The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous Summary
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Discover why Bitcoin isn't just digital money but a monetary revolution. "The Bitcoin Standard" transformed corporate strategies, with MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor inverting his company's balance sheet after reading it. What monetary lessons from history could reshape your financial future?
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When Trust Became Obsolete: The Birth of Digital Scarcity
What if everything you believed about money was wrong? For thousands of years, humanity has searched for the perfect store of value-something that couldn't be debased by kings, inflated by governments, or confiscated by tyrants. We thought we'd found it in gold, until governments seized it in 1933 and severed its link to currency in 1971. Then in 2008, as the global financial system collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions, an anonymous programmer quietly released a solution: Bitcoin. Not just another payment system, but the first form of money in human history with absolute, mathematically enforced scarcity. Since its first recorded price, Bitcoin has appreciated over 793 million percent, outperforming every asset class in existence. Yet its real revolution isn't wealth creation-it's the reintroduction of a concept modern civilization had forgotten: sound money.
The Hardness Problem: Why Most Money Fails
Gold's Accidental Perfection: Chemistry as Destiny
The War That Broke Money: From Gold to Government Control
The Civilization-Building Power of Patient Capital
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