# 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
- Sources (43, by hand first, then by importance): [299](https://guptaoption.com/texts/299.md) Mic audio: Coase's Blockchain: can equity crowdfunding... (2015); [153](https://guptaoption.com/texts/153.md) Financial Cryptography: Coase's Blockchain - the first... (2015); [244](https://guptaoption.com/texts/244.md) Coase’s Blockchain: Can Equity Crowdfunding Accelerate... (2015); [706](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md) Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin - with Vinay Gupta | Virtual... (2018); [296](https://guptaoption.com/texts/296.md) Vinay Gupta - Transparent Society - Crowdfunding on... (2015); [242](https://guptaoption.com/texts/242.md) Dog Atheism: on smart contracts, risk, and value networks (2016); [164](https://guptaoption.com/texts/164.md) Programmable blockchains in context: Ethereum’s Future –... (2015); [237](https://guptaoption.com/texts/237.md) The Internet of Agreements (Hexayurt Capital section,... (2017); [379](https://guptaoption.com/texts/379.md) Blockchains, databases, reification: are bottom up... (2015); [699](https://guptaoption.com/texts/699.md) Vinay Gupta, Hexayurt.Capital | Blockchain: Ecology,... (2017); [83](https://guptaoption.com/texts/83.md) People’s Cloud architecture and futures in 1000 words |... (2013); [852](https://guptaoption.com/texts/852.md) At the Turning Point — How Crypto Interacts with Real... (2022); ...

### 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/
- Sources (192, by hand first, then by importance): [680](https://guptaoption.com/texts/680.md) Blockchain technology, trade-offs, and helping launch... (2021); [679](https://guptaoption.com/texts/679.md) FutureRant - Vinay Gupta Pt 4/4 - "Cypherpunk to Cyberpunk" (2016); [119](https://guptaoption.com/texts/119.md) Consensys - Building the Era of Decentralized Finance (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); [266](https://guptaoption.com/texts/266.md) "Blockchain: IoT's trust broker?" talk on the fly by... (2017); [793](https://guptaoption.com/texts/793.md) COP26 Event: The Circular Economy - Finance and Data for... (2021); [303](https://guptaoption.com/texts/303.md) How To Sell Ideas from (from Ethereum DEVCON Berlin) (2015); [714](https://guptaoption.com/texts/714.md) Autonomous A1 - Taming Capitalism with Vinay Gupta of... (2021); [731](https://guptaoption.com/texts/731.md) Vinay Gupta l The Internet of Agreements l Meaning 2017 (2020); [730](https://guptaoption.com/texts/730.md) The Bitcoin Podcast Interview #343- Vinay Gupta CEO Of... (2021); [695](https://guptaoption.com/texts/695.md) Vinay Gupta - Dangerous Old Men: cypherpunk's failure,... (2015); ...

### 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
- Sources (16, by hand first, then by importance): [695](https://guptaoption.com/texts/695.md) Vinay Gupta - Dangerous Old Men: cypherpunk's failure,... (2015); [684](https://guptaoption.com/texts/684.md) DEVCON1: Dangerous Old Men: Cypherpunk's Failure,... (2016); [111](https://guptaoption.com/texts/111.md) Dangerous Old Men: Cypherpunk's Failure, Ethereum's Success (2015); [120](https://guptaoption.com/texts/120.md) blockone - Sign In (2020); [61](https://guptaoption.com/texts/61.md) Ending Poverty With Open Hardware | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2009); [215](https://guptaoption.com/texts/215.md) This Revolution Will Be Tokenized (2017); [697](https://guptaoption.com/texts/697.md) Vinay Gupta - Resilience Guru - TRAILER | London Real (2014); [189](https://guptaoption.com/texts/189.md) Image(110); [553](https://guptaoption.com/texts/553.md) Ethereum and Fraud (2024); [790](https://guptaoption.com/texts/790.md) 'Mattereum is Blockchain Cypherpunk' (2022); [481](https://guptaoption.com/texts/481.md) You are at the Start of World-Changing Tech (2025); [499](https://guptaoption.com/texts/499.md) Ethereum: Safe for Everybody (2025); ...

### 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
- Sources (7, by hand first, then by importance): [164](https://guptaoption.com/texts/164.md) Programmable blockchains in context: Ethereum’s Future –... (2015); [379](https://guptaoption.com/texts/379.md) Blockchains, databases, reification: are bottom up... (2015); [757](https://guptaoption.com/texts/757.md) Vinay Gupta | Interview | State of the Net 2015 (2015); [839](https://guptaoption.com/texts/839.md) Ethereum and Mattereum: launching Ethereum, then... (2026); [132](https://guptaoption.com/texts/132.md) Ethereum - The complete guide from ethereum.org (2015); [119](https://guptaoption.com/texts/119.md) Consensys - Building the Era of Decentralized Finance (2015); [168](https://guptaoption.com/texts/168.md) I'm also interested in this question. Here's two things... (2003)

### 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
- Sources (14, by hand first, then by importance): [163](https://guptaoption.com/texts/163.md) Tell Me Who You Are. Identity, institutional memory, and... (2019); [706](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md) Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin - with Vinay Gupta | Virtual... (2018); [690](https://guptaoption.com/texts/690.md) FSCONS 2017 - Vinay Gupta - Resilience (2017); [59](https://guptaoption.com/texts/59.md) Security + Privacy = Liberty. And the CheapID / State In... (2007); [185](https://guptaoption.com/texts/185.md) Hexayurt (2002); [275](https://guptaoption.com/texts/275.md) 1 (2016); [273](https://guptaoption.com/texts/273.md) 2 (2016); [274](https://guptaoption.com/texts/274.md) 3 (2016); [233](https://guptaoption.com/texts/233.md) Quaddome (2020); [409](https://guptaoption.com/texts/409.md) #h4d2 (2012); [917](https://guptaoption.com/texts/917.md) Blockchain keynote - Vinay Gupta (2017); [626] Vishal Gupta - Identity - Internet of Agreements (2018) (no text here); ...

### 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
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