John Nash’s game theory was based on John’s belief the proper route of travel to the ultimate truth can only be reached through experimental economics in relation to games played by human players.
Nash’s original bargaining solution which was published in 1950, was an axiomatic solution of idealizations determining a non-zero sum outcome among two players who each maximise their welfare. Nash equated this solution to small amounts of money, and in later life toured the world and lectured on Ideal Money in the years prior the release of Bitcoin.
The Nash program which subsequently developed from the early literature is generally understood to be non-cooperative analysis of Nash’s cooperative bargaining. The Nash Institute promotes Nash bargaining to achieve public policy goals, with the main assumption being Bitcoin is a non-cooperative and self-enforcing implementation of Nash’s Ideal Money proposal and that furthermore John Nash is the most realistic Satoshi Nakamoto candidate.
