I'm David Veksler. I ran Mises.org's website for ten years (also FEE.org & Liberty.me), and in 2009 I got the Institute's entire library of books, journals and lectures released under Creative Commons. Nobody built anything on it. The forum froze in 2013, and the library sat in PDFs and WMV files that no search engine, model, or reader could get into.

This summer I rebuilt both on my own.

Library (freecapitalists.org): 945 books, 3,374 journal issues, 2,732 course recordings, 6M+ words of lectures transcribed and synced to the audio. Rights recorded per item. Free, no signup, no ads.

Forum (forum.freecapitalists.org): all 400,000 posts moved to modern software and reopened for posting August 20. All 16K old accounts survived; "forgot password" gets you back in.

If you want a starting point: in 2012 the forum spent months arguing whether Bitcoin could ever be money or have a non-zero price, with your head mod on the pro side. https://forum.freecapitalists.org/t/bitcoin-do-not-want/23160 It aged well.

Ask me anything: the archive, the Mises years, building with agents, Austrian econ, Bitcoin.

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