Grabbe wrote articles and essays about personal freedom and governmental abuse, and was an editor of Internet magazines such as the Laissez Faire City Times.

[5] In the fall of 1966, Grabbe joined an older brother at the Worldwide Church of God's Ambassador College, based in Pasadena, California.

[6] After leaving Ambassador, Grabbe enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, to pursue his interests in research and science, with an emphasis in mathematics.

[1] Grabbe specialized in the study of financial derivative instruments and published important pricing models for futures, forward contracts and options, especially in the foreign exchange (FX) markets.

After graduating from Harvard, Grabbe accepted a position at the Wharton School of Business (University of Pennsylvania), working in the capacity of assistant professor in economics.

Grabbe discovered that there was a lack of educational material for the emerging field of international finance and for the increased trading in financial derivatives created by this market.

[14] Based in the New York City neighborhood of Greenwich Village, Grabbe continued his professional career as a financial market consultant.

[verification needed] He stated that he was approached by official representatives seeking his assistance by covertly gathering financial information from his network of customers.

[26] In November 1997, Orlin Grabbe was invited to edit an online weekly newspaper called the Laissez Faire City Times.

[citation needed] The Laissez Faire City Times grew in prominence, with many of its articles quoted and referenced by others, some even by mainstream media and academic papers.

[citation needed] In line with his work on Digital Finance and its dependence on cryptography, Grabbe published several articles and tutorials in the Laissez Faire City Times and on his Internet homepage.

[29] As a consequence of the closure of Laissez Faire City, its participants dispersed and services to the group of initial users of DMT were discontinued.

[nb 1] Many still see these newspapers as important resources for highly valuable articles of philosophical and political significance in freedom-related and especially (but not exclusively) libertarian thought.

[30] In the last years, when heart problems began to dominate his life, he wrote and published his studies on e.g. game theory in the framework of quantum mechanics, itself a mathematical model of chaos in nature.

His homepage was headed by deeply symbolic declarations, such as "Opposition to tyrants is obedience to God,"[31] or the summary of his mission statement, "... inspecting the global underbelly: privacy, money laundering, espionage.

[citation needed] Grabbe underlined the importance of this anarchistic independence repeatedly on his homepage, showing his closeness to Discordianism and Church of the SubGenius, by the headline, "What forbids us to tell the truth, laughingly?"