The Bitcoin Standard

The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

De: Saifedean Ammous

Narrado por: Shawn K. Jain

When a pseudonymous programmer introduced "a new electronic cash system that's fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party" to a small online mailing list in 2008, very few people paid attention. Ten years later, and against all odds, this upstart autonomous decentralized software offers an unstoppable and globally accessible hard money alternative to modern central banks. The Bitcoin Standard analyzes the historical context to the rise of Bitcoin, the economic properties that have allowed it to grow quickly, and its likely economic, political, and social implications.



While Bitcoin is an invention of the digital age, the problem it purports to solve is as old as human society itself: transferring value across time and space. Author Saifedean Ammous takes the listener on an engaging journey through the history of technologies performing the functions of money, from primitive systems of trading limestones and seashells, to metals, coins, the gold standard, and modern government debt. Exploring what gave these technologies their monetary role, and how most lost it, provides the listener with a good idea of what makes for sound money, and sets the stage for an economic discussion of its consequences for individual and societal future-orientation, capital accumulation, trade, peace, culture, and art.©2018 Saifedean Ammous

Your Fiat Money Is Vulnerable (Or: Reasons to Love Bitcoin, Not Crypto)

This is now my favorite (audio) book.
(Note the 14k reviews on Goodreads.)
Utility: Investment; Fiscal Policy; Economic Theory
Disclaimer: 'Crypto' generally scares me as an investment class.
Relevance: This volume details why Bitcoin--and it alone--signifies perhaps the most reliable "store of monetary value" available on the world currency market today.
(This is the best econ text to which I have ever read or listened--and, consider, I have over 200 titles in my Audible library of what I would call high-quality non-fiction material.)
The non-Bitcoin specific sections serve as a tour de force. Said sectioms are a voyage through time of the devastatingly sad history of fiat currency: Hard working citizens working exponentially harder & harder to accumulate a currency that only gets exponentially less valuable.
It is a sealed indictment of central bank control. It gives real teeth to any arguments with which you are already inclined to agree opposing Fed monopoly on financial power & exception you might take with its quasi-fascisti control over the populace.
I have now moved on to his titles about the gold standard. Next I will tackle his econ theory textbook.
You will likely feel your thought patterns being liberated by his devastating critique of any government mandate over currencies generally.