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38The Bitcoin StandardSaifedean Ammous2018
Phase 613 hoursFR
The Bitcoin Standard
French edition : L'étalon Bitcoin
Quick note
Bitcoin placed inside the history of monetary technologies — why societies adopted shells, stones, metals, coins, gold, paper claims, government currency and eventually digital money; what properties let a good carry value across time and space; and what happens when a monetary system can be expanded or manipulated by privileged institutions. It then presents Bitcoin as digital hard money: scarce, global, decentralised, and governed by protocol rather than political discretion.
Read against
Its greatest contribution is the monetary framework. Treat its broader cultural conclusions as arguments rather than universal laws, and test the whole against the white paper, the code, the network, monetary history and competing theories of money.