The Book

Cover of the book titled 'Protocols of Truth' by Steven Reiss, with the subtitle 'Re-reading the Modern Mind through Bitcoin' on a textured red background.

Thirty essays, each one pairing Bitcoin with a thinker from the 20th century. Benjamin on the Genesis Block. Freud on Satoshi's disappearance. Derrida on the blockchain as writing. Foucault on truth regimes in code. Heidegger on block time. Arendt on proof of work. And twenty-four others.

Bitcoin gets read against their frameworks. Not to explain Bitcoin. To see what holds up when a protocol tests ideas that were written decades before it existed.

Currently in development.


Six parts. Origin, Writing, and Truth. Time, Labor, and Sacrifice. Sovereignty, Power, and Law. Subject, Body, and Desire. Media, Form, and Aesthetics. Myth, Memory, and Reality.