Some analysts contend that size can be a deterrent to economic prosperity, so as a result, small states are particularly vulnerable to economic and environmental shocks. Usually, small states are discussed in light of their limitations and challenges. Even leaders of small countries earnestly paint size as an obstacle to future progress. The idea that smallness is an impediment to be overcome has become gospel in some quarters.

Now available from the Spring 2023 issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics: 

Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative.1
– NASSIM TALEB