transactions on blockchain by 2020.
- Summary: Launched by Dubai's Crown Prince on 5 October 2016. Khaleej Times (12 February 2017) describes Gupta as instrumental in creating it, alongside the ConsenSys report Blockchain, Hyperconnectivity, and the City of the Future released at the 2017 World Government Summit.
- Sources (6, by hand first, then by importance): [706](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md) Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin - with Vinay Gupta | Virtual... (2018); [265](https://guptaoption.com/texts/265.md) European Parliament blockchain presentation May 2017 (2017); [276](https://guptaoption.com/texts/276.md) Dubai trip notes September 2016 (2016); [218](https://guptaoption.com/texts/218.md) Blockchain to be breakthrough tech for Dubai and... (2017); [227](https://guptaoption.com/texts/227.md) Dubai Mandates Blockchain-Only Government Documents By... (2016); [211](https://guptaoption.com/texts/211.md) Digital Catapult welcomes Vinay Gupta as Blockchain... (2017)

### Hexayurt Capital Partners (2016)

- Economics of resources; proposal; specified; work id capital-partners-2016; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/hexayurt_guy_capital_partners.pdf
- What: Talk on a new venture model: startups as factories for financial instruments, entrepreneurs as the scarce resource to be conserved, and risk pooled across companies.
- Summary: A transcript dated August 2016, given as "Vinay Gupta of the Hexayurt Project" and project manager for the Ethereum launch; it opens with 2,200 hexayurts at Burning Man that year. Venture capital has drifted toward finance while technology speeds up. Two principles: "conservation of entrepreneur", since entrepreneurs are the scarce resource and failed teams should be soft-landed and redeployed, with an entrepreneur risk pool or shared option pool; and investing where several fast-improving fields meet, from AI and blockchains to robotics and drones. He hoped to fund the first companies by January or February 2017.
- Threads: social enterprise
- Came from Three Rules for Designing the Social Enterprise (2009): from social enterprise to a venture model. Evidence (implied by the later work): Capital Partners transcript, August 2016, p. 6 (2016-08) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/hexayurt_guy_capital_partners.pdf; Dog Atheism (Google Doc) (2016) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1irVQ7bHgWAn5dkf7ucKkiXW_PauTFXB7EnPNzCzKR9E/edit
- Came from A Feather for Lifting Anvils: EdgeRyders 2.0 (2012): social capital, then a venture model. Evidence (implied by the later work): A Feather for Lifting Anvils: EdgeRyders 2.0 (blog) (2012-11-26) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/a-feather-for-lifting-anvils-edgeryders-2-0-plans-to-change-the-world-3350; Capital Partners transcript, August 2016, p. 8 (2016-08) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/hexayurt_guy_capital_partners.pdf
- Sources (26, by hand first, then by importance): [277](https://guptaoption.com/texts/277.md) a thesis: hexayurt guy capital partners? (2016); [7](https://guptaoption.com/texts/7.md) Capital Partners transcript, August 2016 (2016); [113](https://guptaoption.com/texts/113.md) The Ethereum Launch Process | Ethereum Foundation Blog (2015); [79](https://guptaoption.com/texts/79.md) Meaning: Plausible Utopias | The Bucky-Gandhi Design... (2012); [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md) Vinay Gupta one page summary; [744](https://guptaoption.com/texts/744.md) Vinay Gupta - Hexayurt Capital - World Blockchain Forum (2017); [263](https://guptaoption.com/texts/263.md) Ethereal Summit (2017); [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md) Vinay Gupta feasibility analysis; [554](https://guptaoption.com/texts/554.md) RWA for Emerging Markets (2024); [221](https://guptaoption.com/texts/221.md) Hexayurt Capital presents the Internet of Agreements™ at... (2017); [41](https://guptaoption.com/texts/41.md) 21 Jun 18 Space – Internet of Agreements (2018); [85](https://guptaoption.com/texts/85.md) Swarm Cooperatives Schedule | The Bucky-Gandhi Design... (2013); ...



# Vinay Gupta: his works and how they connect (part 8 of 9, 2017 to 2021)

> Every work in his career record (175), by year, with what it is, the thread it belongs to, what it came from and led to and why, and the sources in the archive about it. Part 8 of 9, 2017 to 2021; continues in https://guptaoption.com/texts/works-9.md. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt; source ids such as [250] are at https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md.

### A Blockchain Solution For Identity? (2017)

- Identity, law and blockchain; proposal; specified; work id blockchain-identity-2017; https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/a-blockchain-solution-for-identity-51fbcae94caa
- What: Keynote to the Dutch Blockchain Coalition (BC3) at Techruption: insurance as the way to make different blockchain identity systems work together, by reducing each organization's idea of trust to money.
- Summary: Video, transcript and slides published by Mattereum on Medium, 7 July 2017, in its Humanizing the Singularity publication; the video went up on YouTube on 21 June 2017 as "Blockchain keynote - Vinay Gupta". The Internet of Agreements site says he addressed the BC3 Consortium in the Netherlands, and its photo shows him at a Techruption and Dutch Blockchain Coalition event. Organizations mean different things by identity and trust, so rather than reconcile their ontologies the talk proposes a new financial instrument, insurance, that turns each trust model into money, aiming at an identity system that works in the Netherlands within about a year. He cites his 2006 Defense Department identity work.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum
- Came from CheapID (2006): the 2006 Defense identity work, cited in the talk. Evidence (he says so): Compilation: Vinay Gupta (Mattereum / Ethereum) on Visa, Insurance Claims, and Digital... (2023-06-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1llN53VUBk&t=0s; Compilation: Vinay Gupta (Mattereum / Ethereum) on Visa, Insurance Claims, and Digital... (2023-06-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1llN53VUBk&t=120s
- Sources (23, by hand first, then by importance): [712](https://guptaoption.com/texts/712.md) Compilation: Vinay Gupta (Mattereum / Ethereum) on Visa,... (2023); [834](https://guptaoption.com/texts/834.md) A Blockchain Solution for Identity? – Internet of Agreements (2017); [39](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md) Internet of Agreements (2017); [224](https://guptaoption.com/texts/224.md) The Unplugged: The Videos - Shareable (2010); [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md) Vinay Gupta one page summary; [757](https://guptaoption.com/texts/757.md) Vinay Gupta | Interview | State of the Net 2015 (2015); [791](https://guptaoption.com/texts/791.md) COP26 Event: Green Blockchain, Green Economy (2021); [41](https://guptaoption.com/texts/41.md) 21 Jun 18 Space – Internet of Agreements (2018); [546](https://guptaoption.com/texts/546.md) Marrying the Real and the Cryptographic world together (2024); [838](https://guptaoption.com/texts/838.md) Economics, environment and governance: small,... (2026); [40](https://guptaoption.com/texts/40.md) First Internet of Agreements Conference Recap – Internet... (2017); [631](https://guptaoption.com/texts/631.md) The economic impact of blockchain - Panel at the second... (2018); ...

### Digital Catapult Blockchain Fellow (2017) (he contributed)

- Identity, law and blockchain; specified; work id digital-catapult; https://www.digicatapult.org.uk/about/press-releases/post/digital-catapult-welcomes-vinay-gupta-as-blockchain-fellow/
- What: Blockchain Fellow at Digital Catapult, the UK government-funded innovation agency.
- Summary: Announced October 2017. The release also mentions an associate fellowship at the UCL Institute for Security and Resilience.
- Sources (2, by hand first, then by importance): [211](https://guptaoption.com/texts/211.md) Digital Catapult welcomes Vinay Gupta as Blockchain... (2017); [611] Ingram Kamalagharan - Internet of Agreements - Space (2018) (no text here)

### Forbes (2017) (about him, by others)

- Press coverage; specified; work id press-forbes-2017; https://www.forbes.com/sites/rahulsingireddy/2017/10/18/this-revolution-will-be-tokenized/
- What: Forbes interview on why Ethereum is the future.
- Summary: Rahul Singireddy, 18 October 2017. Vinay Gupta On Why Ethereum Is The Future. The Forbes profile linked from his bios.
- Sources (6, by hand first, then by importance): [215](https://guptaoption.com/texts/215.md) This Revolution Will Be Tokenized (2017); [111](https://guptaoption.com/texts/111.md) Dangerous Old Men: Cypherpunk's Failure, Ethereum's Success (2015); [481](https://guptaoption.com/texts/481.md) You are at the Start of World-Changing Tech (2025); [421](https://guptaoption.com/texts/421.md) SEC, Crypto and Securities (2026); [183](https://guptaoption.com/texts/183.md) Vinay Gupta to talk about Mattereum at Disrupt Berlin |... (2018); [211](https://guptaoption.com/texts/211.md) Digital Catapult welcomes Vinay Gupta as Blockchain... (2017)

### Internet of Agreements (2017)

- Identity, law and blockchain; argument; thesis; work id ioa; https://internetofagreements.com/files/WorldGovernmentSummit-Dubai2017.pdf
- What: Paper at the World Government Summit in Dubai on producing legal agreements at industrial scale.
- Summary: Industrial production of agreements. Paper at the World Government Summit, Dubai, February 2017. Hexayurt Capital with Consensys. Building the Hyperconnected Future on Blockchains.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum; hexayurt to chain; rich data capitalism
- Came from Mattereum (2017): named layer. Evidence (he says so): Vinay Gupta to talk about Mattereum at Disrupt Berlin (TechCrunch) (2018-09-27) https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/vinay-gupta-to-talk-about-mattereum-at-disrupt-berlin/; Global real estate rail (Humanizing the Singularity) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79
- Came from Programmable Blockchains in Context (2015): programmable chain to industrial agreements. Evidence (implied by the later work): 10 Years of Ethereum... Tokenization is here (Vinay Gupta and Ray Buckton) (2025-07-29) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUtWoCdXmEg&t=300s; The Internet of Agreements (Hexayurt Capital section of Building the Hyperconnected... (2017-02) https://internetofagreements.com/files/WorldGovernmentSummit-Dubai2017.pdf#page=8
- Came from ConsenSys (2015): Hexayurt Capital with Consensys. Evidence (he says so): Hexayurt Capital presents the Internet of Agreements at the World Government Summit... (2017-02-13) https://www.prlog.org/12619555-hexayurt-capital-presents-the-internet-of-agreements-at-the-world-government-summit.html; The Hexayurt Project (hexayurt.com) (2016) https://hexayurt.com/
- Came from Coase's Blockchain: Can Equity Crowdfunding Accelerate Past Venture Capital? (2015): near-free transactions to frictionless commerce. Evidence (implied by the later work): Financial Cryptography: Coase's Blockchain, the first half block (transcript) (2015-06-05) https://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001564.html; The Internet of Agreements (Hexayurt Capital section of Building the Hyperconnected... (2017-02) https://internetofagreements.com/files/WorldGovernmentSummit-Dubai2017.pdf#page=11
- Came from Dog Atheism: on smart contracts, risk, and value networks (2016): smart contracts across whole value networks, then agreements at industrial scale. Evidence (implied by the later work): Dog Atheism: on smart contracts, risk, and value networks (2016) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1irVQ7bHgWAn5dkf7ucKkiXW_PauTFXB7EnPNzCzKR9E/edit; The Internet of Agreements (Hexayurt Capital section of Building the Hyperconnected... (2017-02) https://internetofagreements.com/files/WorldGovernmentSummit-Dubai2017.pdf#page=11
- Led to Internet of Agreements conferences (2017): paper, then the conferences. Evidence (he says so): Hexayurt Capital presents the Internet of Agreements at the World Government Summit... (2017-02-13) https://www.prlog.org/12619555-hexayurt-capital-presents-the-internet-of-agreements-at-the-world-government-summit.html; First Internet of Agreements Conference Recap (2017-12-13) https://internetofagreements.com/2017/12/13/first-internet-of-agreements-conference-recap/
- Led to UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules (2021): industrial agreements need a digital court. Evidence (implied by the later work): Breaking Down Real World Assets: Crypto Daily, with Mario Nawfal and Vinay Gupta (2024-08-07) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDu_KLWVCag&t=3600s; The Future of Real Estate RWA (2024-07-09) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzZgByFQVww&t=3000s
- Led to The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019): economies of omniscience. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Cities That Will Walk Away talk 1:01:53 (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=3713s; The Internet of Agreements, World Government Summit paper, p. 12 (2017-02) https://internetofagreements.com/files/WorldGovernmentSummit-Dubai2017.pdf
- Led to Multipolar Realpolitik (2024): machine-checked agreements scale up to treaties. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Internet of Agreements, World Government Summit paper, p. 12 (2017-02) https://internetofagreements.com/files/WorldGovernmentSummit-Dubai2017.pdf; Multipolar Realpolitik, introduction (2024-05-06) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AelylfOU517y0BI184sW7p8TnQl_oH8t4ajH6Fe4vH0/edit
- Sources (50, by hand first, then by importance): [237](https://guptaoption.com/texts/237.md) The Internet of Agreements (Hexayurt Capital section,... (2017); [266](https://guptaoption.com/texts/266.md) "Blockchain: IoT's trust broker?" talk on the fly by... (2017); [271](https://guptaoption.com/texts/271.md) Introducing the Internet of Agreements (2017); [221](https://guptaoption.com/texts/221.md) Hexayurt Capital presents the Internet of Agreements™ at... (2017); [39](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md) Internet of Agreements (2017); [731](https://guptaoption.com/texts/731.md) Vinay Gupta l The Internet of Agreements l Meaning 2017 (2020); [566](https://guptaoption.com/texts/566.md) Why Global Trade Will Inevitably Move To The Blockchain (2023); [265](https://guptaoption.com/texts/265.md) European Parliament blockchain presentation May 2017 (2017); [251](https://guptaoption.com/texts/251.md) ODM 6981 Oxford Technology and Media Network Climate Change (2020); [766](https://guptaoption.com/texts/766.md) Start Talks Vinay Gupta (2016); [558](https://guptaoption.com/texts/558.md) Event Spotlight - Talk at LOGIN 2024 - Can regulators... (2024); [562](https://guptaoption.com/texts/562.md) Vinay Gupta at The Promise of the Blockchain 2015 (2024); ...

### Internet of Agreements conferences (2017)

- Identity, law and blockchain; specified; work id ioa-series; https://internetofagreements.com/
- What: Hosted four London conferences on blockchain agreements: law, trade, identity and space.
- Summary: Four London conferences, 2017 to 2018. Law and supply chains, 13 to 16 October 2017. World trade, 23 February 2018. Identity, 10 April 2018, Google Campus. Space, 21 to 22 June 2018. Mattereum is the first Internet of Agreements infrastructure project.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum
- Came from Internet of Agreements (2017): paper, then the conferences. Evidence (he says so): Hexayurt Capital presents the Internet of Agreements at the World Government Summit... (2017-02-13) https://www.prlog.org/12619555-hexayurt-capital-presents-the-internet-of-agreements-at-the-world-government-summit.html; First Internet of Agreements Conference Recap (2017-12-13) https://internetofagreements.com/2017/12/13/first-internet-of-agreements-conference-recap/
- Led to Mattereum (2017): first Internet of Agreements infrastructure project. Evidence (he says so): Vinay Gupta, Hexayurt.Capital: Blockchain, Ecology, State and Anarchy (2017-10-27) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjrGVIP9lPA&t=1367s; 21 Jun 18 Space, Internet of Agreements (2018-06-21) https://internetofagreements.com/space
- Sources (13, by hand first, then by importance): [39](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md) Internet of Agreements (2017); [647](https://guptaoption.com/texts/647.md) Vinay Gupta - Internet of Agreements conference (2017); [618](https://guptaoption.com/texts/618.md) Vinay Gupta - Space - Internet of Agreements (2018); [41](https://guptaoption.com/texts/41.md) 21 Jun 18 Space – Internet of Agreements (2018); [40](https://guptaoption.com/texts/40.md) First Internet of Agreements Conference Recap – Internet... (2017); [836](https://guptaoption.com/texts/836.md) 13 Oct 17 Law – Internet of Agreements (2017); [835](https://guptaoption.com/texts/835.md) 10 Apr 18 Identity – Internet of Agreements (2018); [837](https://guptaoption.com/texts/837.md) 23 Feb 18 Trade – Internet of Agreements (2018); [166] Rob Knight — on the Internet of Agreements project | by... (2018) (no text here); [44](https://guptaoption.com/texts/44.md) Announcing Swarm x Mattereum Partnership - Mattereum (2023); [160](https://guptaoption.com/texts/160.md) UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules (2021); [199](https://guptaoption.com/texts/199.md) IG Wines with Mattereum (2022); ...

### Mattereum (2017)

- Identity, law and blockchain; built; specified; work id mattereum; https://mattereum.com/
- What: Founder and CEO of Mattereum, which turns every claim about a physical object into a legal warranty.
- Summary: MAP: every claim a warranty. It's true, or you can sue. CheapID pattern on goods. Shipped work is not the forward thesis.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum; RMI to spiral; environment / green capitalism; hexayurt to chain
- Came from Ethereum launch (2015): legal object on the chain; on-chain hashes, not reputation. Evidence (he says so): Startup Societies Podcast, Episode 34 (2019-05-10) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB788hhEwqM&t=641s; Startup Societies Podcast, Episode 34 (2019-05-10) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB788hhEwqM&t=791s
- Came from CheapID (2006): disclose on dispute. Evidence (he says so): Coin Telegraph AMA with Mattereum's Vinay Gupta, 14 August 2023 (2023-08-31) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu5bFKPqLDg&t=2738s; Compilation: Vinay Gupta (Mattereum / Ethereum) on Visa, Insurance Claims, and Digital... (2023-06-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1llN53VUBk&t=0s
- Came from Asset Passport conceived (2006): passport on goods. Evidence (he says so): Global real estate rail (Humanizing the Singularity) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79; The Mattereum Manifesto: green capitalism, product information markets, and the blockchain (2019-09) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/how-post-industrial-capitalism-and-a-new-type-of-big-data-will-save-the-planet-6574b1d75bf6
- Connects back from Spiral economy (2023): doubt discount. Evidence (implied by the later work): COP26 Event: The Circular Economy, Finance and Data for an Abundant Regenerative Future (2021-11-22) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn46s1BTMEA&t=1470s; COP26 Event: The Circular Economy, Finance and Data for an Abundant Regenerative Future (2021-11-22) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn46s1BTMEA&t=6406s
- Connects back from The Future of Stuff (2020): ragged edge of the deal. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Future of Stuff (book text, p. 21) (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iDuLbVRLxtPz-BNRZKOJCljXbPVt6ohp/view; How To Address Climate Change: Diplomacy, Politics, Technology. COP 26 (2022-09-02) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMZ0Hpq5cQU&t=1167s
- Came from Global Village Development Bank (2009): loan sits on the object. Evidence (he says so): Breaking Down Real World Assets: Crypto Daily, with Mario Nawfal and Vinay Gupta (2024-08-07) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDu_KLWVCag&t=2400s
- Came from Internet of Agreements conferences (2017): first Internet of Agreements infrastructure project. Evidence (he says so): Vinay Gupta, Hexayurt.Capital: Blockchain, Ecology, State and Anarchy (2017-10-27) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjrGVIP9lPA&t=1367s; 21 Jun 18 Space, Internet of Agreements (2018-06-21) https://internetofagreements.com/space
- Connects back from Product information markets (2019): MAP is the market instrument. Evidence (he says so): Saving the Climate with Real World Asset NFTs, MoneyDance 2020 (2020-11-20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV0y3eZrVtg&t=549s; COP26 Event: The Circular Economy, Finance and Data for an Abundant Regenerative Future (2021-11-22) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn46s1BTMEA&t=1470s
- Came from Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the ESCROWNYM) (2012): pseudonyms backed by binding agreements. Evidence (implied by the later work): Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the ESCROWNYM) (2012-02-05) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/taking-a-crack-at-a-practical-system-introducing-the-escrownym-3004; How do we control the material world with smart contracts? (Devcon4) (2018-12-11) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoFRfA0TKSg&t=0s
- Came from Exploring Data Generated by Pocket Devices (2013): networked property rights. Evidence (implied by the later work): Exploring Data Generated by Pocket Devices (2013-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/SMART_CITIES/The_Smart_City.To_Whos_Advantage.Pocket_Devices_and_Data_Trails.Vinay_Gupta.pdf#page=4; Exploring Data Generated by Pocket Devices (2013-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/SMART_CITIES/The_Smart_City.To_Whos_Advantage.Pocket_Devices_and_Data_Trails.Vinay_Gupta.pdf#page=10
- Led to Internet of Agreements (2017): named layer. Evidence (he says so): Vinay Gupta to talk about Mattereum at Disrupt Berlin (TechCrunch) (2018-09-27) https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/vinay-gupta-to-talk-about-mattereum-at-disrupt-berlin/; Global real estate rail (Humanizing the Singularity) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79
- Led to Half a Trillion Dollars a Year of Magic: Blockchain, AI, and the Future of the Built Environment (2026): forward thesis. Evidence (he says so): Half a Trillion Dollars a Year of Magic (Mattereum, Medium) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79
- Led to MATR (2024): shipped token; token as crypto application. Evidence (he says so): Permanent Summer: the new MATR token (Mattereum) (2024-02-29) https://mattereum.com/2024/02/29/permanent-summer-the-new-matr-tokenand-why-the-rwa-bull-market-goes-on-forever/
- Led to UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules (2021): incorporate the rules into the dispute ecosystem. Evidence (he says so): UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules (2021-04-22) https://mattereum.com/ukjt#page=4; Breaking Down Real World Assets: Crypto Daily, with Mario Nawfal and Vinay Gupta (2024-08-07) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDu_KLWVCag&t=3600s
- Led to William Shatner collectibles with Mattereum (2019): first Asset Passport project with a public figure. Evidence (he says so): CCForum London 2019: Blockchain and the Future of Humanity (2019-11-25) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVcVYME8JIE&t=0s; Press release: William Shatner teams up with London firm Mattereum to fight fraud in... (2019-05) https://williamshatner.com/press-release-william-shatner-teams-up-with-london-firm-mattereum-to-fight-fraud-in-collectibles/
- Led to IG Wines with Mattereum (2022): Asset Passports for wine and whisky. Evidence (he says so): IG Wines partners with tech firm Mattereum (Wine Industry Advisor) (2022-06-24) https://wineindustryadvisor.com/2022/06/24/ig-wines-partners-with-tech-firm-mattereum/
- Led to West London City Lets land sale as an NFT (2022): land sold as a token. Evidence (he says so): The Second Mattereum Physical Asset NFT Meetup, 21 Sept 2022 (2022-09-24) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2WyNG8xN4M&t=1677s; The Second Mattereum Physical Asset NFT Meetup, 21 Sept 2022 (2022-09-24) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2WyNG8xN4M&t=1827s
- Led to Swarm with Mattereum (2023): regulated trading of asset tokens. Evidence (he says so): Announcing Swarm x Mattereum Partnership (2023-07-23) https://mattereum.com/2023/07/23/announcing-swarm-x-mattereum-partnership/; Permanent Summer: the new MATR token (Mattereum) (2024-02-29) https://mattereum.com/2024/02/29/permanent-summer-the-new-matr-tokenand-why-the-rwa-bull-market-goes-on-forever/
- Led to The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019): defining physical objects for software; the data that prices a thing also tracks its footprint. Evidence (he says so): The Cities That Will Walk Away talk 1:01:53 (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=3713s
- Led to Hexayurt Refugee Shelter (MICA, Baltimore) (2024): legally binding models of shelters, such as their wind load. Evidence (he says so): MICA lecture 35:00, legally binding guarantees about the wind load a shelter will take... (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=2100s
- Sources (7, by hand first, then by importance): [42](https://guptaoption.com/texts/42.md) Home - Mattereum (2017); [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md) The Mattereum Manifesto: green capitalism, product... (2019); [716](https://guptaoption.com/texts/716.md) How do we control the material world with smart... (2018); [206](https://guptaoption.com/texts/206.md) Vinay Gupta's Big Idea: An Identity Layer for Your Things (2020); [680](https://guptaoption.com/texts/680.md) Blockchain technology, trade-offs, and helping launch... (2021); [672](https://guptaoption.com/texts/672.md) Lemon Markets (2022); [575](https://guptaoption.com/texts/575.md) 'How Top Create RWAnfts for artwork in galleries, and... (2022)

### Taming Black Elephants (2017) (about him, by others)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id taming-black-elephants; https://ipscommons.sg/the-black-elephant-challenge-for-governments/
- What: Singapore's former civil service head took up the black elephant idea in a lecture series and book.
- Summary: Peter Ho, former Head of the Singapore Civil Service, IPS-Nathan lecture, 5 April 2017: a black elephant is visible to everyone, nobody will deal with it, then it is passed off as a black swan. The 2018 book collects the four lectures. The Centre for Strategic Futures' 2015 Foresight Conference proceedings list Gupta as a participant and credit an unnamed participant with raising the black elephant.
- Threads: black elephant
- Came from Black Elephant (2009): Singapore government foresight takes the term up. Evidence (he says so): CommunityZ Chest conversation with Michael Mainelli 9:07 (2020-06-27) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMQPTytHcHg&t=547s; Centre for Strategic Futures, Foresight Conference 2015 proceedings, p. 17 (2015-07) https://www.csf.gov.sg/files/media-centre/foresight-conference-2015-proceedings5e5de5d076d766deb7fdff00000cf313.pdf
- Sources (9, by hand first, then by importance): [683](https://guptaoption.com/texts/683.md) CommunityZ Chest - Vinay Gupta, Founder of Mattereum, In... (2020); [171](https://guptaoption.com/texts/171.md) Taming Black Elephants (2015); [159](https://guptaoption.com/texts/159.md) Taming Black Elephants (2017); [208](https://guptaoption.com/texts/208.md) Taming Black Elephants (2016); [157](https://guptaoption.com/texts/157.md) The Black Elephant Challenge for Governments | IPS Commons (2017); [207](https://guptaoption.com/texts/207.md) Black Elephants (CCCR2018) - CSER (2019); [117](https://guptaoption.com/texts/117.md) The Black Elephant Lapel Pin & Logo | Metalabel (2009); [223](https://guptaoption.com/texts/223.md) Finding Each other in the Ruins - resilience (2025); [200](https://guptaoption.com/texts/200.md) black elephant (2009)

### Breaker (2018) (about him, by others)

- Press coverage; specified; work id press-breaker-2018; https://breakermag.com/vinay-gupta-thinks-tokenizing-the-world-is-the-best-way-to-save-it/
- What: Breaker interview: tokenizing the world as the best way to save it.
- Summary: 5 December 2018. Vinay Gupta Thinks Tokenizing the World Is the Best Way to Save It.
- Sources (5, by hand first, then by importance): [116](https://guptaoption.com/texts/116.md) Vinay Gupta Thinks Tokenizing the World Is the Best Way... (2018); [60](https://guptaoption.com/texts/60.md) Dealing in Security – Simple Critical Infrastructure... (2009); [158](https://guptaoption.com/texts/158.md) Pixelache Festival 2015; [213](https://guptaoption.com/texts/213.md) Vinay | Creativity and Crisis - Vinay Gupta. 29th...; [644] Imogen Heap - Internet of Agreements Conference (2017) (no text here)

### TechCrunch (2018) (about him, by others)

- Press coverage; specified; work id press-techcrunch-2018; https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/vinay-gupta-to-talk-about-mattereum-at-disrupt-berlin/
- What: TechCrunch coverage of Mattereum at Disrupt Berlin.
- Summary: 27 September 2018. Mattereum at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin. Followed by on-stage quotes in November 2018.
- Sources (1, by hand first, then by importance): [183](https://guptaoption.com/texts/183.md) Vinay Gupta to talk about Mattereum at Disrupt Berlin |... (2018)

### Product information markets (2019)

- Economics of resources; argument; thesis; work id pim; https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/how-post-industrial-capitalism-and-a-new-type-of-big-data-will-save-the-planet-6574b1d75bf6
- What: The Mattereum Manifesto: markets for warranted facts about physical goods, including their carbon and labor.
- Summary: The Mattereum Manifesto, 2019: green capitalism, product information markets, and the blockchain. Markets for warranted information about composition and qualities of physical things. Carbon and labour as product data. Lemon market is the cut. MAP is the instrument. Joins economics, cryptography, and environment.
- Threads: RMI to spiral; environment / green capitalism
- Connects back from The Future of Stuff (2020): carbon tracked like money
- Connects back from Spiral economy (2023): keep goods whole, dump the landfill
- Came from Ethereum launch (2015): blockchain as the information rail. Evidence (he says so): The Mattereum Manifesto (Medium) (2019-09-30) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/how-post-industrial-capitalism-and-a-new-type-of-big-data-will-save-the-planet-6574b1d75bf6; Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 97 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view
- Came from Asset Passport conceived (2006): identity of things, then a market for facts. Evidence (he says so): The Mattereum Manifesto (Medium) (2019-09-30) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/how-post-industrial-capitalism-and-a-new-type-of-big-data-will-save-the-planet-6574b1d75bf6; Half a Trillion Dollars a Year of Magic (Mattereum, Medium) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79
- Came from CheapID (2006): same pattern: claims about the object. Evidence (implied by the later work): State in a Box: Identity Services Architecture (CheapID) (2006) https://guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php; Half a Trillion Dollars a Year of Magic (Mattereum, Medium) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79
- Came from Winning the Oil Endgame (2004): green capitalism after oil. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Mattereum Manifesto (Medium) (2019-09-30) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/how-post-industrial-capitalism-and-a-new-type-of-big-data-will-save-the-planet-6574b1d75bf6; FutureRant talk 7:01, RMI's market-based responses [transcribed] (2016-08-29) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mCXTebVaJY&t=421s
- Connects back to Mattereum (2017): MAP is the market instrument. Evidence (he says so): Saving the Climate with Real World Asset NFTs, MoneyDance 2020 (2020-11-20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV0y3eZrVtg&t=549s; COP26 Event: The Circular Economy, Finance and Data for an Abundant Regenerative Future (2021-11-22) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn46s1BTMEA&t=1470s
- Led to Spiral economy (2023): information removes the doubt discount. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Mattereum Manifesto (Medium) (2019-09-30) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/how-post-industrial-capitalism-and-a-new-type-of-big-data-will-save-the-planet-6574b1d75bf6; Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 123 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view
- Led to Lean Green Mattereum: "We aren't just here to change the world, we're here to fix it" (2020): product information markets as the engine. Evidence (he says so): Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 97 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view; Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 106 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view
- Sources (6, by hand first, then by importance): [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md) The Mattereum Manifesto: green capitalism, product... (2019); [252](https://guptaoption.com/texts/252.md) Vinay Gupta / Mattereum Manifesto keynote at the London... (2019); [672](https://guptaoption.com/texts/672.md) Lemon Markets (2022); [507](https://guptaoption.com/texts/507.md) Product Information Markets (2025); [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md) The Mattereum Top Down Deck Day 6 (Lean Green Mattereum) (2020); [840](https://guptaoption.com/texts/840.md) Rich data capitalism: economics, environment and governance (2026)

### The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019)

- Crisis planning; argument; specified; work id stamps-2019; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go
- What: Talk on rehousing 300 million climate migrants in new cities, and the thirty-year Hexayurt plan, halfway through.
- Summary: Penny Stamps Speaker Series keynote for the Border Control Symposium, University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design, published 23 September 2019 (71 minutes). Expects 200 to 300 million climate refugees and argues for building new cities, about 30 the size of New York, rather than camps. States the thirty-year plan: from 2002, global capacity to absorb tens or hundreds of millions of people, halfway through, with the first live refugee test (ShiftPod). Also covers Six ways to die, joining Ethereum in 2014, and Mattereum's work with William Shatner. Ends on economies of omniscience: if everything is known, resources can be allocated well, a super information rich form of capitalism that also lets the environment be managed, since the knowledge needed to price a thing also tracks its footprint.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum; STAR-TIDES; hexayurt to chain; nuclear / panflu; rich data capitalism
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): the thirty-year plan, halfway through. Evidence (he says so): The Cities That Will Walk Away talk 29:51 (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=1791s
- Came from Six ways people die (2008): the six ways explained. Evidence (he says so): The Cities That Will Walk Away talk 43:57 (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=2637s; The Cities That Will Walk Away talk 44:46 (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=2686s
- Came from Mattereum (2017): defining physical objects for software; the data that prices a thing also tracks its footprint. Evidence (he says so): The Cities That Will Walk Away talk 1:01:53 (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=3713s
- Came from Internet of Agreements (2017): economies of omniscience. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Cities That Will Walk Away talk 1:01:53 (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=3713s; The Internet of Agreements, World Government Summit paper, p. 12 (2017-02) https://internetofagreements.com/files/WorldGovernmentSummit-Dubai2017.pdf
- Came from Exploring Data Generated by Pocket Devices (2013): economies of omniscience, named in 2013. Evidence (implied by the later work): Exploring Data Generated by Pocket Devices, p. 4 (2013-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/SMART_CITIES/The_Smart_City.To_Whos_Advantage.Pocket_Devices_and_Data_Trails.Vinay_Gupta.pdf; The Cities That Will Walk Away talk 1:01:53 (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=3713s
- Led to Multipolar Realpolitik (2024): the same knowledge systems, applied to treaties. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Cities That Will Walk Away talk 1:01:53 (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=3713s; Multipolar Realpolitik, appendix (2024-05-06) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AelylfOU517y0BI184sW7p8TnQl_oH8t4ajH6Fe4vH0/edit
- Led to Climate Projections 2: A lot of very boring graphs which all go upwards (2025): climate migration, then the climate data behind it
- Led to Hexayurt Refugee Shelter (MICA, Baltimore) (2024): cities instead of camps, five years on. Evidence (implied by the later work): Stamps talk 38:57, modular relocatable cities rather than refugee camps [transcribed] (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=2337s; MICA lecture 7:30, refugee camps as startup cities [transcribed] (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=450s
- Sources (3, by hand first, then by importance): [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md) Vinay Gupta: The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019); [727](https://guptaoption.com/texts/727.md) Undergraduate Lecture Series 2024: Vinay Gupta & Bryan... (2024); [171](https://guptaoption.com/texts/171.md) Taming Black Elephants (2015)

### William Shatner collectibles with Mattereum (2019)

- Identity, law and blockchain; built; specified; work id shatner; https://williamshatner.com/press-release-william-shatner-teams-up-with-london-firm-mattereum-to-fight-fraud-in-collectibles/
- What: Mattereum partnership with William Shatner giving memorabilia legally backed digital twins against fraud, starting with a Captain Kirk figure.
- Summary: Announced during New York Blockchain Week, May 2019. Shipped Mattereum work.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum
- Came from Mattereum (2017): first Asset Passport project with a public figure. Evidence (he says so): CCForum London 2019: Blockchain and the Future of Humanity (2019-11-25) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVcVYME8JIE&t=0s; Press release: William Shatner teams up with London firm Mattereum to fight fraud in... (2019-05) https://williamshatner.com/press-release-william-shatner-teams-up-with-london-firm-mattereum-to-fight-fraud-in-collectibles/
- Sources (6, by hand first, then by importance): [252](https://guptaoption.com/texts/252.md) Vinay Gupta / Mattereum Manifesto keynote at the London... (2019); [565](https://guptaoption.com/texts/565.md) Coin Telegraph AMA with Mattereum's Vinay Gupta 14th... (2023); [758](https://guptaoption.com/texts/758.md) #3 Vinay Gupta, Indexing the physical world (2019); [43](https://guptaoption.com/texts/43.md) William Shatner Authentication - Mattereum (2019); [197](https://guptaoption.com/texts/197.md) PRESS RELEASE: WILLIAM SHATNER TEAMS UP WITH LONDON FIRM... (2019); [256](https://guptaoption.com/texts/256.md) I'm coming to Malta (2019)

### CoinDesk (2020) (about him, by others)

- Press coverage; specified; work id press-coindesk-2020; https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2020/04/16/vinay-guptas-big-idea-an-identity-layer-for-your-things
- What: CoinDesk interview on an identity layer for physical things.
- Summary: Jeff Wilser, 16 April 2020. An identity layer for things. Mattereum Asset Passport in the press.
- Sources (84, by hand first, then by importance): [206](https://guptaoption.com/texts/206.md) Vinay Gupta's Big Idea: An Identity Layer for Your Things (2020); [42](https://guptaoption.com/texts/42.md) Home - Mattereum (2017); [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md) The Mattereum Manifesto: green capitalism, product... (2019); [167](https://guptaoption.com/texts/167.md) Global real estate rail (2026); [565](https://guptaoption.com/texts/565.md) Coin Telegraph AMA with Mattereum's Vinay Gupta 14th... (2023); [45](https://guptaoption.com/texts/45.md) PERMANENT SUMMER: THE NEW MATR TOKEN…And Why The RWA... (2024); [43](https://guptaoption.com/texts/43.md) William Shatner Authentication - Mattereum (2019); [44](https://guptaoption.com/texts/44.md) Announcing Swarm x Mattereum Partnership - Mattereum (2023); [594](https://guptaoption.com/texts/594.md) Mattereum Physical Asset NFT Online Meet-Up 27 July 2022 (2022); [722](https://guptaoption.com/texts/722.md) "10 Years of Ethereum... Tokenization is here." ---- RWA... (2025); [559](https://guptaoption.com/texts/559.md) Gold RWA arrive onchain! (2024); [258](https://guptaoption.com/texts/258.md) Mattereum - Decentralized Digital Twins (2019); ...

### Lean Green Mattereum: "We aren't just here to change the world, we're here to fix it" (2020)

- Economics of resources; argument; specified; work id lean-green-mattereum; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/MATTEREUM/Lean_Green_Mattereum_screen.pdf
- What: 162-page deck tying it together: poverty and climate are one problem, a lean green development path is more plausible than bright green cities, and Asset Passports fund near-zero-footprint second-hand markets.
- Summary: A 162-page deck, its "second public release: proof of concept". Poverty and climate are one problem: "Our current emissions are 40 gigatons per year. Roughly 24 gigatons per year over our safe CO2 budget." Bright green urbanism needs close to tenfold gains, so it proposes a lean green soft development path modeled on Kerala, with hexayurt housing and SCIM for refugee cities. It reuses the 2003 investment, production, consumption and waste model: optimization reached the first two but not the last two, so financial and ecological data must share one product information market. Mattereum Asset Passports, cryptography plus insurance, remove the fraud discount and fund second-hand markets; it claims the approach "could take 5% or 10% off our global environmental footprint". It reprints Three Rules for Designing the Social Enterprise.
- Threads: RMI to spiral; social enterprise
- Came from Three Rules for Designing the Social Enterprise (2009): reprinted in the 2020 deck. Evidence (he says so): Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 107 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view
- Came from Product information markets (2019): product information markets as the engine. Evidence (he says so): Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 97 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view; Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 106 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view
- Came from Soft Development Paths (2008): the soft development path, revisited. Evidence (he says so): Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 40 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view; Soft Development Paths (guptaoption.com) (2008) https://guptaoption.com/7.soft_development_paths.php
- Came from Whole-Systems Framework for Sustainable Consumption and Production (2003): the 2003 economy model, reused. Evidence (he says so): Lean Green Mattereum deck, slides 82 to 91 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view; The Mattereum Manifesto (Medium) (2019-09-30) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/how-post-industrial-capitalism-and-a-new-type-of-big-data-will-save-the-planet-6574b1d75bf6
- Led to Spiral economy (2023): keep goods whole. Evidence (implied by the later work): Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 123 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view; Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 128 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view
- Sources (20, by hand first, then by importance): [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md) The Mattereum Top Down Deck Day 6 (Lean Green Mattereum) (2020); [723](https://guptaoption.com/texts/723.md) "Saving the Climate with Real World Asset NFTs" by Vinay... (2020); [714](https://guptaoption.com/texts/714.md) Autonomous A1 - Taming Capitalism with Vinay Gupta of... (2021); [819] Climate Projections 2: A lot of very boring graphs which... (2025) (no text here); [370](https://guptaoption.com/texts/370.md) Superstruct Report 1 (2008); [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md) Vinay Gupta one page summary; [736](https://guptaoption.com/texts/736.md) Mattereum (2024); [762](https://guptaoption.com/texts/762.md) MetaGame meets Vinay Gupta (2021); [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md) Vinay Gupta feasibility analysis; [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md) Wisdom spirals and doom loops: the deck (2026); [840](https://guptaoption.com/texts/840.md) Rich data capitalism: economics, environment and governance (2026); [62](https://guptaoption.com/texts/62.md) Global Swadeshi Dialogs – mostly deborked audio | The... (2008); ...

### The Future of Stuff (2020)

- Economics of resources; argument; specified; work id fos; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55945873
- What: Book on the philosophy under Mattereum: risk and morality in deals about physical things.
- Summary: Unbound, 2020. Philosophy under Mattereum. Risk at the ragged edge of the deal. Automate morality. Not a SCIM need; it is the stuff/economics frame.
- Threads: RMI to spiral; environment / green capitalism
- Came from Course of Action (2006): urban-rich environmental destructiveness. Evidence (implied by the later work): Course of Action (2006) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Vinay_Gupta_course_of_action.pdf; The Future of Stuff, p. 25 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iDuLbVRLxtPz-BNRZKOJCljXbPVt6ohp/view
- Led to Spiral economy (2023): philosophy under the company. Evidence (implied by the later work): Conversation with Pat Kane 26:25, he plugs The Future of Stuff [transcribed] (2021-11-30) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoHpEOXDkHQ&t=1585s; The Future of Stuff, p. 39 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iDuLbVRLxtPz-BNRZKOJCljXbPVt6ohp/view
- Connects back to Mattereum (2017): ragged edge of the deal. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Future of Stuff (book text, p. 21) (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iDuLbVRLxtPz-BNRZKOJCljXbPVt6ohp/view; How To Address Climate Change: Diplomacy, Politics, Technology. COP 26 (2022-09-02) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMZ0Hpq5cQU&t=1167s
- Connects back to Product information markets (2019): carbon tracked like money
- Sources (115, by hand first, then by importance): [239](https://guptaoption.com/texts/239.md) The Future of Stuff (2020); [793](https://guptaoption.com/texts/793.md) COP26 Event: The Circular Economy - Finance and Data for... (2021); [735](https://guptaoption.com/texts/735.md) Vinay Gupta - Mattereum (2022); [725](https://guptaoption.com/texts/725.md) Vinay Gupta l Plausible utopias | Meaning 2012 (2012); [252](https://guptaoption.com/texts/252.md) Vinay Gupta / Mattereum Manifesto keynote at the London... (2019); [702](https://guptaoption.com/texts/702.md) Conversation With Pat Kane & Vinay Gupta (2021); [723](https://guptaoption.com/texts/723.md) "Saving the Climate with Real World Asset NFTs" by Vinay... (2020); [706](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md) Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin - with Vinay Gupta | Virtual... (2018); [714](https://guptaoption.com/texts/714.md) Autonomous A1 - Taming Capitalism with Vinay Gupta of... (2021); [773](https://guptaoption.com/texts/773.md) Vinay Gupta — Incentive-based epistemology | Ideamarket... (2021); [210](https://guptaoption.com/texts/210.md) The Future We Deserve (2012); [690](https://guptaoption.com/texts/690.md) FSCONS 2017 - Vinay Gupta - Resilience (2017); ...

### Stimson Center Loomis Council (2021) (he contributed)

- Crisis planning; built; specified; work id stimson-loomis; https://www.stimson.org/ppl/vinay-gupta/
- What: Member of the Loomis Council at the Stimson Center, a think tank on peace and security.
- Summary: Loomis Council member at the Stimson Center from 2021. The Stimson profile describes him as best known as Ethereum's 2015 release coordinator and the inventor of the hexayurt, and calls Programmable Blockchains in Context the standard Ethereum explainer released at the launch.



# Vinay Gupta: his works and how they connect (part 9 of 9, 2021 to 2026)

> Every work in his career record (175), by year, with what it is, the thread it belongs to, what it came from and led to and why, and the sources in the archive about it. Part 9 of 9, 2021 to 2026. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt; source ids such as [250] are at https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md.

### UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules (2021) (he contributed)

- Identity, law and blockchain; specified; work id ukjt-ddrr; https://mattereum.com/ukjt
- What: Consulted on UK rules for resolving disputes over smart contracts; Mattereum is quoted in them.
- Summary: UK Jurisdiction Taskforce, 22 April 2021. English-seat rules for on-chain digital relationships and smart contracts: rapid arbitration, optional anonymity, on-chain implementation of awards. Mattereum is quoted in the published rules as intending to incorporate them. Legal jurisdiction, not a Mattereum-authored statute.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum
- Came from Mattereum (2017): incorporate the rules into the dispute ecosystem. Evidence (he says so): UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules (2021-04-22) https://mattereum.com/ukjt#page=4; Breaking Down Real World Assets: Crypto Daily, with Mario Nawfal and Vinay Gupta (2024-08-07) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDu_KLWVCag&t=3600s
- Came from CheapID (2006): disclose on dispute, here is the forum. Evidence (implied by the later work): State In A Box: Identity Services Architecture (2006) https://guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php; UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules, rule 13 (2021-04-22) https://mattereum.com/ukjt#page=7
- Came from Internet of Agreements (2017): industrial agreements need a digital court. Evidence (implied by the later work): Breaking Down Real World Assets: Crypto Daily, with Mario Nawfal and Vinay Gupta (2024-08-07) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDu_KLWVCag&t=3600s; The Future of Real Estate RWA (2024-07-09) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzZgByFQVww&t=3000s
- Came from Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the ESCROWNYM) (2012): build the courts first. Evidence (implied by the later work): Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the ESCROWNYM) (2012-02-05) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/taking-a-crack-at-a-practical-system-introducing-the-escrownym-3004; UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules, rule 13 (2021-04-22) https://mattereum.com/ukjt#page=7
- Led to Multipolar Realpolitik (2024): dispute resolution across legal systems. Evidence (implied by the later work): UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules, further guidance (2021-04-22) https://mattereum.com/ukjt; Multipolar Realpolitik, appendix (2024-05-06) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AelylfOU517y0BI184sW7p8TnQl_oH8t4ajH6Fe4vH0/edit
- Sources (10, by hand first, then by importance): [730](https://guptaoption.com/texts/730.md) The Bitcoin Podcast Interview #343- Vinay Gupta CEO Of... (2021); [160](https://guptaoption.com/texts/160.md) UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules (2021); [42](https://guptaoption.com/texts/42.md) Home - Mattereum (2017); [657](https://guptaoption.com/texts/657.md) Legal Panel - Internet of Agreements conference (2017); [192](https://guptaoption.com/texts/192.md) worldchanging.com (2006); [419](https://guptaoption.com/texts/419.md) The Jurisdiction Of Internet Transactions (2026); [673](https://guptaoption.com/texts/673.md) 'What Mattereum Does in 200 Words' (2022); [120](https://guptaoption.com/texts/120.md) blockone - Sign In (2020); [602](https://guptaoption.com/texts/602.md) Mattereum Highlights - Chris Wray on arbitration (2018); [659] Interview with Mihai Cimpoensu I Mattereum and legally... (2017) (no text here)

### IG Wines with Mattereum (2022)

- Identity, law and blockchain; built; specified; work id ig-wines; https://wineindustryadvisor.com/2022/06/24/ig-wines-partners-with-tech-firm-mattereum/
- What: Mattereum partnership with IG Wines to create digital tokens for high-value wine and whisky.
- Summary: Announced 24 June 2022. Shipped Mattereum work.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum
- Came from Mattereum (2017): Asset Passports for wine and whisky. Evidence (he says so): IG Wines partners with tech firm Mattereum (Wine Industry Advisor) (2022-06-24) https://wineindustryadvisor.com/2022/06/24/ig-wines-partners-with-tech-firm-mattereum/
- Sources (2, by hand first, then by importance): [594](https://guptaoption.com/texts/594.md) Mattereum Physical Asset NFT Online Meet-Up 27 July 2022 (2022); [199](https://guptaoption.com/texts/199.md) IG Wines with Mattereum (2022)

### West London City Lets land sale as an NFT (2022)

- Identity, law and blockchain; built; specified; work id wclt-land; https://ffnews.com/newsarticle/first-uk-nft-land-sale-goes-live/
- What: Mattereum was tech partner on a UK land sale run as an NFT: a sea-front plot at Milford-on-Sea with a 1.9 million pound reserve.
- Summary: Sale ran for one month from 26 September 2022. Shipped Mattereum work.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum
- Came from Mattereum (2017): land sold as a token. Evidence (he says so): The Second Mattereum Physical Asset NFT Meetup, 21 Sept 2022 (2022-09-24) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2WyNG8xN4M&t=1677s; The Second Mattereum Physical Asset NFT Meetup, 21 Sept 2022 (2022-09-24) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2WyNG8xN4M&t=1827s
- Sources (3, by hand first, then by importance): [571](https://guptaoption.com/texts/571.md) The Second Mattereum Physical Asset NFT Meetup 21 Sept 2022 (2022); [668](https://guptaoption.com/texts/668.md) 'Mattereum Will Enable On Chain Real Estate Deals' (2022); [586](https://guptaoption.com/texts/586.md) 'Greenwashing and Accountability' (2022)

### Hexacloak (2023)

- Survival hardware; built; specified; work id hexacloak; https://hexayurt.com/coat/hexacloak.png
- What: A hooded cloak from standard 60-inch cloth with no manufacturing step: drape, tie, twist a double loop. About $5 in a refugee setting.
- Summary: Instruction sheet on hexayurt.com, 2023: a piece of cloth at least 60 by 80 inches (up to 120) becomes a hooded cloak that covers the whole body and won't fall off. Drape it lengthwise over the shoulders, tie the ends, pull it over the head into a hood, twist a loop and pop it over the head. The loop is double, a full 360-degree twist, so it cannot tighten around the neck, and the ends can be tied with wool so they break under load. Bulk fabric at $1 or $2 a yard puts it at $5 or less in a refugee context. Distinct from the Hexacoat, which needs a factory: the cloak is the one closer to the Hexayurt idea, standard material and no manufacturing step.
- Threads: standard SKUs
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): same industrial SKU class. Evidence (he says so): MICA lecture 55:00, if housing comes from a 4x8 sheet, can clothing come from 60-inch... (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=3300s; MICA roundtable 2:30, bulk material straight from the industrial supply chain with no... (2024-04-24) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oABfflhN3mU&t=150s
- Came from Hexayurt infrastructure kit (2003): standard sizes, no factory. Evidence (implied by the later work): A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine (blog) (2014-06-30) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/a-little-insight-into-the-gupta-doctrine-3571; MICA lecture 15:00, stoves, water filters, transport, lighting and toilets in the... (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=900s
- Came from Hexacoat (2023): drop the factory step. Evidence (implied by the later work): hexayurt.com/coat: The Coat (2023) https://hexayurt.com/coat/; hexayurt.com front page, 2023 update https://hexayurt.com/
- Led to Hexayurt Refugee Shelter (MICA, Baltimore) (2024): tied live from 60-inch fabric. Evidence (he says so): MICA lecture 55:00, 60 by 120 inches of fabric as a one-person tent, then a hooded... (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=3300s; MICA lecture 57:30, the loop locks the cloth into a garment [transcribed] (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=3450s
- Sources (11, by hand first, then by importance): [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md) The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world (2002); [724](https://guptaoption.com/texts/724.md) Roundtable Discussion with Vinay Gupta and Bryan... (2024); [727](https://guptaoption.com/texts/727.md) Undergraduate Lecture Series 2024: Vinay Gupta & Bryan... (2024); [294](https://guptaoption.com/texts/294.md) Practice Safe Hex - Burning Man Hexayurt Safety Checklist! (2015); [329](https://guptaoption.com/texts/329.md) RAW FOOTAGE Hexayurt Folding Combined Endeavor (2012); [336](https://guptaoption.com/texts/336.md) RAW FOOTAGE Hexayurt Roof Cone Combined Endeavor (2012); [37](https://guptaoption.com/texts/37.md) http://hexayurt.com/coat (2023); [152](https://guptaoption.com/texts/152.md) Tribike (2006); [751](https://guptaoption.com/texts/751.md) Vinay Gupta and Julie Danger on Camp Danger Semi Folding... (2011); [193](https://guptaoption.com/texts/193.md) Nearodesic Polyhedron Hexayurt Dome – Morgan Engel's Site (2011); [287](https://guptaoption.com/texts/287.md) test edit (2016)

### Hexacoat (2023)

- Survival hardware; built; specified; work id hexacoat; https://hexayurt.com/coat/
- What: A hooded coat cut from woobie blanket fabric, made to order by a Chinese wholesale factory for about £25.
- Summary: hexayurt.com/coat, 2023: a prototype made by a Chinese factory that makes woobies, the nylon and polyester military poncho liner, with a full hood, buttons and optional pockets, orderable online for £25 each or less in bulk. Meant first for Burning Man theme camps, one coat per person out of camp dues, then for homeless people. It needs a factory run, which the Hexacloak does not.
- Threads: standard SKUs
- Led to Hexacloak (2023): drop the factory step. Evidence (implied by the later work): hexayurt.com/coat: The Coat (2023) https://hexayurt.com/coat/; hexayurt.com front page, 2023 update https://hexayurt.com/
- Sources (4, by hand first, then by importance): [37](https://guptaoption.com/texts/37.md) http://hexayurt.com/coat (2023); [294](https://guptaoption.com/texts/294.md) Practice Safe Hex - Burning Man Hexayurt Safety Checklist! (2015); [374](https://guptaoption.com/texts/374.md) The Hexayurt Project 2007 Intro Video (2007); [288](https://guptaoption.com/texts/288.md) test (2016)

### Pop-up hexayurt (2023)

- Survival hardware; proposal; specified; work id hy-popup; https://hexayurt.com/
- What: A Hexayurt made flat with taped seams that opens in one motion.
- Summary: Folding hexayurt manufactured flat, seams taped, then put up in one pop-up motion. hexayurt.com, 2023, with the hexacloak clothing start.
- Threads: hexayurt builds
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): flat-pack pop-up. Evidence (he says so): hexayurt.com front page, 2023 update https://hexayurt.com/
- Sources (3, by hand first, then by importance): [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md) The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world (2002); [152](https://guptaoption.com/texts/152.md) Tribike (2006); [212](https://guptaoption.com/texts/212.md) Strong Angel Day 3. 100_4623.jpg | hexayurt | Flickr

### Spiral economy (2023)

- Economics of resources; idea; thesis; work id spiral; https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity
- What: Economic idea: keep goods whole and route them down through tighter budgets.
- Summary: Keep goods whole, route down through tighter budgets. MAP removes the doubt discount. Economics track, not a SCIM cell.
- Threads: RMI to spiral; environment / green capitalism
- Came from The Future of Stuff (2020): philosophy under the company. Evidence (implied by the later work): Conversation with Pat Kane 26:25, he plugs The Future of Stuff [transcribed] (2021-11-30) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoHpEOXDkHQ&t=1585s; The Future of Stuff, p. 39 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iDuLbVRLxtPz-BNRZKOJCljXbPVt6ohp/view
- Came from Product information markets (2019): information removes the doubt discount. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Mattereum Manifesto (Medium) (2019-09-30) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/how-post-industrial-capitalism-and-a-new-type-of-big-data-will-save-the-planet-6574b1d75bf6; Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 123 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view
- Came from Lean Green Mattereum: "We aren't just here to change the world, we're here to fix it" (2020): keep goods whole. Evidence (implied by the later work): Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 123 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view; Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 128 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view
- Connects back to Mattereum (2017): doubt discount. Evidence (implied by the later work): COP26 Event: The Circular Economy, Finance and Data for an Abundant Regenerative Future (2021-11-22) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn46s1BTMEA&t=1470s; COP26 Event: The Circular Economy, Finance and Data for an Abundant Regenerative Future (2021-11-22) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn46s1BTMEA&t=6406s
- Connects back to Product information markets (2019): keep goods whole, dump the landfill
- Sources (12, by hand first, then by importance): [793](https://guptaoption.com/texts/793.md) COP26 Event: The Circular Economy - Finance and Data for... (2021); [702](https://guptaoption.com/texts/702.md) Conversation With Pat Kane & Vinay Gupta (2021); [469](https://guptaoption.com/texts/469.md) Buyer-Side Finance & Tokenization (2025); [527](https://guptaoption.com/texts/527.md) The 80s Housing Policy That Still Hurts Us Today (2025); [583](https://guptaoption.com/texts/583.md) 'The Future of the Circular Economy' (2022); [541](https://guptaoption.com/texts/541.md) Tokenizing All The Gold in The World (2025); [504](https://guptaoption.com/texts/504.md) Mature Economies vs Frontier Economies (2025); [524](https://guptaoption.com/texts/524.md) The Dollar is Not a Stable Asset (2025); [503](https://guptaoption.com/texts/503.md) The Velocity Of Money (2025); [518](https://guptaoption.com/texts/518.md) Liquid Camels (2025); [428](https://guptaoption.com/texts/428.md) 24/7 Markets are Inhuman (2026); [411](https://guptaoption.com/texts/411.md) 24/7 Trading (2026)

### Swarm with Mattereum (2023)

- Identity, law and blockchain; built; specified; work id swarm; https://mattereum.com/2023/07/23/announcing-swarm-x-mattereum-partnership/
- What: Mattereum partnership with Swarm, a regulated German exchange, to tokenize and fractionalize real-world assets.
- Summary: Announced 23 July 2023. Shipped Mattereum work.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum
- Came from Mattereum (2017): regulated trading of asset tokens. Evidence (he says so): Announcing Swarm x Mattereum Partnership (2023-07-23) https://mattereum.com/2023/07/23/announcing-swarm-x-mattereum-partnership/; Permanent Summer: the new MATR token (Mattereum) (2024-02-29) https://mattereum.com/2024/02/29/permanent-summer-the-new-matr-tokenand-why-the-rwa-bull-market-goes-on-forever/
- Sources (5, by hand first, then by importance): [565](https://guptaoption.com/texts/565.md) Coin Telegraph AMA with Mattereum's Vinay Gupta 14th... (2023); [44](https://guptaoption.com/texts/44.md) Announcing Swarm x Mattereum Partnership - Mattereum (2023); [43](https://guptaoption.com/texts/43.md) William Shatner Authentication - Mattereum (2019); [85](https://guptaoption.com/texts/85.md) Swarm Cooperatives Schedule | The Bucky-Gandhi Design... (2013); [613] Adam Paigge - Internet of Agreements - Space (2018) (no text here)

### The Salim Ismail Podcast (episode 4) (2023) (about him, by others)

- Press coverage; specified; work id press-salim-2023; https://buzzsprout.com/2114080/12232445
- What: Guest on The Salim Ismail Podcast, hosted by the OpenExO co-founder.
- Summary: Episode 4, 11 February 2023. The show notes name the Cutting Machinery meditation course.
- Sources (1, by hand first, then by importance): [376](https://guptaoption.com/texts/376.md) test2 (2016)

### Hexayurt Refugee Shelter (MICA, Baltimore) (2024)

- Survival hardware; argument; specified; work id mica-2024; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8
- What: A lecture and a roundtable with Bryan Hellard at the Maryland Institute College of Art: cities instead of camps for climate refugees, the Hexayurt design family, world peace by 2100, and a cloak tied from one piece of cloth.
- Summary: Thursday 11 April 2024, at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, hosted by its Architectural Design, Interactive Arts and Interdisciplinary Sculpture departments. The Undergraduate Lecture Series talk (MICA Main Building, 60 minutes) argues that the humanitarian system cannot take on 5 or 10 percent of the world's people, so refugee camps should become startup cities whose residents keep the right to work and to study: hexayurts with a real lifespan, shipped in containers with stoves, water filters, lighting and toilets, and planned with Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps. Bryan Hellard of Hexayurt: The Next Generation, who has been cleaning up the Hexayurt pages on Appropedia, presents a master list of designs named by sheet count, which forms suit hot and dry, snowy or cold places, and materials from plywood to honeycomb cardboard. Gupta then ties Mattereum's legally binding digital models back to the camps, such as a warranty on a shelter's wind load, and proposes world peace by 2100: moving from today's crappy world peace, his term, to a good one, drawing on China for living within limits, America for living without them and India, Kerala in particular, for living on nothing. It closes with a live demonstration: 60 by 120 inches of fabric folded into a one-person tent, then knotted into a hooded cloak. The roundtable that day (81 Mosher Building, 107 minutes), From Hexayurt to Disaster Relief Garments, brought in MICA faculty to discuss how to house and clothe people displaced by disasters, and Gupta constructed one of his disaster relief garments.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum; hexayurt builds; hexayurt to chain; nuclear / panflu; standard SKUs
- Came from The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019): cities instead of camps, five years on. Evidence (implied by the later work): Stamps talk 38:57, modular relocatable cities rather than refugee camps [transcribed] (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=2337s; MICA lecture 7:30, refugee camps as startup cities [transcribed] (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=450s
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): the design family, listed by sheet count. Evidence (he says so): MICA lecture 25:00, Bryan Hellard on the master list: H numbers are sheet counts... (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=1500s; MICA lecture 10:00, hexayurts as permanent buildings with a real lifespan [transcribed] (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=600s
- Came from SCIM / INAM (2009): the map for planning refugee cities. Evidence (he says so): MICA lecture 17:30, Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps for a population in a new... (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=1050s
- Came from Mattereum (2017): legally binding models of shelters, such as their wind load. Evidence (he says so): MICA lecture 35:00, legally binding guarantees about the wind load a shelter will take... (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=2100s
- Came from Hexacloak (2023): tied live from 60-inch fabric. Evidence (he says so): MICA lecture 55:00, 60 by 120 inches of fabric as a one-person tent, then a hooded... (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=3300s; MICA lecture 57:30, the loop locks the cloth into a garment [transcribed] (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=3450s
- Led to Multipolar Realpolitik (2024): world peace, argued again in essays. Evidence (implied by the later work): Undergraduate Lecture Series 2024 (Hexayurt Refugee Shelter) talk 40:00 (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=2400s; Undergraduate Lecture Series 2024 (Hexayurt Refugee Shelter) talk 42:30 (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=2550s
- Sources (5, by hand first, then by importance): [724](https://guptaoption.com/texts/724.md) Roundtable Discussion with Vinay Gupta and Bryan... (2024); [727](https://guptaoption.com/texts/727.md) Undergraduate Lecture Series 2024: Vinay Gupta & Bryan... (2024); [844](https://guptaoption.com/texts/844.md) Superstruct and Urgent Evoke: research note (2026); [843](https://guptaoption.com/texts/843.md) Superstruct and Urgent Evoke: the Hexayurt in two games (2026); [158](https://guptaoption.com/texts/158.md) Pixelache Festival 2015

### MATR (2024)

- Identity, law and blockchain; built; specified; work id matr; https://mattereum.com/2024/02/29/permanent-summer-the-new-matr-tokenand-why-the-rwa-bull-market-goes-on-forever/
- What: A discount token from Mattereum's German subsidiary.
- Summary: Discount token, January 2024, German subsidiary. Not available in the US or UK.
- Threads: RMI to spiral
- Came from Mattereum (2017): shipped token; token as crypto application. Evidence (he says so): Permanent Summer: the new MATR token (Mattereum) (2024-02-29) https://mattereum.com/2024/02/29/permanent-summer-the-new-matr-tokenand-why-the-rwa-bull-market-goes-on-forever/
- Sources (3, by hand first, then by importance): [45](https://guptaoption.com/texts/45.md) PERMANENT SUMMER: THE NEW MATR TOKEN…And Why The RWA... (2024); [557](https://guptaoption.com/texts/557.md) The Future of Real Estate RWA (2024); [120](https://guptaoption.com/texts/120.md) blockone - Sign In (2020)

### Multipolar Realpolitik (2024)

- Crisis planning; argument; thesis; work id multipolar-realpolitik; https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AelylfOU517y0BI184sW7p8TnQl_oH8t4ajH6Fe4vH0/edit
- What: Essays arguing that a global truce among a few great powers, with treaties checked by AI, blockchains and sensors, can follow American dominance and hold off climate-driven chaos.
- Summary: Three essays, about 31 pages: "Is World Peace (Still) Possible?", "How to Handle China" and "Threading Three Needles". Pax Americana is ending, and one flag, one vote at the UN cannot handle climate change, AI, biotechnology or nuclear risk. World peace is out of reach, but a global truce like the Cold War is realistic: a handful of great powers bound by bilateral and small-group treaties, each enforcing the terms in its own sphere. War no longer captures economic value, which now sits in fragile supply networks that war can only destroy, so every power has a reason to avoid chaos. Fourteen theses set out truce or chaos in place of peace or war. The new ingredient is technology: AI, blockchains and sensors translate between national rules and check treaty compliance cheaply ("integration without standardization"), with enforcement forecast at 1,000 to 100,000 times cheaper. The China essay names food security as the basis for a deal; the third essay names stratospheric aerosol geoengineering as the near-term test of a great-power pact. Vinay Gupta describes it as a cyber strategy: opposing AI systems set against each other, each checking the other side, the same arrangement as the national rivals who keep CheapID's biometric database honest.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum; cyber and defense; nuclear / panflu; rich data capitalism
- Came from The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019): the same knowledge systems, applied to treaties. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Cities That Will Walk Away talk 1:01:53 (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=3713s; Multipolar Realpolitik, appendix (2024-05-06) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AelylfOU517y0BI184sW7p8TnQl_oH8t4ajH6Fe4vH0/edit
- Came from Internet of Agreements (2017): machine-checked agreements scale up to treaties. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Internet of Agreements, World Government Summit paper, p. 12 (2017-02) https://internetofagreements.com/files/WorldGovernmentSummit-Dubai2017.pdf; Multipolar Realpolitik, introduction (2024-05-06) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AelylfOU517y0BI184sW7p8TnQl_oH8t4ajH6Fe4vH0/edit
- Came from UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules (2021): dispute resolution across legal systems. Evidence (implied by the later work): UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules, further guidance (2021-04-22) https://mattereum.com/ukjt; Multipolar Realpolitik, appendix (2024-05-06) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AelylfOU517y0BI184sW7p8TnQl_oH8t4ajH6Fe4vH0/edit
- Came from RCDS cyber (Tibbs) (2011): cryptography in state security, then AI. Evidence (implied by the later work): Defence, Security and Resilience under Rapid Technological Change (Hardin Tibbs... https://files.howtolivewiki.com/cyber/Defense_Security_Resilience_and_rapid_technological_change.pdf; Multipolar Realpolitik, The solution (2024-05-06) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AelylfOU517y0BI184sW7p8TnQl_oH8t4ajH6Fe4vH0/edit
- Came from CheapID (2006): rivals keep it honest: a biometric database, then AI systems. Evidence (implied by the later work): State in a Box: Identity Services Architecture (guptaoption.com) https://guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php; Multipolar Realpolitik, The solution (2024-05-06) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AelylfOU517y0BI184sW7p8TnQl_oH8t4ajH6Fe4vH0/edit
- Came from The Second Amendment in Iraq, Combat Robotics, and the Future of Human Liberty (2008): AI in war: combat robots in 2008, opposing AI systems in 2024. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Second Amendment in Iraq, Combat Robotics, and the Future of Human Liberty (blog) (2008-09-02) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/bigdeal/the-second-amendment-in-iraq-combat-robotics-and-the-future-of-human-liberty-820; Multipolar Realpolitik, Needle 3 (2024-05-06) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AelylfOU517y0BI184sW7p8TnQl_oH8t4ajH6Fe4vH0/edit
- Came from The Big Deal (2011): act together without a global government. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Synthesis (Big Deal essay) (2011-02-05) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/bigdeal/the-synthesis-2243; Multipolar Realpolitik, introduction (2024-05-06) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AelylfOU517y0BI184sW7p8TnQl_oH8t4ajH6Fe4vH0/edit
- Came from Hexayurt Refugee Shelter (MICA, Baltimore) (2024): world peace, argued again in essays. Evidence (implied by the later work): Undergraduate Lecture Series 2024 (Hexayurt Refugee Shelter) talk 40:00 (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=2400s; Undergraduate Lecture Series 2024 (Hexayurt Refugee Shelter) talk 42:30 (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=2550s
- Led to Climate Projections 2: A lot of very boring graphs which all go upwards (2025): geoengineering, from the test of a great-power pact to the first priority. Evidence (implied by the later work): Multipolar Realpolitik, The near term opportunity (2024-05-06) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AelylfOU517y0BI184sW7p8TnQl_oH8t4ajH6Fe4vH0/edit; Multipolar Realpolitik, theses (2024-05-06) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AelylfOU517y0BI184sW7p8TnQl_oH8t4ajH6Fe4vH0/edit
- Sources (8, by hand first, then by importance): [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md) Multipolar Realpolitik (Omnibus draft) (2024); [319](https://guptaoption.com/texts/319.md) A sleepless night trying to find words (2013); [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md) Wisdom spirals and doom loops: the deck (2026); [30](https://guptaoption.com/texts/30.md) Winning the Long Peace (2007); [286](https://guptaoption.com/texts/286.md) Ouishare on global democracy and the real sharing economy (2016); [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md) The Global Cyber Game: Achieving strategic resilience in... (2013); [157](https://guptaoption.com/texts/157.md) The Black Elephant Challenge for Governments | IPS Commons (2017); [115](https://guptaoption.com/texts/115.md) Warlords, Inc.: Black Markets, Broken States, and the... (2015)

### The Perimeter: Mythos as Science Fiction, and other works (2024)

- Writing and inner practice; specified; work id perimeter; https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jv7nGThbUd-TduKn6ujXSpXKSD5nZL1q/view?pli=1
- What: Story collection: worst-case scenario planning meets the Cthulhu Mythos, read as science fiction about alien biology.
- Summary: A 50-page collection, shared as a freely passable PDF. The introduction says the Mythos writing grew out of pandemic flu planning in 2008, and that the title piece is about the intersection of worst-case scenario planning and Mythos role-playing games.
- Threads: fiction draws on
- Came from Severe Panflu Response Strategies (H5N1) (2008): pandemic planning by day, the Mythos at night. Evidence (he says so): The Perimeter: Mythos as Science Fiction, and other works, introduction (2024-12-27) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xa2Yxf8JNFT8kgDETzkRKfVqDgGeVEvdNnVpGmRIm3E/edit
- Came from The Fiends Give Sudden Chase (2011): horror shorts, then the Mythos collection. Evidence (he says so): The Atrocity Archives, and a little new fiction (blog) (2011-01-09) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-atrocity-archives-and-a-little-new-fiction-2099; The Perimeter, table of contents (2024-12-27) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xa2Yxf8JNFT8kgDETzkRKfVqDgGeVEvdNnVpGmRIm3E/edit
- Sources (1, by hand first, then by importance): [235](https://guptaoption.com/texts/235.md) The Perimeter: Mythos as Science Fiction and other works (2024)

### VICE (stop the future) (2024) (about him, by others)

- Press coverage; specified; work id press-vice-2024; https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-we-can-stop-the-future-destroying-us-according-to-tech-visionary-vinay-gupta/
- What: VICE profile: Vinay Gupta explains how to stop the future from destroying us.
- Summary: Joe Banks, 21 August 2024. Vinay Gupta Explains How to Stop the Future from Destroying Us. Follow-up to the 2015 VICE profile.
- Sources (2, by hand first, then by importance): [230](https://guptaoption.com/texts/230.md) The Man Who Tries to Stop Humanity Destroying Itself (2024); [228](https://guptaoption.com/texts/228.md) www vice com

### Climate Projections 2: A lot of very boring graphs which all go upwards (2025)

- Crisis planning; argument; thesis; work id climate-projections; https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b_CFdxdOVM_5KiGlb5Zhtr69qZIHaC-B/view
- What: Slide deck: warming is outrunning the models and emissions cuts are too slow to protect agriculture, so geoengineering has to come first.
- Summary: A 14-slide deck, version 2, January 2025, subtitled "the new age of climate science". Its case: the Paris goal of 1.5C needed emissions to peak by 2025, yet emissions are still rising every year; warming is running faster than the 2015 models; 2024 was the first 1.5C year; 3.1C by 2100 is a standard forecast, and methane from permafrost could make it worse. The Atlantic overturning circulation (AMOC) could fail at any point before 2100. Carbon removal needs an industry the size of coal and oil with no direct benefit. Emissions per dollar have fallen from 750g to 250g, which might reach net zero around 2050, but too late to protect agriculture, and if agriculture breaks, industry breaks. So geoengineering has to come first: at least 10 years of science and politics at wartime speed, with no international institution yet able to license it. "The alternative is mass starvation."
- Threads: nuclear / panflu
- Came from Multipolar Realpolitik (2024): geoengineering, from the test of a great-power pact to the first priority. Evidence (implied by the later work): Multipolar Realpolitik, The near term opportunity (2024-05-06) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AelylfOU517y0BI184sW7p8TnQl_oH8t4ajH6Fe4vH0/edit; Multipolar Realpolitik, theses (2024-05-06) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AelylfOU517y0BI184sW7p8TnQl_oH8t4ajH6Fe4vH0/edit
- Came from The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019): climate migration, then the climate data behind it
- Sources (4, by hand first, then by importance): [819] Climate Projections 2: A lot of very boring graphs which... (2025) (no text here); [704](https://guptaoption.com/texts/704.md) Vinay Gupta: Liberation, Culture, Conflict and Catastrophe (2024); [359](https://guptaoption.com/texts/359.md) ZOOM0004 (2011); [610] Jerry Stone - Internet of Agreements - Space (2018) (no text here)

### VICE (print) (2025) (about him, by others)

- Press coverage; specified; work id press-vice-2025; https://www.vice.com/en/article/vinay-gupta-interview
- What: VICE print interview in The Rock Bottom Issue.
- Summary: Joe Banks. Spring 2025 VICE magazine, The Rock Bottom Issue. Chit Chat With the Nightmare Destroyer. Print interview, online at vice.com on 19 May 2025.
- Sources (2, by hand first, then by importance): [231](https://guptaoption.com/texts/231.md) Chit Chat With the Nightmare Destroyer (2025); [228](https://guptaoption.com/texts/228.md) www vice com

### Half a Trillion Dollars a Year of Magic: Blockchain, AI, and the Future of the Built Environment (2026)

- Economics of resources; argument; thesis; work id half-trillion; https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79
- What: Mattereum essay: combine AI with the blockchain into self-enforcing smart contracts and move real estate onto them, for half a trillion dollars a year in transaction savings.
- Summary: Published by Mattereum on Medium, 20 January 2026, in its Humanizing the Singularity publication. The blockchain supplies accurate facts and AI accurate cognition; together they make self-enforcing intelligent smart contracts. Real estate is where the money is, and moving it to the next transactional platform would save half a trillion dollars a year or more. A forward thesis, not shipped work; the figures are the essay's own.
- Threads: RMI to spiral
- Came from Mattereum (2017): forward thesis. Evidence (he says so): Half a Trillion Dollars a Year of Magic (Mattereum, Medium) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79
- Came from Why there's no money: the imaginary part of financial systems (2013): making fixed assets liquid. Evidence (implied by the later work): Why there's no money (blog) (2013-02-28) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/why-theres-no-money-the-imaginary-part-of-financial-systems-3235; Half a Trillion Dollars a Year of Magic (Mattereum, Medium) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79
- Sources (111, by hand first, then by importance): [167](https://guptaoption.com/texts/167.md) Global real estate rail (2026); [559](https://guptaoption.com/texts/559.md) Gold RWA arrive onchain! (2024); [557](https://guptaoption.com/texts/557.md) The Future of Real Estate RWA (2024); [271](https://guptaoption.com/texts/271.md) Introducing the Internet of Agreements (2017); [793](https://guptaoption.com/texts/793.md) COP26 Event: The Circular Economy - Finance and Data for... (2021); [716](https://guptaoption.com/texts/716.md) How do we control the material world with smart... (2018); [694](https://guptaoption.com/texts/694.md) EB114 – Vinay Gupta: From Lawyer Capitalism To... (2016); [706](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md) Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin - with Vinay Gupta | Virtual... (2018); [731](https://guptaoption.com/texts/731.md) Vinay Gupta l The Internet of Agreements l Meaning 2017 (2020); [296](https://guptaoption.com/texts/296.md) Vinay Gupta - Transparent Society - Crowdfunding on... (2015); [699](https://guptaoption.com/texts/699.md) Vinay Gupta, Hexayurt.Capital | Blockchain: Ecology,... (2017); [566](https://guptaoption.com/texts/566.md) Why Global Trade Will Inevitably Move To The Blockchain (2023); ...

### OpenExO OS Pilot (2026) (he contributed)

- Economics of resources; specified; work id openexo; https://www.openexo.com/
- What: Program manager for the OpenExO OS Pilot, a program on rebuilding organizations around AI.
- Summary: Program manager for the OpenExO OS Pilot, 2026. Role confirmed by Vinay Gupta, November 2026.
- Sources (1, by hand first, then by importance): [220](https://guptaoption.com/texts/220.md) OpenExO OS Pilot (2026)



# Vinay Gupta: his distinctive terms, a concordance (part 1 of 4, 3 to F)

> His 632 most distinctive terms, alphabetically: how often each is used, in how many sources, the earliest dated source that uses it, and the sources that use it most ([id]x uses). Counted in his own passages only. Part 1 of 4, 3 to F; continues in https://guptaoption.com/texts/terms-2.md. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt; source ids such as [250] are at https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md.

- **30-year plan**: 6 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2019 in [253]. [253](https://guptaoption.com/texts/253.md)x2, [714](https://guptaoption.com/texts/714.md)x2, [572](https://guptaoption.com/texts/572.md)x1, [793]x1
- **300 million climate migrants**: 10 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172] (2 undated). [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x4, [845](https://guptaoption.com/texts/845.md)x2, [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x1, [5]x1, [172]x1, [842]x1
- **4GW**: 14 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [20]. [20](https://guptaoption.com/texts/20.md)x13, [234](https://guptaoption.com/texts/234.md)x1
- **A Blockchain Solution For Identity?**: 5 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [39]. [838](https://guptaoption.com/texts/838.md)x2, [39](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md)x1, [40](https://guptaoption.com/texts/40.md)x1, [834]x1
- **accounts**: 82 uses in 51 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31] (1 undated). [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x6, [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md)x4, [594](https://guptaoption.com/texts/594.md)x4, [293]x3, [399]x3, [846]x3, [21]x2, [148]x2, [163]x2, [165]x2, [171]x2, [235]x2, [275]x2, [292]x2, [295]x2, ...
- **accredited investors**: 10 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [689]. [744](https://guptaoption.com/texts/744.md)x3, [116](https://guptaoption.com/texts/116.md)x1, [555](https://guptaoption.com/texts/555.md)x1, [678]x1, [689]x1, [699]x1, [706]x1, [864]x1
- **Adbusters**: 7 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [202]. [202](https://guptaoption.com/texts/202.md)x6, [75](https://guptaoption.com/texts/75.md)x1
- **Adjoint**: 5 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [836]. [835](https://guptaoption.com/texts/835.md)x3, [836](https://guptaoption.com/texts/836.md)x2
- **Afghanistan**: 59 uses in 27 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [12] (1 undated). [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md)x17, [677](https://guptaoption.com/texts/677.md)x5, [692](https://guptaoption.com/texts/692.md)x4, [331]x3, [724]x3, [194]x2, [270]x2, [330]x2, [333]x2, [727]x2, [2]x1, [52]x1, [115]x1, [215]x1, [229]x1, ...
- **agro-industrial**: 4 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [250]. [239](https://guptaoption.com/texts/239.md)x2, [21](https://guptaoption.com/texts/21.md)x1, [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md)x1
- **Akvo**: 41 uses in 11 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [109] (3 undated). [109](https://guptaoption.com/texts/109.md)x9, [3](https://guptaoption.com/texts/3.md)x6, [78](https://guptaoption.com/texts/78.md)x6, [174]x5, [177]x5, [12]x3, [4]x2, [106]x2, [87]x1, [226]x1, [238]x1
- **Akvopedia**: 5 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [109] (2 undated). [109](https://guptaoption.com/texts/109.md)x3, [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md)x1, [177](https://guptaoption.com/texts/177.md)x1
- **AML**: 19 uses in 13 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [299]. [853](https://guptaoption.com/texts/853.md)x5, [568](https://guptaoption.com/texts/568.md)x3, [299](https://guptaoption.com/texts/299.md)x1, [536]x1, [555]x1, [558]x1, [559]x1, [565]x1, [567]x1, [571]x1, [767]x1, [780]x1, [835]x1
- **Amory Lovins**: 7 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [102]. [572](https://guptaoption.com/texts/572.md)x2, [33](https://guptaoption.com/texts/33.md)x1, [102](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md)x1, [114]x1, [128]x1, [331]x1
- **anti-corruption**: 6 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [396]. [396](https://guptaoption.com/texts/396.md)x2, [588](https://guptaoption.com/texts/588.md)x1, [678](https://guptaoption.com/texts/678.md)x1, [706]x1, [864]x1
- **Appropedia**: 71 uses in 34 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36] (3 undated). [106](https://guptaoption.com/texts/106.md)x9, [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md)x8, [177](https://guptaoption.com/texts/177.md)x6, [4]x3, [842]x3, [846]x3, [79]x2, [98]x2, [101]x2, [114]x2, [238]x2, [240]x2, [338]x2, [710]x2, [727]x2, ...
- **Arup**: 17 uses in 9 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [847]. [89](https://guptaoption.com/texts/89.md)x3, [99](https://guptaoption.com/texts/99.md)x3, [844](https://guptaoption.com/texts/844.md)x3, [211]x2, [824]x2, [52]x1, [229]x1, [843]x1, [847]x1
- **Asset Passport**: 137 uses in 33 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [42] (2 undated). [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md)x23, [167](https://guptaoption.com/texts/167.md)x10, [206](https://guptaoption.com/texts/206.md)x9, [555]x7, [559]x7, [678]x7, [840]x7, [258]x6, [236]x5, [557]x4, [594]x4, [199]x3, [554]x3, [572]x3, [669]x3, ...
- **automated morality**: 12 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [257](https://guptaoption.com/texts/257.md)x5, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x3, [239](https://guptaoption.com/texts/239.md)x2, [692]x1, [931]x1
- **Avoiding Capitalism for the Next Four Billion**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [128]. [128](https://guptaoption.com/texts/128.md)x1, [838](https://guptaoption.com/texts/838.md)x1
- **Barlow**: 13 uses in 7 sources, earliest dated 2013 in [143]. [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x5, [706](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md)x2, [864](https://guptaoption.com/texts/864.md)x2, [301]x1, [707]x1, [758]x1, [763]x1
- **basic income**: 78 uses in 21 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [689]. [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x11, [694](https://guptaoption.com/texts/694.md)x10, [755](https://guptaoption.com/texts/755.md)x7, [681]x6, [676]x5, [683]x4, [689]x4, [700]x4, [706]x4, [864]x4, [752]x3, [768]x3, [279]x2, [735]x2, [749]x2, ...
- **basic needs**: 27 uses in 15 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [108] (2 undated). [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x8, [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md)x3, [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md)x2, [47]x2, [846]x2, [76]x1, [108]x1, [128]x1, [283]x1, [322]x1, [341]x1, [727]x1, [752]x1, [753]x1, [769]x1
- **bearer assets**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2024 in [557]. [549](https://guptaoption.com/texts/549.md)x1, [557](https://guptaoption.com/texts/557.md)x1
- **Berlin**: 51 uses in 30 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [107]. [384](https://guptaoption.com/texts/384.md)x7, [106](https://guptaoption.com/texts/106.md)x6, [183](https://guptaoption.com/texts/183.md)x5, [107]x4, [783]x3, [830]x2, [11]x1, [171]x1, [172]x1, [235]x1, [273]x1, [301]x1, [361]x1, [391]x1, [458]x1, ...
- **Bermuda**: 14 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2007 in [66]. [459](https://guptaoption.com/texts/459.md)x6, [761](https://guptaoption.com/texts/761.md)x5, [66](https://guptaoption.com/texts/66.md)x1, [573]x1, [594]x1
- **Big Society**: 8 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [50]. [47](https://guptaoption.com/texts/47.md)x4, [49](https://guptaoption.com/texts/49.md)x2, [50](https://guptaoption.com/texts/50.md)x1, [755]x1
- **Biomimicry**: 5 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x2, [242](https://guptaoption.com/texts/242.md)x2, [838](https://guptaoption.com/texts/838.md)x1
- **Black Elephant**: 70 uses in 14 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [117]. [223](https://guptaoption.com/texts/223.md)x11, [208](https://guptaoption.com/texts/208.md)x9, [159](https://guptaoption.com/texts/159.md)x8, [117]x6, [157]x6, [770]x6, [683]x5, [200]x4, [303]x4, [773]x3, [846]x3, [128]x2, [171]x2, [845]x1
- **black elephants**: 53 uses in 11 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [200] (1 undated). [159](https://guptaoption.com/texts/159.md)x30, [200](https://guptaoption.com/texts/200.md)x4, [208](https://guptaoption.com/texts/208.md)x4, [157]x3, [846]x3, [303]x2, [770]x2, [773]x2, [5]x1, [128]x1, [683]x1
- **black sky thinking**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x1, [311](https://guptaoption.com/texts/311.md)x1, [775](https://guptaoption.com/texts/775.md)x1
- **Blind in the Panopticon**: 8 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [6]. [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x5, [840](https://guptaoption.com/texts/840.md)x2, [6](https://guptaoption.com/texts/6.md)x1
- **Blockchaingers**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [39]. [39](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md)x1, [41](https://guptaoption.com/texts/41.md)x1, [835](https://guptaoption.com/texts/835.md)x1
- **Boing Boing**: 4 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [114]. [229](https://guptaoption.com/texts/229.md)x2, [114](https://guptaoption.com/texts/114.md)x1, [753](https://guptaoption.com/texts/753.md)x1
- **Brexit**: 12 uses in 9 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [221]. [612](https://guptaoption.com/texts/612.md)x3, [159](https://guptaoption.com/texts/159.md)x2, [157](https://guptaoption.com/texts/157.md)x1, [167]x1, [221]x1, [251]x1, [567]x1, [767]x1, [851]x1
- **Buckminster Fuller**: 40 uses in 29 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [10]. [229](https://guptaoption.com/texts/229.md)x3, [756](https://guptaoption.com/texts/756.md)x3, [76](https://guptaoption.com/texts/76.md)x2, [108]x2, [165]x2, [169]x2, [270]x2, [572]x2, [752]x2, [10]x1, [65]x1, [79]x1, [94]x1, [102]x1, [114]x1, ...
- **build the courts first**: 15 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [86]. [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x11, [845](https://guptaoption.com/texts/845.md)x2, [86](https://guptaoption.com/texts/86.md)x1, [838]x1
- **Burning Ice**: 4 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36]. [364](https://guptaoption.com/texts/364.md)x2, [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md)x1, [75](https://guptaoption.com/texts/75.md)x1
- **Burning Man**: 259 uses in 90 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36] (1 undated). [102](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md)x27, [98](https://guptaoption.com/texts/98.md)x16, [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md)x10, [846]x9, [36]x8, [104]x7, [172]x7, [689]x7, [727]x7, [321]x6, [694]x6, [698]x6, [76]x5, [100]x5, [116]x5, ...
- **Buttered Side Down**: 10 uses in 7 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [847]. [13](https://guptaoption.com/texts/13.md)x2, [52](https://guptaoption.com/texts/52.md)x2, [847](https://guptaoption.com/texts/847.md)x2, [12]x1, [79]x1, [121]x1, [128]x1
- **Camp Danger**: 41 uses in 10 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36] (1 undated). [98](https://guptaoption.com/texts/98.md)x10, [104](https://guptaoption.com/texts/104.md)x9, [102](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md)x8, [36]x5, [100]x3, [842]x2, [4]x1, [101]x1, [103]x1, [751]x1
- **Camp Danger hinge**: 13 uses in 9 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36] (1 undated). [98](https://guptaoption.com/texts/98.md)x3, [102](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md)x2, [842](https://guptaoption.com/texts/842.md)x2, [4]x1, [36]x1, [100]x1, [101]x1, [103]x1, [104]x1
- **camping gear**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [148]. [148](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md)x1, [800](https://guptaoption.com/texts/800.md)x1
- **Capital Conversion Matrix**: 12 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [24]. [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md)x6, [24](https://guptaoption.com/texts/24.md)x3, [714](https://guptaoption.com/texts/714.md)x2, [838]x1
- **Capital Partners**: 10 uses in 7 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36] (1 undated). [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md)x2, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x2, [679](https://guptaoption.com/texts/679.md)x2, [7]x1, [150]x1, [274]x1, [838]x1
- **carbon credits**: 27 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2021 in [762]. [762](https://guptaoption.com/texts/762.md)x24, [554](https://guptaoption.com/texts/554.md)x1, [572](https://guptaoption.com/texts/572.md)x1, [793]x1
- **carbon offset**: 9 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2019 in [747]. [762](https://guptaoption.com/texts/762.md)x5, [747](https://guptaoption.com/texts/747.md)x2, [793](https://guptaoption.com/texts/793.md)x2
- **case law**: 5 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [21]. [767](https://guptaoption.com/texts/767.md)x2, [21](https://guptaoption.com/texts/21.md)x1, [52](https://guptaoption.com/texts/52.md)x1, [694]x1
- **CBDC**: 9 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2023 in [567]. [567](https://guptaoption.com/texts/567.md)x4, [479](https://guptaoption.com/texts/479.md)x2, [436](https://guptaoption.com/texts/436.md)x1, [442]x1, [493]x1
- **centralisation**: 6 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [706](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md)x3, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x2, [747](https://guptaoption.com/texts/747.md)x1
- **certificates**: 59 uses in 26 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31]. [684](https://guptaoption.com/texts/684.md)x7, [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md)x6, [695](https://guptaoption.com/texts/695.md)x6, [546]x5, [31]x3, [163]x3, [719]x3, [723]x3, [143]x2, [275]x2, [620]x2, [762]x2, [767]x2, [271]x1, [299]x1, ...
- **Chaum**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31]. [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md)x1, [215](https://guptaoption.com/texts/215.md)x1
- **cheap solar**: 32 uses in 17 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [52] (1 undated). [52](https://guptaoption.com/texts/52.md)x5, [241](https://guptaoption.com/texts/241.md)x5, [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md)x3, [747]x3, [229]x2, [335]x2, [714]x2, [18]x1, [245]x1, [284]x1, [301]x1, [311]x1, [677]x1, [683]x1, [723]x1, ...
- **CheapID**: 117 uses in 25 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31] (3 undated). [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md)x60, [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x18, [35](https://guptaoption.com/texts/35.md)x8, [4]x4, [5]x2, [81]x2, [99]x2, [114]x2, [839]x2, [842]x2, [1]x1, [8]x1, [18]x1, [52]x1, [59]x1, ...
- **choice of law**: 5 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2016 in [278]. [699](https://guptaoption.com/texts/699.md)x3, [278](https://guptaoption.com/texts/278.md)x1, [747](https://guptaoption.com/texts/747.md)x1
- **circular economy**: 90 uses in 17 sources, earliest dated 2019 in [254]. [793](https://guptaoption.com/texts/793.md)x30, [572](https://guptaoption.com/texts/572.md)x16, [791](https://guptaoption.com/texts/791.md)x10, [236]x6, [714]x5, [583]x4, [702]x3, [254]x2, [588]x2, [675]x2, [678]x2, [735]x2, [840]x2, [558]x1, [571]x1, ...
- **Cities That Will Walk Away**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2026 in [845]. [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x2, [845](https://guptaoption.com/texts/845.md)x1
- **citizens**: 182 uses in 63 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31] (3 undated). [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md)x13, [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x13, [394](https://guptaoption.com/texts/394.md)x12, [1]x9, [396]x9, [399]x9, [171]x7, [174]x6, [692]x6, [148]x5, [322]x5, [391]x5, [12]x4, [46]x4, [681]x4, ...
- **city state**: 4 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [250]. [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md)x2, [99](https://guptaoption.com/texts/99.md)x1, [747](https://guptaoption.com/texts/747.md)x1
- **clean water**: 44 uses in 30 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31] (1 undated). [322](https://guptaoption.com/texts/322.md)x4, [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md)x4, [341](https://guptaoption.com/texts/341.md)x4, [29]x2, [95]x2, [369]x2, [691]x2, [754]x2, [2]x1, [31]x1, [38]x1, [47]x1, [57]x1, [67]x1, [137]x1, ...
- **climate disaster**: 5 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [128]. [230](https://guptaoption.com/texts/230.md)x2, [128](https://guptaoption.com/texts/128.md)x1, [762](https://guptaoption.com/texts/762.md)x1, [773]x1
- **climate migrants**: 10 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172] (2 undated). [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x4, [845](https://guptaoption.com/texts/845.md)x2, [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x1, [5]x1, [172]x1, [842]x1
- **Climate projections**: 10 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2026 in [841] (1 undated). [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x4, [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x3, [841](https://guptaoption.com/texts/841.md)x1, [842]x1, [845]x1
- **climate refugees**: 40 uses in 28 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [827]. [727](https://guptaoption.com/texts/727.md)x5, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x3, [116](https://guptaoption.com/texts/116.md)x2, [236]x2, [572]x2, [752]x2, [793]x2, [844]x2, [229]x1, [245]x1, [251]x1, [252]x1, [253]x1, [254]x1, [257]x1, ...
- **CO2 footprint**: 4 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2020 in [236]. [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md)x1, [594](https://guptaoption.com/texts/594.md)x1, [677](https://guptaoption.com/texts/677.md)x1, [723]x1
- **Coase**: 50 uses in 18 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [3] (2 undated). [153](https://guptaoption.com/texts/153.md)x10, [706](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md)x7, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x5, [242]x5, [4]x3, [244]x3, [5]x2, [167]x2, [299]x2, [839]x2, [840]x2, [3]x1, [79]x1, [88]x1, [164]x1, ...
- **Coase's Blockchain**: 8 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [153] (2 undated). [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x3, [153](https://guptaoption.com/texts/153.md)x2, [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md)x1, [839]x1, [840]x1
- **code is law**: 4 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [81]. [81](https://guptaoption.com/texts/81.md)x1, [557](https://guptaoption.com/texts/557.md)x1, [707](https://guptaoption.com/texts/707.md)x1, [733]x1
- **Cold Katrina**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [847]. [320](https://guptaoption.com/texts/320.md)x1, [847](https://guptaoption.com/texts/847.md)x1
- **Collapsonomics**: 37 uses in 15 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [117] (1 undated). [117](https://guptaoption.com/texts/117.md)x9, [223](https://guptaoption.com/texts/223.md)x8, [128](https://guptaoption.com/texts/128.md)x4, [846]x3, [54]x2, [770]x2, [5]x1, [79]x1, [89]x1, [96]x1, [97]x1, [99]x1, [200]x1, [253]x1, [824]x1
- **collectibles**: 65 uses in 27 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [206](https://guptaoption.com/texts/206.md)x11, [733](https://guptaoption.com/texts/733.md)x7, [594](https://guptaoption.com/texts/594.md)x6, [172]x4, [758]x4, [197]x3, [555]x3, [43]x2, [568]x2, [683]x2, [735]x2, [777]x2, [793]x2, [840]x2, [165]x1, ...
- **combat robotics**: 10 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [48]. [48](https://guptaoption.com/texts/48.md)x9, [187](https://guptaoption.com/texts/187.md)x1
- **Combined Endeavor**: 5 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [102]. [338](https://guptaoption.com/texts/338.md)x3, [102](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md)x1, [833](https://guptaoption.com/texts/833.md)x1
- **commodities**: 75 uses in 38 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [94]. [793](https://guptaoption.com/texts/793.md)x8, [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md)x5, [758](https://guptaoption.com/texts/758.md)x5, [566]x4, [421]x3, [500]x3, [554]x3, [572]x3, [733]x3, [116]x2, [243]x2, [341]x2, [396]x2, [540]x2, [618]x2, ...
- **communications**: 215 uses in 81 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [10] (5 undated). [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x26, [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md)x20, [303](https://guptaoption.com/texts/303.md)x9, [1]x8, [851]x8, [12]x7, [137]x6, [331]x6, [321]x5, [21]x4, [564]x4, [8]x3, [18]x3, [148]x3, [171]x3, ...
- **complex value networks**: 20 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2016 in [242]. [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md)x15, [237](https://guptaoption.com/texts/237.md)x3, [242](https://guptaoption.com/texts/242.md)x1, [556]x1
- **composting toilet**: 18 uses in 13 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [100]. [321](https://guptaoption.com/texts/321.md)x3, [47](https://guptaoption.com/texts/47.md)x2, [100](https://guptaoption.com/texts/100.md)x2, [137]x2, [17]x1, [63]x1, [70]x1, [128]x1, [250]x1, [335]x1, [338]x1, [677]x1, [740]x1
- **composting toilets**: 23 uses in 20 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [100] (1 undated). [95](https://guptaoption.com/texts/95.md)x2, [321](https://guptaoption.com/texts/321.md)x2, [341](https://guptaoption.com/texts/341.md)x2, [1]x1, [12]x1, [17]x1, [31]x1, [32]x1, [34]x1, [100]x1, [137]x1, [144]x1, [270]x1, [314]x1, [338]x1, ...
- **condition report**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2022 in [594]. [555](https://guptaoption.com/texts/555.md)x1, [594](https://guptaoption.com/texts/594.md)x1
- **ConsenSys**: 36 uses in 23 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36]. [242](https://guptaoption.com/texts/242.md)x6, [119](https://guptaoption.com/texts/119.md)x5, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x3, [218]x2, [846]x2, [36]x1, [39]x1, [41]x1, [163]x1, [164]x1, [183]x1, [211]x1, [221]x1, [229]x1, [280]x1, ...
- **consumerism**: 29 uses in 12 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [128]. [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md)x8, [254](https://guptaoption.com/texts/254.md)x5, [239](https://guptaoption.com/texts/239.md)x4, [702]x3, [229]x2, [128]x1, [202]x1, [206]x1, [253]x1, [693]x1, [714]x1, [724]x1
- **contracts**: 683 uses in 147 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31] (3 undated). [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x49, [242](https://guptaoption.com/texts/242.md)x46, [568](https://guptaoption.com/texts/568.md)x23, [167]x22, [633]x22, [694]x17, [716]x15, [735]x15, [768]x15, [164]x14, [165]x14, [160]x13, [31]x12, [237]x12, [730]x12, ...
- **COP26**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2021 in [791]. [572](https://guptaoption.com/texts/572.md)x1, [702](https://guptaoption.com/texts/702.md)x1, [791](https://guptaoption.com/texts/791.md)x1
- **Copyright and the digital economy**: 5 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2026 in [838]. [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x4, [838](https://guptaoption.com/texts/838.md)x1
- **coronavirus**: 22 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2020 in [239]. [681](https://guptaoption.com/texts/681.md)x11, [685](https://guptaoption.com/texts/685.md)x8, [239](https://guptaoption.com/texts/239.md)x2, [206]x1
- **cost per unit of human benefit**: 4 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2022 in [678]. [579](https://guptaoption.com/texts/579.md)x2, [678](https://guptaoption.com/texts/678.md)x2
- **Council of Europe**: 4 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [400]. [8](https://guptaoption.com/texts/8.md)x1, [18](https://guptaoption.com/texts/18.md)x1, [399](https://guptaoption.com/texts/399.md)x1, [400]x1
- **counterfeits**: 7 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2020 in [236]. [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md)x6, [199](https://guptaoption.com/texts/199.md)x1
- **Course of Action**: 16 uses in 9 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [21] (2 undated). [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x4, [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x3, [691](https://guptaoption.com/texts/691.md)x2, [842]x2, [5]x1, [21]x1, [762]x1, [770]x1, [845]x1
- **COVID**: 15 uses in 12 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [206](https://guptaoption.com/texts/206.md)x2, [235](https://guptaoption.com/texts/235.md)x2, [845](https://guptaoption.com/texts/845.md)x2, [172]x1, [236]x1, [239]x1, [558]x1, [677]x1, [683]x1, [702]x1, [714]x1, [846]x1
- **critical infrastructure**: 144 uses in 54 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [32] (7 undated). [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md)x13, [1](https://guptaoption.com/texts/1.md)x12, [21](https://guptaoption.com/texts/21.md)x12, [689]x8, [846]x7, [321]x6, [236]x5, [572]x5, [8]x4, [681]x4, [32]x3, [81]x3, [267]x3, [793]x3, [4]x2, ...
- **crypto cash**: 4 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2022 in [678]. [678](https://guptaoption.com/texts/678.md)x2, [790](https://guptaoption.com/texts/790.md)x2
- **crypto war**: 4 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [301]. [301](https://guptaoption.com/texts/301.md)x1, [462](https://guptaoption.com/texts/462.md)x1, [505](https://guptaoption.com/texts/505.md)x1, [762]x1
- **crypto wars**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2021 in [680]. [452](https://guptaoption.com/texts/452.md)x1, [680](https://guptaoption.com/texts/680.md)x1
- **cryptoeconomics**: 4 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [111]. [111](https://guptaoption.com/texts/111.md)x1, [302](https://guptaoption.com/texts/302.md)x1, [564](https://guptaoption.com/texts/564.md)x1, [565]x1
- **cryptographic utopia**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [82]. [82](https://guptaoption.com/texts/82.md)x1, [86](https://guptaoption.com/texts/86.md)x1, [838](https://guptaoption.com/texts/838.md)x1
- **currency wars**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2025 in [479]. [463](https://guptaoption.com/texts/463.md)x2, [479](https://guptaoption.com/texts/479.md)x1
- **Cutting machinery**: 9 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36] (1 undated). [704](https://guptaoption.com/texts/704.md)x4, [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md)x3, [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md)x1, [677]x1
- **cyber**: 751 uses in 32 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [200]. [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x660, [6](https://guptaoption.com/texts/6.md)x23, [21](https://guptaoption.com/texts/21.md)x13, [11]x10, [172]x4, [399]x4, [841]x4, [8]x3, [215]x2, [243]x2, [266]x2, [489]x2, [647]x2, [864]x2, [115]x1, ...
- **Cyberpunk**: 33 uses in 21 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [11]. [679](https://guptaoption.com/texts/679.md)x4, [683](https://guptaoption.com/texts/683.md)x4, [11](https://guptaoption.com/texts/11.md)x2, [231]x2, [296]x2, [706]x2, [760]x2, [864]x2, [143]x1, [163]x1, [172]x1, [230]x1, [298]x1, [446]x1, [558]x1, ...
- **cypherpunk**: 63 uses in 28 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [695](https://guptaoption.com/texts/695.md)x7, [684](https://guptaoption.com/texts/684.md)x6, [694](https://guptaoption.com/texts/694.md)x5, [112]x4, [111]x3, [215]x3, [522]x3, [562]x3, [678]x3, [790]x3, [838]x3, [172]x2, [424]x2, [758]x2, [113]x1, ...
- **cypherpunk vision**: 8 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [695]. [678](https://guptaoption.com/texts/678.md)x2, [684](https://guptaoption.com/texts/684.md)x2, [695](https://guptaoption.com/texts/695.md)x2, [413]x1, [790]x1
- **Cypherpunks**: 37 uses in 15 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [112]. [694](https://guptaoption.com/texts/694.md)x7, [215](https://guptaoption.com/texts/215.md)x5, [301](https://guptaoption.com/texts/301.md)x4, [562]x3, [684]x3, [695]x3, [112]x2, [413]x2, [679]x2, [111]x1, [558]x1, [688]x1, [758]x1, [846]x1, [917]x1
- **Dangerous Old Men**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [111]. [111](https://guptaoption.com/texts/111.md)x2, [839](https://guptaoption.com/texts/839.md)x1
- **DAO**: 60 uses in 23 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [278](https://guptaoption.com/texts/278.md)x11, [679](https://guptaoption.com/texts/679.md)x10, [565](https://guptaoption.com/texts/565.md)x5, [763]x5, [279]x4, [791]x4, [594]x3, [172]x2, [761]x2, [280]x1, [505]x1, [557]x1, [564]x1, [568]x1, [612]x1, ...
- **DARPA**: 12 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2013 in [143]. [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x7, [245](https://guptaoption.com/texts/245.md)x3, [171](https://guptaoption.com/texts/171.md)x2
- **data capitalism**: 9 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2026 in [838] (1 undated). [840](https://guptaoption.com/texts/840.md)x3, [838](https://guptaoption.com/texts/838.md)x2, [839](https://guptaoption.com/texts/839.md)x2, [5]x1, [842]x1
- **Davos**: 6 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2018 in [706]. [706](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md)x3, [864](https://guptaoption.com/texts/864.md)x2, [116](https://guptaoption.com/texts/116.md)x1
- **DCAR**: 25 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [370]. [844](https://guptaoption.com/texts/844.md)x17, [843](https://guptaoption.com/texts/843.md)x6, [224](https://guptaoption.com/texts/224.md)x1, [370]x1
- **Dealing in Security**: 57 uses in 13 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [60] (4 undated). [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x19, [1](https://guptaoption.com/texts/1.md)x16, [842](https://guptaoption.com/texts/842.md)x5, [841]x3, [844]x3, [5]x2, [60]x2, [845]x2, [4]x1, [89]x1, [174]x1, [685]x1, [843]x1
- **Defense Horizons 70**: 6 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2013 in [8] (1 undated). [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x3, [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md)x1, [8](https://guptaoption.com/texts/8.md)x1, [841]x1
- **DeFi**: 52 uses in 31 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [132]. [554](https://guptaoption.com/texts/554.md)x6, [565](https://guptaoption.com/texts/565.md)x4, [594](https://guptaoption.com/texts/594.md)x4, [165]x3, [722]x3, [45]x2, [443]x2, [489]x2, [555]x2, [556]x2, [568]x2, [43]x1, [44]x1, [132]x1, [206]x1, ...
- **Delaware**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2018 in [633]. [434](https://guptaoption.com/texts/434.md)x1, [568](https://guptaoption.com/texts/568.md)x1, [633](https://guptaoption.com/texts/633.md)x1
- **delivery orders**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2024 in [559]. [496](https://guptaoption.com/texts/496.md)x1, [559](https://guptaoption.com/texts/559.md)x1
- **democratic machinery**: 6 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2016 in [694]. [851](https://guptaoption.com/texts/851.md)x3, [572](https://guptaoption.com/texts/572.md)x2, [694](https://guptaoption.com/texts/694.md)x1
- **Department of Defense**: 42 uses in 30 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [100] (1 undated). [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md)x5, [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md)x4, [47](https://guptaoption.com/texts/47.md)x2, [114]x2, [128]x2, [251]x2, [773]x2, [1]x1, [33]x1, [100]x1, [102]x1, [121]x1, [143]x1, [229]x1, [231]x1, ...
- **Devcon 1**: 6 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [111]. [111](https://guptaoption.com/texts/111.md)x3, [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x2, [839](https://guptaoption.com/texts/839.md)x1
- **Dialogue stops**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2020 in [191]. [191](https://guptaoption.com/texts/191.md)x1, [248](https://guptaoption.com/texts/248.md)x1, [714](https://guptaoption.com/texts/714.md)x1
- **DigiGold**: 10 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2021 in [714]. [714](https://guptaoption.com/texts/714.md)x4, [555](https://guptaoption.com/texts/555.md)x2, [564](https://guptaoption.com/texts/564.md)x2, [735]x2
- **Digital Catapult**: 17 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [211]. [211](https://guptaoption.com/texts/211.md)x14, [717](https://guptaoption.com/texts/717.md)x1, [836](https://guptaoption.com/texts/836.md)x1, [839]x1
- **Digital Dispute Resolution Rules**: 20 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2021 in [160]. [160](https://guptaoption.com/texts/160.md)x10, [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x3, [555](https://guptaoption.com/texts/555.md)x2, [45]x1, [471]x1, [557]x1, [563]x1, [839]x1
- **digital freedom**: 6 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [330]. [330](https://guptaoption.com/texts/330.md)x3, [333](https://guptaoption.com/texts/333.md)x3
- **digital gold**: 10 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [307]. [577](https://guptaoption.com/texts/577.md)x2, [678](https://guptaoption.com/texts/678.md)x2, [307](https://guptaoption.com/texts/307.md)x1, [308]x1, [565]x1, [694]x1, [704]x1, [862]x1
- **digital identity**: 54 uses in 35 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31]. [21](https://guptaoption.com/texts/21.md)x5, [505](https://guptaoption.com/texts/505.md)x5, [437](https://guptaoption.com/texts/437.md)x3, [835]x3, [35]x2, [144]x2, [165]x2, [206]x2, [748]x2, [777]x2, [931]x2, [31]x1, [167]x1, [171]x1, [172]x1, ...
- **digital identity for things**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2019 in [931]. [748](https://guptaoption.com/texts/748.md)x1, [931](https://guptaoption.com/texts/931.md)x1
- **digital securities**: 4 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2022 in [568]. [568](https://guptaoption.com/texts/568.md)x2, [421](https://guptaoption.com/texts/421.md)x1, [563](https://guptaoption.com/texts/563.md)x1
- **digital signatures**: 59 uses in 30 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31]. [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md)x10, [505](https://guptaoption.com/texts/505.md)x6, [568](https://guptaoption.com/texts/568.md)x4, [86]x3, [295]x3, [768]x3, [82]x2, [153]x2, [244]x2, [263]x2, [694]x2, [767]x2, [35]x1, [266]x1, [299]x1, ...
- **digital twin**: 57 uses in 12 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [42]. [258](https://guptaoption.com/texts/258.md)x29, [758](https://guptaoption.com/texts/758.md)x10, [571](https://guptaoption.com/texts/571.md)x5, [43]x2, [165]x2, [197]x2, [512]x2, [42]x1, [206]x1, [254]x1, [257]x1, [555]x1
- **disastr.org**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2007 in [101]. [841](https://guptaoption.com/texts/841.md)x2, [101](https://guptaoption.com/texts/101.md)x1
- **dispute resolution**: 137 uses in 48 sources, earliest dated 2013 in [18]. [160](https://guptaoption.com/texts/160.md)x24, [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md)x16, [572](https://guptaoption.com/texts/572.md)x8, [251]x7, [657]x7, [635]x6, [714]x5, [780]x5, [846]x5, [633]x4, [545]x3, [167]x2, [507]x2, [513]x2, [546]x2, ...
- **dissensus**: 5 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [210]. [210](https://guptaoption.com/texts/210.md)x4, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x1
- **distributed infrastructure**: 47 uses in 22 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36] (5 undated). [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md)x9, [3](https://guptaoption.com/texts/3.md)x4, [34](https://guptaoption.com/texts/34.md)x4, [174]x3, [338]x3, [740]x3, [833]x3, [20]x2, [145]x2, [162]x2, [4]x1, [17]x1, [31]x1, [36]x1, [67]x1, ...
- **distributed manufacturing**: 10 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [11]. [245](https://guptaoption.com/texts/245.md)x5, [11](https://guptaoption.com/texts/11.md)x1, [52](https://guptaoption.com/texts/52.md)x1, [143]x1, [284]x1, [679]x1
- **DNS**: 52 uses in 23 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31]. [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x10, [769](https://guptaoption.com/texts/769.md)x9, [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md)x6, [723]x5, [153]x2, [301]x2, [550]x2, [11]x1, [82]x1, [83]x1, [148]x1, [163]x1, [236]x1, [273]x1, [299]x1, ...
- **do-ocracy**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [51]. [51](https://guptaoption.com/texts/51.md)x1, [52](https://guptaoption.com/texts/52.md)x1
- **Dog Atheism**: 19 uses in 7 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172] (2 undated). [242](https://guptaoption.com/texts/242.md)x8, [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x3, [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x3, [5]x2, [172]x1, [568]x1, [840]x1
- **doom loops**: 67 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2026 in [840]. [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x61, [845](https://guptaoption.com/texts/845.md)x5, [840](https://guptaoption.com/texts/840.md)x1
- **doubt discount**: 20 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2020 in [236]. [840](https://guptaoption.com/texts/840.md)x6, [206](https://guptaoption.com/texts/206.md)x3, [791](https://guptaoption.com/texts/791.md)x3, [236]x2, [251]x2, [793]x2, [417]x1, [572]x1
- **drinking water**: 39 uses in 22 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [100] (2 undated). [17](https://guptaoption.com/texts/17.md)x5, [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md)x4, [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md)x3, [94]x3, [1]x2, [38]x2, [57]x2, [102]x2, [238]x2, [270]x2, [13]x1, [100]x1, [143]x1, [148]x1, [174]x1, ...
- **Dubai**: 95 uses in 41 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [114] (1 undated). [221](https://guptaoption.com/texts/221.md)x13, [227](https://guptaoption.com/texts/227.md)x8, [276](https://guptaoption.com/texts/276.md)x8, [218]x7, [682]x5, [172]x4, [265]x4, [706]x3, [851]x3, [114]x2, [171]x2, [554]x2, [568]x2, [747]x2, [839]x2, ...
- **Dubai Blockchain Strategy**: 6 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [237]. [218](https://guptaoption.com/texts/218.md)x1, [221](https://guptaoption.com/texts/221.md)x1, [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md)x1, [237]x1, [682]x1, [706]x1
- **durable goods**: 21 uses in 14 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [840](https://guptaoption.com/texts/840.md)x4, [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x3, [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md)x2, [702]x2, [165]x1, [172]x1, [252]x1, [254]x1, [572]x1, [683]x1, [714]x1, [777]x1, [793]x1, [845]x1
- **e-gold**: 38 uses in 12 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31]. [215](https://guptaoption.com/texts/215.md)x9, [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md)x7, [706](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md)x6, [80]x3, [144]x3, [172]x2, [565]x2, [682]x2, [112]x1, [301]x1, [768]x1, [864]x1
- **early warning**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [148]. [148](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md)x1, [171](https://guptaoption.com/texts/171.md)x1
- **ecocide**: 6 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [91]. [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x4, [91](https://guptaoption.com/texts/91.md)x1, [239](https://guptaoption.com/texts/239.md)x1
- **ecological crisis**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [72]. [223](https://guptaoption.com/texts/223.md)x2, [72](https://guptaoption.com/texts/72.md)x1
- **economic zone**: 6 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2013 in [143]. [747](https://guptaoption.com/texts/747.md)x2, [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x1, [557](https://guptaoption.com/texts/557.md)x1, [732]x1, [758]x1
- **economies of omniscience**: 4 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2013 in [18] (1 undated). [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md)x1, [18](https://guptaoption.com/texts/18.md)x1, [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md)x1, [840]x1
- **EdgeRyders**: 9 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [72]. [72](https://guptaoption.com/texts/72.md)x6, [85](https://guptaoption.com/texts/85.md)x1, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x1, [838]x1
- **effective organisations**: 5 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated none (2 undated). [179](https://guptaoption.com/texts/179.md)x4, [175](https://guptaoption.com/texts/175.md)x1
- **effective organizations**: 9 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [250] (2 undated). [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md)x2, [681](https://guptaoption.com/texts/681.md)x2, [841](https://guptaoption.com/texts/841.md)x2, [1]x1, [250]x1, [752]x1
- **EITP**: 4 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2007 in [68]. [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md)x3, [68](https://guptaoption.com/texts/68.md)x1
- **emerging markets**: 8 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [391]. [768](https://guptaoption.com/texts/768.md)x3, [39](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md)x2, [391](https://guptaoption.com/texts/391.md)x1, [567]x1, [612]x1
- **enclaves**: 12 uses in 7 sources, earliest dated 2016 in [208]. [230](https://guptaoption.com/texts/230.md)x3, [231](https://guptaoption.com/texts/231.md)x3, [729](https://guptaoption.com/texts/729.md)x2, [208]x1, [239]x1, [699]x1, [704]x1
- **Ending Poverty With Open Hardware**: 8 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [238] (1 undated). [169](https://guptaoption.com/texts/169.md)x2, [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x2, [51](https://guptaoption.com/texts/51.md)x1, [145]x1, [238]x1, [838]x1
- **engineering power**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [305]. [305](https://guptaoption.com/texts/305.md)x1, [756](https://guptaoption.com/texts/756.md)x1
- **Engineers Without Borders**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [13]. [13](https://guptaoption.com/texts/13.md)x1, [14](https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md)x1
- **English law**: 19 uses in 9 sources, earliest dated 2016 in [278]. [160](https://guptaoption.com/texts/160.md)x8, [559](https://guptaoption.com/texts/559.md)x2, [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x2, [852]x2, [271]x1, [278]x1, [569]x1, [657]x1, [699]x1
- **enterprise network**: 5 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2016 in [7]. [7](https://guptaoption.com/texts/7.md)x3, [277](https://guptaoption.com/texts/277.md)x2
- **Epicenter**: 5 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [50]. [694](https://guptaoption.com/texts/694.md)x3, [44](https://guptaoption.com/texts/44.md)x1, [50](https://guptaoption.com/texts/50.md)x1
- **equity crowdfunding**: 108 uses in 14 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [296](https://guptaoption.com/texts/296.md)x46, [298](https://guptaoption.com/texts/298.md)x29, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x7, [242]x5, [299]x4, [499]x4, [679]x3, [244]x2, [280]x2, [282]x2, [420]x1, [693]x1, [706]x1, [864]x1
- **Eric Rasmussen**: 4 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2007 in [137]. [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md)x1, [128](https://guptaoption.com/texts/128.md)x1, [137](https://guptaoption.com/texts/137.md)x1, [740]x1
- **escrow brokers**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [86]. [86](https://guptaoption.com/texts/86.md)x2, [838](https://guptaoption.com/texts/838.md)x1
- **ESCROWNYM**: 17 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [82]. [86](https://guptaoption.com/texts/86.md)x13, [838](https://guptaoption.com/texts/838.md)x2, [82](https://guptaoption.com/texts/82.md)x1, [846]x1
- **Estonia**: 24 uses in 13 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [322]. [171](https://guptaoption.com/texts/171.md)x6, [253](https://guptaoption.com/texts/253.md)x4, [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x3, [676]x2, [18]x1, [311]x1, [314]x1, [322]x1, [558]x1, [612]x1, [711]x1, [767]x1, [775]x1
- **Ethereum launch**: 21 uses in 16 sources, earliest dated 2016 in [242] (1 undated). [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x5, [840](https://guptaoption.com/texts/840.md)x2, [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md)x1, [236]x1, [242]x1, [505]x1, [559]x1, [678]x1, [712]x1, [714]x1, [723]x1, [758]x1, [773]x1, [783]x1, [790]x1, ...
- **Ethereum team**: 34 uses in 28 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [295]. [45](https://guptaoption.com/texts/45.md)x3, [116](https://guptaoption.com/texts/116.md)x2, [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md)x2, [563]x2, [846]x2, [164]x1, [295]x1, [481]x1, [514]x1, [516]x1, [553]x1, [555]x1, [558]x1, [565]x1, [572]x1, ...
- **European integration**: 6 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [391]. [686](https://guptaoption.com/texts/686.md)x3, [394](https://guptaoption.com/texts/394.md)x2, [391](https://guptaoption.com/texts/391.md)x1
- **European Parliament**: 9 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [394]. [394](https://guptaoption.com/texts/394.md)x6, [39](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md)x2, [567](https://guptaoption.com/texts/567.md)x1
- **evaporative cooling**: 4 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [17] (1 undated). [359](https://guptaoption.com/texts/359.md)x2, [17](https://guptaoption.com/texts/17.md)x1, [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md)x1
- **expertise**: 131 uses in 65 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [20] (1 undated). [555](https://guptaoption.com/texts/555.md)x10, [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md)x8, [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x6, [251]x6, [681]x6, [12]x5, [160]x4, [584]x4, [647]x4, [699]x4, [7]x3, [243]x3, [277]x3, [417]x3, [3]x2, ...
- **Extinction Rebellion**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2019 in [931]. [702](https://guptaoption.com/texts/702.md)x1, [762](https://guptaoption.com/texts/762.md)x1, [931](https://guptaoption.com/texts/931.md)x1
- **Fab Lab**: 20 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [360]. [333](https://guptaoption.com/texts/333.md)x12, [330](https://guptaoption.com/texts/330.md)x4, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x1, [245]x1, [360]x1, [800]x1
- **Facebook for the Five Billion**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [144]. [144](https://guptaoption.com/texts/144.md)x1, [838](https://guptaoption.com/texts/838.md)x1
- **failure to govern**: 7 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [250]. [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x3, [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md)x1, [286](https://guptaoption.com/texts/286.md)x1, [734]x1, [863]x1
- **feasibility analysis**: 10 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2026 in [840] (1 undated). [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x4, [842](https://guptaoption.com/texts/842.md)x3, [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x1, [840]x1, [845]x1
- **FEMA**: 21 uses in 11 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36]. [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md)x5, [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md)x4, [101](https://guptaoption.com/texts/101.md)x3, [137]x2, [8]x1, [15]x1, [36]x1, [331]x1, [339]x1, [689]x1, [847]x1
- **feral database**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [307]. [308](https://guptaoption.com/texts/308.md)x2, [307](https://guptaoption.com/texts/307.md)x1
- **fiat property**: 6 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2018 in [851]. [851](https://guptaoption.com/texts/851.md)x5, [716](https://guptaoption.com/texts/716.md)x1
- **First build**: 5 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [104]. [842](https://guptaoption.com/texts/842.md)x2, [104](https://guptaoption.com/texts/104.md)x1, [254](https://guptaoption.com/texts/254.md)x1, [846]x1
- **Flu Code**: 13 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [97]. [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x6, [53](https://guptaoption.com/texts/53.md)x3, [97](https://guptaoption.com/texts/97.md)x2, [572]x1, [841]x1
- **FluSCIM**: 17 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [173]. [173](https://guptaoption.com/texts/173.md)x12, [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x3, [773](https://guptaoption.com/texts/773.md)x1, [841]x1
- **Folding hexayurt**: 45 uses in 13 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36] (1 undated). [102](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md)x22, [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md)x6, [98](https://guptaoption.com/texts/98.md)x5, [104]x2, [321]x2, [137]x1, [150]x1, [270]x1, [339]x1, [375]x1, [752]x1, [830]x1, [833]x1
- **Forbes**: 8 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2013 in [143]. [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x3, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x3, [215](https://guptaoption.com/texts/215.md)x1, [242]x1


# Vinay Gupta: his distinctive terms, a concordance (part 2 of 4, F to O)

> His 632 most distinctive terms, alphabetically: how often each is used, in how many sources, the earliest dated source that uses it, and the sources that use it most ([id]x uses). Counted in his own passages only. Part 2 of 4, F to O; continues in https://guptaoption.com/texts/terms-3.md. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt; source ids such as [250] are at https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md.

- **foreign direct investment**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2019 in [758]. [429](https://guptaoption.com/texts/429.md)x1, [474](https://guptaoption.com/texts/474.md)x1, [758](https://guptaoption.com/texts/758.md)x1
- **formal verification**: 11 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [836]. [722](https://guptaoption.com/texts/722.md)x9, [749](https://guptaoption.com/texts/749.md)x1, [836](https://guptaoption.com/texts/836.md)x1
- **Formens Hus**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [84]. [84](https://guptaoption.com/texts/84.md)x1, [841](https://guptaoption.com/texts/841.md)x1
- **four billion poor**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [335]. [307](https://guptaoption.com/texts/307.md)x1, [308](https://guptaoption.com/texts/308.md)x1, [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md)x1
- **Fourth Generation Wars**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [34]. [20](https://guptaoption.com/texts/20.md)x1, [34](https://guptaoption.com/texts/34.md)x1
- **fractional ownership**: 23 uses in 12 sources, earliest dated 2020 in [236]. [565](https://guptaoption.com/texts/565.md)x11, [666](https://guptaoption.com/texts/666.md)x2, [44](https://guptaoption.com/texts/44.md)x1, [236]x1, [474]x1, [501]x1, [555]x1, [557]x1, [563]x1, [568]x1, [663]x1, [735]x1
- **free banking**: 9 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2025 in [480]. [453](https://guptaoption.com/texts/453.md)x4, [480](https://guptaoption.com/texts/480.md)x4, [467](https://guptaoption.com/texts/467.md)x1
- **free culture**: 10 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [76]. [21](https://guptaoption.com/texts/21.md)x5, [314](https://guptaoption.com/texts/314.md)x2, [711](https://guptaoption.com/texts/711.md)x2, [76]x1
- **free housing**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [76]. [76](https://guptaoption.com/texts/76.md)x1, [333](https://guptaoption.com/texts/333.md)x1, [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x1
- **Frontier**: 81 uses in 35 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31]. [113](https://guptaoption.com/texts/113.md)x24, [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x8, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x4, [284]x4, [55]x2, [164]x2, [554]x2, [706]x2, [712]x2, [747]x2, [828]x2, [846]x2, [864]x2, [917]x2, [31]x1, ...
- **Fukushima**: 9 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [391]. [159](https://guptaoption.com/texts/159.md)x5, [391](https://guptaoption.com/texts/391.md)x3, [776](https://guptaoption.com/texts/776.md)x1
- **Fuller**: 61 uses in 34 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [10]. [108](https://guptaoption.com/texts/108.md)x8, [114](https://guptaoption.com/texts/114.md)x4, [756](https://guptaoption.com/texts/756.md)x4, [169]x3, [229]x3, [76]x2, [79]x2, [148]x2, [165]x2, [270]x2, [284]x2, [572]x2, [741]x2, [752]x2, [769]x2, ...
- **Fuller and Gandhi**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [108]. [108](https://guptaoption.com/texts/108.md)x1, [169](https://guptaoption.com/texts/169.md)x1
- **function of government**: 4 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [250]. [231](https://guptaoption.com/texts/231.md)x2, [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md)x1, [677](https://guptaoption.com/texts/677.md)x1
- **Future of Europe**: 4 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [393]. [394](https://guptaoption.com/texts/394.md)x3, [393](https://guptaoption.com/texts/393.md)x1
- **Future of Stuff**: 18 uses in 12 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172] (1 undated). [239](https://guptaoption.com/texts/239.md)x5, [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md)x3, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x1, [554]x1, [559]x1, [572]x1, [677]x1, [702]x1, [714]x1, [735]x1, [793]x1, [839]x1
- **future scenarios**: 5 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [128]. [128](https://guptaoption.com/texts/128.md)x1, [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x1, [210](https://guptaoption.com/texts/210.md)x1, [243]x1, [559]x1
- **Gandhi**: 120 uses in 34 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [108] (1 undated). [724](https://guptaoption.com/texts/724.md)x33, [108](https://guptaoption.com/texts/108.md)x13, [114](https://guptaoption.com/texts/114.md)x7, [239]x7, [229]x5, [704]x5, [56]x4, [169]x4, [800]x4, [79]x3, [187]x3, [47]x2, [82]x2, [85]x2, [94]x2, ...
- **gasification stove**: 20 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [100]. [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md)x6, [17](https://guptaoption.com/texts/17.md)x5, [137](https://guptaoption.com/texts/137.md)x3, [31]x2, [47]x1, [70]x1, [100]x1, [338]x1
- **GDPR**: 11 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2018 in [851]. [851](https://guptaoption.com/texts/851.md)x3, [567](https://guptaoption.com/texts/567.md)x2, [620](https://guptaoption.com/texts/620.md)x2, [853]x2, [255]x1, [537]x1
- **GENIUS Act**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2025 in [722]. [433](https://guptaoption.com/texts/433.md)x1, [470](https://guptaoption.com/texts/470.md)x1, [722](https://guptaoption.com/texts/722.md)x1
- **genocide of the poor**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [94]. [94](https://guptaoption.com/texts/94.md)x2, [52](https://guptaoption.com/texts/52.md)x1
- **geoengineering**: 38 uses in 13 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [26] (2 undated). [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md)x9, [704](https://guptaoption.com/texts/704.md)x8, [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x4, [677]x3, [845]x3, [4]x2, [230]x2, [236]x2, [26]x1, [86]x1, [139]x1, [744]x1, [758]x1
- **global commons**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2013 in [143]. [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x1, [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md)x1, [424](https://guptaoption.com/texts/424.md)x1
- **global democracy**: 40 uses in 12 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [323]. [769](https://guptaoption.com/texts/769.md)x13, [734](https://guptaoption.com/texts/734.md)x4, [863](https://guptaoption.com/texts/863.md)x4, [172]x3, [292]x3, [293]x3, [322]x3, [323]x3, [279]x1, [691]x1, [766]x1, [851]x1
- **global GDP**: 33 uses in 18 sources, earliest dated 2018 in [706]. [547](https://guptaoption.com/texts/547.md)x5, [682](https://guptaoption.com/texts/682.md)x4, [566](https://guptaoption.com/texts/566.md)x3, [706]x3, [852]x3, [243]x2, [864]x2, [167]x1, [251]x1, [551]x1, [593]x1, [633]x1, [676]x1, [729]x1, [733]x1, ...
- **global governance**: 40 uses in 18 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [3]. [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md)x8, [851](https://guptaoption.com/texts/851.md)x7, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x6, [677]x3, [293]x2, [762]x2, [3]x1, [47]x1, [286]x1, [361]x1, [394]x1, [505]x1, [548]x1, [706]x1, [734]x1, ...
- **global minimalism**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [161]. [162](https://guptaoption.com/texts/162.md)x2, [161](https://guptaoption.com/texts/161.md)x1
- **Global real estate rail**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated none (2 undated). [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x2, [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md)x1
- **Global Swadeshi**: 11 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [821]. [56](https://guptaoption.com/texts/56.md)x5, [333](https://guptaoption.com/texts/333.md)x2, [821](https://guptaoption.com/texts/821.md)x2, [58]x1, [838]x1
- **Global Swadeshi Network**: 5 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [56]. [56](https://guptaoption.com/texts/56.md)x4, [838](https://guptaoption.com/texts/838.md)x1
- **global trade**: 74 uses in 30 sources, earliest dated 2013 in [753]. [732](https://guptaoption.com/texts/732.md)x11, [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md)x7, [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md)x7, [716]x5, [165]x4, [555]x4, [559]x4, [729]x4, [265]x3, [851]x3, [39]x2, [633]x2, [172]x1, [237]x1, [268]x1, ...
- **Global Village Development Bank**: 32 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [3] (2 undated). [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x12, [838](https://guptaoption.com/texts/838.md)x7, [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x4, [3]x3, [5]x2, [840]x2, [555]x1, [839]x1
- **Globalization 2.0**: 13 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [237]. [237](https://guptaoption.com/texts/237.md)x5, [221](https://guptaoption.com/texts/221.md)x4, [268](https://guptaoption.com/texts/268.md)x2, [265]x1, [846]x1
- **Goat Rodeo**: 67 uses in 14 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [88] (3 undated). [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x16, [88](https://guptaoption.com/texts/88.md)x13, [2](https://guptaoption.com/texts/2.md)x8, [25]x5, [194]x4, [725]x4, [401]x3, [845]x3, [4]x2, [79]x2, [171]x2, [693]x2, [842]x2, [5]x1
- **Goat Rodeo Index**: 11 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [88] (3 undated). [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x4, [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x2, [88](https://guptaoption.com/texts/88.md)x2, [2]x1, [5]x1, [79]x1
- **gold standard**: 19 uses in 17 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31]. [11](https://guptaoption.com/texts/11.md)x2, [768](https://guptaoption.com/texts/768.md)x2, [18](https://guptaoption.com/texts/18.md)x1, [31]x1, [143]x1, [215]x1, [307]x1, [426]x1, [445]x1, [453]x1, [477]x1, [480]x1, [559]x1, [562]x1, [688]x1, ...
- **Grameen Phone**: 5 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [24]. [24](https://guptaoption.com/texts/24.md)x2, [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md)x2, [714](https://guptaoption.com/texts/714.md)x1
- **great power**: 7 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [407]. [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md)x3, [80](https://guptaoption.com/texts/80.md)x1, [317](https://guptaoption.com/texts/317.md)x1, [407]x1, [657]x1
- **greenwashing**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2021 in [702]. [586](https://guptaoption.com/texts/586.md)x1, [702](https://guptaoption.com/texts/702.md)x1
- **growth rates**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2018 in [116]. [116](https://guptaoption.com/texts/116.md)x1, [504](https://guptaoption.com/texts/504.md)x1, [554](https://guptaoption.com/texts/554.md)x1
- **Guardian**: 24 uses in 16 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [128]. [571](https://guptaoption.com/texts/571.md)x6, [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x3, [225](https://guptaoption.com/texts/225.md)x2, [11]x1, [47]x1, [49]x1, [128]x1, [164]x1, [202]x1, [251]x1, [255]x1, [567]x1, [678]x1, [706]x1, [763]x1, ...
- **H13**: 72 uses in 10 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36] (1 undated). [104](https://guptaoption.com/texts/104.md)x38, [102](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md)x13, [98](https://guptaoption.com/texts/98.md)x6, [36]x5, [100]x3, [727]x3, [4]x1, [79]x1, [751]x1, [842]x1
- **H18**: 4 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [102] (1 undated). [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x1, [102](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md)x1, [727](https://guptaoption.com/texts/727.md)x1, [842]x1
- **H4D2**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [409]. [85](https://guptaoption.com/texts/85.md)x1, [409](https://guptaoption.com/texts/409.md)x1
- **H5N1**: 95 uses in 13 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [32] (6 undated). [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md)x31, [177](https://guptaoption.com/texts/177.md)x31, [32](https://guptaoption.com/texts/32.md)x8, [179]x5, [180]x5, [846]x4, [372]x3, [175]x2, [176]x2, [128]x1, [320]x1, [572]x1, [841]x1
- **hackathon**: 16 uses in 12 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [407]. [729](https://guptaoption.com/texts/729.md)x3, [407](https://guptaoption.com/texts/407.md)x2, [835](https://guptaoption.com/texts/835.md)x2, [41]x1, [218]x1, [314]x1, [567]x1, [612]x1, [620]x1, [707]x1, [711]x1, [762]x1
- **Haiti**: 149 uses in 42 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36] (3 undated). [38](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md)x22, [8](https://guptaoption.com/texts/8.md)x15, [14](https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md)x14, [846]x11, [13]x10, [842]x10, [76]x8, [90]x6, [4]x4, [710]x4, [36]x3, [689]x3, [692]x3, [845]x3, [5]x2, ...
- **Half a Trillion Dollars a Year of Magic**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2026 in [167]. [167](https://guptaoption.com/texts/167.md)x1, [839](https://guptaoption.com/texts/839.md)x1, [840](https://guptaoption.com/texts/840.md)x1
- **Harappa**: 17 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [148]. [148](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md)x14, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x2, [229](https://guptaoption.com/texts/229.md)x1
- **Hardin Tibbs**: 11 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [11]. [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x8, [234](https://guptaoption.com/texts/234.md)x2, [11](https://guptaoption.com/texts/11.md)x1
- **hashcash**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2016 in [719]. [215](https://guptaoption.com/texts/215.md)x1, [719](https://guptaoption.com/texts/719.md)x1, [768](https://guptaoption.com/texts/768.md)x1
- **Hexacloak**: 18 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2026 in [842] (1 undated). [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x6, [842](https://guptaoption.com/texts/842.md)x6, [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x6
- **Hexacoat**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2026 in [842]. [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x2, [842](https://guptaoption.com/texts/842.md)x1
- **Hexacomb**: 13 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36]. [102](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md)x11, [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md)x1, [100](https://guptaoption.com/texts/100.md)x1
- **hexayurt build**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [102]. [98](https://guptaoption.com/texts/98.md)x1, [102](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md)x1
- **Hexayurt Capital**: 17 uses in 10 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [221](https://guptaoption.com/texts/221.md)x8, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x1, [211](https://guptaoption.com/texts/211.md)x1, [251]x1, [258]x1, [747]x1, [749]x1, [752]x1, [838]x1, [846]x1
- **Hexayurt Country**: 54 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [38] (2 undated). [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x18, [38](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md)x17, [845](https://guptaoption.com/texts/845.md)x9, [4]x5, [842]x2, [5]x1, [14]x1, [90]x1
- **Hexayurt in Haiti**: 17 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36]. [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x5, [14](https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md)x3, [90](https://guptaoption.com/texts/90.md)x3, [842]x3, [36]x2, [38]x1
- **Hexayurt Playa**: 25 uses in 7 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [100]. [98](https://guptaoption.com/texts/98.md)x7, [100](https://guptaoption.com/texts/100.md)x6, [102](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md)x6, [103]x2, [104]x2, [101]x1, [833]x1
- **Hexayurt Project**: 234 uses in 70 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36] (4 undated). [100](https://guptaoption.com/texts/100.md)x76, [844](https://guptaoption.com/texts/844.md)x20, [843](https://guptaoption.com/texts/843.md)x14, [102]x9, [79]x4, [172]x4, [321]x4, [10]x3, [12]x3, [14]x3, [38]x3, [80]x3, [98]x3, [101]x3, [103]x3, ...
- **hexayurt roof**: 9 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [102]. [102](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md)x4, [98](https://guptaoption.com/texts/98.md)x3, [322](https://guptaoption.com/texts/322.md)x1, [833]x1
- **hexayurt sizes**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [14]. [14](https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md)x1, [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x1
- **hexayurt village**: 7 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36]. [247](https://guptaoption.com/texts/247.md)x3, [844](https://guptaoption.com/texts/844.md)x3, [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md)x1
- **high-frequency trading**: 7 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [917]. [618](https://guptaoption.com/texts/618.md)x2, [254](https://guptaoption.com/texts/254.md)x1, [706](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md)x1, [716]x1, [864]x1, [917]x1
- **hinge technique**: 13 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [100]. [98](https://guptaoption.com/texts/98.md)x4, [102](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md)x4, [104](https://guptaoption.com/texts/104.md)x3, [100]x2
- **history of money**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [307]. [307](https://guptaoption.com/texts/307.md)x2, [768](https://guptaoption.com/texts/768.md)x1
- **Holochain**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2018 in [837]. [851](https://guptaoption.com/texts/851.md)x2, [837](https://guptaoption.com/texts/837.md)x1
- **Hope for Mattereum**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2022 in [678]. [588](https://guptaoption.com/texts/588.md)x1, [678](https://guptaoption.com/texts/678.md)x1
- **Hope For The World**: 15 uses in 7 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172] (1 undated). [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x8, [676](https://guptaoption.com/texts/676.md)x2, [145](https://guptaoption.com/texts/145.md)x1, [172]x1, [206]x1, [251]x1, [677]x1
- **household infrastructure**: 8 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31]. [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md)x2, [845](https://guptaoption.com/texts/845.md)x2, [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x2, [32]x1, [137]x1
- **How To Sell Ideas**: 8 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [303](https://guptaoption.com/texts/303.md)x3, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x1, [443](https://guptaoption.com/texts/443.md)x1, [722]x1, [762]x1, [839]x1
- **Hub Westminster**: 6 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [92] (1 undated). [92](https://guptaoption.com/texts/92.md)x3, [114](https://guptaoption.com/texts/114.md)x1, [139](https://guptaoption.com/texts/139.md)x1, [402]x1
- **human rights**: 88 uses in 38 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31]. [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x10, [52](https://guptaoption.com/texts/52.md)x7, [773](https://guptaoption.com/texts/773.md)x7, [851]x7, [400]x6, [31]x5, [399]x5, [572]x4, [724]x4, [46]x3, [293]x2, [394]x2, [11]x1, [48]x1, [49]x1, ...
- **human security**: 8 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2007 in [182]. [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md)x7, [182](https://guptaoption.com/texts/182.md)x1
- **humanitarian innovation**: 12 uses in 9 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [10]. [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md)x4, [10](https://guptaoption.com/texts/10.md)x1, [331](https://guptaoption.com/texts/331.md)x1, [384]x1, [692]x1, [724]x1, [766]x1, [827]x1, [842]x1
- **Hurricane Katrina**: 14 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [250]. [8](https://guptaoption.com/texts/8.md)x7, [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md)x5, [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md)x1, [727]x1
- **Ian Grigg**: 38 uses in 21 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [775]. [730](https://guptaoption.com/texts/730.md)x7, [835](https://guptaoption.com/texts/835.md)x4, [767](https://guptaoption.com/texts/767.md)x3, [431]x2, [555]x2, [557]x2, [714]x2, [775]x2, [836]x2, [295]x1, [419]x1, [437]x1, [457]x1, [478]x1, [505]x1, ...
- **ICANN**: 7 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [11]. [11](https://guptaoption.com/texts/11.md)x4, [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x3
- **ICO**: 73 uses in 32 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [699](https://guptaoption.com/texts/699.md)x11, [761](https://guptaoption.com/texts/761.md)x6, [263](https://guptaoption.com/texts/263.md)x4, [706]x4, [722]x4, [744]x4, [758]x4, [41]x3, [45]x2, [172]x2, [568]x2, [631]x2, [713]x2, [735]x2, [762]x2, ...
- **id cards**: 8 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31]. [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md)x3, [8](https://guptaoption.com/texts/8.md)x1, [18](https://guptaoption.com/texts/18.md)x1, [163]x1, [263]x1, [846]x1
- **identity cheapid**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [35] (1 undated). [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x2, [35](https://guptaoption.com/texts/35.md)x1
- **identity documents**: 10 uses in 9 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31]. [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md)x2, [86](https://guptaoption.com/texts/86.md)x1, [692](https://guptaoption.com/texts/692.md)x1, [706]x1, [716]x1, [731]x1, [853]x1, [864]x1, [917]x1
- **identity infrastructure**: 21 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31]. [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md)x11, [163](https://guptaoption.com/texts/163.md)x5, [695](https://guptaoption.com/texts/695.md)x2, [172]x1, [505]x1, [684]x1
- **identity insurance**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2018 in [635]. [635](https://guptaoption.com/texts/635.md)x1, [835](https://guptaoption.com/texts/835.md)x1
- **Identity Insurance Consortium**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2018 in [635]. [635](https://guptaoption.com/texts/635.md)x1, [835](https://guptaoption.com/texts/835.md)x1
- **identity providers**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31]. [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md)x1, [116](https://guptaoption.com/texts/116.md)x1
- **identity standard**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31]. [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md)x1, [35](https://guptaoption.com/texts/35.md)x1, [767](https://guptaoption.com/texts/767.md)x1
- **IETF**: 5 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2019 in [163]. [548](https://guptaoption.com/texts/548.md)x2, [551](https://guptaoption.com/texts/551.md)x2, [163](https://guptaoption.com/texts/163.md)x1
- **IG Wines**: 20 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2022 in [199]. [199](https://guptaoption.com/texts/199.md)x17, [839](https://guptaoption.com/texts/839.md)x2, [594](https://guptaoption.com/texts/594.md)x1
- **IKEA shelter**: 8 uses in 7 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [692](https://guptaoption.com/texts/692.md)x2, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x1, [257](https://guptaoption.com/texts/257.md)x1, [694]x1, [752]x1, [766]x1, [931]x1
- **Imogen Heap**: 18 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [225](https://guptaoption.com/texts/225.md)x10, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x2, [292](https://guptaoption.com/texts/292.md)x2, [836]x2, [111]x1, [164]x1
- **ImpactPPA**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x2, [837](https://guptaoption.com/texts/837.md)x1
- **INAM**: 9 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated none (2 undated). [1](https://guptaoption.com/texts/1.md)x6, [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md)x3
- **India**: 188 uses in 88 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [108]. [704](https://guptaoption.com/texts/704.md)x12, [678](https://guptaoption.com/texts/678.md)x8, [148](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md)x7, [724]x7, [554]x6, [727]x6, [676]x5, [854]x5, [52]x4, [108]x4, [270]x4, [677]x4, [754]x4, [46]x3, [115]x3, ...
- **information markets**: 15 uses in 9 sources, earliest dated 2019 in [255] (2 undated). [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md)x3, [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md)x2, [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md)x2, [507]x2, [840]x2, [4]x1, [255]x1, [594]x1, [723]x1
- **Infrastructure for Anarchists**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [95]. [95](https://guptaoption.com/texts/95.md)x1, [128](https://guptaoption.com/texts/128.md)x1
- **insurance model**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [917]. [471](https://guptaoption.com/texts/471.md)x1, [558](https://guptaoption.com/texts/558.md)x1, [917](https://guptaoption.com/texts/917.md)x1
- **interdependencies**: 24 uses in 12 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [847] (3 undated). [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md)x6, [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md)x4, [8](https://guptaoption.com/texts/8.md)x2, [143]x2, [159]x2, [179]x2, [1]x1, [157]x1, [171]x1, [239]x1, [752]x1, [847]x1
- **international recognition**: 17 uses in 10 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [250] (4 undated). [322](https://guptaoption.com/texts/322.md)x4, [1](https://guptaoption.com/texts/1.md)x3, [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md)x2, [841]x2, [175]x1, [179]x1, [250]x1, [681]x1, [752]x1, [842]x1
- **internet globalism**: 4 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [265]. [732](https://guptaoption.com/texts/732.md)x3, [265](https://guptaoption.com/texts/265.md)x1
- **internet money**: 12 uses in 9 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [295]. [265](https://guptaoption.com/texts/265.md)x3, [762](https://guptaoption.com/texts/762.md)x2, [295](https://guptaoption.com/texts/295.md)x1, [554]x1, [562]x1, [688]x1, [694]x1, [733]x1, [735]x1
- **Internet of Agreements**: 89 uses in 28 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172] (2 undated). [39](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md)x13, [836](https://guptaoption.com/texts/836.md)x9, [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x8, [837]x7, [835]x6, [41]x4, [167]x4, [211]x4, [40]x3, [266]x3, [839]x3, [840]x3, [4]x2, [5]x2, [237]x2, ...
- **Internet of Agreements conference**: 19 uses in 11 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [39]. [39](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md)x3, [836](https://guptaoption.com/texts/836.md)x3, [837](https://guptaoption.com/texts/837.md)x3, [211]x2, [846]x2, [40]x1, [41]x1, [618]x1, [699]x1, [834]x1, [835]x1
- **interoperability**: 48 uses in 17 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [12]. [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x9, [758](https://guptaoption.com/texts/758.md)x8, [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md)x5, [8]x3, [296]x3, [298]x3, [730]x3, [738]x3, [379]x2, [620]x2, [119]x1, [143]x1, [164]x1, [237]x1, [551]x1, ...
- **ioa**: 17 uses in 7 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [39]. [39](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md)x7, [221](https://guptaoption.com/texts/221.md)x3, [41](https://guptaoption.com/texts/41.md)x2, [853]x2, [40]x1, [835]x1, [836]x1
- **IoA conference**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [39]. [39](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md)x2, [40](https://guptaoption.com/texts/40.md)x1
- **IoT**: 20 uses in 10 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x5, [266](https://guptaoption.com/texts/266.md)x4, [39](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md)x2, [309]x2, [693]x2, [7]x1, [218]x1, [277]x1, [594]x1, [793]x1
- **IPFS**: 26 uses in 13 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [571](https://guptaoption.com/texts/571.md)x6, [722](https://guptaoption.com/texts/722.md)x5, [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md)x2, [172]x2, [236]x2, [758]x2, [111]x1, [280]x1, [505]x1, [568]x1, [694]x1, [714]x1, [717]x1
- **IPO**: 22 uses in 15 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [402]. [853](https://guptaoption.com/texts/853.md)x3, [402](https://guptaoption.com/texts/402.md)x2, [521](https://guptaoption.com/texts/521.md)x2, [568]x2, [665]x2, [744]x2, [116]x1, [242]x1, [505]x1, [525]x1, [569]x1, [594]x1, [699]x1, [761]x1, [852]x1
- **Iraq**: 98 uses in 45 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [34] (2 undated). [48](https://guptaoption.com/texts/48.md)x20, [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md)x6, [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md)x5, [321]x5, [47]x4, [692]x4, [29]x3, [250]x3, [677]x3, [724]x3, [20]x2, [34]x2, [194]x2, [680]x2, [693]x2, ...
- **Ireland**: 115 uses in 36 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [20]. [396](https://guptaoption.com/texts/396.md)x25, [391](https://guptaoption.com/texts/391.md)x20, [394](https://guptaoption.com/texts/394.md)x5, [678]x5, [99]x4, [250]x4, [401]x4, [725]x4, [89]x3, [92]x3, [393]x3, [689]x3, [704]x3, [824]x3, [52]x2, ...
- **Jane McGonigal**: 7 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2026 in [843]. [843](https://guptaoption.com/texts/843.md)x4, [844](https://guptaoption.com/texts/844.md)x3
- **jobs**: 201 uses in 85 sources, earliest dated 2003 in [168] (4 undated). [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x28, [242](https://guptaoption.com/texts/242.md)x14, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x12, [174]x9, [694]x8, [846]x8, [391]x6, [749]x5, [171]x4, [704]x4, [845]x4, [229]x3, [239]x3, [400]x3, [148]x2, ...
- **John Perry Barlow**: 8 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2013 in [143]. [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x2, [706](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md)x2, [864](https://guptaoption.com/texts/864.md)x2, [301]x1, [758]x1
- **Jordan**: 15 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [359]. [359](https://guptaoption.com/texts/359.md)x3, [738](https://guptaoption.com/texts/738.md)x3, [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md)x2, [172]x2, [572]x2, [360]x1, [594]x1, [694]x1
- **Julian Assange**: 9 uses in 7 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [11]. [768](https://guptaoption.com/texts/768.md)x3, [11](https://guptaoption.com/texts/11.md)x1, [215](https://guptaoption.com/texts/215.md)x1, [505]x1, [694]x1, [732]x1, [735]x1
- **jurisdictional arbitrage**: 4 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31]. [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md)x1, [474](https://guptaoption.com/texts/474.md)x1, [475](https://guptaoption.com/texts/475.md)x1, [851]x1
- **Kerala model**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [13] (1 undated). [13](https://guptaoption.com/texts/13.md)x1, [145](https://guptaoption.com/texts/145.md)x1
- **Kit**: 50 uses in 29 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [34] (2 undated). [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x10, [842](https://guptaoption.com/texts/842.md)x5, [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x3, [8]x2, [165]x2, [172]x2, [322]x2, [407]x2, [689]x2, [5]x1, [34]x1, [75]x1, [112]x1, [148]x1, [235]x1, ...
- **KYC**: 58 uses in 27 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [307]. [555](https://guptaoption.com/texts/555.md)x10, [568](https://guptaoption.com/texts/568.md)x10, [295](https://guptaoption.com/texts/295.md)x6, [853]x5, [559]x3, [427]x2, [558]x2, [165]x1, [299]x1, [307]x1, [308]x1, [482]x1, [505]x1, [536]x1, [554]x1, ...
- **land registry**: 12 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2018 in [767]. [594](https://guptaoption.com/texts/594.md)x3, [767](https://guptaoption.com/texts/767.md)x3, [571](https://guptaoption.com/texts/571.md)x2, [592]x2, [567]x1, [758]x1
- **LaunchPod**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2021 in [245]. [245](https://guptaoption.com/texts/245.md)x1, [714](https://guptaoption.com/texts/714.md)x1
- **League of Nations**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2018 in [853]. [505](https://guptaoption.com/texts/505.md)x1, [853](https://guptaoption.com/texts/853.md)x1
- **Lean Green Mattereum**: 30 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2026 in [839]. [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x13, [840](https://guptaoption.com/texts/840.md)x11, [845](https://guptaoption.com/texts/845.md)x3, [842]x2, [839]x1
- **Leashless**: 291 uses in 23 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [831] (1 undated). [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x238, [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x10, [106](https://guptaoption.com/texts/106.md)x8, [831]x7, [65]x5, [838]x3, [163]x2, [187]x2, [823]x2, [5]x1, [79]x1, [85]x1, [107]x1, [144]x1, [148]x1, ...
- **ledgers**: 26 uses in 15 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172] (1 undated). [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md)x4, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x3, [490](https://guptaoption.com/texts/490.md)x3, [558]x3, [594]x2, [768]x2, [5]x1, [242]x1, [292]x1, [303]x1, [423]x1, [496]x1, [562]x1, [840]x1, [853]x1
- **legacy banking**: 5 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2021 in [680]. [415](https://guptaoption.com/texts/415.md)x3, [538](https://guptaoption.com/texts/538.md)x1, [680](https://guptaoption.com/texts/680.md)x1
- **legacy IT**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2016 in [766]. [538](https://guptaoption.com/texts/538.md)x1, [766](https://guptaoption.com/texts/766.md)x1
- **legal enforceability**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [211]. [211](https://guptaoption.com/texts/211.md)x1, [557](https://guptaoption.com/texts/557.md)x1
- **legal layer**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2018 in [767]. [555](https://guptaoption.com/texts/555.md)x1, [767](https://guptaoption.com/texts/767.md)x1, [791](https://guptaoption.com/texts/791.md)x1
- **legal status**: 18 uses in 14 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [401]. [727](https://guptaoption.com/texts/727.md)x4, [242](https://guptaoption.com/texts/242.md)x2, [160](https://guptaoption.com/texts/160.md)x1, [295]x1, [401]x1, [557]x1, [558]x1, [633]x1, [716]x1, [724]x1, [725]x1, [744]x1, [791]x1, [793]x1
- **Legalese**: 7 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [164]. [164](https://guptaoption.com/texts/164.md)x2, [836](https://guptaoption.com/texts/836.md)x2, [692](https://guptaoption.com/texts/692.md)x1, [761]x1, [767]x1
- **life extension**: 21 uses in 14 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [51]. [253](https://guptaoption.com/texts/253.md)x5, [230](https://guptaoption.com/texts/230.md)x3, [231](https://guptaoption.com/texts/231.md)x2, [51]x1, [80]x1, [172]x1, [280]x1, [307]x1, [308]x1, [317]x1, [689]x1, [693]x1, [694]x1, [727]x1
- **life support**: 11 uses in 9 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [108]. [108](https://guptaoption.com/texts/108.md)x2, [322](https://guptaoption.com/texts/322.md)x2, [74](https://guptaoption.com/texts/74.md)x1, [143]x1, [148]x1, [235]x1, [572]x1, [727]x1, [754]x1
- **Linton Wells**: 9 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [12]. [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md)x6, [8](https://guptaoption.com/texts/8.md)x1, [121](https://guptaoption.com/texts/121.md)x1, [171]x1
- **local control**: 4 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [74]. [74](https://guptaoption.com/texts/74.md)x2, [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md)x1, [265](https://guptaoption.com/texts/265.md)x1
- **local minima**: 5 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [11]. [50](https://guptaoption.com/texts/50.md)x2, [11](https://guptaoption.com/texts/11.md)x1, [73](https://guptaoption.com/texts/73.md)x1, [333]x1
- **London Real**: 11 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [697]. [689](https://guptaoption.com/texts/689.md)x6, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x1, [694](https://guptaoption.com/texts/694.md)x1, [697]x1, [700]x1, [746]x1
- **Long Peace**: 5 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [34]. [30](https://guptaoption.com/texts/30.md)x3, [34](https://guptaoption.com/texts/34.md)x1, [833](https://guptaoption.com/texts/833.md)x1
- **M-PESA**: 10 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [144]. [144](https://guptaoption.com/texts/144.md)x7, [635](https://guptaoption.com/texts/635.md)x2, [631](https://guptaoption.com/texts/631.md)x1
- **Macaronesia**: 10 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated none (4 undated). [177](https://guptaoption.com/texts/177.md)x5, [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md)x3, [176](https://guptaoption.com/texts/176.md)x1, [180]x1
- **mainframes**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [379]. [379](https://guptaoption.com/texts/379.md)x1, [505](https://guptaoption.com/texts/505.md)x1
- **Marcin Jakubowski**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [250]. [106](https://guptaoption.com/texts/106.md)x1, [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md)x1
- **market access**: 6 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [21]. [18](https://guptaoption.com/texts/18.md)x1, [21](https://guptaoption.com/texts/21.md)x1, [252](https://guptaoption.com/texts/252.md)x1, [314]x1, [711]x1, [777]x1
- **markets**: 539 uses in 159 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [20] (6 undated). [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md)x26, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x18, [18](https://guptaoption.com/texts/18.md)x16, [793]x16, [735]x15, [236]x13, [689]x12, [706]x11, [254]x10, [255]x10, [840]x10, [864]x10, [572]x9, [171]x8, [242]x8, ...
- **Mars**: 124 uses in 34 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [689]. [747](https://guptaoption.com/texts/747.md)x13, [301](https://guptaoption.com/texts/301.md)x12, [231](https://guptaoption.com/texts/231.md)x8, [731]x7, [41]x6, [242]x6, [508]x6, [699]x6, [852]x6, [172]x5, [706]x5, [612]x4, [864]x4, [164]x3, [229]x3, ...
- **masks**: 61 uses in 20 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [32] (2 undated). [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md)x21, [761](https://guptaoption.com/texts/761.md)x9, [572](https://guptaoption.com/texts/572.md)x5, [685]x3, [32]x2, [102]x2, [148]x2, [179]x2, [239]x2, [681]x2, [773]x2, [98]x1, [206]x1, [305]x1, [320]x1, ...
- **mass evacuation**: 26 uses in 11 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [100] (1 undated). [101](https://guptaoption.com/texts/101.md)x5, [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x4, [100](https://guptaoption.com/texts/100.md)x3, [102]x3, [842]x3, [15]x2, [841]x2, [10]x1, [98]x1, [103]x1, [104]x1
- **MATR**: 16 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2023 in [44]. [45](https://guptaoption.com/texts/45.md)x13, [44](https://guptaoption.com/texts/44.md)x2, [559](https://guptaoption.com/texts/559.md)x1
- **Mattereum**: 947 uses in 127 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172] (2 undated). [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md)x54, [559](https://guptaoption.com/texts/559.md)x54, [555](https://guptaoption.com/texts/555.md)x49, [45]x47, [846]x47, [236]x41, [565]x34, [735]x30, [199]x26, [43]x25, [167]x25, [44]x23, [557]x22, [568]x21, [172]x20, ...
- **Mattereum Manifesto**: 6 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [840](https://guptaoption.com/texts/840.md)x2, [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md)x1, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x1, [777]x1, [839]x1
- **mechanism design**: 7 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2022 in [800]. [672](https://guptaoption.com/texts/672.md)x2, [800](https://guptaoption.com/texts/800.md)x2, [508](https://guptaoption.com/texts/508.md)x1, [565]x1, [568]x1
- **megaprojects**: 4 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [3]. [3](https://guptaoption.com/texts/3.md)x2, [838](https://guptaoption.com/texts/838.md)x2
- **memecoins**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2025 in [491]. [167](https://guptaoption.com/texts/167.md)x2, [491](https://guptaoption.com/texts/491.md)x1
- **mesh network**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2013 in [386]. [73](https://guptaoption.com/texts/73.md)x1, [386](https://guptaoption.com/texts/386.md)x1
- **metaverse**: 25 uses in 7 sources, earliest dated 2021 in [702]. [778](https://guptaoption.com/texts/778.md)x11, [594](https://guptaoption.com/texts/594.md)x4, [568](https://guptaoption.com/texts/568.md)x3, [667]x3, [702]x2, [571]x1, [572]x1
- **MiCA**: 88 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2025 in [506] (2 undated). [177](https://guptaoption.com/texts/177.md)x75, [176](https://guptaoption.com/texts/176.md)x8, [505](https://guptaoption.com/texts/505.md)x2, [433]x1, [506]x1, [841]x1
- **Michael Mainelli**: 8 uses in 7 sources, earliest dated 2016 in [242]. [837](https://guptaoption.com/texts/837.md)x2, [242](https://guptaoption.com/texts/242.md)x1, [555](https://guptaoption.com/texts/555.md)x1, [572]x1, [835]x1, [836]x1, [853]x1
- **micro infrastructure**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [17]. [17](https://guptaoption.com/texts/17.md)x1, [402](https://guptaoption.com/texts/402.md)x1
- **microfinance**: 21 uses in 7 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31] (1 undated). [20](https://guptaoption.com/texts/20.md)x5, [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md)x5, [635](https://guptaoption.com/texts/635.md)x4, [3]x2, [33]x2, [109]x2, [4]x1
- **micropower**: 4 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [32]. [3](https://guptaoption.com/texts/3.md)x2, [17](https://guptaoption.com/texts/17.md)x1, [32](https://guptaoption.com/texts/32.md)x1
- **mindismoving.org**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2003 in [188] (1 undated). [188](https://guptaoption.com/texts/188.md)x1, [189](https://guptaoption.com/texts/189.md)x1, [190](https://guptaoption.com/texts/190.md)x1
- **Mist**: 17 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [309]. [113](https://guptaoption.com/texts/113.md)x5, [164](https://guptaoption.com/texts/164.md)x4, [783](https://guptaoption.com/texts/783.md)x4, [722]x2, [309]x1, [565]x1
- **molecular assembly**: 5 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [330]. [333](https://guptaoption.com/texts/333.md)x4, [330](https://guptaoption.com/texts/330.md)x1
- **money creation**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2016 in [284]. [284](https://guptaoption.com/texts/284.md)x1, [567](https://guptaoption.com/texts/567.md)x1, [683](https://guptaoption.com/texts/683.md)x1
- **money laundering**: 28 uses in 13 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31]. [567](https://guptaoption.com/texts/567.md)x7, [706](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md)x5, [864](https://guptaoption.com/texts/864.md)x4, [768]x3, [31]x1, [112]x1, [160]x1, [243]x1, [536]x1, [719]x1, [767]x1, [773]x1, [853]x1
- **mortgages**: 35 uses in 22 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [391]. [116](https://guptaoption.com/texts/116.md)x3, [167](https://guptaoption.com/texts/167.md)x3, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x3, [314]x3, [568]x3, [711]x3, [565]x2, [93]x1, [165]x1, [296]x1, [391]x1, [426]x1, [453]x1, [527]x1, [540]x1, ...
- **Mother of Hydrogen**: 18 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [822]. [148](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md)x7, [155](https://guptaoption.com/texts/155.md)x4, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x4, [822]x2, [229]x1
- **Multipolar Realpolitik**: 41 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2024 in [243] (2 undated). [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x19, [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x7, [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md)x7, [845]x3, [5]x2, [840]x1, [841]x1, [842]x1
- **mutually assured destruction**: 11 uses in 7 sources, earliest dated 2007 in [30]. [11](https://guptaoption.com/texts/11.md)x2, [48](https://guptaoption.com/texts/48.md)x2, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x2, [776]x2, [30]x1, [243]x1, [572]x1
- **Mycelia**: 16 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [225](https://guptaoption.com/texts/225.md)x11, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x2, [836](https://guptaoption.com/texts/836.md)x2, [292]x1
- **Namecoin**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [301]. [273](https://guptaoption.com/texts/273.md)x2, [301](https://guptaoption.com/texts/301.md)x1
- **nanomaterials**: 5 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2013 in [317]. [317](https://guptaoption.com/texts/317.md)x2, [689](https://guptaoption.com/texts/689.md)x2, [316](https://guptaoption.com/texts/316.md)x1
- **NaNoWriMo**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [822]. [148](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md)x1, [822](https://guptaoption.com/texts/822.md)x1
- **Nath Sampradaya**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [52]. [52](https://guptaoption.com/texts/52.md)x1, [692](https://guptaoption.com/texts/692.md)x1
- **NDU**: 17 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [833]. [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md)x11, [121](https://guptaoption.com/texts/121.md)x2, [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md)x2, [833]x2
- **network state**: 4 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2025 in [231]. [231](https://guptaoption.com/texts/231.md)x3, [474](https://guptaoption.com/texts/474.md)x1
- **network states**: 18 uses in 7 sources, earliest dated 2024 in [564]. [231](https://guptaoption.com/texts/231.md)x8, [230](https://guptaoption.com/texts/230.md)x4, [564](https://guptaoption.com/texts/564.md)x2, [449]x1, [474]x1, [508]x1, [549]x1
- **Networked Domestic Disaster Response**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36]. [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md)x1, [101](https://guptaoption.com/texts/101.md)x1, [833](https://guptaoption.com/texts/833.md)x1
- **New York Convention**: 22 uses in 13 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [744]. [160](https://guptaoption.com/texts/160.md)x6, [556](https://guptaoption.com/texts/556.md)x3, [602](https://guptaoption.com/texts/602.md)x2, [730]x2, [165]x1, [251]x1, [478]x1, [505]x1, [555]x1, [572]x1, [673]x1, [744]x1, [846]x1
- **next four billion**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [128]. [128](https://guptaoption.com/texts/128.md)x1, [838](https://guptaoption.com/texts/838.md)x1
- **NFT**: 347 uses in 45 sources, earliest dated 2019 in [758]. [571](https://guptaoption.com/texts/571.md)x46, [594](https://guptaoption.com/texts/594.md)x31, [717](https://guptaoption.com/texts/717.md)x30, [730]x27, [568]x23, [762]x22, [738]x18, [559]x17, [735]x15, [567]x14, [678]x14, [556]x10, [565]x7, [758]x6, [555]x5, ...
- **no manufacturing step**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2026 in [846] (1 undated). [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x1, [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x1
- **non-state structures**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2013 in [317]. [80](https://guptaoption.com/texts/80.md)x1, [317](https://guptaoption.com/texts/317.md)x1
- **North Korea**: 7 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [12]. [776](https://guptaoption.com/texts/776.md)x2, [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md)x1, [50](https://guptaoption.com/texts/50.md)x1, [311]x1, [536]x1, [775]x1
- **nuclear evacuation**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2016 in [776] (1 undated). [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md)x1, [776](https://guptaoption.com/texts/776.md)x1
- **Occupy**: 60 uses in 20 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [102] (1 undated). [202](https://guptaoption.com/texts/202.md)x20, [75](https://guptaoption.com/texts/75.md)x10, [8](https://guptaoption.com/texts/8.md)x7, [323]x3, [759]x3, [568]x2, [724]x2, [93]x1, [102]x1, [143]x1, [159]x1, [172]x1, [174]x1, [208]x1, [322]x1, ...
- **OHM2013**: 10 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36] (2 undated). [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x5, [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md)x2, [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md)x1, [169]x1, [840]x1
- **Oil Endgame**: 10 uses in 9 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [128] (2 undated). [1](https://guptaoption.com/texts/1.md)x2, [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md)x1, [52](https://guptaoption.com/texts/52.md)x1, [114]x1, [116]x1, [128]x1, [229]x1, [838]x1, [840]x1
- **one computer per planet**: 8 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2016 in [863]. [734](https://guptaoption.com/texts/734.md)x3, [863](https://guptaoption.com/texts/863.md)x3, [706](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md)x1, [864]x1


# Vinay Gupta: his distinctive terms, a concordance (part 3 of 4, O to T)

> His 632 most distinctive terms, alphabetically: how often each is used, in how many sources, the earliest dated source that uses it, and the sources that use it most ([id]x uses). Counted in his own passages only. Part 3 of 4, O to T; continues in https://guptaoption.com/texts/terms-4.md. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt; source ids such as [250] are at https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md.

- **OODA**: 115 uses in 16 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [55] (7 undated). [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md)x34, [177](https://guptaoption.com/texts/177.md)x27, [176](https://guptaoption.com/texts/176.md)x12, [175]x11, [179]x6, [180]x6, [21]x5, [143]x3, [89]x2, [99]x2, [181]x2, [55]x1, [57]x1, [242]x1, [681]x1, ...
- **OODA loop**: 36 uses in 9 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [55] (3 undated). [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md)x21, [21](https://guptaoption.com/texts/21.md)x4, [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x3, [179]x3, [55]x1, [57]x1, [89]x1, [99]x1, [175]x1
- **open data**: 12 uses in 9 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [396]. [257](https://guptaoption.com/texts/257.md)x4, [163](https://guptaoption.com/texts/163.md)x1, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x1, [396]x1, [558]x1, [707]x1, [709]x1, [755]x1, [800]x1
- **open hardware**: 18 uses in 15 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [10] (1 undated). [169](https://guptaoption.com/texts/169.md)x2, [245](https://guptaoption.com/texts/245.md)x2, [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x2, [10]x1, [51]x1, [61]x1, [80]x1, [116]x1, [145]x1, [172]x1, [238]x1, [242]x1, [317]x1, [707]x1, [838]x1
- **Open Source Ecology**: 10 uses in 7 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36]. [322](https://guptaoption.com/texts/322.md)x4, [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md)x1, [62](https://guptaoption.com/texts/62.md)x1, [144]x1, [226]x1, [229]x1, [305]x1
- **open source hardware**: 4 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [62]. [61](https://guptaoption.com/texts/61.md)x1, [62](https://guptaoption.com/texts/62.md)x1, [226](https://guptaoption.com/texts/226.md)x1, [727]x1
- **Open Toolbox**: 11 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [100]. [69](https://guptaoption.com/texts/69.md)x2, [100](https://guptaoption.com/texts/100.md)x2, [104](https://guptaoption.com/texts/104.md)x2, [98]x1, [101]x1, [102]x1, [103]x1, [105]x1
- **open-source housing**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2013 in [753]. [753](https://guptaoption.com/texts/753.md)x1, [754](https://guptaoption.com/texts/754.md)x1
- **OpenExO**: 8 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2026 in [220] (2 undated). [220](https://guptaoption.com/texts/220.md)x5, [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x2, [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md)x1
- **oracles**: 19 uses in 10 sources, earliest dated 2016 in [242]. [279](https://guptaoption.com/texts/279.md)x5, [594](https://guptaoption.com/texts/594.md)x4, [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md)x2, [242]x2, [263]x1, [265]x1, [271]x1, [557]x1, [563]x1, [783]x1
- **Pakistan**: 35 uses in 18 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [76] (1 undated). [704](https://guptaoption.com/texts/704.md)x6, [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md)x5, [76](https://guptaoption.com/texts/76.md)x4, [52]x3, [311]x2, [775]x2, [776]x2, [267]x1, [270]x1, [310]x1, [331]x1, [335]x1, [365]x1, [384]x1, [400]x1, ...
- **pandemic flu**: 60 uses in 32 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36] (1 undated). [32](https://guptaoption.com/texts/32.md)x5, [372](https://guptaoption.com/texts/372.md)x5, [8](https://guptaoption.com/texts/8.md)x4, [681]x4, [689]x4, [128]x3, [235]x3, [250]x2, [320]x2, [335]x2, [696]x2, [760]x2, [841]x2, [846]x2, [5]x1, ...
- **panflu**: 21 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [32] (2 undated). [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x6, [177](https://guptaoption.com/texts/177.md)x4, [833](https://guptaoption.com/texts/833.md)x3, [32]x2, [106]x2, [174]x2, [107]x1, [841]x1
- **peer-to-peer**: 47 uses in 28 sources, earliest dated 2013 in [143]. [265](https://guptaoption.com/texts/265.md)x5, [280](https://guptaoption.com/texts/280.md)x3, [670](https://guptaoption.com/texts/670.md)x3, [678]x3, [917]x3, [160]x2, [282]x2, [505]x2, [620]x2, [719]x2, [731]x2, [747]x2, [143]x1, [520]x1, [571]x1, ...
- **peer-to-peer trade**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2022 in [678]. [670](https://guptaoption.com/texts/670.md)x1, [678](https://guptaoption.com/texts/678.md)x1
- **Pentagon**: 59 uses in 39 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36]. [48](https://guptaoption.com/texts/48.md)x4, [677](https://guptaoption.com/texts/677.md)x3, [773](https://guptaoption.com/texts/773.md)x3, [12]x2, [100]x2, [102]x2, [114]x2, [128]x2, [143]x2, [242]x2, [321]x2, [692]x2, [758]x2, [770]x2, [776]x2, ...
- **permanent displacement**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x1, [694](https://guptaoption.com/texts/694.md)x1
- **Peter Ho**: 36 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [171]. [159](https://guptaoption.com/texts/159.md)x27, [171](https://guptaoption.com/texts/171.md)x4, [157](https://guptaoption.com/texts/157.md)x2, [207]x1, [208]x1, [846]x1
- **PGP**: 35 uses in 16 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [21]. [719](https://guptaoption.com/texts/719.md)x6, [275](https://guptaoption.com/texts/275.md)x4, [215](https://guptaoption.com/texts/215.md)x3, [505]x3, [564]x3, [769]x3, [172]x2, [679]x2, [758]x2, [21]x1, [81]x1, [86]x1, [565]x1, [635]x1, [682]x1, ...
- **physical asset NFT**: 7 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2022 in [594]. [568](https://guptaoption.com/texts/568.md)x3, [571](https://guptaoption.com/texts/571.md)x2, [567](https://guptaoption.com/texts/567.md)x1, [594]x1
- **physical asset NFTs**: 5 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2022 in [594]. [594](https://guptaoption.com/texts/594.md)x3, [571](https://guptaoption.com/texts/571.md)x2
- **Plan B**: 12 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [55]. [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md)x3, [55](https://guptaoption.com/texts/55.md)x2, [128](https://guptaoption.com/texts/128.md)x2, [157]x1, [159]x1, [321]x1, [693]x1, [724]x1
- **platforms**: 146 uses in 76 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [48]. [7](https://guptaoption.com/texts/7.md)x7, [402](https://guptaoption.com/texts/402.md)x7, [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x6, [265]x6, [277]x6, [21]x4, [254]x4, [365]x4, [568]x4, [165]x3, [172]x3, [296]x3, [594]x3, [679]x3, [691]x3, ...
- **Plausible Utopias**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [79]. [840](https://guptaoption.com/texts/840.md)x2, [79](https://guptaoption.com/texts/79.md)x1
- **plywood hexayurt**: 12 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36]. [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md)x4, [100](https://guptaoption.com/texts/100.md)x2, [104](https://guptaoption.com/texts/104.md)x2, [842]x2, [76]x1, [102]x1
- **Pocket devices**: 17 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2013 in [18]. [18](https://guptaoption.com/texts/18.md)x16, [840](https://guptaoption.com/texts/840.md)x1
- **political change**: 34 uses in 25 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [108]. [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x5, [301](https://guptaoption.com/texts/301.md)x3, [706](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md)x2, [767]x2, [864]x2, [108]x1, [164]x1, [229]x1, [230]x1, [242]x1, [255]x1, [284]x1, [307]x1, [308]x1, [311]x1, ...
- **political legitimacy**: 10 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [394]. [296](https://guptaoption.com/texts/296.md)x3, [298](https://guptaoption.com/texts/298.md)x3, [394](https://guptaoption.com/texts/394.md)x1, [684]x1, [686]x1, [695]x1
- **political will**: 32 uses in 17 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [48]. [769](https://guptaoption.com/texts/769.md)x10, [284](https://guptaoption.com/texts/284.md)x3, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x2, [243]x2, [391]x2, [791]x2, [47]x1, [48]x1, [51]x1, [255]x1, [404]x1, [706]x1, [752]x1, [768]x1, [773]x1, ...
- **polyiso**: 15 uses in 9 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36] (1 undated). [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md)x5, [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x2, [193](https://guptaoption.com/texts/193.md)x2, [7]x1, [14]x1, [277]x1, [320]x1, [694]x1, [724]x1
- **Pop-up**: 9 uses in 7 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36] (1 undated). [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md)x2, [842](https://guptaoption.com/texts/842.md)x2, [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x1, [333]x1, [571]x1, [719]x1, [846]x1
- **Possible Worlds**: 9 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [769]. [844](https://guptaoption.com/texts/844.md)x7, [769](https://guptaoption.com/texts/769.md)x1, [843](https://guptaoption.com/texts/843.md)x1
- **post-state**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [115](https://guptaoption.com/texts/115.md)x1, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x1, [775](https://guptaoption.com/texts/775.md)x1
- **prejudice as a service**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2022 in [678]. [674](https://guptaoption.com/texts/674.md)x1, [678](https://guptaoption.com/texts/678.md)x1
- **Private Humanitarian Company**: 4 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [827]. [827](https://guptaoption.com/texts/827.md)x3, [838](https://guptaoption.com/texts/838.md)x1
- **product information**: 33 uses in 11 sources, earliest dated 2019 in [165] (2 undated). [793](https://guptaoption.com/texts/793.md)x8, [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md)x6, [723](https://guptaoption.com/texts/723.md)x4, [5]x3, [165]x3, [840]x3, [507]x2, [4]x1, [490]x1, [594]x1, [733]x1
- **product information market**: 10 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2020 in [236]. [793](https://guptaoption.com/texts/793.md)x4, [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md)x3, [723](https://guptaoption.com/texts/723.md)x2, [490]x1
- **product information markets**: 13 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2019 in [165] (2 undated). [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md)x3, [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md)x2, [507](https://guptaoption.com/texts/507.md)x2, [840]x2, [4]x1, [165]x1, [594]x1, [723]x1
- **Programmable Blockchains in Context**: 7 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2016 in [242]. [722](https://guptaoption.com/texts/722.md)x2, [45](https://guptaoption.com/texts/45.md)x1, [211](https://guptaoption.com/texts/211.md)x1, [242]x1, [839]x1, [846]x1
- **programmer capitalism**: 10 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [694](https://guptaoption.com/texts/694.md)x6, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x4
- **Progressive Building Solutions**: 5 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [833] (1 undated). [339](https://guptaoption.com/texts/339.md)x2, [17](https://guptaoption.com/texts/17.md)x1, [150](https://guptaoption.com/texts/150.md)x1, [833]x1
- **proof of stake**: 39 uses in 17 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [679](https://guptaoption.com/texts/679.md)x13, [113](https://guptaoption.com/texts/113.md)x5, [295](https://guptaoption.com/texts/295.md)x4, [565]x3, [762]x2, [172]x1, [263]x1, [266]x1, [280]x1, [301]x1, [436]x1, [505]x1, [551]x1, [594]x1, [768]x1, ...
- **proof of work**: 29 uses in 10 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [295](https://guptaoption.com/texts/295.md)x7, [113](https://guptaoption.com/texts/113.md)x5, [768](https://guptaoption.com/texts/768.md)x4, [172]x3, [679]x3, [769]x3, [301]x1, [719]x1, [762]x1, [791]x1
- **property register**: 16 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2018 in [721]. [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md)x5, [598](https://guptaoption.com/texts/598.md)x5, [116](https://guptaoption.com/texts/116.md)x2, [206]x2, [539]x1, [721]x1
- **Quaddome**: 25 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [102] (1 undated). [105](https://guptaoption.com/texts/105.md)x9, [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x8, [842](https://guptaoption.com/texts/842.md)x3, [4]x1, [102]x1, [104]x1, [236]x1, [725]x1
- **R-Max**: 5 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [102]. [193](https://guptaoption.com/texts/193.md)x4, [102](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md)x1
- **radical transparency**: 4 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2018 in [706]. [559](https://guptaoption.com/texts/559.md)x1, [678](https://guptaoption.com/texts/678.md)x1, [706](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md)x1, [864]x1
- **Reagan**: 5 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2016 in [694]. [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md)x1, [527](https://guptaoption.com/texts/527.md)x1, [618](https://guptaoption.com/texts/618.md)x1, [694]x1, [722]x1
- **real assets**: 9 uses in 7 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [148]. [148](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md)x2, [554](https://guptaoption.com/texts/554.md)x2, [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md)x1, [514]x1, [633]x1, [714]x1, [767]x1
- **real estate**: 637 uses in 106 sources, earliest dated 2013 in [18] (2 undated). [557](https://guptaoption.com/texts/557.md)x67, [594](https://guptaoption.com/texts/594.md)x56, [568](https://guptaoption.com/texts/568.md)x41, [555]x33, [167]x31, [565]x29, [735]x25, [554]x24, [559]x24, [722]x20, [556]x16, [571]x15, [563]x12, [678]x11, [768]x11, ...
- **real world asset NFTs**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2019 in [43]. [43](https://guptaoption.com/texts/43.md)x1, [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md)x1, [723](https://guptaoption.com/texts/723.md)x1
- **real world assets**: 79 uses in 24 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [42]. [594](https://guptaoption.com/texts/594.md)x15, [559](https://guptaoption.com/texts/559.md)x8, [557](https://guptaoption.com/texts/557.md)x7, [44]x6, [565]x6, [567]x6, [568]x5, [45]x3, [555]x3, [236]x2, [486]x2, [554]x2, [563]x2, [722]x2, [42]x1, ...
- **real-world assets**: 4 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2013 in [143]. [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x1, [230](https://guptaoption.com/texts/230.md)x1, [414](https://guptaoption.com/texts/414.md)x1, [598]x1
- **realpolitik**: 50 uses in 11 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31] (2 undated). [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x20, [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md)x8, [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x7, [143]x5, [845]x3, [5]x2, [31]x1, [692]x1, [840]x1, [841]x1, [842]x1
- **recycling**: 31 uses in 14 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [333]. [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md)x9, [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md)x5, [714](https://guptaoption.com/texts/714.md)x3, [239]x2, [676]x2, [723]x2, [7]x1, [277]x1, [333]x1, [384]x1, [572]x1, [583]x1, [677]x1, [793]x1
- **Red Cross**: 61 uses in 36 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36]. [692](https://guptaoption.com/texts/692.md)x8, [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md)x7, [505](https://guptaoption.com/texts/505.md)x4, [101]x3, [230]x3, [335]x3, [724]x3, [36]x2, [12]x1, [15]x1, [33]x1, [76]x1, [100]x1, [102]x1, [172]x1, ...
- **refugee camp**: 83 uses in 36 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [20]. [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md)x10, [727](https://guptaoption.com/texts/727.md)x8, [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x8, [270]x4, [338]x4, [740]x4, [148]x3, [335]x3, [689]x3, [724]x3, [172]x2, [267]x2, [283]x2, [319]x2, [323]x2, ...
- **refugee camps**: 83 uses in 37 sources, earliest dated 2007 in [137] (1 undated). [727](https://guptaoption.com/texts/727.md)x6, [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md)x6, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x5, [229]x5, [270]x5, [689]x5, [724]x5, [846]x5, [174]x3, [137]x2, [148]x2, [206]x2, [283]x2, [322]x2, [323]x2, ...
- **refugee housing**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31]. [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md)x1, [299](https://guptaoption.com/texts/299.md)x1
- **refugee shelter**: 36 uses in 30 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [100]. [251](https://guptaoption.com/texts/251.md)x3, [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md)x2, [253](https://guptaoption.com/texts/253.md)x2, [339]x2, [846]x2, [100]x1, [128]x1, [211]x1, [229]x1, [239]x1, [245]x1, [257]x1, [270]x1, [315]x1, [384]x1, ...
- **refugees**: 286 uses in 84 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [170] (3 undated). [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md)x22, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x15, [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md)x13, [338]x13, [740]x12, [727]x10, [724]x8, [15]x7, [101]x7, [148]x7, [229]x7, [331]x7, [689]x7, [20]x5, [47]x5, ...
- **regulatory capture**: 4 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [107]. [494](https://guptaoption.com/texts/494.md)x2, [107](https://guptaoption.com/texts/107.md)x1, [711](https://guptaoption.com/texts/711.md)x1
- **relief tents**: 15 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [38] (1 undated). [14](https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md)x3, [38](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md)x3, [845](https://guptaoption.com/texts/845.md)x3, [842]x2, [145]x1, [229]x1, [270]x1, [846]x1
- **repudiable payments**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [301]. [301](https://guptaoption.com/texts/301.md)x1, [733](https://guptaoption.com/texts/733.md)x1
- **reputation systems**: 9 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [917]. [917](https://guptaoption.com/texts/917.md)x3, [558](https://guptaoption.com/texts/558.md)x2, [749](https://guptaoption.com/texts/749.md)x2, [674]x1, [678]x1
- **Resilience Dividend**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2007 in [182]. [182](https://guptaoption.com/texts/182.md)x1, [208](https://guptaoption.com/texts/208.md)x1
- **resource control**: 26 uses in 11 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [250] (3 undated). [1](https://guptaoption.com/texts/1.md)x5, [321](https://guptaoption.com/texts/321.md)x4, [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md)x3, [283]x3, [172]x2, [175]x2, [322]x2, [841]x2, [250]x1, [315]x1, [752]x1
- **Reykjavik**: 18 uses in 10 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [58] (2 undated). [89](https://guptaoption.com/texts/89.md)x3, [99](https://guptaoption.com/texts/99.md)x3, [824](https://guptaoption.com/texts/824.md)x3, [150]x2, [844]x2, [12]x1, [58]x1, [145]x1, [333]x1, [838]x1
- **Ricardian contract**: 31 uses in 11 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [657]. [505](https://guptaoption.com/texts/505.md)x8, [735](https://guptaoption.com/texts/735.md)x6, [633](https://guptaoption.com/texts/633.md)x4, [716]x4, [730]x3, [478]x1, [557]x1, [594]x1, [657]x1, [692]x1, [767]x1
- **rich data**: 12 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [689] (1 undated). [840](https://guptaoption.com/texts/840.md)x3, [838](https://guptaoption.com/texts/838.md)x2, [839](https://guptaoption.com/texts/839.md)x2, [5]x1, [116]x1, [689]x1, [690]x1, [842]x1
- **rich data capitalism**: 9 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2026 in [838] (1 undated). [840](https://guptaoption.com/texts/840.md)x3, [838](https://guptaoption.com/texts/838.md)x2, [839](https://guptaoption.com/texts/839.md)x2, [5]x1, [842]x1
- **right to know**: 10 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [396]. [239](https://guptaoption.com/texts/239.md)x3, [255](https://guptaoption.com/texts/255.md)x3, [793](https://guptaoption.com/texts/793.md)x3, [396]x1
- **risk pools**: 11 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2016 in [242] (2 undated). [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x3, [735](https://guptaoption.com/texts/735.md)x3, [242](https://guptaoption.com/texts/242.md)x2, [5]x1, [555]x1, [563]x1
- **Rocky Mountain Institute**: 45 uses in 30 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [100]. [838](https://guptaoption.com/texts/838.md)x5, [572](https://guptaoption.com/texts/572.md)x4, [128](https://guptaoption.com/texts/128.md)x3, [201]x3, [31]x2, [331]x2, [689]x2, [793]x2, [12]x1, [100]x1, [114]x1, [116]x1, [137]x1, [165]x1, [172]x1, ...
- **rule of law**: 29 uses in 21 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31] (2 undated). [2](https://guptaoption.com/texts/2.md)x3, [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md)x3, [1](https://guptaoption.com/texts/1.md)x2, [52]x2, [194]x2, [396]x2, [25]x1, [86]x1, [143]x1, [159]x1, [279]x1, [321]x1, [399]x1, [400]x1, [490]x1, ...
- **RWA**: 68 uses in 20 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [42]. [555](https://guptaoption.com/texts/555.md)x14, [554](https://guptaoption.com/texts/554.md)x12, [45](https://guptaoption.com/texts/45.md)x8, [42]x5, [502]x5, [722]x3, [44]x2, [417]x2, [510]x2, [547]x2, [550]x2, [552]x2, [563]x2, [410]x1, [459]x1, ...
- **Saving the World on the Cheap**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2007 in [29]. [838](https://guptaoption.com/texts/838.md)x2, [29](https://guptaoption.com/texts/29.md)x1
- **scams**: 23 uses in 12 sources, earliest dated 2016 in [293]. [761](https://guptaoption.com/texts/761.md)x7, [45](https://guptaoption.com/texts/45.md)x4, [471](https://guptaoption.com/texts/471.md)x2, [735]x2, [215]x1, [230]x1, [265]x1, [293]x1, [553]x1, [554]x1, [564]x1, [692]x1
- **scenario planning**: 31 uses in 10 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [115]. [159](https://guptaoption.com/texts/159.md)x16, [157](https://guptaoption.com/texts/157.md)x6, [633](https://guptaoption.com/texts/633.md)x2, [115]x1, [171]x1, [235]x1, [252]x1, [760]x1, [773]x1, [777]x1
- **scheduling**: 13 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [338] (1 undated). [770](https://guptaoption.com/texts/770.md)x3, [800](https://guptaoption.com/texts/800.md)x3, [18](https://guptaoption.com/texts/18.md)x2, [85]x1, [165]x1, [172]x1, [174]x1, [338]x1
- **schemas**: 8 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [379]. [379](https://guptaoption.com/texts/379.md)x7, [690](https://guptaoption.com/texts/690.md)x1
- **science fiction**: 89 uses in 37 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [11]. [704](https://guptaoption.com/texts/704.md)x12, [562](https://guptaoption.com/texts/562.md)x8, [235](https://guptaoption.com/texts/235.md)x6, [760]x6, [706]x5, [864]x5, [702]x4, [143]x3, [683]x3, [693]x3, [11]x2, [51]x2, [265]x2, [612]x2, [678]x2, ...
- **SCIM**: 230 uses in 19 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [831] (9 undated). [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md)x64, [177](https://guptaoption.com/texts/177.md)x55, [1](https://guptaoption.com/texts/1.md)x32, [176]x17, [175]x15, [841]x14, [846]x8, [179]x5, [180]x5, [99]x3, [181]x3, [89]x2, [12]x1, [178]x1, [236]x1, ...
- **Scotland**: 46 uses in 29 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [128]. [505](https://guptaoption.com/texts/505.md)x5, [215](https://guptaoption.com/texts/215.md)x3, [394](https://guptaoption.com/texts/394.md)x3, [128]x2, [307]x2, [308]x2, [689]x2, [704]x2, [706]x2, [744]x2, [851]x2, [864]x2, [172]x1, [239]x1, [292]x1, ...
- **SEC**: 50 uses in 28 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [12]. [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x5, [553](https://guptaoption.com/texts/553.md)x4, [730](https://guptaoption.com/texts/730.md)x4, [471]x3, [505]x3, [761]x3, [12]x2, [421]x2, [557]x2, [568]x2, [631]x2, [692]x2, [118]x1, [251]x1, [279]x1, ...
- **second hand**: 26 uses in 12 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [11]. [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md)x10, [714](https://guptaoption.com/texts/714.md)x3, [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md)x2, [572]x2, [840]x2, [11]x1, [254]x1, [308]x1, [683]x1, [773]x1, [793]x1, [845]x1
- **second-hand**: 42 uses in 15 sources, earliest dated 2019 in [165]. [702](https://guptaoption.com/texts/702.md)x6, [793](https://guptaoption.com/texts/793.md)x6, [680](https://guptaoption.com/texts/680.md)x4, [714]x4, [758]x3, [840]x3, [846]x3, [165]x2, [206]x2, [572]x2, [672]x2, [791]x2, [567]x1, [580]x1, [777]x1
- **secret sharing**: 7 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [82]. [82](https://guptaoption.com/texts/82.md)x5, [86](https://guptaoption.com/texts/86.md)x2
- **Secure Scuttlebutt**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2016 in [273]. [275](https://guptaoption.com/texts/275.md)x2, [273](https://guptaoption.com/texts/273.md)x1
- **Security + Privacy = Liberty**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31]. [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md)x1, [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x1
- **self-custody**: 12 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2022 in [568]. [412](https://guptaoption.com/texts/412.md)x9, [44](https://guptaoption.com/texts/44.md)x1, [424](https://guptaoption.com/texts/424.md)x1, [568]x1
- **self-reliance**: 10 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [108]. [47](https://guptaoption.com/texts/47.md)x2, [83](https://guptaoption.com/texts/83.md)x2, [13](https://guptaoption.com/texts/13.md)x1, [56]x1, [98]x1, [108]x1, [238]x1, [838]x1
- **self-sovereign identity**: 6 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2018 in [706]. [706](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md)x2, [835](https://guptaoption.com/texts/835.md)x2, [678](https://guptaoption.com/texts/678.md)x1, [791]x1
- **semantic web**: 23 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [791](https://guptaoption.com/texts/791.md)x7, [678](https://guptaoption.com/texts/678.md)x6, [669](https://guptaoption.com/texts/669.md)x4, [551]x2, [164]x1, [172]x1, [236]x1, [732]x1
- **semi-folding hexayurt**: 8 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [102]. [102](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md)x5, [98](https://guptaoption.com/texts/98.md)x3
- **Settlements Charrette**: 13 uses in 11 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [170]. [137](https://guptaoption.com/texts/137.md)x2, [170](https://guptaoption.com/texts/170.md)x2, [14](https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md)x1, [31]x1, [102]x1, [114]x1, [128]x1, [236]x1, [267]x1, [833]x1, [838]x1
- **Severe Panflu Response Strategies**: 9 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [32]. [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x6, [32](https://guptaoption.com/texts/32.md)x1, [833](https://guptaoption.com/texts/833.md)x1, [841]x1
- **shared database**: 10 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [379]. [917](https://guptaoption.com/texts/917.md)x5, [295](https://guptaoption.com/texts/295.md)x1, [379](https://guptaoption.com/texts/379.md)x1, [562]x1, [688]x1, [774]x1
- **shared ledger**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2026 in [840] (1 undated). [840](https://guptaoption.com/texts/840.md)x2, [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x1
- **shared map**: 23 uses in 9 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [250] (4 undated). [1](https://guptaoption.com/texts/1.md)x6, [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md)x3, [681](https://guptaoption.com/texts/681.md)x3, [841]x3, [175]x2, [179]x2, [236]x2, [250]x1, [321]x1
- **shared plan**: 18 uses in 9 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [250] (4 undated). [1](https://guptaoption.com/texts/1.md)x6, [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md)x2, [175](https://guptaoption.com/texts/175.md)x2, [321]x2, [681]x2, [179]x1, [250]x1, [752]x1, [841]x1
- **shared succession**: 15 uses in 7 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [321] (3 undated). [1](https://guptaoption.com/texts/1.md)x5, [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md)x4, [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md)x2, [179]x1, [321]x1, [322]x1, [841]x1
- **Shatner**: 85 uses in 35 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172] (1 undated). [758](https://guptaoption.com/texts/758.md)x9, [43](https://guptaoption.com/texts/43.md)x8, [206](https://guptaoption.com/texts/206.md)x8, [197]x6, [733]x6, [683]x3, [852]x3, [862]x3, [256]x2, [471]x2, [565]x2, [678]x2, [702]x2, [730]x2, [747]x2, ...
- **Sheds to sustainability**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [79]. [169](https://guptaoption.com/texts/169.md)x2, [79](https://guptaoption.com/texts/79.md)x1
- **Shelter for 300 million**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2026 in [842]. [842](https://guptaoption.com/texts/842.md)x1, [843](https://guptaoption.com/texts/843.md)x1, [844](https://guptaoption.com/texts/844.md)x1
- **ShelterBox**: 9 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2007 in [137]. [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md)x8, [137](https://guptaoption.com/texts/137.md)x1
- **ShiftPod**: 13 uses in 10 sources, earliest dated 2019 in [752] (2 undated). [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x3, [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md)x2, [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md)x1, [245]x1, [251]x1, [572]x1, [714]x1, [727]x1, [770]x1, [842]x1
- **SIAB**: 29 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31]. [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md)x25, [34](https://guptaoption.com/texts/34.md)x4
- **Silicon Valley**: 74 uses in 37 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172] (1 undated). [7](https://guptaoption.com/texts/7.md)x5, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x4, [265](https://guptaoption.com/texts/265.md)x4, [559]x4, [694]x4, [699]x4, [171]x3, [253]x3, [277]x3, [707]x3, [116]x2, [183]x2, [231]x2, [242]x2, [243]x2, ...
- **SIM cards**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [266]. [565](https://guptaoption.com/texts/565.md)x2, [266](https://guptaoption.com/texts/266.md)x1
- **Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps**: 62 uses in 38 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [32] (7 undated). [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md)x9, [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x5, [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md)x4, [1]x3, [21]x3, [4]x2, [179]x2, [681]x2, [727]x2, [841]x2, [5]x1, [8]x1, [12]x1, [18]x1, [32]x1, ...
- **Singapore**: 203 uses in 39 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [12]. [171](https://guptaoption.com/texts/171.md)x54, [208](https://guptaoption.com/texts/208.md)x37, [159](https://guptaoption.com/texts/159.md)x32, [157]x18, [276]x5, [693]x4, [717]x4, [12]x3, [172]x3, [331]x3, [676]x3, [231]x2, [242]x2, [251]x2, [565]x2, ...
- **SIP**: 4 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2016 in [282]. [282](https://guptaoption.com/texts/282.md)x1, [635](https://guptaoption.com/texts/635.md)x1, [705](https://guptaoption.com/texts/705.md)x1, [722]x1
- **Six ways**: 78 uses in 30 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [832] (5 undated). [841](https://guptaoption.com/texts/841.md)x10, [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x7, [320](https://guptaoption.com/texts/320.md)x6, [38]x5, [128]x5, [12]x4, [270]x4, [321]x3, [335]x3, [842]x3, [1]x2, [4]x2, [5]x2, [95]x2, [150]x2, ...
- **six ways people die**: 16 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [12] (2 undated). [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x7, [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md)x2, [841](https://guptaoption.com/texts/841.md)x2, [4]x1, [5]x1, [38]x1, [321]x1, [842]x1
- **Six Ways To Die**: 45 uses in 24 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [832] (3 undated). [128](https://guptaoption.com/texts/128.md)x5, [38](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md)x4, [320](https://guptaoption.com/texts/320.md)x4, [270]x3, [1]x2, [12]x2, [95]x2, [150]x2, [187]x2, [335]x2, [833]x2, [841]x2, [847]x2, [17]x1, [84]x1, ...
- **SketchUp**: 5 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36]. [102](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md)x2, [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md)x1, [114](https://guptaoption.com/texts/114.md)x1, [825]x1
- **skills**: 128 uses in 67 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36] (5 undated). [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x8, [7](https://guptaoption.com/texts/7.md)x7, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x6, [174]x6, [270]x6, [277]x6, [12]x5, [305]x4, [384]x4, [756]x4, [102]x3, [38]x2, [145]x2, [148]x2, [167]x2, ...
- **skin in the game**: 16 uses in 10 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [159]. [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md)x3, [635](https://guptaoption.com/texts/635.md)x3, [157](https://guptaoption.com/texts/157.md)x2, [167]x2, [159]x1, [265]x1, [733]x1, [741]x1, [780]x1, [917]x1
- **SleepBreeze**: 15 uses in 10 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [100]. [100](https://guptaoption.com/texts/100.md)x4, [17](https://guptaoption.com/texts/17.md)x2, [331](https://guptaoption.com/texts/331.md)x2, [98]x1, [101]x1, [102]x1, [103]x1, [104]x1, [137]x1, [321]x1
- **Small Is Profitable**: 21 uses in 16 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31] (2 undated). [144](https://guptaoption.com/texts/144.md)x2, [211](https://guptaoption.com/texts/211.md)x2, [266](https://guptaoption.com/texts/266.md)x2, [838]x2, [846]x2, [1]x1, [3]x1, [5]x1, [31]x1, [52]x1, [79]x1, [114]x1, [128]x1, [229]x1, [263]x1, ...
- **smart contracts**: 354 uses in 110 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172] (2 undated). [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x31, [242](https://guptaoption.com/texts/242.md)x21, [768](https://guptaoption.com/texts/768.md)x13, [568]x11, [694]x11, [160]x10, [165]x10, [716]x9, [164]x8, [211]x8, [769]x8, [633]x7, [657]x7, [706]x7, [730]x7, ...
- **smart grid**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x2, [690](https://guptaoption.com/texts/690.md)x1
- **smart property**: 27 uses in 10 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [716](https://guptaoption.com/texts/716.md)x6, [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md)x5, [598](https://guptaoption.com/texts/598.md)x4, [116]x3, [301]x3, [206]x2, [172]x1, [242]x1, [258]x1, [721]x1
- **Smart Property Register**: 14 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2018 in [721]. [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md)x5, [598](https://guptaoption.com/texts/598.md)x4, [116](https://guptaoption.com/texts/116.md)x2, [206]x2, [721]x1
- **social enterprise**: 57 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [24]. [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md)x31, [24](https://guptaoption.com/texts/24.md)x17, [676](https://guptaoption.com/texts/676.md)x3, [838]x3, [93]x2, [384]x1
- **social order**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [148]. [8](https://guptaoption.com/texts/8.md)x1, [148](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md)x1, [279](https://guptaoption.com/texts/279.md)x1
- **social stability**: 5 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2020 in [770]. [431](https://guptaoption.com/texts/431.md)x2, [727](https://guptaoption.com/texts/727.md)x1, [770](https://guptaoption.com/texts/770.md)x1, [800]x1
- **SODIS**: 10 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [57] (2 undated). [57](https://guptaoption.com/texts/57.md)x5, [1](https://guptaoption.com/texts/1.md)x1, [69](https://guptaoption.com/texts/69.md)x1, [145]x1, [238]x1, [270]x1
- **Soft Development Paths**: 4 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [33]. [838](https://guptaoption.com/texts/838.md)x2, [33](https://guptaoption.com/texts/33.md)x1, [56](https://guptaoption.com/texts/56.md)x1
- **solar cooking**: 9 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [833]. [17](https://guptaoption.com/texts/17.md)x2, [3](https://guptaoption.com/texts/3.md)x1, [57](https://guptaoption.com/texts/57.md)x1, [238]x1, [331]x1, [335]x1, [341]x1, [833]x1
- **solar light**: 7 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2013 in [754] (1 undated). [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x2, [842](https://guptaoption.com/texts/842.md)x2, [310](https://guptaoption.com/texts/310.md)x1, [316]x1, [754]x1
- **solar lights**: 16 uses in 12 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [364] (1 undated). [116](https://guptaoption.com/texts/116.md)x3, [706](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md)x2, [747](https://guptaoption.com/texts/747.md)x2, [5]x1, [283]x1, [364]x1, [454]x1, [724]x1, [752]x1, [775]x1, [840]x1, [846]x1
- **Sovrin**: 5 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2019 in [752]. [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md)x3, [206](https://guptaoption.com/texts/206.md)x1, [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md)x1
- **space industry**: 21 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2016 in [7]. [41](https://guptaoption.com/texts/41.md)x6, [556](https://guptaoption.com/texts/556.md)x6, [612](https://guptaoption.com/texts/612.md)x4, [7]x2, [618]x2, [277]x1
- **space law**: 4 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2018 in [41]. [41](https://guptaoption.com/texts/41.md)x3, [612](https://guptaoption.com/texts/612.md)x1
- **Spanish**: 36 uses in 28 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [100] (3 undated). [175](https://guptaoption.com/texts/175.md)x4, [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x2, [173](https://guptaoption.com/texts/173.md)x2, [178]x2, [320]x2, [321]x2, [8]x1, [38]x1, [98]x1, [100]x1, [106]x1, [148]x1, [164]x1, [174]x1, [315]x1, ...
- **special economic zone**: 5 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2018 in [732]. [747](https://guptaoption.com/texts/747.md)x2, [557](https://guptaoption.com/texts/557.md)x1, [732](https://guptaoption.com/texts/732.md)x1, [758]x1
- **speed of light**: 69 uses in 20 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [566](https://guptaoption.com/texts/566.md)x11, [680](https://guptaoption.com/texts/680.md)x8, [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md)x7, [706]x6, [864]x5, [917]x5, [172]x4, [280]x4, [716]x4, [774]x4, [758]x2, [42]x1, [237]x1, [282]x1, [434]x1, ...
- **Sphere standards**: 7 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [12]. [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md)x2, [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md)x2, [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md)x1, [16]x1, [247]x1
- **Spiral**: 56 uses in 17 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [335]. [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x23, [840](https://guptaoption.com/texts/840.md)x8, [845](https://guptaoption.com/texts/845.md)x6, [702]x3, [335]x2, [571]x2, [793]x2, [191]x1, [248]x1, [279]x1, [321]x1, [453]x1, [457]x1, [692]x1, [704]x1, ...
- **spiral economy**: 13 uses in 7 sources, earliest dated 2021 in [793]. [840](https://guptaoption.com/texts/840.md)x7, [571](https://guptaoption.com/texts/571.md)x1, [702](https://guptaoption.com/texts/702.md)x1, [793]x1, [839]x1, [845]x1, [846]x1
- **SPRS**: 4 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [833]. [242](https://guptaoption.com/texts/242.md)x2, [67](https://guptaoption.com/texts/67.md)x1, [833](https://guptaoption.com/texts/833.md)x1
- **SPV**: 18 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2022 in [571]. [568](https://guptaoption.com/texts/568.md)x8, [432](https://guptaoption.com/texts/432.md)x4, [471](https://guptaoption.com/texts/471.md)x2, [557]x2, [433]x1, [571]x1
- **SSL certificates**: 4 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2020 in [723]. [546](https://guptaoption.com/texts/546.md)x2, [723](https://guptaoption.com/texts/723.md)x2
- **SSTR**: 46 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31]. [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md)x27, [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md)x9, [34](https://guptaoption.com/texts/34.md)x5, [66]x1, [71]x1, [331]x1, [335]x1, [833]x1
- **stablecoin**: 37 uses in 25 sources, earliest dated 2016 in [242]. [567](https://guptaoption.com/texts/567.md)x7, [559](https://guptaoption.com/texts/559.md)x3, [448](https://guptaoption.com/texts/448.md)x2, [523]x2, [524]x2, [554]x2, [242]x1, [280]x1, [440]x1, [447]x1, [455]x1, [456]x1, [465]x1, [479]x1, [491]x1, ...
- **stablecoins**: 60 uses in 26 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [132]. [491](https://guptaoption.com/texts/491.md)x10, [559](https://guptaoption.com/texts/559.md)x7, [554](https://guptaoption.com/texts/554.md)x6, [567]x4, [456]x3, [523]x3, [678]x3, [468]x2, [470]x2, [552]x2, [568]x2, [577]x2, [116]x1, [132]x1, [236]x1, ...
- **Stacktivism**: 14 uses in 7 sources, earliest dated 2013 in [753]. [689](https://guptaoption.com/texts/689.md)x5, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x3, [753](https://guptaoption.com/texts/753.md)x2, [171]x1, [298]x1, [303]x1, [775]x1
- **standard parts**: 4 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2026 in [845]. [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x3, [845](https://guptaoption.com/texts/845.md)x1
- **standards**: 213 uses in 87 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31] (3 undated). [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md)x16, [568](https://guptaoption.com/texts/568.md)x12, [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md)x7, [270]x7, [793]x7, [732]x6, [12]x5, [257]x5, [379]x5, [391]x5, [551]x5, [80]x4, [164]x4, [237]x4, [548]x4, ...
- **STAR-TIDES**: 54 uses in 24 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36] (5 undated). [182](https://guptaoption.com/texts/182.md)x6, [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md)x5, [177](https://guptaoption.com/texts/177.md)x4, [4]x3, [38]x3, [842]x3, [846]x3, [1]x2, [5]x2, [8]x2, [12]x2, [13]x2, [114]x2, [137]x2, [331]x2, ...
- **Starfish**: 19 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [12]. [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md)x13, [121](https://guptaoption.com/texts/121.md)x3, [8](https://guptaoption.com/texts/8.md)x1, [38]x1, [282]x1
- **Starfish networks**: 6 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [12]. [121](https://guptaoption.com/texts/121.md)x3, [8](https://guptaoption.com/texts/8.md)x1, [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md)x1, [38]x1
- **State Failure Management Archive**: 4 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [99]. [75](https://guptaoption.com/texts/75.md)x1, [99](https://guptaoption.com/texts/99.md)x1, [773](https://guptaoption.com/texts/773.md)x1, [841]x1
- **State In A Box**: 30 uses in 10 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31] (3 undated). [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md)x12, [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x7, [66](https://guptaoption.com/texts/66.md)x3, [34]x2, [1]x1, [4]x1, [5]x1, [35]x1, [250]x1, [838]x1
- **State of the Net**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [694](https://guptaoption.com/texts/694.md)x2, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x1
- **state power**: 8 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [48]. [48](https://guptaoption.com/texts/48.md)x3, [694](https://guptaoption.com/texts/694.md)x2, [148](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md)x1, [768]x1, [800]x1
- **state support**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [237]. [237](https://guptaoption.com/texts/237.md)x2, [677](https://guptaoption.com/texts/677.md)x1
- **steel strap**: 4 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [14]. [14](https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md)x3, [702](https://guptaoption.com/texts/702.md)x1
- **Strategic Air Command**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [87]. [87](https://guptaoption.com/texts/87.md)x1, [235](https://guptaoption.com/texts/235.md)x1
- **Stretch hexayurt**: 10 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [102]. [102](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md)x5, [375](https://guptaoption.com/texts/375.md)x2, [75](https://guptaoption.com/texts/75.md)x1, [103]x1, [751]x1
- **Strong Angel**: 20 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36] (1 undated). [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md)x8, [338](https://guptaoption.com/texts/338.md)x3, [102](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md)x2, [212]x2, [740]x2, [36]x1, [128]x1, [137]x1
- **Sulabh**: 8 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [10] (1 undated). [10](https://guptaoption.com/texts/10.md)x1, [13](https://guptaoption.com/texts/13.md)x1, [38](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md)x1, [52]x1, [144]x1, [145]x1, [270]x1, [727]x1
- **Superstruct**: 39 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [224]. [844](https://guptaoption.com/texts/844.md)x27, [843](https://guptaoption.com/texts/843.md)x11, [224](https://guptaoption.com/texts/224.md)x1
- **supply chain**: 228 uses in 92 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [32] (4 undated). [242](https://guptaoption.com/texts/242.md)x10, [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md)x9, [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md)x8, [724]x8, [320]x7, [322]x7, [251]x6, [255]x6, [270]x6, [331]x6, [101]x5, [239]x5, [729]x5, [15]x4, [321]x4, ...
- **supply chains**: 108 uses in 59 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31] (2 undated). [21](https://guptaoption.com/texts/21.md)x6, [242](https://guptaoption.com/texts/242.md)x6, [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md)x5, [759]x5, [846]x5, [101]x4, [15]x3, [255]x3, [681]x3, [836]x3, [18]x2, [39]x2, [143]x2, [144]x2, [230]x2, ...
- **survival benefit**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x1, [283](https://guptaoption.com/texts/283.md)x1
- **survival needs**: 5 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [339]. [724](https://guptaoption.com/texts/724.md)x2, [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md)x1, [339](https://guptaoption.com/texts/339.md)x1, [753]x1
- **Swamp cooler**: 9 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [102]. [102](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md)x6, [17](https://guptaoption.com/texts/17.md)x2, [98](https://guptaoption.com/texts/98.md)x1
- **Swarm**: 102 uses in 29 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [55]. [235](https://guptaoption.com/texts/235.md)x17, [565](https://guptaoption.com/texts/565.md)x17, [44](https://guptaoption.com/texts/44.md)x9, [559]x9, [85]x7, [45]x6, [722]x5, [143]x4, [242]x3, [612]x3, [80]x2, [317]x2, [839]x2, [8]x1, [18]x1, ...
- **Swarm Cooperatives**: 4 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2013 in [85]. [85](https://guptaoption.com/texts/85.md)x3, [8](https://guptaoption.com/texts/8.md)x1
- **synchronisation**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2013 in [18]. [706](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md)x2, [18](https://guptaoption.com/texts/18.md)x1
- **synthetic jurisdiction**: 8 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2024 in [736]. [419](https://guptaoption.com/texts/419.md)x5, [549](https://guptaoption.com/texts/549.md)x2, [736](https://guptaoption.com/texts/736.md)x1
- **systemic risk**: 4 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [250]. [171](https://guptaoption.com/texts/171.md)x1, [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md)x1, [320](https://guptaoption.com/texts/320.md)x1, [435]x1
- **TechCrunch**: 15 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2013 in [18]. [183](https://guptaoption.com/texts/183.md)x6, [18](https://guptaoption.com/texts/18.md)x4, [43](https://guptaoption.com/texts/43.md)x2, [172]x1, [242]x1, [676]x1
- **Tell Me Who You Are**: 14 uses in 11 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [751] (2 undated). [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x3, [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md)x2, [144](https://guptaoption.com/texts/144.md)x1, [163]x1, [242]x1, [247]x1, [330]x1, [333]x1, [751]x1, [838]x1, [840]x1
- **Thatcher**: 4 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [298]. [527](https://guptaoption.com/texts/527.md)x2, [296](https://guptaoption.com/texts/296.md)x1, [298](https://guptaoption.com/texts/298.md)x1
- **The Beautiful World**: 6 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [187]. [47](https://guptaoption.com/texts/47.md)x4, [49](https://guptaoption.com/texts/49.md)x1, [187](https://guptaoption.com/texts/187.md)x1
- **The Big Deal**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [49]. [49](https://guptaoption.com/texts/49.md)x1, [242](https://guptaoption.com/texts/242.md)x1
- **The Cutting Machinery**: 8 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36] (1 undated). [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md)x3, [704](https://guptaoption.com/texts/704.md)x3, [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md)x1, [677]x1


# Vinay Gupta: his distinctive terms, a concordance (part 4 of 4, T to Z)

> His 632 most distinctive terms, alphabetically: how often each is used, in how many sources, the earliest dated source that uses it, and the sources that use it most ([id]x uses). Counted in his own passages only. Part 4 of 4, T to Z. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt; source ids such as [250] are at https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md.

- **The DAO**: 40 uses in 13 sources, earliest dated 2016 in [280]. [278](https://guptaoption.com/texts/278.md)x11, [679](https://guptaoption.com/texts/679.md)x8, [763](https://guptaoption.com/texts/763.md)x5, [279]x4, [565]x3, [761]x2, [280]x1, [557]x1, [564]x1, [693]x1, [713]x1, [791]x1, [793]x1
- **The Digital Crisis**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2025 in [453]. [433](https://guptaoption.com/texts/433.md)x1, [438](https://guptaoption.com/texts/438.md)x1, [453](https://guptaoption.com/texts/453.md)x1
- **The escrownym**: 6 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [82]. [86](https://guptaoption.com/texts/86.md)x2, [838](https://guptaoption.com/texts/838.md)x2, [82](https://guptaoption.com/texts/82.md)x1, [846]x1
- **The Fiends Give Sudden Chase**: 4 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [87]. [87](https://guptaoption.com/texts/87.md)x2, [235](https://guptaoption.com/texts/235.md)x2
- **The Flu Code**: 9 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [97]. [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x6, [53](https://guptaoption.com/texts/53.md)x2, [97](https://guptaoption.com/texts/97.md)x1
- **The Future of Stuff**: 17 uses in 11 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172] (1 undated). [239](https://guptaoption.com/texts/239.md)x5, [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md)x3, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x1, [554]x1, [572]x1, [677]x1, [702]x1, [714]x1, [735]x1, [793]x1, [839]x1
- **The Future We Deserve**: 57 uses in 19 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [187] (2 undated). [106](https://guptaoption.com/texts/106.md)x23, [107](https://guptaoption.com/texts/107.md)x6, [210](https://guptaoption.com/texts/210.md)x6, [79]x3, [144]x2, [169]x2, [354]x2, [741]x2, [49]x1, [52]x1, [92]x1, [99]x1, [114]x1, [139]x1, [158]x1, ...
- **The Living City**: 12 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [847]. [841](https://guptaoption.com/texts/841.md)x4, [844](https://guptaoption.com/texts/844.md)x4, [99](https://guptaoption.com/texts/99.md)x1, [320]x1, [843]x1, [847]x1
- **The New Economy**: 5 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [828]. [828](https://guptaoption.com/texts/828.md)x1, [838](https://guptaoption.com/texts/838.md)x1, [840](https://guptaoption.com/texts/840.md)x1, [845]x1, [846]x1
- **The Open Toolbox**: 11 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [100]. [69](https://guptaoption.com/texts/69.md)x2, [100](https://guptaoption.com/texts/100.md)x2, [104](https://guptaoption.com/texts/104.md)x2, [98]x1, [101]x1, [102]x1, [103]x1, [105]x1
- **The Perimeter**: 16 uses in 9 sources, earliest dated 2007 in [101] (1 undated). [235](https://guptaoption.com/texts/235.md)x7, [128](https://guptaoption.com/texts/128.md)x2, [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md)x1, [101]x1, [521]x1, [722]x1, [747]x1, [763]x1, [782]x1
- **The Resilience Dividend**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2007 in [182]. [182](https://guptaoption.com/texts/182.md)x1, [208](https://guptaoption.com/texts/208.md)x1
- **The Synthesis**: 10 uses in 7 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31]. [47](https://guptaoption.com/texts/47.md)x3, [49](https://guptaoption.com/texts/49.md)x2, [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md)x1, [172]x1, [187]x1, [401]x1, [676]x1
- **The Tiny Army**: 5 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [107]. [107](https://guptaoption.com/texts/107.md)x3, [106](https://guptaoption.com/texts/106.md)x2
- **The Unplugged**: 13 uses in 7 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [102] (1 undated). [224](https://guptaoption.com/texts/224.md)x4, [844](https://guptaoption.com/texts/844.md)x4, [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md)x1, [79]x1, [87]x1, [102]x1, [108]x1
- **Through the Looking Glass**: 8 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [366]. [841](https://guptaoption.com/texts/841.md)x4, [366](https://guptaoption.com/texts/366.md)x2, [99](https://guptaoption.com/texts/99.md)x1, [733]x1
- **TIDES**: 217 uses in 34 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36] (5 undated). [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md)x107, [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md)x15, [137](https://guptaoption.com/texts/137.md)x12, [182]x7, [331]x7, [833]x7, [174]x5, [71]x4, [121]x4, [177]x4, [4]x3, [38]x3, [89]x3, [99]x3, [842]x3, ...
- **Tiny Army**: 5 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [107]. [107](https://guptaoption.com/texts/107.md)x3, [106](https://guptaoption.com/texts/106.md)x2
- **toilets**: 79 uses in 44 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [100] (5 undated). [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md)x6, [95](https://guptaoption.com/texts/95.md)x4, [321](https://guptaoption.com/texts/321.md)x4, [13]x3, [38]x3, [148]x3, [238]x3, [341]x3, [842]x3, [1]x2, [4]x2, [17]x2, [31]x2, [33]x2, [102]x2, ...
- **tokenization**: 130 uses in 39 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [568](https://guptaoption.com/texts/568.md)x31, [555](https://guptaoption.com/texts/555.md)x13, [557](https://guptaoption.com/texts/557.md)x9, [722]x9, [594]x6, [565]x5, [45]x4, [251]x4, [429]x4, [571]x4, [434]x3, [445]x3, [554]x3, [432]x2, [465]x2, ...
- **too cold**: 72 uses in 40 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [238] (7 undated). [689](https://guptaoption.com/texts/689.md)x7, [321](https://guptaoption.com/texts/321.md)x6, [238](https://guptaoption.com/texts/238.md)x4, [1]x3, [38]x3, [250]x3, [335]x3, [128]x2, [145]x2, [174]x2, [270]x2, [384]x2, [681]x2, [727]x2, [752]x2, ...
- **too hot**: 79 uses in 42 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [369] (6 undated). [321](https://guptaoption.com/texts/321.md)x9, [689](https://guptaoption.com/texts/689.md)x8, [38](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md)x4, [1]x3, [250]x3, [283]x3, [335]x3, [128]x2, [148]x2, [172]x2, [174]x2, [270]x2, [384]x2, [572]x2, [681]x2, ...
- **trade documents**: 4 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2024 in [736]. [558](https://guptaoption.com/texts/558.md)x2, [555](https://guptaoption.com/texts/555.md)x1, [736](https://guptaoption.com/texts/736.md)x1
- **trade finance**: 8 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [836]. [554](https://guptaoption.com/texts/554.md)x4, [747](https://guptaoption.com/texts/747.md)x2, [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md)x1, [836]x1
- **transaction costs**: 64 uses in 35 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [24]. [242](https://guptaoption.com/texts/242.md)x5, [237](https://guptaoption.com/texts/237.md)x4, [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md)x4, [296]x4, [298]x4, [600]x4, [521]x3, [568]x3, [165]x2, [172]x2, [236]x2, [299]x2, [486]x2, [557]x2, [3]x1, ...
- **Transition Towns**: 6 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [250]. [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md)x2, [284](https://guptaoption.com/texts/284.md)x2, [321](https://guptaoption.com/texts/321.md)x2
- **transnational sovereignty**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [86]. [86](https://guptaoption.com/texts/86.md)x2, [493](https://guptaoption.com/texts/493.md)x1
- **Transparent Society**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x1, [755](https://guptaoption.com/texts/755.md)x1
- **Tribike**: 5 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [152] (1 undated). [152](https://guptaoption.com/texts/152.md)x4, [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x1
- **Tridome**: 13 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36]. [105](https://guptaoption.com/texts/105.md)x8, [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md)x2, [104](https://guptaoption.com/texts/104.md)x2, [102]x1
- **trust structure**: 5 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [917]. [780](https://guptaoption.com/texts/780.md)x2, [567](https://guptaoption.com/texts/567.md)x1, [635](https://guptaoption.com/texts/635.md)x1, [917]x1
- **TruthAndBeauty**: 5 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [26] (1 undated). [139](https://guptaoption.com/texts/139.md)x3, [26](https://guptaoption.com/texts/26.md)x1, [86](https://guptaoption.com/texts/86.md)x1
- **UK Jurisdiction Taskforce**: 8 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2021 in [160] (2 undated). [160](https://guptaoption.com/texts/160.md)x4, [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x2, [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md)x1, [839]x1
- **UKJT**: 27 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2021 in [160]. [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x13, [160](https://guptaoption.com/texts/160.md)x8, [840](https://guptaoption.com/texts/840.md)x4, [167]x1, [839]x1
- **UNHCR**: 8 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [170]. [724](https://guptaoption.com/texts/724.md)x3, [692](https://guptaoption.com/texts/692.md)x2, [137](https://guptaoption.com/texts/137.md)x1, [170]x1, [267]x1
- **unity of effort**: 11 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [12]. [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md)x4, [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md)x4, [74](https://guptaoption.com/texts/74.md)x1, [144]x1, [758]x1
- **Unplugged**: 16 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [102] (1 undated). [224](https://guptaoption.com/texts/224.md)x6, [844](https://guptaoption.com/texts/844.md)x4, [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md)x1, [79]x1, [87]x1, [92]x1, [102]x1, [108]x1
- **uPort**: 9 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2016 in [280]. [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md)x3, [835](https://guptaoption.com/texts/835.md)x3, [206](https://guptaoption.com/texts/206.md)x1, [280]x1, [752]x1
- **urban resilience**: 21 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [99]. [844](https://guptaoption.com/texts/844.md)x8, [843](https://guptaoption.com/texts/843.md)x5, [99](https://guptaoption.com/texts/99.md)x2, [211]x2, [8]x1, [89]x1, [229]x1, [283]x1
- **Urgent Evoke**: 29 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2026 in [843]. [844](https://guptaoption.com/texts/844.md)x17, [843](https://guptaoption.com/texts/843.md)x12
- **USDC**: 50 uses in 17 sources, earliest dated 2021 in [738]. [559](https://guptaoption.com/texts/559.md)x10, [567](https://guptaoption.com/texts/567.md)x10, [738](https://guptaoption.com/texts/738.md)x9, [768]x4, [722]x3, [478]x2, [552]x2, [415]x1, [420]x1, [458]x1, [487]x1, [544]x1, [554]x1, [556]x1, [563]x1, ...
- **USDT**: 24 uses in 14 sources, earliest dated 2021 in [768]. [559](https://guptaoption.com/texts/559.md)x4, [487](https://guptaoption.com/texts/487.md)x3, [420](https://guptaoption.com/texts/420.md)x2, [458]x2, [552]x2, [554]x2, [768]x2, [410]x1, [415]x1, [443]x1, [457]x1, [461]x1, [464]x1, [478]x1
- **vaccines**: 47 uses in 21 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [32] (4 undated). [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md)x21, [735](https://guptaoption.com/texts/735.md)x3, [32](https://guptaoption.com/texts/32.md)x2, [175]x2, [179]x2, [707]x2, [172]x1, [177]x1, [253]x1, [301]x1, [315]x1, [372]x1, [685]x1, [689]x1, [696]x1, ...
- **value networks**: 44 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [242](https://guptaoption.com/texts/242.md)x23, [243](https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md)x15, [237](https://guptaoption.com/texts/237.md)x3, [171]x1, [172]x1, [556]x1
- **venture capital**: 66 uses in 26 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36]. [296](https://guptaoption.com/texts/296.md)x7, [298](https://guptaoption.com/texts/298.md)x7, [7](https://guptaoption.com/texts/7.md)x5, [277]x5, [299]x4, [706]x4, [864]x4, [171]x3, [172]x3, [221]x3, [36]x2, [93]x2, [275]x2, [679]x2, [744]x2, ...
- **Venture Social Capital**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [72]. [72](https://guptaoption.com/texts/72.md)x2, [838](https://guptaoption.com/texts/838.md)x1
- **VICE**: 49 uses in 19 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36] (2 undated). [228](https://guptaoption.com/texts/228.md)x13, [231](https://guptaoption.com/texts/231.md)x6, [229](https://guptaoption.com/texts/229.md)x5, [230]x4, [2]x2, [25]x2, [171]x2, [194]x2, [400]x2, [704]x2, [36]x1, [148]x1, [172]x1, [279]x1, [292]x1, ...
- **Visionary Adaptation**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [847]. [320](https://guptaoption.com/texts/320.md)x1, [847](https://guptaoption.com/texts/847.md)x1
- **VUCA**: 9 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [250]. [208](https://guptaoption.com/texts/208.md)x3, [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md)x2, [8](https://guptaoption.com/texts/8.md)x1, [88]x1, [159]x1, [401]x1
- **Wall Street**: 47 uses in 24 sources, earliest dated 2011 in [202]. [112](https://guptaoption.com/texts/112.md)x11, [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x4, [520](https://guptaoption.com/texts/520.md)x4, [762]x4, [202]x2, [311]x2, [557]x2, [775]x2, [301]x1, [307]x1, [308]x1, [391]x1, [436]x1, [451]x1, [452]x1, ...
- **walled gardens**: 4 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [225]. [164](https://guptaoption.com/texts/164.md)x2, [225](https://guptaoption.com/texts/225.md)x1, [773](https://guptaoption.com/texts/773.md)x1
- **warlord entrepreneur**: 18 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [194] (1 undated). [194](https://guptaoption.com/texts/194.md)x8, [2](https://guptaoption.com/texts/2.md)x7, [115](https://guptaoption.com/texts/115.md)x2, [234]x1
- **Warlords, Inc.**: 15 uses in 6 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [194] (2 undated). [115](https://guptaoption.com/texts/115.md)x4, [194](https://guptaoption.com/texts/194.md)x3, [234](https://guptaoption.com/texts/234.md)x3, [2]x2, [846]x2, [5]x1
- **warranties**: 64 uses in 34 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [42] (2 undated). [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md)x6, [594](https://guptaoption.com/texts/594.md)x5, [793](https://guptaoption.com/texts/793.md)x5, [572]x4, [507]x3, [555]x3, [678]x3, [735]x3, [565]x2, [571]x2, [671]x2, [840]x2, [845]x2, [846]x2, [5]x1, ...
- **water filter**: 15 uses in 14 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [38]. [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md)x2, [38](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md)x1, [47](https://guptaoption.com/texts/47.md)x1, [51]x1, [73]x1, [128]x1, [148]x1, [283]x1, [296]x1, [298]x1, [689]x1, [752]x1, [753]x1, [827]x1
- **water purification**: 25 uses in 17 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [100] (3 undated). [17](https://guptaoption.com/texts/17.md)x4, [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md)x3, [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md)x2, [145]x2, [331]x2, [1]x1, [31]x1, [100]x1, [128]x1, [137]x1, [174]x1, [239]x1, [335]x1, [338]x1, [341]x1, ...
- **wealth inequality**: 6 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2015 in [307]. [574](https://guptaoption.com/texts/574.md)x2, [735](https://guptaoption.com/texts/735.md)x2, [307](https://guptaoption.com/texts/307.md)x1, [308]x1
- **Westphalia**: 5 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2013 in [143]. [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x2, [242](https://guptaoption.com/texts/242.md)x1, [731](https://guptaoption.com/texts/731.md)x1, [747]x1
- **What is Money**: 10 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [307](https://guptaoption.com/texts/307.md)x4, [308](https://guptaoption.com/texts/308.md)x3, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x1, [242]x1, [768]x1
- **When?**: 7 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2009 in [187]. [52](https://guptaoption.com/texts/52.md)x5, [187](https://guptaoption.com/texts/187.md)x1, [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md)x1
- **Whole-Systems Framework**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2003 in [201]. [201](https://guptaoption.com/texts/201.md)x2, [840](https://guptaoption.com/texts/840.md)x1
- **Why Nothing Works**: 7 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [88] (1 undated). [194](https://guptaoption.com/texts/194.md)x2, [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x2, [2](https://guptaoption.com/texts/2.md)x1, [25]x1, [88]x1
- **wicked problems**: 38 uses in 8 sources, earliest dated 2010 in [107]. [159](https://guptaoption.com/texts/159.md)x17, [157](https://guptaoption.com/texts/157.md)x12, [8](https://guptaoption.com/texts/8.md)x4, [47]x1, [88]x1, [107]x1, [243]x1, [250]x1
- **William Shatner**: 54 uses in 32 sources, earliest dated 2019 in [43] (1 undated). [758](https://guptaoption.com/texts/758.md)x7, [43](https://guptaoption.com/texts/43.md)x5, [197](https://guptaoption.com/texts/197.md)x4, [733]x4, [206]x2, [565]x2, [683]x2, [747]x2, [839]x2, [846]x2, [4]x1, [165]x1, [251]x1, [252]x1, [254]x1, ...
- **Winning the Long Peace**: 3 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [34]. [30](https://guptaoption.com/texts/30.md)x1, [34](https://guptaoption.com/texts/34.md)x1, [833](https://guptaoption.com/texts/833.md)x1
- **Wirearchy**: 3 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x2, [836](https://guptaoption.com/texts/836.md)x1
- **Wired**: 67 uses in 22 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36] (1 undated). [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x35, [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x4, [18](https://guptaoption.com/texts/18.md)x3, [53]x3, [1]x2, [10]x2, [172]x2, [767]x2, [31]x1, [36]x1, [97]x1, [137]x1, [226]x1, [251]x1, [265]x1, ...
- **wisdom spirals**: 63 uses in 3 sources, earliest dated 2026 in [840]. [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md)x58, [845](https://guptaoption.com/texts/845.md)x4, [840](https://guptaoption.com/texts/840.md)x1
- **world computer**: 15 uses in 11 sources, earliest dated 2014 in [172]. [164](https://guptaoption.com/texts/164.md)x3, [722](https://guptaoption.com/texts/722.md)x3, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x1, [514]x1, [564]x1, [565]x1, [684]x1, [695]x1, [729]x1, [734]x1, [863]x1
- **World Government Summit**: 12 uses in 7 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [39]. [221](https://guptaoption.com/texts/221.md)x3, [39](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md)x2, [840](https://guptaoption.com/texts/840.md)x2, [846]x2, [218]x1, [770]x1, [839]x1
- **world trade**: 25 uses in 18 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [31]. [221](https://guptaoption.com/texts/221.md)x3, [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x2, [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md)x2, [633]x2, [773]x2, [846]x2, [31]x1, [39]x1, [42]x1, [505]x1, [555]x1, [557]x1, [558]x1, [566]x1, [568]x1, ...
- **Worldchanging**: 2 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2006 in [108]. [108](https://guptaoption.com/texts/108.md)x1, [114](https://guptaoption.com/texts/114.md)x1
- **WSLE**: 28 uses in 2 sources, earliest dated 2008 in [55]. [55](https://guptaoption.com/texts/55.md)x27, [844](https://guptaoption.com/texts/844.md)x1
- **Z/Yen**: 7 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2017 in [836]. [836](https://guptaoption.com/texts/836.md)x2, [837](https://guptaoption.com/texts/837.md)x2, [853](https://guptaoption.com/texts/853.md)x2, [835]x1
- **zero-waste**: 5 uses in 4 sources, earliest dated 2002 in [36]. [723](https://guptaoption.com/texts/723.md)x2, [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md)x1, [172](https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md)x1, [236]x1
- **ZOMBIE**: 7 uses in 5 sources, earliest dated 2012 in [401]. [143](https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md)x2, [273](https://guptaoption.com/texts/273.md)x2, [148](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md)x1, [401]x1, [677]x1


# Vinay Gupta: every source by date (part 1 of 3, 2002 to 2016)

> Every source in the archive (814): date, kind, id, title and where its text is. 662 have his passages; the rest are listed by title until they are transcribed. Part 1 of 3, 2002 to 2016; continues in https://guptaoption.com/texts/index-2.md. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt; source ids such as [250] are at https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md.

- 2002 | document | [185] Hexayurt | https://guptaoption.com/texts/185.md, 1 passage
- 2002 | document | [100] Hexayurt project | https://guptaoption.com/texts/100.md, 4 passages
- 2002 | document | [170] RMI Sustainable Settlements charrette | https://guptaoption.com/texts/170.md, 1 passage
- 2002 | document | [36] The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world | https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md, 5 passages
- 2003 | document | [201] Colophon, Danish Environmental Protection Agency | https://guptaoption.com/texts/201.md, 1 passage
- 2003 | document | [188] Hexayurt Image Gallery | https://guptaoption.com/texts/188.md, 1 passage
- 2003 | document | [168] I'm also interested in this question. Here's two things I saw on Jeff Morrison's... | Hacker News | https://guptaoption.com/texts/168.md, 1 passage
- 2003 | document | [190] Image(80) | https://guptaoption.com/texts/190.md, 1 passage
- 2006 | document | [35] CheapID | https://guptaoption.com/texts/35.md, 1 passage
- 2006 | document | [10] Course of Action | https://guptaoption.com/texts/10.md, 3 passages
- 2006 | document | [102] Hexayurt project/Hexayurt playa | https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md, 23 passages
- 2006 | document | [32] Severe Panflu Response Strategies | https://guptaoption.com/texts/32.md, 5 passages
- 2006 | document | [34] State in a Box | https://guptaoption.com/texts/34.md, 2 passages
- 2006 | document | [152] Tribike | https://guptaoption.com/texts/152.md, 1 passage
- 2006 | document | [31] guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php | https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md, 52 passages
- 2006-02-20 | document | [108] User:Vinay Gupta/The Unplugged | https://guptaoption.com/texts/108.md, 7 passages
- 2006-02-20 | document | [192] worldchanging.com | https://guptaoption.com/texts/192.md, 1 passage
- 2006-08-07 | document | [825] Index of /hexayurt_sketchup_files | https://guptaoption.com/texts/825.md, 1 passage
- 2006-10-11 | document | [103] Hexayurt project/Assembly | https://guptaoption.com/texts/103.md, 1 passage
- 2006-10-27 | document | [20] Resilience and Opportunity: Effective Tools for Victory in Fourth Generation Wars? | https://guptaoption.com/texts/20.md, 3 passages
- 2007 | document | [182] About | https://guptaoption.com/texts/182.md, 2 passages
- 2007 | document | [829] Index of /innovative_sheltering/day_one | https://guptaoption.com/texts/829.md, 1 passage
- 2007 | document | [29] Saving the World on the Cheap | https://guptaoption.com/texts/29.md, 4 passages
- 2007 | document | [850] TIDES Boards 2 | listed by title only, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/TIDES_PACKET/TIDES_BOARDS_V2.pdf
- 2007 | document | [30] Winning the Long Peace | https://guptaoption.com/texts/30.md, 3 passages
- 2007-03-19 | video | [375] Folding Hexayurt Briefing | https://guptaoption.com/texts/375.md, 7 passages
- 2007-07-28 | document | [101] Hexayurt project/Mass evacuation | https://guptaoption.com/texts/101.md, 6 passages
- 2007-07-30 | video | [374] The Hexayurt Project 2007 Intro Video | https://guptaoption.com/texts/374.md, 1 passage
- 2007-08-10 | document | [15] Nuclear / mass evacuation | https://guptaoption.com/texts/15.md, 4 passages
- 2007-09-14 | document | [66] My State In A Box – Identity Services Architecture paper is now online! | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/66.md, 1 passage
- 2007-09-22 | document | [68] STAR-TIDES | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/68.md, 1 passage
- 2007-09-29 | document | [59] Security + Privacy = Liberty. And the CheapID / State In A Box – Identity Services Architecture **DEMO** is now online | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/59.md, 1 passage
- 2007-10-09 | video | [373] Folding Hexayurt Opening and Closing | https://guptaoption.com/texts/373.md, 1 passage
- 2007-10-23 | document | [71] TIDES – the skinny! | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/71.md, 1 passage
- 2007-11-19 | document | [137] STAR-TIDES | https://guptaoption.com/texts/137.md, 5 passages
- 2007-11-26 | video | [905] Hexayurt Project presentation at Innovative Sheltering for the Red Cross in Eindhoven | listed by title only, https://archive.org/details/HexayurtProjectPresentationAtInnovativeShelteringForTheRedCrossIn
- 2008 | document | [821] Index of /FSFI | https://guptaoption.com/texts/821.md, 1 passage
- 2008 | document | [832] Index of /six_ways_to_die | https://guptaoption.com/texts/832.md, 1 passage
- 2008 | document | [33] Soft Development Paths | https://guptaoption.com/texts/33.md, 2 passages
- 2008 | document | [109] akvo.org - Home | https://guptaoption.com/texts/109.md, 1 passage
- 2008-03-13 | video | [911] Severe Panflu Response Strategies Presentation - Alpha Release | listed by title only, https://archive.org/details/SeverePanfluResponseStrategiesPresentation-AlphaRelease
- 2008-03-13 | video | [372] this is not a video about coronavirus - the hypothetical virus being discussed is ten time worse | https://guptaoption.com/texts/372.md, 4 passages
- 2008-04-08 | document | [833] Vinay Gupta - Hexayurt Project - Briefing to the STAR-TIDES team at National Defense University | https://guptaoption.com/texts/833.md, 2 passages
- 2008-04-20 | document | [70] The systemic risks model for survival | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/70.md, 1 passage
- 2008-04-29 | document | [55] FREE Guptastan | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/55.md, 6 passages
- 2008-05-09 | document | [56] What is the Global Swadeshi Network? | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/56.md, 3 passages
- 2008-05-30 | document | [62] Global Swadeshi Dialogs – mostly deborked audio | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/62.md, 1 passage
- 2008-06 | document | [17] The Physical Aspects of Distributed Infrastructure | https://guptaoption.com/texts/17.md, 10 passages
- 2008-06-01 | document | [57] What’s going to happen in the future. | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/57.md, 9 passages
- 2008-06-26 | document | [196] Mark Charmer on Open Source Water and Sanitation Solutions - P2P Foundation Wiki | listed by title only, https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Mark_Charmer_on_Open_Source_Water_and_Sanitation_Solutions
- 2008-07 | document | [238] Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference, Keynote source; Keynote file timestamps July 2008) | https://guptaoption.com/texts/238.md, 6 passages
- 2008-07-06 | document | [67] Rough video from my talk in Iceland | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/67.md, 1 passage
- 2008-09-02 | document | [48] The Second Amendment in Iraq, Combat Robotics, and the Future of Human Liberty | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/48.md, 12 passages
- 2008-09-15 | document | [63] Health insurance for $10 per year using the network | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/63.md, 3 passages
- 2008-09-17 | video | [906] The Reykjavik Briefing on Natural Disaster (Reykjavik, 2008) | listed by title only, https://archive.org/download/TheGuptaStateFailureManagementArchive/The_Reykjavik_Briefing_on_Natural_Disaster__Reykjavik__2008.mp4
- 2008-10-05 | video | [370] Superstruct Report 1 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/370.md, 2 passages
- 2008-10-07 | video | [369] Hexayurt Project - Six Ways To Die | https://guptaoption.com/texts/369.md, 5 passages
- 2008-10-14 | document | [69] The Open Toolbox for Domestic Disaster Response – new company, new paper | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/69.md, 1 passage
- 2008-10-15 | document | [58] Blog Action Day: Poverty – Ending Poverty with Open Hardware | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/58.md, 1 passage
- 2008-11-12 | video | [368] Superstruct Communications Intercept 1 - DCAR | https://guptaoption.com/texts/368.md, 1 passage
- 2009 | video | [895] Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest, Know How Now, London 2009 | listed by title only, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Free_science_and_engineering_in_the_global_public_interest_know_how_now_london_2009.mov
- 2009 | document | [27] Index of /hope_for_the_world | https://guptaoption.com/texts/27.md, 1 passage
- 2009 | document | [831] Leashless | https://guptaoption.com/texts/831.md, 6 passages
- 2009 | video | [888] On Designing Complex Cooperation: A Tour of The Gupta Dimension (Summer 2009) | listed by title only, https://archive.org/download/TheGuptaStateFailureManagementArchive/On_Designing_Complex_Cooperation_A_Tour_of_The_Gupta_Dimension__Summer2009.mp4
- 2009 | document | [117] The Black Elephant Lapel Pin & Logo | Metalabel | https://guptaoption.com/texts/117.md, 2 passages
- 2009 | document | [24] Three Rules for Designing the Social Enterprise | https://guptaoption.com/texts/24.md, 2 passages
- 2009 | document | [200] black elephant | https://guptaoption.com/texts/200.md, 2 passages
- 2009-01-04 | document | [95] Talk outline for Jan 7th in London – Infrastructure for Anarchists | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/95.md, 3 passages
- 2009-01-07 | audio | [894] Infrastructure for Anarchists, Temporary School of Thought, London (7 Jan 2009, audio) | audio, not transcribed yet, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/2009_01_07_infrastructure_for_anarchists_at_the_temporary_school_of_thought.mp3
- 2009-01-11 | document | [94] Avoiding Capitalism for the Next Four Billion lecture notes | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/94.md, 4 passages
- 2009-01-15 | audio | [860] Biometrics for Freedom, Temporary School of Thought, London (15 Jan 2009, audio) | audio, not transcribed yet, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/2009_01_15_vinay_gupta_biometrics_for_freedom_temporary_school_of_thought.mp3
- 2009-02-19 | document | [96] The Collapsonomics Practice | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/96.md, 1 passage
- 2009-03-02 | document | [64] Hope for the World – my talk from the Emergency Housing workshop in Sweden | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/64.md, 1 passage
- 2009-03-05 | document | [226] Can we build a world with open source? | Victor Keegan | The Guardian | https://guptaoption.com/texts/226.md, 2 passages
- 2009-03-09 | document | [54] Framing The Collapsonomics Practice | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/54.md, 5 passages
- 2009-03-12 | document | [3] The Global Village Development Bank v2 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/3.md, 5 passages
- 2009-03-30 | document | [61] Ending Poverty With Open Hardware | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/61.md, 1 passage
- 2009-04-26 | document | [97] The Flu Code | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/97.md, 1 passage
- 2009-04-28 | document | [53] Wired notes the Flu Code | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/53.md, 1 passage
- 2009-06-14 | document | [60] Dealing in Security – Simple Critical Infrastructure Mapping | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/60.md, 1 passage
- 2009-06-22 | document | [65] Leashless – a manifesto about freedom | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/65.md, 1 passage
- 2009-09-24 | document | [84] Six Ways to Die Workshop introductory lecture at Formens Hus | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/84.md, 1 passage
- 2009-10-12 | document | [187] Six Ways To Die workshops | https://guptaoption.com/texts/187.md, 2 passages
- 2009-11 | document | [847] The Living City (slides; Mike Bennett & Vinay Gupta, Buttered Side Down) | https://guptaoption.com/texts/847.md, 9 passages
- 2009-11 | video | [896] The Living City: on US Urban Resilience, Arup London and Arup New York (linked session, Nov 2009) | listed by title only, https://archive.org/download/TheGuptaStateFailureManagementArchive/The_Living_City_on_US_Urban_Resilience__Arup_London__Nov2009.mov
- 2009-12 | document | [121] "STAR–TIDES and Starfish Networks: Supporting Stressed Populations with" by Linton Wells II, Walker Hardy et al. | https://guptaoption.com/texts/121.md, 1 passage
- 2009-12 | document | [12] Defense Horizons 70 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md, 23 passages
- 2010 | document | [820] Copyright and the digital economy: a case for reason | https://guptaoption.com/texts/820.md, 2 passages
- 2010 | document | [16] Hexayurt Country | https://guptaoption.com/texts/16.md, 1 passage
- 2010 | document | [98] Hexayurt project/Camp danger Hexayurt hinge technique | https://guptaoption.com/texts/98.md, 14 passages
- 2010 | document | [104] Hexayurt project/Hexayurt H13 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/104.md, 6 passages
- 2010 | document | [26] Index of /TRUTHANDBEAUTY | https://guptaoption.com/texts/26.md, 1 passage
- 2010 | document | [173] Index of /files/fluscim | https://guptaoption.com/texts/173.md, 1 passage
- 2010 | document | [826] Index of /in_a_page | https://guptaoption.com/texts/826.md, 1 passage
- 2010 | audio | [855] New and Developing: Africa Gathering 2010 (audio) | audio, not transcribed yet, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/new_and_developing_africa_gathering_2010.mp3
- 2010 | document | [107] The Future We Deserve/The Tiny Army - Vinay Gupta | https://guptaoption.com/texts/107.md, 3 passages
- 2010 | document | [828] The New Economy: out of money, out of time, but not out of ideas | https://guptaoption.com/texts/828.md, 2 passages
- 2010-01-22 | document | [38] Hexayurt Country: The Hexayurt Project plan for relief and reconstruction in Haiti | https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md, 6 passages
- 2010-02 | document | [13] Hexayurt Country | https://guptaoption.com/texts/13.md, 1 passage
- 2010-02-08 | document | [90] The Hexayurt in Haiti – a technical description | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/90.md, 1 passage
- 2010-02-16 | document | [14] Hexayurt Country | https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md, 6 passages
- 2010-05-01 | document | [128] Black Elephants & Skull Jackets: A Conversation with Vinay Gupta – DOUGALD HINE | https://guptaoption.com/texts/128.md, 14 passages
- 2010-05-03 | document | [91] The imperialists of the future are imperialists of the mind | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/91.md, 1 passage
- 2010-05-29 | video | [854] UNCIVILISATION, The Dark Mountain Festival 2010: Vinay Gupta, "Time to stop pretending" | https://guptaoption.com/texts/854.md, 6 passages
- 2010-05-30 | audio | [868] Collapsonomics: Vinay Gupta and Mike Bennett, Uncivilisation Dark Mountain Festival (30 May 2010, audio) | audio, not transcribed yet, https://archive.org/download/TheGuptaStateFailureManagementArchive/Vinay_Gupta_and_Mike_Bennett_Collapsonomics__Uncivilisation_Dark_Mountain_Festival__30May2010.mp3
- 2010-06-03 | video | [710] TEDxEWB - Vinay Gupta - Enabling Humanitarian Innovation | https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md, 11 passages
- 2010-06-08 | document | [224] The Unplugged: The Videos - Shareable | https://guptaoption.com/texts/224.md, 1 passage
- 2010-06-26 | document | [74] “Complex systems behave unpredictably” – Gupta’s law of complex systems | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/74.md, 3 passages
- 2010-08-27 | document | [76] Free housing and 21st Century Leadership | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/76.md, 4 passages
- 2010-09-05 | document | [118] File:Hexayurt at Burning Man 2010.jpg - Wikimedia Commons | https://guptaoption.com/texts/118.md, 2 passages
- 2010-09-12 | video | [366] "Through the Looking Glass" - Vinay Gupta - Ireland 26th, 27th, 28th September 2010 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/366.md, 6 passages
- 2010-09-23 | document | [849] Through the Looking Glass (slides) | listed by title only, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/through_the_looking_glass_2010/Ireland%205.pdf
- 2010-09-27 | video | [250] Through the Looking Glass - Vinay Gupta on systemic risks to civilization and responses (2010.) | https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md, 26 passages
- 2010-09-29 | video | [910] Modeling State Failure with SCIM, Greenhouse, Ireland (29 Sep 2010) | listed by title only, https://archive.org/download/TheGuptaStateFailureManagementArchive/Modeling_State_Failure_With_SCIM__Greenhouse_Ireland__29Sep2010.mp4
- 2010-10-22 | document | [88] The Goat Rodeo Index – a persistent Governance Antipattern | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/88.md, 2 passages
- 2010-11-04 | document | [827] The Private Humanitarian Company | https://guptaoption.com/texts/827.md, 1 passage
- 2010-11-07 | video | [365] social media and local resilience | https://guptaoption.com/texts/365.md, 5 passages
- 2011 | document | [105] Hexayurt project/Nearodesic | https://guptaoption.com/texts/105.md, 1 passage
- 2011 | document | [824] Index of /__CRASHPAD | https://guptaoption.com/texts/824.md, 1 passage
- 2011 | document | [830] Laziness, Impatience and Hubris: Vinay Gupta of the Hexayurt Project at C-BASE.org Berlin | https://guptaoption.com/texts/830.md, 1 passage
- 2011 | document | [11] RCDS cyber (Tibbs) | https://guptaoption.com/texts/11.md, 13 passages
- 2011 | document | [21] RCDS cyber (Tibbs) | https://guptaoption.com/texts/21.md, 20 passages
- 2011 | audio | [886] The Free City State: Urban Governance, The Really Free School, London (Spring 2011): warm-up chat (audio) | audio, not transcribed yet, https://archive.org/download/TheGuptaStateFailureManagementArchive/The_Free_City_State_Urban_Governance__The_Really_Free_School_London__Spring2011__warmup_chat.mp3
- 2011 | audio | [885] The Free City State: Urban Governance, The Really Free School, London (Spring 2011, audio) | audio, not transcribed yet, https://archive.org/download/TheGuptaStateFailureManagementArchive/The_Free_City_State_Urban_Governance__The_Really_Free_School_London__Spring2011.mp3
- 2011 | document | [99] User:Vinay Gupta/Gupta State Failure Management Archive | https://guptaoption.com/texts/99.md, 2 passages
- 2011-01-09 | document | [87] The Atrocity Archives, and a little new fiction. | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/87.md, 9 passages
- 2011-01-21 | video | [364] burning ice brussels seven minute tour | https://guptaoption.com/texts/364.md, 3 passages
- 2011-01-23 | video | [363] Culture Control Group - Brussels Cheese Crisis Report - January 23, 2021 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/363.md, 2 passages
- 2011-02-02 | document | [46] Reawakening the Enlightenment | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/46.md, 4 passages
- 2011-02-04 | document | [51] The Only Way Out Is UP | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/51.md, 6 passages
- 2011-02-05 | document | [50] The Synthesis | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/50.md, 8 passages
- 2011-02-06 | document | [47] The Beautiful World | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/47.md, 9 passages
- 2011-02-06 | document | [49] The Summary – an introduction to #TheBigDeal | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/49.md, 1 passage
- 2011-02-17 | audio | [866] Conversations From This Afternoon: Dougald Hine & Vinay Gupta, Brussels, 17 Feb 2011 | audio, not transcribed yet, https://archive.org/details/ConversationsFromThisAfternoonDougaldHineVinayGuptaBrussels17Feb
- 2011-02-23 | video | [361] Reading Hipster Hitler at the Führerbunker | https://guptaoption.com/texts/361.md, 1 passage
- 2011-04-03 | video | [923] Dougald Hine and Vinay Gupta wrap up the West Norwood Feast (April 3rd 2011) | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSQL7UZzZ2s
- 2011-04-03 | video | [924] Dougald Hine, Vinay Gupta and Paul of the Retro Village at West Norwood Feast (April 3rd 2011) | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_-zeuO1t7I
- 2011-05-03 | document | [78] Living Video and the Akvo Video Strategy | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/78.md, 3 passages
- 2011-05-06 | video | [914] The Future We Deserve, Winchester School of Art (6 May 2011), part 1 of 2 | listed by title only, https://archive.org/download/TheGuptaStateFailureManagementArchive/The_Future_We_Deserve__Winchester_School_of_Art__6May2011_1of2.mp4
- 2011-05-06 | video | [915] The Future We Deserve, Winchester School of Art (6 May 2011), part 2 of 2 | listed by title only, https://archive.org/download/TheGuptaStateFailureManagementArchive/The_Future_We_Deserve__Winchester_School_of_Art__6May2011_2of2.mp4
- 2011-05-19 | video | [751] Vinay Gupta and Julie Danger on Camp Danger Semi Folding Hexayurt | https://guptaoption.com/texts/751.md, 3 passages
- 2011-06-02 | video | [883] Facebook for the Five Billion: Digital Identity, Money, Culture, Aston Business School (blip.tv rescue) | listed by title only, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/blip_tv_refugees/Hexayurt-FacebookForTheFiveBillionDigitalIdentityMoneyCultureOpe818.m4v
- 2011-06-02 | document | [144] The Future We Deserve: "Facebook for the Five Billion?" | https://guptaoption.com/texts/144.md, 3 passages
- 2011-06-13 | document | [25] The Goat Rodeo Index | https://guptaoption.com/texts/25.md, 2 passages
- 2011-06-22 | video | [360] ZOOM0003 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/360.md, 2 passages
- 2011-06-22 | video | [359] ZOOM0004 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/359.md, 5 passages
- 2011-08-06 | document | [89] The Gupta State Failure Management Archive – a public resource for hard times | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/89.md, 2 passages
- 2011-08-14 | document | [848] The Resilience Dividend | listed by title only, https://resiliencedesigner.com/the_resilience_dividend.pdf
- 2011-08-16 | document | [52] When? | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/52.md, 11 passages
- 2011-09 | document | [193] Nearodesic Polyhedron Hexayurt Dome – Morgan Engel's Site | https://guptaoption.com/texts/193.md, 4 passages
- 2011-09-28 | video | [870] Creativity and Crisis: Vinay Gupta at the Thursday Club, Goldsmiths (blip.tv rescue) | listed by title only, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/blip_tv_refugees/Hexayurt-CreativityAndCrisisVinayGuptaAtTheThursdayClubGoldsmi881.m4v
- 2011-10 | document | [202] TACTICAL BRIEFING #18 | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters | https://guptaoption.com/texts/202.md, 7 passages
- 2011-10-18 | document | [92] Truth and Beauty, or “what in the hell is going on, Vinay?” | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/92.md, 2 passages
- 2011-10-24 | document | [114] Tools To Not Die With: An Interview with Vinay Gupta, creator of the Hexayurt - Boing Boing | https://guptaoption.com/texts/114.md, 6 passages
- 2011-10-29 | document | [75] Avoid Winter War: Hexayurts and #Occupy | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/75.md, 2 passages
- 2011-11-10 | video | [913] The Future We Deserve (2) - Why Won't Somebody Act? | listed by title only, https://archive.org/details/TheFutureWeDeserve2-WhyWontSomebodyAct
- 2011-11-11 | video | [940] Meet the Edgeryders team: Vinay | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to8Gpy-8pnw
- 2011-12-05 | video | [357] Mexico - Bleak Blues - Makerhood Christmas Party | https://guptaoption.com/texts/357.md, 2 passages
- 2011-12-05 | video | [358] Run for Cover, Last Christmas - Bleak Blues - Makerhood Christmas Party | https://guptaoption.com/texts/358.md, 2 passages
- 2011-12-05 | video | [356] Winter Wonderland, Trouble, Seven Sisters - Andrew C Clarke - Makerhood Christmas Party | https://guptaoption.com/texts/356.md, 4 passages
- 2011-12-18 | document | [77] I went to the same school as Julian Assange, but we learned different lessons | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | listed by title only, http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/i-went-to-the-same-school-as-julian-assange-but-we-learned-different-lessons-2936
- 2012 | document | [6] Blind in the Panopticon: The decreasing marginal utility of access to information as an aspect of cyber policy | https://guptaoption.com/texts/6.md, 8 passages
- 2012 | video | [903] Keynote at Camp Pixelache 2012, Arbis, Helsinki (rough video) | listed by title only, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/PIXELACHE_KEYNOTE/ROUGH_VIDEO__Vinay_Gupta__Pixelache_2012_keynote.loud.ogg
- 2012 | document | [822] Mother of Hydrogen, a novel | https://guptaoption.com/texts/822.md, 1 passage
- 2012 | document | [823] Plausible Utopias | https://guptaoption.com/texts/823.md, 3 passages
- 2012 | document | [106] The Future We Deserve | https://guptaoption.com/texts/106.md, 7 passages
- 2012-02-04 | document | [82] On Un-Designing the Cryptographic Utopia | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/82.md, 6 passages
- 2012-02-04 | document | [81] On the ethics (and pragmatics) of cryptography | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/81.md, 3 passages
- 2012-02-05 | document | [86] Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the ESCROWNYM) | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/86.md, 8 passages
- 2012-02-15 | video | [354] The Future We Deserve - 2 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/354.md, 3 passages
- 2012-02-29 | document | [240] The Future We Deserve — Introduction | https://guptaoption.com/texts/240.md, 2 passages
- 2012-03-03 | document | [210] The Future We Deserve | https://guptaoption.com/texts/210.md, 4 passages
- 2012-05-04 | video | [339] 15 minute video on how to make Hexayurts for Burning Man | https://guptaoption.com/texts/339.md, 19 passages
- 2012-05-04 | video | [353] Eben Moglen clip - Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference | https://guptaoption.com/texts/353.md, 1 passage
- 2012-05-04 | video | [347] FSFI - Freyr Gunnar Ólafsson | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN0hf8uYIyE
- 2012-05-04 | video | [342] FSFI - Smári McCarthy | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw4w7x1FygY
- 2012-05-04 | video | [332] Global Swadeshi Dialogs - Mark Charmer of AKVO and Chris Watkins of Appropedia | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMlWkI3dCeE
- 2012-05-04 | video | [330] Global Swadeshi Dialogs - Smari McCarthy (Icelandic Fab Labs) and Vinay Gupta | https://guptaoption.com/texts/330.md, 16 passages
- 2012-05-04 | video | [333] Global Swadeshi Dialogs - Smari McCarthy (Icelandic Fab Labs) and Vinay Gupta | https://guptaoption.com/texts/333.md, 35 passages
- 2012-05-04 | video | [340] Interview with Marcin of Open Source Ecology 25May08 | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOEmq_ROF40
- 2012-05-04 | video | [349] John Barlow at the Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference (clip 2) | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voEIQpHWSmc
- 2012-05-04 | video | [343] John Barlow at the Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference (clip 3) - telegraph & mother's stories | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iadVtpmI-JI
- 2012-05-04 | video | [345] John Barlow at the Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference (clip 4) | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnNxXu53K1U
- 2012-05-04 | video | [346] John Barlow at the Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference (clip 5) - copyright | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgtgMF9Yvm4
- 2012-05-04 | video | [351] John Barlow at the Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference (clip on Iceland) | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy5idjHN8Ik
- 2012-05-04 | video | [344] John Perry Barlow - 4th of July 2008, Thingvellir, Iceland, on the Right To Know | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ5KFDmJbAY
- 2012-05-04 | video | [350] More Eben Moglen at the Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference | https://guptaoption.com/texts/350.md, 1 passage
- 2012-05-04 | video | [348] More Eben Moglen from the Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference | https://guptaoption.com/texts/348.md, 1 passage
- 2012-05-04 | video | [329] RAW FOOTAGE Hexayurt Folding Combined Endeavor | https://guptaoption.com/texts/329.md, 19 passages
- 2012-05-04 | video | [336] RAW FOOTAGE Hexayurt Roof Cone Combined Endeavor | https://guptaoption.com/texts/336.md, 13 passages
- 2012-05-04 | video | [338] RAW FOOTAGE Hexayurt Vinay Gupta Robert Vrtis Combined Endeavor | https://guptaoption.com/texts/338.md, 9 passages
- 2012-05-04 | video | [352] STAR TIDES SPANISH | https://guptaoption.com/texts/352.md, 1 passage
- 2012-05-04 | video | [331] STAR-TIDES Talk at FAHUM 08 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/331.md, 19 passages
- 2012-05-04 | video | [335] STAR-TIDES briefing from Vinay Gupta | https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md, 26 passages
- 2012-05-04 | video | [341] Vinay Gupta - Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference - Rough cut from 2nd camera | https://guptaoption.com/texts/341.md, 9 passages
- 2012-05-08 | video | [328] Papa Bill's Stew-Stick Jam - Marmaduke Dando - First Song - Lovers | https://guptaoption.com/texts/328.md, 2 passages
- 2012-05-08 | video | [327] Papa Bill's Stew-Stick Jam - Marmaduke Dando - Second Song | https://guptaoption.com/texts/327.md, 2 passages
- 2012-09-13 | video | [323] Vinay Gupta at the Athens Hackerspace (highlights) | https://guptaoption.com/texts/323.md, 4 passages
- 2012-09-14 | video | [322] Vinay Gupta at the Athens Hackerspace, 2012 September 2 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/322.md, 30 passages
- 2012-09-14 | video | [321] Vinay Gupta talking at FreeAndReal / The Telaithrion Project 2012 August 28 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/321.md, 30 passages
- 2012-09-22 | video | [409] #h4d2 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/409.md, 9 passages
- 2012-09-22 | video | [408] H4D2 review | https://guptaoption.com/texts/408.md, 5 passages
- 2012-09-23 | video | [407] H4D2.eu Final presentations | https://guptaoption.com/texts/407.md, 27 passages
- 2012-10-01 | video | [405] Meaning Conf 2012 @meaningconf livestream (third try!) | https://guptaoption.com/texts/405.md, 4 passages
- 2012-10-01 | video | [401] Meaning Conf Livestream 7 @meaningconf | https://guptaoption.com/texts/401.md, 12 passages
- 2012-10-01 | video | [404] Meaning Conf Livestream, 4th try (sorry #meaningconf) | https://guptaoption.com/texts/404.md, 6 passages
- 2012-10-01 | video | [406] Meaning Conference Livestream @meaningconf | https://guptaoption.com/texts/406.md, 10 passages
- 2012-10-01 | video | [402] Meaning Conference hangout 6 @meaningconf | https://guptaoption.com/texts/402.md, 20 passages
- 2012-10-08 | video | [400] http://hub.coe.int/forum-mondial-de-la-democratie-5-11-octobre-2012 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/400.md, 65 passages
- 2012-10-09 | video | [399] Council of Europe World Forum for Democracy Internet/Media session | https://guptaoption.com/texts/399.md, 22 passages
- 2012-10-15 | video | [725] Vinay Gupta l Plausible utopias | Meaning 2012 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/725.md, 23 passages
- 2012-10-19 | document | [79] Meaning: Plausible Utopias | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/79.md, 2 passages
- 2012-10-25 | video | [395] Open Data Ireland 25 October inaugeral meeting | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTbx-tpONog
- 2012-10-25 | video | [396] Transparency International launch event, Dublin | https://guptaoption.com/texts/396.md, 40 passages
- 2012-11 | document | [148] Mother of Hydrogen | https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md, 140 passages
- 2012-11 | document | [155] Mother of Hydrogen | https://guptaoption.com/texts/155.md, 2 passages
- 2012-11-03 | video | [320] The Living City - Buttered Side Down presentation to Arup - London November 2009 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/320.md, 21 passages
- 2012-11-17 | video | [394] Green Foundation Ireland - The Future of Europe | https://guptaoption.com/texts/394.md, 45 passages
- 2012-11-17 | video | [393] Green Foundation Ireland - The Future of Europe (2) | https://guptaoption.com/texts/393.md, 19 passages
- 2012-11-17 | video | [391] Green Foundation Ireland - The Future of Europe (4) | https://guptaoption.com/texts/391.md, 51 passages
- 2012-11-26 | document | [72] A Feather for Lifting Anvils – EdgeRyders 2.0 plans to change the world | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/72.md, 4 passages
- 2013 | video | [876] Electromagnetic Wave 2013 London - Vinay Gupta Hexayurt Project | listed by title only, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Electromagnetic%20Wave%202013%20London%20-%20Vinay%20Gupta%20Hexayurt%20Project.ogg
- 2013 | document | [169] OHM2013 Program | https://guptaoption.com/texts/169.md, 2 passages
- 2013-01-26 | video | [686] VINAY GUPTA, Future of Europe Seminar, Nov 2012 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/686.md, 7 passages
- 2013-02-28 | document | [93] Why there’s no money: the imaginary part of financial systems | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/93.md, 4 passages
- 2013-04-29 | document | [83] People’s Cloud architecture and futures in 1000 words | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/83.md, 3 passages
- 2013-05-08 | document | [143] The Global Cyber Game: Achieving strategic resilience in the global knowledge society | https://guptaoption.com/texts/143.md, 109 passages
- 2013-05-18 | document | [85] Swarm Cooperatives Schedule | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/85.md, 2 passages
- 2013-06-01 | video | [389] Big Picture Days 3 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/389.md, 2 passages
- 2013-06-01 | video | [388] Big Picture Days Hangout 4 | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rux7akgN2K8
- 2013-06-01 | video | [390] Big Picture Days Session 2 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/390.md, 2 passages
- 2013-07 | document | [18] Exploring Data Generated by Pocket Devices | https://guptaoption.com/texts/18.md, 22 passages
- 2013-07 | document | [8] Municipal Administration of Cities in Crisis | https://guptaoption.com/texts/8.md, 13 passages
- 2013-07-13 | video | [386] #Stacktivism stream 3 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/386.md, 8 passages
- 2013-07-13 | video | [387] Limewharf #STACKTIVISM #BIGPIX Stream 1 | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kJiUs-DcNA
- 2013-08-01 | audio | [898] Sorcerer's Apprentices? The Hacker Ethos and State Power (OHM2013 panel, audio) | audio, not transcribed yet, https://archive.org/details/OHM2013-SorcerersApprentices
- 2013-08-03 | video | [319] A sleepless night trying to find words | https://guptaoption.com/texts/319.md, 7 passages
- 2013-08-20 | video | [385] test | https://guptaoption.com/texts/385.md, 1 passage
- 2013-09-03 | video | [753] (OHM2013) One network one world designing for a 7 plus billion person world By Vinay Gupta | https://guptaoption.com/texts/753.md, 20 passages
- 2013-10-15 | video | [754] Vinay Gupta shares his vision of a rural future | https://guptaoption.com/texts/754.md, 6 passages
- 2013-12-01 | video | [317] Vinay Gupta (@leashless) of Hexayurt Project at the Bitcoin Expo, London, November 2013 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/317.md, 11 passages
- 2014 | document | [161] Hexayurts, Distributed Infrastructure, and Maximizing Global Minimalism - media.ccc.de | https://guptaoption.com/texts/161.md, 1 passage
- 2014 | document | [162] media ccc de v emf2014 144 hexayurts distributed infrastructure and maximizing global minim | https://guptaoption.com/texts/162.md, 1 passage
- 2014-01-30 | video | [697] Vinay Gupta - Resilience Guru - TRAILER | London Real | https://guptaoption.com/texts/697.md, 1 passage
- 2014-02-02 | document | [80] Governing Bitcoin: what the future holds for our favourite currency | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/80.md, 9 passages
- 2014-02-02 | video | [689] Vinay Gupta - Resilience Guru | London Real | https://guptaoption.com/texts/689.md, 33 passages
- 2014-02-03 | video | [701] Vinay Gupta - Gun Control Precedes Genocide | London Real | https://guptaoption.com/texts/701.md, 2 passages
- 2014-02-04 | video | [696] Vinay Gupta - Pandemic means Death? | London Real | https://guptaoption.com/texts/696.md, 2 passages
- 2014-02-05 | video | [698] Vinay Gupta - Hexayurt Project - End Homelessness | London Real | https://guptaoption.com/texts/698.md, 3 passages
- 2014-02-06 | video | [742] Vinay Gupta - Bitcoin Will Die | London Real | https://guptaoption.com/texts/742.md, 2 passages
- 2014-02-07 | video | [700] Vinay Gupta - Basic Income | London Real | https://guptaoption.com/texts/700.md, 2 passages
- 2014-02-14 | video | [746] Bitcoin Future - Vinay Gupta | London Real | https://guptaoption.com/texts/746.md, 2 passages
- 2014-04-30 | video | [316] Vinay Gupta - Maker Faire UK - Newcastle 2014 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/316.md, 10 passages
- 2014-05-22 | document | [172] vinay gupta | be you. | https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md, 97 passages
- 2014-06-30 | document | [73] A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/73.md, 2 passages
- 2014-06-30 | video | [315] Three Bureaucracies of Sharing: Owners, Managers and Protectors | https://guptaoption.com/texts/315.md, 12 passages
- 2014-09-02 | video | [314] EMF2014 hexayurt talk Hexayurts, Distributed Infrastructure, and Maximizing Global Minimalism | https://guptaoption.com/texts/314.md, 15 passages
- 2014-09-17 | video | [384] test | https://guptaoption.com/texts/384.md, 42 passages
- 2014-09-22 | video | [930] Engineers vs. Thugs: the Power of Bitcoin, Cryptography & Tech | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KybZAEm0stY
- 2014-10-13 | video | [711] Vinay Gupta – Hexayurts, Distributed Infrastructure, and Maximizing Global Minimalism | https://guptaoption.com/texts/711.md, 15 passages
- 2014-11-05 | document | [112] ‘Bitcoin Is Teaching Realism To Libertarians’: An Interview With Old-School Cypherpunk Vinay Gupta | https://guptaoption.com/texts/112.md, 7 passages
- 2014-12-09 | audio | [904] post-state foreign policy by internet protocol - vinay gupta | audio, not transcribed yet, https://soundcloud.com/vinay-gupta-17/post-state-foreign-policy-by-internet-protocol-vinay-gupta
- 2014-12-18 | video | [311] Vinay Gupta - Proof of Work / IAmSatoshi | https://guptaoption.com/texts/311.md, 16 passages
- 2015 | document | [244] Coase’s Blockchain: Can Equity Crowdfunding Accelerate Past Venture Capital? (slides) | https://guptaoption.com/texts/244.md, 1 passage
- 2015 | document | [119] Consensys - Building the Era of Decentralized Finance | https://guptaoption.com/texts/119.md, 1 passage
- 2015 | document | [111] Dangerous Old Men: Cypherpunk's Failure, Ethereum's Success | https://guptaoption.com/texts/111.md, 1 passage
- 2015 | document | [132] Ethereum - The complete guide from ethereum.org | https://guptaoption.com/texts/132.md, 1 passage
- 2015-01-13 | video | [310] Engineers Without Borders Sheffield Plywood Hexayurt How To | https://guptaoption.com/texts/310.md, 15 passages
- 2015-01-25 | video | [309] Testing "Ethereum for Web Developers" with a few friends | https://guptaoption.com/texts/309.md, 8 passages
- 2015-01-28 | video | [307] Financial Services Club Jan 27 2015 - "What is Money?" - David Birch, Simon Taylor, Vinay Gupta | https://guptaoption.com/texts/307.md, 34 passages
- 2015-01-28 | video | [308] financial services club 27 January 2015 - What is Money? - David Birch, Vinay Gupta and Simon Taylor | https://guptaoption.com/texts/308.md, 22 passages
- 2015-02-09 | video | [305] ChangeHow - rough camera video of Vinay Gupta's talk on Buckminster Fuller and activism | https://guptaoption.com/texts/305.md, 11 passages
- 2015-02-21 | video | [303] How To Sell Ideas from (from Ethereum DEVCON Berlin) | https://guptaoption.com/texts/303.md, 17 passages
- 2015-02-26 | video | [756] Change:HOW #17 Vinay Gupta | https://guptaoption.com/texts/756.md, 7 passages
- 2015-03-03 | document | [113] The Ethereum Launch Process | Ethereum Foundation Blog | https://guptaoption.com/texts/113.md, 6 passages
- 2015-04-21 | video | [380] A new way to describe blockchains | https://guptaoption.com/texts/380.md, 1 passage
- 2015-04-21 | video | [379] Blockchains, databases, reification: are bottom up standards possible? | https://guptaoption.com/texts/379.md, 13 passages
- 2015-04-27 | video | [302] Vinay Gupta - Protecting History (blockchains) Maker Faire Newcastle 2015 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/302.md, 10 passages
- 2015-04-28 | document | [194] Of Warlords and Rodeos: Why Nothing Works - North Atlantic Books | https://guptaoption.com/texts/194.md, 4 passages
- 2015-05-09 | document | [234] zenpundit.com » Blog Archive » WARLORDS, INC BOOK LAUNCH!!! | https://guptaoption.com/texts/234.md, 3 passages
- 2015-05-12 | video | [301] Ilaria R. and Vinay Gupta discuss the Ethereum Project and theories of political change | https://guptaoption.com/texts/301.md, 37 passages
- 2015-05-12 | document | [115] Warlords, Inc.: Black Markets, Broken States, and the Rise of the Warlord ... - Google Books | https://guptaoption.com/texts/115.md, 2 passages
- 2015-05-14 | video | [775] Vinay Gupta - Foreign Policy By Internet Protocol | https://guptaoption.com/texts/775.md, 11 passages
- 2015-06-02 | video | [299] Mic audio: Coase's Blockchain: can equity crowdfunding accelerate past Venture Capital? | https://guptaoption.com/texts/299.md, 15 passages
- 2015-06-05 | document | [153] Financial Cryptography: Coase's Blockchain - the first half block - Vinay Gupta explains triple entry | https://guptaoption.com/texts/153.md, 4 passages
- 2015-06-08 | video | [298] Raw footage of Transparent Society mic audio soon | https://guptaoption.com/texts/298.md, 30 passages
- 2015-06-18 | video | [296] Vinay Gupta - Transparent Society - Crowdfunding on Blockchains / Ethereum | https://guptaoption.com/texts/296.md, 31 passages
- 2015-07 | document | [171] Taming Black Elephants | https://guptaoption.com/texts/171.md, 21 passages
- 2015-07-16 | video | [295] Singapore talk | https://guptaoption.com/texts/295.md, 30 passages
- 2015-08-21 | video | [893] [Extended Version] - [Bitcoin] Cannot be divorced from pre-existing political theory | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaaknMDbQGc
- 2015-08-22 | video | [294] Practice Safe Hex - Burning Man Hexayurt Safety Checklist! | https://guptaoption.com/texts/294.md, 5 passages
- 2015-09-06 | document | [225] Imogen Heap: saviour of the music industry? | Imogen Heap | The Guardian | https://guptaoption.com/texts/225.md, 9 passages
- 2015-09-16 | audio | [865] Blockchains, databases, networks, economies, and global governance | audio, not transcribed yet, https://soundcloud.com/vinay-gupta-17/blockchains-databases-networks
- 2015-09-19 | audio | [884] Five minute summary of the Gupta offering | audio, not transcribed yet, https://soundcloud.com/vinay-gupta-17/five-minute-summary-of-the
- 2015-09-27 | audio | [916] Talk for This Happened on the Hexayurt Guy Capital Partners model | audio, not transcribed yet, https://soundcloud.com/vinay-gupta-17/talk-for-this-happened-on-the
- 2015-10-05 | audio | [912] State of the net - blockchain vs bureaucrats | audio, not transcribed yet, https://soundcloud.com/vinay-gupta-17/state-of-the-net-blockchain-vs
- 2015-10-10 | video | [755] Vinay Gupta | Computers that just work | State of the Net 2015 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/755.md, 11 passages
- 2015-10-10 | video | [757] Vinay Gupta | Interview | State of the Net 2015 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/757.md, 2 passages
- 2015-10-15 | document | [229] The Man Whose Job It Is to Constantly Imagine the Total Collapse of Humanity in Order to Save It | https://guptaoption.com/texts/229.md, 11 passages
- 2015-10-21 | document | [164] Programmable blockchains in context: Ethereum’s Future – Medium | https://guptaoption.com/texts/164.md, 14 passages
- 2015-11-14 | video | [695] Vinay Gupta - Dangerous Old Men: cypherpunk's failure, Ethereum's success | https://guptaoption.com/texts/695.md, 15 passages
- 2015-11-16 | video | [759] Vinay Gupta, Robin Hood Coop London Open Office, August 2015 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/759.md, 5 passages
- 2015-12-08 | video | [769] Vinay Gupta talk, Amsterdam 21/10/2015 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/769.md, 30 passages
- 2016 | document | [242] Dog Atheism: on smart contracts, risk, and value networks | https://guptaoption.com/texts/242.md, 52 passages
- 2016-01-18 | video | [694] EB114 – Vinay Gupta: From Lawyer Capitalism To Programmer Capitalism | https://guptaoption.com/texts/694.md, 36 passages
- 2016-01-19 | video | [684] DEVCON1: Dangerous Old Men: Cypherpunk's Failure, Ethereum's Success - Vinay Gupta feat. Imogen Heap | https://guptaoption.com/texts/684.md, 25 passages
- 2016-01-20 | video | [929] DEVCON1: Panel - The Pathway to Ethereum Adoption | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsIjUNuG4pw
- 2016-02-26 | video | [688] Vinay Gupta on the beginning of blockchain (360, excerpt) in De Brakke Grond | https://guptaoption.com/texts/688.md, 5 passages


# Vinay Gupta: every source by date (part 2 of 3, 2016 to 2025)

> Every source in the archive (814): date, kind, id, title and where its text is. 662 have his passages; the rest are listed by title until they are transcribed. Part 2 of 3, 2016 to 2025; continues in https://guptaoption.com/texts/index-3.md. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt; source ids such as [250] are at https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md.

- 2016-02-29 | video | [882] Vinay Gupta - Fab Academy Recitations | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wSGMv-ULxM
- 2016-04-18 | audio | [920] Ep. 15: Vinay Gupta on Meditation, Enlightenment and Saving the World | audio, not transcribed yet, https://archive.org/details/nue7yhqw7bvawcofh4cgtm1dtha25xmd3w2jk77y
- 2016-04-23 | video | [776] Vinay Gupta presents "Nuclear Poker" to the London Educational Games Meetup, Sep 23, 2014 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/776.md, 19 passages
- 2016-04-24 | video | [293] Beyond flags and nations - blockchains and global democracy (ok audio) | https://guptaoption.com/texts/293.md, 12 passages
- 2016-05-03 | video | [292] Beyond flags and nations - blockchains and the world - at Maker Faire Newcastle | https://guptaoption.com/texts/292.md, 15 passages
- 2016-05-06 | video | [291] Interview with Sam Warburton of RWE about blockchains, smart contracts, and smart grid | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFpna0NTm-0
- 2016-05-10 | video | [766] Start Talks Vinay Gupta | https://guptaoption.com/texts/766.md, 5 passages
- 2016-05-15 | video | [288] test | https://guptaoption.com/texts/288.md, 1 passage
- 2016-05-15 | video | [289] test | https://guptaoption.com/texts/289.md, 1 passage
- 2016-05-15 | video | [290] test | https://guptaoption.com/texts/290.md, 1 passage
- 2016-05-15 | video | [287] test edit | https://guptaoption.com/texts/287.md, 1 passage
- 2016-05-19 | video | [286] Ouishare on global democracy and the real sharing economy | https://guptaoption.com/texts/286.md, 7 passages
- 2016-05-26 | video | [378] Vinay Gupta Live Stream | https://guptaoption.com/texts/378.md, 1 passage
- 2016-05-26 | video | [285] quick test | https://guptaoption.com/texts/285.md, 1 passage
- 2016-05-26 | video | [376] test2 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/376.md, 1 passage
- 2016-05-31 | video | [284] Daniel Pinchbeck and Vinay Gupta discuss using blockchains for coordinating environmental protection | https://guptaoption.com/texts/284.md, 11 passages
- 2016-06-01 | video | [863] Vinay Gupta - Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin | https://guptaoption.com/texts/863.md, 9 passages
- 2016-06-07 | video | [283] Digital Bauhaus 2016 backup camera footage | https://guptaoption.com/texts/283.md, 13 passages
- 2016-06-07 | video | [280] Vinay Gupta Digital 2016 Newport Wales | https://guptaoption.com/texts/280.md, 22 passages
- 2016-06-07 | video | [282] Wales 1 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/282.md, 11 passages
- 2016-06-12 | audio | [881] The Ether Review #30 - Vinay Gupta - All Roads lead to the Singularity | audio, not transcribed yet, https://soundcloud.com/arthurfalls/the-ether-review-30-vinay-gupta-all-roads-lead-to-the-singularity
- 2016-06-13 | video | [279] Jon Husband (Wirearchy inventor) and Vinay Gupta discuss blockchains, governance, | https://guptaoption.com/texts/279.md, 30 passages
- 2016-06-19 | video | [278] Thoughts on the DAO (1) - it takes a lot of people to make this kind of a mess | https://guptaoption.com/texts/278.md, 6 passages
- 2016-06-26 | video | [734] Blockchain: Beyond Bitcoin by Vinay Gupta @leashless (Consensys Systems) | https://guptaoption.com/texts/734.md, 6 passages
- 2016-07-19 | video | [719] Cyberpunk to blockchains: Cultural history of decentralization | Vinay Gupta (2015) Redecentralize | https://guptaoption.com/texts/719.md, 14 passages
- 2016-08 | document | [7] Capital Partners transcript, August 2016 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/7.md, 21 passages
- 2016-08-12 | video | [277] a thesis: hexayurt guy capital partners? | https://guptaoption.com/texts/277.md, 22 passages
- 2016-08-29 | video | [764] FutureRant - Vinay Gupta Pt 1/4 - "The Mind of Design" | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mCXTebVaJY
- 2016-08-29 | video | [763] FutureRant - Vinay Gupta Pt 2/4 - "Survival & Politics" | https://guptaoption.com/texts/763.md, 18 passages
- 2016-08-29 | video | [782] FutureRant w/ Gabriel D Vine - Vinay Gupta TEASER | https://guptaoption.com/texts/782.md, 1 passage
- 2016-08-30 | video | [935] FutureRant - Vinay Gupta Pt 3/4 - "Bitcoin & TheDAO" | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7ant_59PHs
- 2016-08-31 | video | [679] FutureRant - Vinay Gupta Pt 4/4 - "Cypherpunk to Cyberpunk" | https://guptaoption.com/texts/679.md, 21 passages
- 2016-09-03 | video | [276] Dubai trip notes September 2016 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/276.md, 6 passages
- 2016-10-06 | document | [227] Dubai Mandates Blockchain-Only Government Documents By 2020 | THINK Digital Partners : THINK Digital Partners | https://guptaoption.com/texts/227.md, 1 passage
- 2016-11-04 | video | [275] 1 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/275.md, 14 passages
- 2016-11-04 | video | [273] 2 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/273.md, 14 passages
- 2016-11-04 | video | [274] 3 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/274.md, 8 passages
- 2016-11-05 | video | [272] Interview with Rob Knight (hexayurt vc) and Dominic Tarr (secure scuttlebutt) | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JolzQo8iLaY
- 2016-12-05 | document | [208] Taming Black Elephants | https://guptaoption.com/texts/208.md, 12 passages
- 2017 | document | [42] Home - Mattereum | https://guptaoption.com/texts/42.md, 2 passages
- 2017 | document | [39] Internet of Agreements | https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md, 2 passages
- 2017-01-25 | video | [271] Introducing the Internet of Agreements | https://guptaoption.com/texts/271.md, 14 passages
- 2017-02 | document | [237] The Internet of Agreements (Hexayurt Capital section, pp.5-14 of Building the Hyperconnected Future on Blockchains, WGS Feb 2017) | https://guptaoption.com/texts/237.md, 14 passages
- 2017-02-12 | document | [218] Blockchain to be breakthrough tech for Dubai and government | Khaleej Times | https://guptaoption.com/texts/218.md, 2 passages
- 2017-02-13 | document | [221] Hexayurt Capital presents the Internet of Agreements™ at the World Government Summit -- Hexayurt Capital | PRLog | https://guptaoption.com/texts/221.md, 3 passages
- 2017-03-04 | video | [705] Vinay Gupta - Thought Menu on Enlightenment | https://guptaoption.com/texts/705.md, 13 passages
- 2017-03-11 | video | [693] Interview with Vinay Gupta by Paul Tanasyuk | Blockchain, Identity, Resilience and Social Order | https://guptaoption.com/texts/693.md, 15 passages
- 2017-03-21 | video | [270] Hope For The World | https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md, 56 passages
- 2017-04-05 | document | [159] Taming Black Elephants | https://guptaoption.com/texts/159.md, 19 passages
- 2017-04-07 | video | [709] Can blockchain solve the accountability gap? | Vinay Gupta | https://guptaoption.com/texts/709.md, 3 passages
- 2017-04-11 | document | [157] The Black Elephant Challenge for Governments | IPS Commons | https://guptaoption.com/texts/157.md, 8 passages
- 2017-04-25 | video | [268] Thomas Bjelkeman of Akvo.org and Vinay Gupta of hexayurt.capital discuss internetofagreements.com | https://guptaoption.com/texts/268.md, 13 passages
- 2017-05-03 | video | [267] The future of humanitarian innovation | https://guptaoption.com/texts/267.md, 9 passages
- 2017-05-08 | video | [266] "Blockchain: IoT's trust broker?" talk on the fly by wire internet and the blockchain future | https://guptaoption.com/texts/266.md, 18 passages
- 2017-05-11 | video | [265] European Parliament blockchain presentation May 2017 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/265.md, 15 passages
- 2017-05-16 | video | [691] Vinay Gupta (Part 2) by Paul Tanasyuk | Blockchain, Identity, Resilience and Social Order | https://guptaoption.com/texts/691.md, 24 passages
- 2017-05-19 | video | [263] Ethereal Summit | https://guptaoption.com/texts/263.md, 5 passages
- 2017-05-24 | video | [262] Zyen/DasCoin "Dark side of the chain?" talk on the NHS hack etc. | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuYsK6MqY-o
- 2017-06-15 | video | [928] Expanding Mind with Erik Davis - Enlightened Resilience - June 15th, 2017 | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kl-y0RXh-o
- 2017-06-21 | video | [917] Blockchain keynote - Vinay Gupta | https://guptaoption.com/texts/917.md, 24 passages
- 2017-07-07 | document | [834] A Blockchain Solution for Identity? – Internet of Agreements | https://guptaoption.com/texts/834.md, 1 passage
- 2017-09-30 | video | [932] ICO's & regulators with Vinay Gupta and Lee Schneider | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuPBKBdvzjI
- 2017-10 | document | [211] Digital Catapult welcomes Vinay Gupta as Blockchain Fellow - Digital Catapult | Digital Catapult | https://guptaoption.com/texts/211.md, 2 passages
- 2017-10-13 | document | [836] 13 Oct 17 Law – Internet of Agreements | https://guptaoption.com/texts/836.md, 3 passages
- 2017-10-17 | video | [744] Vinay Gupta - Hexayurt Capital - World Blockchain Forum | https://guptaoption.com/texts/744.md, 5 passages
- 2017-10-18 | document | [215] This Revolution Will Be Tokenized | https://guptaoption.com/texts/215.md, 4 passages
- 2017-10-27 | video | [699] Vinay Gupta, Hexayurt.Capital | Blockchain: Ecology, State and Anarchy | https://guptaoption.com/texts/699.md, 17 passages
- 2017-10-31 | video | [259] Marketforce Blockchain Summit - Vinay Gupta talk on accredited investors, blockchains and space | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NSRjbhXH_4
- 2017-11-28 | video | [690] FSCONS 2017 - Vinay Gupta - Resilience | https://guptaoption.com/texts/690.md, 23 passages
- 2017-12-07 | video | [740] Hexayurt Interviews - Vinay Gupta and Bob Vrtis - at Combined Endeavor (2007) | https://guptaoption.com/texts/740.md, 9 passages
- 2017-12-13 | document | [40] First Internet of Agreements Conference Recap – Internet of Agreements | https://guptaoption.com/texts/40.md, 1 passage
- 2017-12-13 | video | [660] How to make smart contracts legally binding? I Mihai Cimpoesu I Mattereum | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5dX-8jdTKM
- 2017-12-13 | video | [659] Interview with Mihai Cimpoensu I Mattereum and legally enforceable smart contracts | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvhnDTiYFWM
- 2017-12-15 | video | [657] Legal Panel - Internet of Agreements conference | https://guptaoption.com/texts/657.md, 24 passages
- 2017-12-19 | video | [656] Michael Mainelli - Internet of Agreements conference | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P09m1_NLRjs
- 2017-12-26 | video | [641] Christopher Brewster - Smart Contracts and the need for Semantics (and reasoning) | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jux18HbUKRM
- 2017-12-26 | video | [645] David Roon - Internet of Agreements conference | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-JIjqMKq3M
- 2017-12-26 | video | [638] Ian Grigg - Internet of Agreements conference | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8iRqqsvtiE
- 2017-12-26 | video | [644] Imogen Heap - Internet of Agreements Conference | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy-5tqgXNeo
- 2017-12-26 | video | [653] Interview with Brett Scott - Internet of Agreements | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuL0dCAugOo
- 2017-12-26 | video | [650] Interview with Ian Grigg - Internet of Agreements | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inweN2dZ4Fo
- 2017-12-26 | video | [648] Interview with Jon Husband - Internet of Agreements | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZviY33oAfig
- 2017-12-26 | video | [651] Interview with Namayi Daxit - Internet of Agreements | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RonQVL9Lw8
- 2017-12-26 | video | [654] Interview with Stephen Diehl - Internet of Agreements | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc5qv5qabfI
- 2017-12-26 | video | [646] Jeremy Silver - Internet of Agreement conference | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBMdwq1t0o4
- 2017-12-26 | video | [643] Meng Wong - Internet of Agreements | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlGqifLBsy8
- 2017-12-26 | video | [640] Sally Holdway & Hugo Pickford Wardle - Internet of Agreements | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY2slnbGyPM
- 2017-12-26 | video | [639] Stephen Diehl - Smart Contracts for New Entrepreneurs | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFlu61wJe2Y
- 2017-12-26 | video | [642] Trent McConaghy - Sunny Day Tech, Rainy Day Law | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3bETBb6fXk
- 2017-12-26 | video | [647] Vinay Gupta - Internet of Agreements conference | https://guptaoption.com/texts/647.md, 6 passages
- 2017-12-30 | video | [779] Vinay Gupta about InsurePal | https://guptaoption.com/texts/779.md, 1 passage
- 2018-01-04 | video | [637] Mattereum and business on the blockchain I Rob Knight | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foIo7wbiWsA
- 2018-02-11 | video | [706] Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin - with Vinay Gupta | Virtual Futures Salon | https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md, 43 passages
- 2018-02-15 | video | [938] Vinay Gupta - A Brief History of Blockchain | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkxkbe0Uui0
- 2018-02-21 | video | [933] Blockchaingers Interview with Vinay Gupta | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODyz6of2F2U
- 2018-02-22 | video | [726] Talk by Vinay Gupta at the Blockchaingers Global Digital Identity Deep Diver | https://guptaoption.com/texts/726.md, 5 passages
- 2018-02-23 | document | [837] 23 Feb 18 Trade – Internet of Agreements | https://guptaoption.com/texts/837.md, 1 passage
- 2018-03-20 | video | [728] 4thBlock London Feb 25 - Vinay Gupta of Hexayurt.Capital | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmjHLVvJkMI
- 2018-03-21 | document | [851] Global governance in the era of blockchain. | https://guptaoption.com/texts/851.md, 25 passages
- 2018-03-28 | video | [713] Vinay Gupta on identity, starting a fund, internet court system & dominant blockchains | https://guptaoption.com/texts/713.md, 4 passages
- 2018-03-30 | video | [635] Ian Grigg (Chamapesa) and Vinay Gupta (Mattereum) on dispute resolution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/635.md, 17 passages
- 2018-04-03 | video | [874] Deconomy Day1, Panel Presentation: The journey to a P2P Cash System (2/3) | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4JKSlBWKRY
- 2018-04-06 | video | [633] Mattereum panel at the Internet of Agreements conference | https://guptaoption.com/texts/633.md, 35 passages
- 2018-04-07 | video | [729] Blockchaingers Hackathon 2018 - Interview with Vinay Gupta CEO of Mattereum | https://guptaoption.com/texts/729.md, 21 passages
- 2018-04-09 | video | [632] Law and Global Trade in the Era of Blockchain | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqK51UBslUc
- 2018-04-10 | document | [835] 10 Apr 18 Identity – Internet of Agreements | https://guptaoption.com/texts/835.md, 2 passages
- 2018-04-16 | video | [631] The economic impact of blockchain - Panel at the second Internet of Agreements conference | https://guptaoption.com/texts/631.md, 11 passages
- 2018-04-17 | video | [630] Michael Mainelli - "The economic impact on world trade of smart ledgers" | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHHZ7he-Aj0
- 2018-04-19 | video | [629] Blockchain In The Manufacturing Supply Chain | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS0jxXq2usw
- 2018-05-15 | video | [622] Amy Bell - Identity - Internet of Agreements | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpO1w1A4Fj4
- 2018-05-15 | video | [620] Evernym - Identity - Internet of Agreements | https://guptaoption.com/texts/620.md, 10 passages
- 2018-05-15 | video | [628] Ian Grigg - Identity - Internet of Agreements | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_f93QL0xLc
- 2018-05-15 | video | [624] Matt Peterman - Identity - Internet of Agreements conference | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAWSzvaQ_2I
- 2018-05-15 | video | [627] Michael Mainelli - Identity - Internet of Agreements conference | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXZuG15rikQ
- 2018-05-15 | document | [853] Professor Michael Mainelli of Z/Yen in Conversation with Mattereum CEO Vinay Gupta | https://guptaoption.com/texts/853.md, 11 passages
- 2018-05-15 | video | [625] Rob Knight - Identity - Internet of Agreements conference | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lhKsyZdNUM
- 2018-05-15 | document | [166] Rob Knight — on the Internet of Agreements project | by Internet of Agreements | Mattereum - Humanizing the Singularity | Medium | listed by title only, https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/rob-knight-on-the-internet-of-agreements-project-16c34df59d39
- 2018-05-15 | video | [621] Rouven Heck - Identity - Internet of Agreements | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqPWjzPpBmA
- 2018-05-15 | video | [623] Rutger van Zuidam - Identity - Internet of Agreements | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWMy-B4lTFY
- 2018-05-15 | video | [626] Vishal Gupta - Identity - Internet of Agreements | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOPpQRlmqAM
- 2018-05-30 | video | [859] Vinay Gupta's vision on blockchain's influence in the next 10 year #BIC18 | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mH1gJsjF2o
- 2018-06-07 | video | [861] Interview Vinay Gupta, former member Ethereum Foundation and founder at #Mattereum | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_0BJZPr7DI
- 2018-06-14 | video | [900] How to use blockchain as a Force for Good | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeBR8gzoKg0
- 2018-06-15 | video | [732] Vinay Gupta - How Blockchain will change our global system in the next 10 years | BIC18 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/732.md, 14 passages
- 2018-06-15 | video | [858] Vinay Gupta: 'TOKENIZING THE WORLD can lead to GLOBAL BANKRUPTCY' | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdgcAI6bqPQ
- 2018-06-21 | document | [41] 21 Jun 18 Space – Internet of Agreements | https://guptaoption.com/texts/41.md, 3 passages
- 2018-06-25 | video | [619] Katherine Courtney - Space - Internet of Agreements | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTeUUQt0Z1Y
- 2018-06-25 | video | [618] Vinay Gupta - Space - Internet of Agreements | https://guptaoption.com/texts/618.md, 16 passages
- 2018-06-30 | video | [737] Vinay Gupta on Smart Contracts and Mattereum ICO - CRYPTOLISTER.IO | https://guptaoption.com/texts/737.md, 3 passages
- 2018-07-11 | video | [926] Interview with Vinay Gupta about blockchain and EU Blockathon 2018 | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OlBXilI6mc
- 2018-07-11 | video | [937] Interview with Vinay Gupta about blockchain and EU Blockathon 2018 (II) | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPpdF4ca2yU
- 2018-07-16 | video | [613] Adam Paigge - Internet of Agreements - Space | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekw0d8McEuQ
- 2018-07-16 | video | [616] Anja Blaj - Internet of Agreements - Space | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoW2mY8jAaY
- 2018-07-16 | video | [615] Anushka Sharma - Internet of Agreements - Space | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R81Uc5I8GT4
- 2018-07-16 | video | [617] Benoit Chamot - Internet of Agreements - Space | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uJy2gi_56A
- 2018-07-16 | video | [614] Dean Masley & Ahsan Fazal - Internet of Agreements - Space | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZZfi2qx1PU
- 2018-07-16 | video | [611] Ingram Kamalagharan - Internet of Agreements - Space | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIeIUBK6sSs
- 2018-07-16 | video | [612] Panel discussion - Internet of Agreements - Space | https://guptaoption.com/texts/612.md, 21 passages
- 2018-07-18 | video | [921] Ian kane meets Vinay Gupta | Blockchain Centre Vilnius | 18.07.18 | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ4WbDEcKP4
- 2018-07-18 | video | [767] Vinay Gupta + Regulation & Innovation panel @ #PillarUnconference Day 3 LIVE | Pillar | https://guptaoption.com/texts/767.md, 36 passages
- 2018-08-03 | video | [609] James Bruegger - Internet of Agreements - Space | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rewlI0xUUDU
- 2018-08-03 | video | [610] Jerry Stone - Internet of Agreements - Space | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3PtiCbqtPs
- 2018-08-03 | video | [608] Kryha - Internet of Agreements - Space | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtTdWLaXOQA
- 2018-08-03 | video | [607] Pavlo Tanasyuk - Internet of Agreements - Space | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfrL4gmHN70
- 2018-08-12 | video | [899] On Law & Power - Onwrd Podcast Ep.4 | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL2JcorjH9I
- 2018-08-13 | video | [606] Mattereum Highlights - Rob Knight on the idea behind the Internet of Agreements | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb3FKEIlQPY
- 2018-08-22 | video | [602] Mattereum Highlights - Chris Wray on arbitration | https://guptaoption.com/texts/602.md, 2 passages
- 2018-09-26 | video | [707] Vinay Gupta & Marleen Stikker discuss the future of technology and commons | https://guptaoption.com/texts/707.md, 20 passages
- 2018-09-27 | document | [183] Vinay Gupta to talk about Mattereum at Disrupt Berlin | TechCrunch | https://guptaoption.com/texts/183.md, 2 passages
- 2018-10-10 | video | [600] Mattereum Highlights - Chris Wray - Impact of smart contracts on businesses | https://guptaoption.com/texts/600.md, 4 passages
- 2018-10-16 | video | [864] Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin with Vinay Gupta Virtual Futures Salon | https://guptaoption.com/texts/864.md, 45 passages
- 2018-10-30 | video | [721] Vinay Gupta, founder Mattereum, putting assets on the blockchain: “Ethereum will scale definitely” | https://guptaoption.com/texts/721.md, 16 passages
- 2018-11-08 | video | [598] Mattereum Smart Property Register - David Salgado | https://guptaoption.com/texts/598.md, 2 passages
- 2018-11-08 | video | [597] Mattereum Smart Property Register - Rob Knight | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3a3beDTDnc
- 2018-12-05 | document | [116] Vinay Gupta Thinks Tokenizing the World Is the Best Way to Save It | https://guptaoption.com/texts/116.md, 9 passages
- 2018-12-11 | video | [716] How do we control the material world with smart contracts? by Vinay Gupta (Devcon4) | https://guptaoption.com/texts/716.md, 17 passages
- 2018-12-13 | video | [676] Vinay Gupta on Blockchain, Biotech and Consciousness - E43 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/676.md, 39 passages
- 2019 | document | [43] William Shatner Authentication - Mattereum | https://guptaoption.com/texts/43.md, 2 passages
- 2019-03-10 | video | [879] EthCC 2: Vinay Gupta | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykoSEb7AMd0
- 2019-04-01 | audio | [877] Vinay Gupta - Waking Up in the Monster Factory (pt. 1) | audio, not transcribed yet, https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/emerge/episodes/Vinay-Gupta---Waking-Up-in-the-Monster-Factory-pt--1-e3ikvk
- 2019-04-08 | audio | [878] Vinay Gupta - Waking Up in the Monster Factory (pt. 2) | audio, not transcribed yet, https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/emerge/episodes/Vinay-Gupta---Waking-Up-in-the-Monster-Factory-pt--2-e3lvgk
- 2019-04-17 | document | [207] Black Elephants (CCCR2018) - CSER | https://guptaoption.com/texts/207.md, 1 passage
- 2019-04-28 | video | [258] Mattereum - Decentralized Digital Twins | https://guptaoption.com/texts/258.md, 9 passages
- 2019-04-30 | video | [692] Vinay Gupta:From Global Resilience to Practical Blockchain Vision | https://guptaoption.com/texts/692.md, 46 passages
- 2019-05 | video | [931] Blockchain and the Future of Humanity | Malta AIBC Summit May 2019 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/931.md, 5 passages
- 2019-05 | document | [197] PRESS RELEASE: WILLIAM SHATNER TEAMS UP WITH LONDON FIRM MATTEREUM TO FIGHT FRAUD IN COLLECTIBLES | William Shatner | https://guptaoption.com/texts/197.md, 1 passage
- 2019-05-04 | video | [257] Vinay Gupta - Oslo Blockchain Day - Merging the Physical and the Digital using blockchains | https://guptaoption.com/texts/257.md, 15 passages
- 2019-05-10 | video | [747] Startup Societies Podcast - Episode 34 - Vinay Gupta | https://guptaoption.com/texts/747.md, 43 passages
- 2019-05-12 | video | [256] I'm coming to Malta | https://guptaoption.com/texts/256.md, 1 passage
- 2019-05-22 | document | [163] Tell Me Who You Are. Identity, institutional memory, and the… | by ConsenSys | Medium | https://guptaoption.com/texts/163.md, 32 passages
- 2019-05-24 | video | [748] CCForum and Malta AI & Blockchain Summit Malta 2019/Vinay Gupta | https://guptaoption.com/texts/748.md, 4 passages
- 2019-05-30 | video | [750] CCForum and Malta AI & Blockchain Summit / press conference. Roger Ver, Vinay Gupta, Bobby Lee | https://guptaoption.com/texts/750.md, 13 passages
- 2019-06-28 | video | [255] Global Fintech and Blockchain - Imperial College - Vinay Gupta (Mattereum) on automated morality | https://guptaoption.com/texts/255.md, 16 passages
- 2019-08-16 | audio | [889] Hashing It Out #56: Mattereum, Vinay Gupta | audio, not transcribed yet, https://thebitcoinpodcast.com/episodes/hio/056-mattereum-vinay-gupta
- 2019-08-19 | video | [862] Interview VINAY GUPTA about Ethereum, Decarbonizing by Blockchain and Mattereum || BitcoinMagazineNL | https://guptaoption.com/texts/862.md, 8 passages
- 2019-09-23 | video | [752] Vinay Gupta: The Cities That Will Walk Away | https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md, 33 passages
- 2019-09-30 | document | [165] The Mattereum Manifesto: green capitalism, product information markets, and the blockchain | https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md, 29 passages
- 2019-10-07 | video | [254] Vinay Talk Amsterdam October 2019 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/254.md, 26 passages
- 2019-10-08 | video | [758] #3 Vinay Gupta, Indexing the physical world | https://guptaoption.com/texts/758.md, 46 passages
- 2019-10-15 | video | [253] Goldsmiths talk on life extension and fluid language | https://guptaoption.com/texts/253.md, 36 passages
- 2019-10-15 | video | [252] Vinay Gupta / Mattereum Manifesto keynote at the London CC Forum | https://guptaoption.com/texts/252.md, 5 passages
- 2019-11-25 | video | [777] CCForum London 2019/Vinay Gupta. Blockhain and the Future of Humanity | https://guptaoption.com/texts/777.md, 5 passages
- 2019-12-24 | video | [718] Conversations #5 - Vinay Gupta | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1pkG4UYa4Y
- 2020 | document | [191] My Thoughtmenu on Enlightenment | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/191.md, 11 passages
- 2020 | document | [239] The Future of Stuff | https://guptaoption.com/texts/239.md, 48 passages
- 2020 | document | [236] The Mattereum Top Down Deck Day 6 (Lean Green Mattereum) | https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md, 32 passages
- 2020-01-24 | video | [251] ODM 6981 Oxford Technology and Media Network Climate Change | https://guptaoption.com/texts/251.md, 35 passages
- 2020-03-03 | video | [760] Vinay Gupta - Across the Abyss: From Myth to Reality @ Human // Nature // Stories | https://guptaoption.com/texts/760.md, 19 passages
- 2020-03-09 | video | [771] Vinay Gupta talks about Myths and Fears | https://guptaoption.com/texts/771.md, 2 passages
- 2020-03-18 | video | [685] Pandemics and the Coronavirus Part 2 with Vinay Gupta | https://guptaoption.com/texts/685.md, 25 passages
- 2020-03-20 | video | [681] Pandemics and the Coronavirus Part 1 with Vinay Gupta | https://guptaoption.com/texts/681.md, 26 passages
- 2020-03-22 | video | [249] A long, difficult conversation about dealing with elderly dependents during the COVID crisis | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uTKRZBKXmQ
- 2020-04-09 | audio | [902] Indian Philosophy, Capitalism, the Left, and the Pandemic w/ Vinay Gupta | audio, not transcribed yet, https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/vinay-gupta/
- 2020-04-16 | video | [761] Cryptoeconomics Lab: Vinay Gupta | https://guptaoption.com/texts/761.md, 28 passages
- 2020-04-16 | document | [206] Vinay Gupta's Big Idea: An Identity Layer for Your Things | https://guptaoption.com/texts/206.md, 9 passages
- 2020-05-14 | video | [731] Vinay Gupta l The Internet of Agreements l Meaning 2017 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/731.md, 15 passages
- 2020-06-20 | video | [770] Grounded Gabbin' with Vinay Gupta (on the meta-crisis) | https://guptaoption.com/texts/770.md, 29 passages
- 2020-06-27 | video | [683] CommunityZ Chest - Vinay Gupta, Founder of Mattereum, In Conversation With Michael Mainelli | https://guptaoption.com/texts/683.md, 23 passages
- 2020-07-28 | document | [120] blockone - Sign In | https://guptaoption.com/texts/120.md, 1 passage
- 2020-09-24 | video | [248] Vinay Gupta Thought Menu on Enlightenment | https://guptaoption.com/texts/248.md, 16 passages
- 2020-11-03 | video | [247] Hexayurt Interviews Hexayurt Footage From The Transitional Living Worksh815 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/247.md, 9 passages
- 2020-11-20 | video | [723] "Saving the Climate with Real World Asset NFTs" by Vinay Gupta | MoneyDance 2020 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/723.md, 11 passages
- 2020-11-25 | video | [887] The Future of Stuff - Digital Ownership and Rights | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVIUA73YsTI
- 2020-12-31 | document | [233] Quaddome | https://guptaoption.com/texts/233.md, 1 passage
- 2021-03-13 | video | [738] The Bitcoin Podcast Roundtable #343--Vinay Gupta of Mattereum | https://guptaoption.com/texts/738.md, 36 passages
- 2021-03-20 | video | [730] The Bitcoin Podcast Interview #343- Vinay Gupta CEO Of Mattereum | https://guptaoption.com/texts/730.md, 30 passages
- 2021-04-22 | document | [160] UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules | https://guptaoption.com/texts/160.md, 10 passages
- 2021-04-24 | video | [774] All Power To The Imagination #10 | with special guest VINAY GUPTA | https://guptaoption.com/texts/774.md, 21 passages
- 2021-07-22 | video | [880] Vinay Gupta : How to use Ethereum to save the planet | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMY2GQ9aROY
- 2021-07-23 | video | [680] Blockchain technology, trade-offs, and helping launch Ethereum | Vinay Gupta | Conversations Clips | https://guptaoption.com/texts/680.md, 23 passages
- 2021-07-23 | video | [741] Buckminster Fuller, Burning Man, and the Hexayurt | Vinay Gupta | Conversations Clips | https://guptaoption.com/texts/741.md, 9 passages
- 2021-07-23 | video | [733] Trust models, founding Mattereum, and 'Turning Law into Code' | Vinay Gupta | Conversations Clips | https://guptaoption.com/texts/733.md, 17 passages
- 2021-07-26 | video | [939] Mattereum & Real World Asset NFTs by Vinay Gupta MetaFest Day 5 | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soKs0_oVrqY
- 2021-07-27 | video | [768] #03 - Vinay Gupta : History of Money, Foundations of Crypto & Applications for Emerging Markets | https://guptaoption.com/texts/768.md, 41 passages
- 2021-08-02 | video | [773] Vinay Gupta — Incentive-based epistemology | Ideamarket podcast | Ep 1 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/773.md, 38 passages
- 2021-08-12 | video | [245] Vinay Gupta - Fab 16 presentation | https://guptaoption.com/texts/245.md, 16 passages
- 2021-08-20 | video | [717] The Novum Insightful - Ep1: Vinay Gupta | CEO of Mattereum | https://guptaoption.com/texts/717.md, 11 passages
- 2021-08-25 | video | [677] Vinay Gupta - A Radical Manifesto for Fixing the World | https://guptaoption.com/texts/677.md, 44 passages
- 2021-09-29 | video | [762] MetaGame meets Vinay Gupta | https://guptaoption.com/texts/762.md, 36 passages
- 2021-11-07 | video | [934] Hub Culture at COP26 Glasgow: Vinay Gupta, CEO of Matterum | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra30VVaqi_I
- 2021-11-22 | video | [791] COP26 Event: Green Blockchain, Green Economy | https://guptaoption.com/texts/791.md, 27 passages
- 2021-11-22 | video | [793] COP26 Event: The Circular Economy - Finance and Data for an Abundant Regenerative Future. | https://guptaoption.com/texts/793.md, 35 passages
- 2021-11-26 | video | [714] Autonomous A1 - Taming Capitalism with Vinay Gupta of Mattereum | https://guptaoption.com/texts/714.md, 48 passages
- 2021-11-30 | video | [702] Conversation With Pat Kane & Vinay Gupta | https://guptaoption.com/texts/702.md, 19 passages
- 2022-02-03 | video | [778] Vinay Gupta on the Future of the Metaverse | https://guptaoption.com/texts/778.md, 2 passages
- 2022-02-12 | video | [678] WNWB S01E08: Mattereum with Vinay Gupta | https://guptaoption.com/texts/678.md, 34 passages
- 2022-03-01 | video | [790] 'Mattereum is Blockchain Cypherpunk' | https://guptaoption.com/texts/790.md, 1 passage
- 2022-04-01 | video | [925] Can Provably Fair Trade Be a Technology of Spiritual Liberation? by Vinay Gupta | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yJi2uRf29A
- 2022-04-01 | video | [735] Vinay Gupta - Mattereum | https://guptaoption.com/texts/735.md, 43 passages
- 2022-06-24 | document | [199] IG Wines with Mattereum | https://guptaoption.com/texts/199.md, 4 passages
- 2022-07-11 | video | [800] Lecture by Vinay Gupta at the opening event of Data in the 21st Century | https://guptaoption.com/texts/800.md, 25 passages
- 2022-08-12 | video | [594] Mattereum Physical Asset NFT Online Meet-Up 27 July 2022 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/594.md, 54 passages
- 2022-08-22 | video | [576] '12 Percent US Inflation The Flight in to Hard, Real World Assets' | https://guptaoption.com/texts/576.md, 6 passages
- 2022-08-22 | video | [675] '5 -15%' | https://guptaoption.com/texts/675.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-22 | video | [590] 'Changing The Relationship Between People and Things' | https://guptaoption.com/texts/590.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-22 | video | [587] 'DeFi ReFi GoldFi' | https://guptaoption.com/texts/587.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-22 | video | [582] 'Fraud' | https://guptaoption.com/texts/582.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-22 | video | [593] 'Friction In Trade' | https://guptaoption.com/texts/593.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-22 | video | [586] 'Greenwashing and Accountability' | https://guptaoption.com/texts/586.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-22 | video | [575] 'How Top Create RWAnfts for artwork in galleries, and how this helps artists' Ian Simmons, Mattereum | https://guptaoption.com/texts/575.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-22 | video | [581] 'Liquid Tokens, Hard Assets' | https://guptaoption.com/texts/581.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-22 | video | [668] 'Mattereum Will Enable On Chain Real Estate Deals' | https://guptaoption.com/texts/668.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-22 | video | [584] 'Monetising Expertise' | https://guptaoption.com/texts/584.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-22 | video | [667] 'Real Estate & The Metaverse' | https://guptaoption.com/texts/667.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-22 | video | [583] 'The Future of the Circular Economy' | https://guptaoption.com/texts/583.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-22 | video | [578] 'The Mainstreaming and Future Of Bitcoin' | https://guptaoption.com/texts/578.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-22 | video | [591] 'Truth' | https://guptaoption.com/texts/591.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-22 | video | [580] 'Unvaulted Assets' | https://guptaoption.com/texts/580.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-22 | video | [673] 'What Mattereum Does in 200 Words' | https://guptaoption.com/texts/673.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-22 | video | [589] 'Why Buy RWAnfts with Mattereum' | https://guptaoption.com/texts/589.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-22 | video | [672] Lemon Markets | https://guptaoption.com/texts/672.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-22 | video | [574] Wealth Inequality | https://guptaoption.com/texts/574.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-22 | video | [592] ‘800 Year Old Goat Hide Parchments: Real Estate ’ | https://guptaoption.com/texts/592.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-22 | video | [669] ‘Accurate Data, the Semantic Web and the Semantic Blockchain’ | https://guptaoption.com/texts/669.md, 4 passages
- 2022-08-22 | video | [588] ‘Anti Corruption, Anti Slavery – The Hope for Mattereum’ | https://guptaoption.com/texts/588.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-22 | video | [671] ‘Expensive and Uncertain: The Markets Where Mattereum Adds Most Value’ | https://guptaoption.com/texts/671.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-22 | video | [670] ‘Mattereum and Reducing Fraud to Enable True Global Peer To Peer Trade’ | https://guptaoption.com/texts/670.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-22 | video | [577] ‘Mattereum, Digital Gold and Not So Stable Coins’ | https://guptaoption.com/texts/577.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-22 | video | [579] ‘Mattereum, Permafacture, and Quadrupling the Efficiency of Global Capitalism’ | https://guptaoption.com/texts/579.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-22 | video | [674] ‘Reputation Systems are ‘Prejudice as a Service’’ | https://guptaoption.com/texts/674.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-22 | video | [585] ‘The Complexities of Turning Real Estate in to On Chain Assets’ | https://guptaoption.com/texts/585.md, 1 passage
- 2022-08-25 | video | [573] 'Digital Assets, Digital Chattel' | https://guptaoption.com/texts/573.md, 1 passage
- 2022-09-02 | video | [572] How To Address Climate Change: Diplomacy, Politics, Technology. COP 26 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/572.md, 36 passages
- 2022-09-24 | video | [571] The Second Mattereum Physical Asset NFT Meetup 21 Sept 2022 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/571.md, 35 passages
- 2022-12-06 | document | [852] At the Turning Point — How Crypto Interacts with Real World Assets | https://guptaoption.com/texts/852.md, 9 passages
- 2022-12-06 | video | [569] How Crypto Interacts With Real World Assets | https://guptaoption.com/texts/569.md, 8 passages
- 2022-12-07 | video | [568] The Third Mattereum Physical Asset NFT Meetup, 30 Nov 2022 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/568.md, 39 passages
- 2022-12-12 | video | [941] 12/12/2022 Beyond the Web Speaker Series: Vinay Gupta | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOw3-xczexA
- 2023 | document | [37] http://hexayurt.com/coat | https://guptaoption.com/texts/37.md, 1 passage
- 2023-02-05 | video | [780] Vinay Gupta and Ian Grigg Speak On Arbitration and Identity in Chamas, Informal Cooperatives | https://guptaoption.com/texts/780.md, 8 passages
- 2023-02-11 | audio | [907] Vinay Gupta on Meditation, X-Risks, and Spiritual Resiliency | The Salim Ismail Podcast #4 | audio, not transcribed yet, https://www.buzzsprout.com/2114080/12232445
- 2023-02-13 | video | [567] The Fourth Mattereum Physical Asset NFT Meetup 8th Feb 2023 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/567.md, 33 passages
- 2023-02-18 | audio | [908] Vinay Gupta on Transforming Humanity | The Salim Ismail Podcast #5 | audio, not transcribed yet, https://www.buzzsprout.com/2114080/episodes/12276026-vinay-gupta-on-transforming-humanity-the-salim-ismail-podcast-5
- 2023-03-01 | video | [566] Why Global Trade Will Inevitably Move To The Blockchain | https://guptaoption.com/texts/566.md, 6 passages
- 2023-03-04 | audio | [909] Vinay Gupta on Transforming Systemic Risk | The Salim Ismail Podcast #8 | audio, not transcribed yet, https://www.buzzsprout.com/2114080/episodes/12372473-vinay-gupta-on-transforming-systemic-risk-the-salim-ismail-podcast-8
- 2023-06-04 | video | [712] Compilation: Vinay Gupta (Mattereum / Ethereum) on Visa, Insurance Claims, and Digital Identity | https://guptaoption.com/texts/712.md, 6 passages
- 2023-07-23 | document | [44] Announcing Swarm x Mattereum Partnership - Mattereum | https://guptaoption.com/texts/44.md, 2 passages
- 2023-08-31 | video | [565] Coin Telegraph AMA with Mattereum's Vinay Gupta 14th August 2023 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/565.md, 39 passages
- 2023-12-10 | video | [783] Vinay Gupta / DCxPrague | https://guptaoption.com/texts/783.md, 9 passages
- 2023-12-25 | video | [936] Building Refugee Countries to Save Lives | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl5eogqjETM
- 2023-12-27 | video | [749] Vinay Gupta: AI's Impact on Jobs and Society | https://guptaoption.com/texts/749.md, 14 passages
- 2024-01-23 | video | [564] Vinay Gupta at 'A Decade of #Ethereum' | https://guptaoption.com/texts/564.md, 7 passages
- 2024-02-20 | video | [563] 10 Minute Explainer For The Current State Of Ethereum | https://guptaoption.com/texts/563.md, 6 passages
- 2024-02-29 | document | [45] PERMANENT SUMMER: THE NEW MATR TOKEN…And Why The RWA Bull Market Goes On Forever* - Mattereum | https://guptaoption.com/texts/45.md, 7 passages
- 2024-03-15 | video | [562] Vinay Gupta at The Promise of the Blockchain 2015 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/562.md, 11 passages
- 2024-04-03 | audio | [890] Hashing It Out #159: Vinay Gupta, Mattereum, part 1 | audio, not transcribed yet, https://thebitcoinpodcast.com/episodes/hio/159-vinay-gupta-mattereum-part-1
- 2024-04-15 | video | [666] The Evolution of Fractional Ownership Tokens 1 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/666.md, 1 passage
- 2024-04-18 | video | [727] Undergraduate Lecture Series 2024: Vinay Gupta & Bryan Hellard (Hexayurt Refugee Shelter) | https://guptaoption.com/texts/727.md, 25 passages
- 2024-04-24 | video | [724] Roundtable Discussion with Vinay Gupta and Bryan Hellard: From Hexayurt to Disaster Relief Garments | https://guptaoption.com/texts/724.md, 43 passages
- 2024-04-26 | video | [665] Evolution of Financial Instruments (Part 1) | https://guptaoption.com/texts/665.md, 1 passage
- 2024-04-29 | video | [664] Evolution of Financial Instruments (Part. 2) | https://guptaoption.com/texts/664.md, 1 passage
- 2024-05-02 | video | [663] Ownership Fractionalization: Kickstart Innovation | https://guptaoption.com/texts/663.md, 1 passage
- 2024-05-03 | video | [736] Mattereum | https://guptaoption.com/texts/736.md, 9 passages
- 2024-05-06 | document | [243] Multipolar Realpolitik (Omnibus draft) | https://guptaoption.com/texts/243.md, 24 passages
- 2024-05-08 | video | [662] Digitization (Tokenization) must Decentralize | https://guptaoption.com/texts/662.md, 1 passage
- 2024-05-08 | video | [661] RWA on Ethereum mainnet and L2 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/661.md, 1 passage
- 2024-05-16 | video | [561] How the Blockchain can liberate producers and consumers. | https://guptaoption.com/texts/561.md, 2 passages
- 2024-05-17 | video | [560] Roger's Diffusion Curve: A Roadmap for the Ethereum Launch | https://guptaoption.com/texts/560.md, 2 passages
- 2024-06-04 | video | [559] Gold RWA arrive onchain! | https://guptaoption.com/texts/559.md, 33 passages
- 2024-06-11 | video | [558] Event Spotlight - Talk at LOGIN 2024 - Can regulators and crypto ever get along? Find out! | https://guptaoption.com/texts/558.md, 8 passages
- 2024-06-22 | video | [927] Existential Risks, Ecological Economics, and How The Blockchain Will Transform Capitalism with Vi... | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YadkzJ7dhg
- 2024-07-09 | video | [557] The Future of Real Estate RWA | https://guptaoption.com/texts/557.md, 30 passages
- 2024-07-22 | video | [556] ETHCC24: 'Selling physical things using NFTs: what we have learned' | https://guptaoption.com/texts/556.md, 9 passages
- 2024-08-07 | video | [555] Breaking Down Real World Assets: Crypto Daily, with Mario Nawfal and Vinay Gupta | https://guptaoption.com/texts/555.md, 26 passages
- 2024-08-16 | video | [554] RWA for Emerging Markets | https://guptaoption.com/texts/554.md, 24 passages
- 2024-08-20 | video | [553] Ethereum and Fraud | https://guptaoption.com/texts/553.md, 2 passages
- 2024-08-21 | document | [230] The Man Who Tries to Stop Humanity Destroying Itself | https://guptaoption.com/texts/230.md, 10 passages
- 2024-08-27 | video | [552] Dollars are RWAs | https://guptaoption.com/texts/552.md, 1 passage
- 2024-09-04 | video | [551] The Money Is The Smallest Aspect Of This Beast | https://guptaoption.com/texts/551.md, 2 passages
- 2024-09-16 | video | [550] Domain Names and Real World Assets | https://guptaoption.com/texts/550.md, 2 passages
- 2024-09-18 | video | [549] Bearer Assets and Synthetic Jurisdictions | https://guptaoption.com/texts/549.md, 2 passages
- 2024-09-20 | video | [548] Blockchain Standardization and Interoperability | https://guptaoption.com/texts/548.md, 2 passages
- 2024-09-25 | video | [547] 5% Rise in Global GDP | https://guptaoption.com/texts/547.md, 1 passage
- 2024-09-26 | video | [546] Marrying the Real and the Cryptographic world together | https://guptaoption.com/texts/546.md, 2 passages
- 2024-11-02 | video | [704] Vinay Gupta: Liberation, Culture, Conflict and Catastrophe | https://guptaoption.com/texts/704.md, 49 passages
- 2024-12-27 | document | [235] The Perimeter: Mythos as Science Fiction and other works | https://guptaoption.com/texts/235.md, 52 passages
- 2025-01 | document | [819] Climate Projections 2: A lot of very boring graphs which all go upwards | listed by title only, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b_CFdxdOVM_5KiGlb5Zhtr69qZIHaC-B/view
- 2025-03-11 | document | [223] Finding Each other in the Ruins - resilience | https://guptaoption.com/texts/223.md, 5 passages
- 2025-05-19 | document | [231] Chit Chat With the Nightmare Destroyer | https://guptaoption.com/texts/231.md, 8 passages
- 2025-06-03 | video | [539] Crypto and the Federal Government | https://guptaoption.com/texts/539.md, 1 passage
- 2025-06-03 | video | [545] Hyper-Liquid Real Estate | https://guptaoption.com/texts/545.md, 2 passages


# Vinay Gupta: every source by date (part 3 of 3, 2025 to 2026, then the undated ones)

> Every source in the archive (814): date, kind, id, title and where its text is. 662 have his passages; the rest are listed by title until they are transcribed. Part 3 of 3, 2025 to 2026, then the undated ones. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt; source ids such as [250] are at https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md.

- 2025-06-03 | video | [540] Real Estate Tokenization | https://guptaoption.com/texts/540.md, 1 passage
- 2025-06-03 | video | [543] Risk and Insurance in Real World Assets | https://guptaoption.com/texts/543.md, 1 passage
- 2025-06-03 | video | [538] The Future of Finance | https://guptaoption.com/texts/538.md, 1 passage
- 2025-06-03 | video | [541] Tokenizing All The Gold in The World | https://guptaoption.com/texts/541.md, 2 passages
- 2025-06-03 | video | [542] TradFi, DeFi: Fi | https://guptaoption.com/texts/542.md, 1 passage
- 2025-06-03 | video | [544] USDC: Good Deal For Consumers? | https://guptaoption.com/texts/544.md, 1 passage
- 2025-06-24 | video | [532] Blockchain's Time has Finally Come | https://guptaoption.com/texts/532.md, 1 passage
- 2025-06-24 | video | [536] Decentralised Money Laundering | https://guptaoption.com/texts/536.md, 2 passages
- 2025-06-24 | video | [529] Governance On-Chain | https://guptaoption.com/texts/529.md, 2 passages
- 2025-06-24 | video | [537] Legislating Tech | https://guptaoption.com/texts/537.md, 1 passage
- 2025-06-24 | video | [531] On-Chain Governance | https://guptaoption.com/texts/531.md, 1 passage
- 2025-06-24 | video | [534] Real Estate is Next for Digitization | https://guptaoption.com/texts/534.md, 1 passage
- 2025-06-24 | video | [530] Transforming Real Estate | https://guptaoption.com/texts/530.md, 2 passages
- 2025-06-24 | video | [535] What Assets are Actually Worth Tokenizing? | https://guptaoption.com/texts/535.md, 1 passage
- 2025-06-24 | video | [533] What is Ethereum for? | https://guptaoption.com/texts/533.md, 1 passage
- 2025-07-03 | video | [527] The 80s Housing Policy That Still Hurts Us Today | https://guptaoption.com/texts/527.md, 1 passage
- 2025-07-03 | video | [528] The First RWA | https://guptaoption.com/texts/528.md, 1 passage
- 2025-07-03 | video | [525] The Future of Finance Markets in the Blockchain and AI Era | https://guptaoption.com/texts/525.md, 1 passage
- 2025-07-03 | video | [526] What Actual Benefit Does Tokenization Bring? | https://guptaoption.com/texts/526.md, 1 passage
- 2025-07-22 | video | [522] Fiat Assets vs Self Sovereign Assets | https://guptaoption.com/texts/522.md, 2 passages
- 2025-07-22 | video | [518] Liquid Camels | https://guptaoption.com/texts/518.md, 1 passage
- 2025-07-22 | video | [524] The Dollar is Not a Stable Asset | https://guptaoption.com/texts/524.md, 1 passage
- 2025-07-22 | video | [519] The Entire Point of Crypto | https://guptaoption.com/texts/519.md, 1 passage
- 2025-07-22 | video | [517] The Global Asset Pool is About to Massively Increase | https://guptaoption.com/texts/517.md, 1 passage
- 2025-07-22 | video | [521] The Next Industrial Revolution of AI & Blockchain | https://guptaoption.com/texts/521.md, 2 passages
- 2025-07-22 | video | [520] The Radical Disruption of Crypto | https://guptaoption.com/texts/520.md, 2 passages
- 2025-07-22 | video | [523] When TradFi Enters DeFi | https://guptaoption.com/texts/523.md, 1 passage
- 2025-07-29 | video | [722] "10 Years of Ethereum... Tokenization is here." ---- RWA Experts Vinay Gupta & Ray Buckton discuss | https://guptaoption.com/texts/722.md, 22 passages
- 2025-08-05 | video | [511] $20-50tr in the Next 5-10 Years | https://guptaoption.com/texts/511.md, 1 passage
- 2025-08-05 | video | [512] Digital Twins Real-Time Valuation | https://guptaoption.com/texts/512.md, 1 passage
- 2025-08-05 | video | [516] Farmville and Ethereum: Limits to Growth | https://guptaoption.com/texts/516.md, 2 passages
- 2025-08-05 | video | [510] Margins | https://guptaoption.com/texts/510.md, 1 passage
- 2025-08-05 | video | [508] Mars Tokens | https://guptaoption.com/texts/508.md, 1 passage
- 2025-08-05 | video | [513] Mattereum's Model of Risk & Liability Mitigation | https://guptaoption.com/texts/513.md, 2 passages
- 2025-08-05 | video | [509] Minitel, MiCA and Blockchain Regulation | https://guptaoption.com/texts/509.md, 1 passage
- 2025-08-05 | video | [507] Product Information Markets | https://guptaoption.com/texts/507.md, 2 passages
- 2025-08-05 | video | [506] Securities Explosion | https://guptaoption.com/texts/506.md, 1 passage
- 2025-08-05 | video | [515] The Celestial Marketplace | https://guptaoption.com/texts/515.md, 2 passages
- 2025-08-05 | video | [514] The Once and Future Ethereum | https://guptaoption.com/texts/514.md, 2 passages
- 2025-08-16 | video | [505] The State is Not Our Master: Friendly American Regulation is Fool's Gold | https://guptaoption.com/texts/505.md, 30 passages
- 2025-08-21 | video | [504] Mature Economies vs Frontier Economies | https://guptaoption.com/texts/504.md, 1 passage
- 2025-08-21 | video | [503] The Velocity Of Money | https://guptaoption.com/texts/503.md, 1 passage
- 2025-08-21 | video | [502] What Is Price? | https://guptaoption.com/texts/502.md, 2 passages
- 2025-08-26 | video | [501] Crypto is Fiat. The Real Revolution is RWA | https://guptaoption.com/texts/501.md, 2 passages
- 2025-09-02 | video | [494] Corruption, Regulatory Capture & Crypto | https://guptaoption.com/texts/494.md, 1 passage
- 2025-09-02 | video | [497] Debt vs Equity | https://guptaoption.com/texts/497.md, 1 passage
- 2025-09-02 | video | [500] Digitizing Commodities Markets | https://guptaoption.com/texts/500.md, 1 passage
- 2025-09-02 | video | [499] Ethereum: Safe for Everybody | https://guptaoption.com/texts/499.md, 1 passage
- 2025-09-02 | video | [496] Gold & Invisible Circular Dependencies | https://guptaoption.com/texts/496.md, 1 passage
- 2025-09-02 | video | [495] Hyper-Finance | https://guptaoption.com/texts/495.md, 2 passages
- 2025-09-02 | video | [493] Modern Imperialism | https://guptaoption.com/texts/493.md, 1 passage
- 2025-09-02 | video | [491] Stablecoins: Just Say No | https://guptaoption.com/texts/491.md, 2 passages
- 2025-09-02 | video | [498] The Graphic Design Industry After Photoshop | https://guptaoption.com/texts/498.md, 1 passage
- 2025-09-02 | video | [489] The Incredible Innovations of TradFi | https://guptaoption.com/texts/489.md, 2 passages
- 2025-09-02 | video | [490] The Most Stable Economic Structure In The World | https://guptaoption.com/texts/490.md, 2 passages
- 2025-09-02 | video | [492] US vs MiCA | https://guptaoption.com/texts/492.md, 1 passage
- 2025-09-16 | video | [482] Crypto in the Time of Corporate Finance | https://guptaoption.com/texts/482.md, 1 passage
- 2025-09-16 | video | [479] Currency Wars: Stablecoins, T-Bills, CBDCs | https://guptaoption.com/texts/479.md, 1 passage
- 2025-09-16 | video | [485] Ethereum: The Trillion Dollar Testnet | https://guptaoption.com/texts/485.md, 1 passage
- 2025-09-16 | video | [486] Genuine Wealth Generation | https://guptaoption.com/texts/486.md, 2 passages
- 2025-09-16 | video | [478] Gold-Backed Alternatives to Stablecoins | https://guptaoption.com/texts/478.md, 1 passage
- 2025-09-16 | video | [477] Keeping Your Own Reality Register | https://guptaoption.com/texts/477.md, 2 passages
- 2025-09-16 | video | [487] The EVM is the MP3 of Finance | https://guptaoption.com/texts/487.md, 1 passage
- 2025-09-16 | video | [484] The Post-Dollar World | https://guptaoption.com/texts/484.md, 1 passage
- 2025-09-16 | video | [480] The Real Relationship Between Crypto and Government | https://guptaoption.com/texts/480.md, 1 passage
- 2025-09-16 | video | [483] The Token Issuer Ecology | https://guptaoption.com/texts/483.md, 1 passage
- 2025-09-16 | video | [488] US Moves Towards Hyperbitcoinization | https://guptaoption.com/texts/488.md, 1 passage
- 2025-09-16 | video | [481] You are at the Start of World-Changing Tech | https://guptaoption.com/texts/481.md, 1 passage
- 2025-09-24 | video | [475] American Acceleration vs European Decline | https://guptaoption.com/texts/475.md, 2 passages
- 2025-09-24 | video | [472] American Innovation x British Precision | https://guptaoption.com/texts/472.md, 1 passage
- 2025-09-24 | video | [474] Multi-Jurisdictional Lamination: Mattereum's Work | https://guptaoption.com/texts/474.md, 1 passage
- 2025-09-24 | video | [476] Revolutionary Rule-Breaking | https://guptaoption.com/texts/476.md, 1 passage
- 2025-09-24 | video | [473] The UK Will Lose Web 3.0 Just Like It Lost Web 2.0 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/473.md, 1 passage
- 2025-09-29 | video | [469] Buyer-Side Finance & Tokenization | https://guptaoption.com/texts/469.md, 1 passage
- 2025-09-29 | video | [471] Mattereum & Fraud Protection in the Coming RWA Revolution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/471.md, 2 passages
- 2025-09-29 | video | [470] The Crypto World is Waiting for SEC Regulation | https://guptaoption.com/texts/470.md, 1 passage
- 2025-09-30 | video | [468] Stablecoins vs Prediction Markets | https://guptaoption.com/texts/468.md, 1 passage
- 2025-10-01 | video | [467] The Currency Crisis: Fiat, Crypto, Free-Banking | https://guptaoption.com/texts/467.md, 1 passage
- 2025-10-02 | video | [466] The Future Of Money | https://guptaoption.com/texts/466.md, 2 passages
- 2025-10-03 | video | [465] The End Of The Crypto-Adoption Problem | https://guptaoption.com/texts/465.md, 1 passage
- 2025-10-06 | video | [464] A Deeply Digital World | https://guptaoption.com/texts/464.md, 1 passage
- 2025-10-08 | video | [463] Global Currency Wars | https://guptaoption.com/texts/463.md, 1 passage
- 2025-10-08 | video | [462] The Invisible Crypto War | https://guptaoption.com/texts/462.md, 1 passage
- 2025-10-13 | video | [461] Text, Picture, Sound, Finance: The Digitization of Everything | https://guptaoption.com/texts/461.md, 2 passages
- 2025-10-15 | video | [460] Corporate Blockchains | https://guptaoption.com/texts/460.md, 1 passage
- 2025-10-15 | video | [459] Insurance is the Key for Real World Assets | https://guptaoption.com/texts/459.md, 1 passage
- 2025-10-15 | video | [458] The Cryptodollar | https://guptaoption.com/texts/458.md, 1 passage
- 2025-10-20 | video | [457] Can You Run a Country on Bitcoin? | https://guptaoption.com/texts/457.md, 2 passages
- 2025-10-22 | video | [456] Creeping Dollarization | https://guptaoption.com/texts/456.md, 1 passage
- 2025-10-22 | video | [455] US Government Support of Crypto | https://guptaoption.com/texts/455.md, 1 passage
- 2025-10-23 | video | [454] The Purpose of Decentralization | https://guptaoption.com/texts/454.md, 1 passage
- 2025-10-29 | video | [453] Predatory Debt Economy vs Fair Equity Economy | https://guptaoption.com/texts/453.md, 2 passages
- 2025-10-29 | video | [451] Rebuilding America's Broken Economy | https://guptaoption.com/texts/451.md, 1 passage
- 2025-10-29 | video | [452] Wall St vs Silicon Valley | https://guptaoption.com/texts/452.md, 1 passage
- 2025-11-03 | video | [450] Just How Close are we to the Tokenization Revolution | https://guptaoption.com/texts/450.md, 1 passage
- 2025-11-03 | video | [449] Just How Sovereign Is Your Crypto? | https://guptaoption.com/texts/449.md, 1 passage
- 2025-11-10 | video | [446] Complete Privacy in Crypto is a Bad Thing | https://guptaoption.com/texts/446.md, 1 passage
- 2025-11-10 | video | [447] Is The Dollar Doomed? | https://guptaoption.com/texts/447.md, 1 passage
- 2025-11-10 | video | [448] What Does an Actually Stable Coin Look Like? | https://guptaoption.com/texts/448.md, 1 passage
- 2025-11-12 | video | [445] Why is Ethereum So Low Against Bitcoin? | https://guptaoption.com/texts/445.md, 2 passages
- 2025-11-13 | video | [442] Can Coins Ever Be Interoperable? | https://guptaoption.com/texts/442.md, 1 passage
- 2025-11-13 | video | [444] Real Estate is the Least Disruptive Backing for Currency | https://guptaoption.com/texts/444.md, 1 passage
- 2025-11-13 | video | [443] What Will Real Mass Adoption of Crypto Look Like? | https://guptaoption.com/texts/443.md, 1 passage
- 2025-11-17 | video | [441] The Necessity, Stability and Feasibility of Real Estate as Currency | https://guptaoption.com/texts/441.md, 2 passages
- 2025-11-20 | video | [439] Merging DeFi and TradFi | https://guptaoption.com/texts/439.md, 1 passage
- 2025-11-20 | video | [440] The Chicken-Head Model of Stablecoin Economics | https://guptaoption.com/texts/440.md, 1 passage
- 2025-11-25 | video | [438] Universal Asset Liquidity | https://guptaoption.com/texts/438.md, 1 passage
- 2025-11-27 | video | [436] Bitcoin has been Fatally Centralized for a Decade | https://guptaoption.com/texts/436.md, 1 passage
- 2025-11-27 | video | [437] The Forgotten Crypto Futures of the 1990s | https://guptaoption.com/texts/437.md, 1 passage
- 2025-12-01 | video | [434] How to Accelerate Mass Asset Tokenization | https://guptaoption.com/texts/434.md, 1 passage
- 2025-12-01 | video | [435] The Unique Superpower of Blockchain Finance | https://guptaoption.com/texts/435.md, 1 passage
- 2025-12-02 | video | [433] Advice For Those New To The Tokenization Space | https://guptaoption.com/texts/433.md, 1 passage
- 2025-12-03 | video | [432] The Mechanics of Actually Tokenizing Real Estate | https://guptaoption.com/texts/432.md, 1 passage
- 2025-12-05 | video | [431] The Asset Of The Future: Gold, Bitcoin, Real Estate | https://guptaoption.com/texts/431.md, 2 passages
- 2026 | document | [220] OpenExO OS Pilot | https://guptaoption.com/texts/220.md, 1 passage
- 2026-01-21 | document | [167] Global real estate rail | https://guptaoption.com/texts/167.md, 12 passages
- 2026-04-07 | video | [427] 'Code Is Law' vs The Nation State | https://guptaoption.com/texts/427.md, 2 passages
- 2026-04-07 | video | [428] 24/7 Markets are Inhuman | https://guptaoption.com/texts/428.md, 1 passage
- 2026-04-07 | video | [425] Blockchain Isn't Weird | https://guptaoption.com/texts/425.md, 1 passage
- 2026-04-07 | video | [429] The Great Leap Forwards | https://guptaoption.com/texts/429.md, 2 passages
- 2026-04-07 | video | [430] The Significance Of US Changes in Crypto Regulation | https://guptaoption.com/texts/430.md, 1 passage
- 2026-04-07 | video | [426] Why Bitcoin? | https://guptaoption.com/texts/426.md, 2 passages
- 2026-04-14 | video | [411] 24/7 Trading | https://guptaoption.com/texts/411.md, 1 passage
- 2026-04-14 | video | [410] AI and Speed of Change | https://guptaoption.com/texts/410.md, 1 passage
- 2026-04-14 | video | [422] Compliance Chains: Centralisation vs Cypherpunk | https://guptaoption.com/texts/422.md, 1 passage
- 2026-04-14 | video | [415] Crypto vs The Legacy Banking System | https://guptaoption.com/texts/415.md, 2 passages
- 2026-04-14 | video | [414] Crypto's Integration in to Government | https://guptaoption.com/texts/414.md, 1 passage
- 2026-04-14 | video | [416] Cryptography and Quantum Computing | https://guptaoption.com/texts/416.md, 1 passage
- 2026-04-14 | video | [412] Equity on the Blockchain | https://guptaoption.com/texts/412.md, 1 passage
- 2026-04-14 | video | [423] How Societies Adopt New Technology | https://guptaoption.com/texts/423.md, 2 passages
- 2026-04-14 | video | [421] SEC, Crypto and Securities | https://guptaoption.com/texts/421.md, 1 passage
- 2026-04-14 | video | [417] The Doubt Discount: De-Risking = Profit | https://guptaoption.com/texts/417.md, 1 passage
- 2026-04-14 | video | [418] The Future Of Currency | https://guptaoption.com/texts/418.md, 1 passage
- 2026-04-14 | video | [424] The Future Of Jurisdictions & A Global Commons | https://guptaoption.com/texts/424.md, 2 passages
- 2026-04-14 | video | [419] The Jurisdiction Of Internet Transactions | https://guptaoption.com/texts/419.md, 2 passages
- 2026-04-14 | video | [413] The Vision Gap of Crypto | https://guptaoption.com/texts/413.md, 1 passage
- 2026-04-14 | video | [420] Tokenizing Publically Traded Stock | https://guptaoption.com/texts/420.md, 1 passage
- 2026-10-29 | video | [682] Ep. #641 - Vinay Gupta on China, Futurism, Government, Ethereum & EOS | https://guptaoption.com/texts/682.md, 4 passages
- 2026-11 | document | [838] Economics, environment and governance: small, distributed and accountable | https://guptaoption.com/texts/838.md, 3 passages
- 2026-11 | document | [839] Ethereum and Mattereum: launching Ethereum, then empowering it | https://guptaoption.com/texts/839.md, 2 passages
- 2026-11 | document | [840] Rich data capitalism: economics, environment and governance | https://guptaoption.com/texts/840.md, 6 passages
- 2026-11 | document | [841] Risks: one map for every worst case | https://guptaoption.com/texts/841.md, 2 passages
- 2026-11 | document | [842] Shelter for 300 million: the Hexayurt and the plan behind it | https://guptaoption.com/texts/842.md, 5 passages
- 2026-11 | document | [844] Superstruct and Urgent Evoke: research note | https://guptaoption.com/texts/844.md, 5 passages
- 2026-11 | document | [843] Superstruct and Urgent Evoke: the Hexayurt in two games | https://guptaoption.com/texts/843.md, 3 passages
- 2026-11 | document | [845] Wisdom spirals and doom loops: an introduction | https://guptaoption.com/texts/845.md, 7 passages
- 2026-11 | document | [846] Wisdom spirals and doom loops: the deck | https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md, 27 passages
- undated | audio | [856] Avoiding Capitalism for the Next Four Billion (audio) | audio, not transcribed yet, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Avoiding%20Capitalism%20for%20the%20Next%20Four%20Billion.mp3
- undated | audio | [857] Belarus UNDP / Edgeryders presentation (English and Russian, audio) | audio, not transcribed yet, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/belarus_undp_edgeryders_presentation.english_russian.mp3
- undated | video | [901] Blockchain in the Scandinavian social contract. Oslo Blockchain Day | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nt0v-_PA04
- undated | video | [867] Cheap ID: Rights-Respecting Biometrics (blip.tv rescue) | listed by title only, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/blip_tv_refugees/Hexayurt-CheapIDRightsRespectingBiometrics635.flv
- undated | video | [869] Complexity Kills: Vinay Gupta on Surviving the Event (blip.tv rescue) | listed by title only, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/blip_tv_refugees/Hexayurt-ComplexityKillsVinayGuptaOnSurvivingTheEvent797.m4v
- undated | video | [873] Dash May interviews Vinay Gupta about Truth and Beauty, London (blip.tv rescue) | listed by title only, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/blip_tv_refugees/Hexayurt-DashMayInterviewsVinayGuptaAboutTruthAndBeautyLondon986.m4v
- undated | document | [1] Dealing in Security.July2010.en | https://guptaoption.com/texts/1.md, 9 passages
- undated | video | [871] Ep. #403- Humanizing The Singularity: Ethereum - The World Computer (Vinay Gupta) | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yp8B9xsCQQ
- undated | video | [872] Ep. #448- Welcome (Amanda & Jesse) / A World Without Middlemen (Vinay Gupta) | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip3JIbsGcLs
- undated | document | [181] FluSCIM | https://guptaoption.com/texts/181.md, 1 passage
- undated | document | [174] FluSCIM-69p-English | https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md, 67 passages
- undated | document | [175] FluSCIM-6p-English | https://guptaoption.com/texts/175.md, 6 passages
- undated | document | [176] FluSCIM-6p-Spanish | https://guptaoption.com/texts/176.md, 6 passages
- undated | document | [177] FluSCIM-84p-Spanish | https://guptaoption.com/texts/177.md, 68 passages
- undated | document | [178] FluSCIM-blurb | https://guptaoption.com/texts/178.md, 1 passage
- undated | document | [179] FluSCIM-slides-English | https://guptaoption.com/texts/179.md, 5 passages
- undated | document | [180] FluSCIM-slides-Spanish | https://guptaoption.com/texts/180.md, 5 passages
- undated | video | [897] Global Instability & Crypto's Purpose | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_5o-ZMvMhQ
- undated | document | [189] Image(110) | https://guptaoption.com/texts/189.md, 1 passage
- undated | audio | [875] Infrastructural Design w/ Vinay Gupta | audio, not transcribed yet, https://diffractionscollective.org/vinay-gupta/
- undated | document | [2] Of Warlords and Rodeos Why Nothing Works proofs | https://guptaoption.com/texts/2.md, 4 passages
- undated | document | [158] Pixelache Festival 2015 | https://guptaoption.com/texts/158.md, 1 passage
- undated | document | [214] Reboot Britain | Benjamin Ellis | Flickr | https://guptaoption.com/texts/214.md, 1 passage
- undated | document | [150] Reykjavik Hexayurt Briefing | https://guptaoption.com/texts/150.md, 1 passage
- undated | document | [212] Strong Angel Day 3. 100_4623.jpg | hexayurt | Flickr | https://guptaoption.com/texts/212.md, 1 passage
- undated | document | [145] Sweden Presentation | https://guptaoption.com/texts/145.md, 3 passages
- undated | video | [919] TTM #8 :: Vinay Gupta :: Shooting for the moon, hitting Coventry | listed by title only, https://vimeo.com/74295316
- undated | document | [241] The Future We Deserve — Our Future and the Sun — Vinay Gupta | https://guptaoption.com/texts/241.md, 2 passages
- undated | video | [892] The Hunger Strike: A Global Swadeshi Dialogue (blip.tv rescue) | listed by title only, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/blip_tv_refugees/Hexayurt-TheHungerStrikeAGlobalSwadeshiDialogue246.m4v
- undated | video | [918] TokenMarket Summit 2018: How To Make Smart Contracts Globally Enforceable | listed by title only, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-HLx0BvJuQ
- undated | video | [922] Vinay Gupta and Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson. | listed by title only, https://vimeo.com/92609855
- undated | document | [4] Vinay Gupta feasibility analysis | https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md, 7 passages
- undated | document | [5] Vinay Gupta one page summary | https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md, 2 passages
- undated | audio | [891] Vinay Gupta | Bonus Footage (Hashing It Out #163) | audio, not transcribed yet, http://thebitcoinpodcast.com/episodes/hio/163-vinay-gupta-bonus-footage
- undated | document | [213] Vinay | Creativity and Crisis - Vinay Gupta. 29th September … | Flickr | https://guptaoption.com/texts/213.md, 1 passage
- undated | document | [139] index | https://guptaoption.com/texts/139.md, 1 passage
- undated | document | [141] technote | https://guptaoption.com/texts/141.md, 1 passage
- undated | document | [228] www vice com | https://guptaoption.com/texts/228.md, 1 passage