# 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.)