The Bitcoin standard The decentralized alternative to central banking
Book - 2018
"Bitcoin is the digital age's novel, decentralized, and automated solution to the problem of money: accessible worldwide, controlled by nobody. Can this young upstart money challenge the global monetary order? Economist Saifedean Ammous traces the history of the technologies of money to seashells, limestones, cattle, salt, beads, metals, and government debt, explaining what gave these technologies their monetary role, what makes for sound money, and the benefits of a sound monetary regime to economic growth, innovation, culture, trade, individual freedom, and international peace"--
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- Published
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
[2018]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xviii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781119473862
- About the Author
- Foreword
- Prologue
- Chapter 1. Money
- Chapter 2. Primitive Moneys
- Chapter 3. Monetary Metals
- Why Gold?
- Roman Golden Age and Decline
- Byzantium and the Bezant
- The Renaissance
- La Belle Époque
- Chapter 4. Government Money
- Monetary Nationalism and the End of the Free World
- The Interwar Era
- World War II and Bretton Woods
- Government Money's Track Record
- Chapter 5. Money and Time Preference
- Monetary Inflation
- Saving and Capital Accumulation
- Innovations: "Zero to One" versus "One to Many"
- Artistic Flourishing
- Chapter 6. Capitalism's Information System
- Capital Market Socialism
- Business Cycles and Financial Crises
- Sound Basis for Trade
- Chapter 7. Sound Money and Individual Freedom
- Should Government Manage the Money Supply?
- Unsound Money and Perpetual War
- Limited versus Omnipotent Government
- The Bezzle
- Chapter 8. Digital Money
- Bitcoin as Digital Cash
- Supply, Value, and Transactions
- Appendix to Chapter 8
- Chapter 9. What Is Bitcoin Good For?
- Store of Value
- Individual Sovereignty
- International and Online Settlement
- Global Unit of Account
- Chapter 10. Bitcoin Questions
- Is Bitcoin Mining a Waste?
- Out of Control: Why Nobody Can Change Bitcoin
- Antifragility
- Can Bitcoin Scale?
- Is Bitcoin for Criminals?
- How to Kill Bitcoin: A Beginners' Guide
- Altcoins
- Blockchain Technology
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Index
