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SectionVIII
Sound Money and Bitcoin
Saifedean Ammous
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Air, water, food and energy sustain biological life. Money coordinates economic life. A civilization needs clean money — a monetary system able to carry the economic energy generated by labour, ingenuity and capital across time and space. Corrupt the monetary system and every price, contract, investment and long-term calculation is affected.
Counterweights and primary sources
Not part of the thirty-eight. These extend the core reading and are woven into the reading sequence.
Counterweight
What Has Government Done to Our Money?
Murray RothbardCounterweightThe Mystery of Banking
Murray RothbardCounterweightBitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Satoshi NakamotoRead against
Read it last, after Rothbard on money and power, Yergin on energy, Deutsch on knowledge and The Mobile Wave on digital transformation. Then go to the white paper: commentary supplies context, but the engineer returns to the specification and the machine.