The Bitcoin standard : sound money in a digital age
Saifedean Ammous
Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- About the Author -- Foreword -- Prologue -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Money -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Primitive Moneys -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Monetary Metals -- Why Gold? -- Roman Golden Age and Decline -- Byzantium and the Bezant -- The Renaissance -- La Belle Époque -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Money and Time Preference -- Monetary Inflation -- Saving and Capital Accumulation -- Innovations: "Zero to One" versus "One to Many" -- Artistic Flourishing -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Capitalism's Information System -- Capital Market Socialism -- Business Cycles and Financial Crises -- Sound Basis for Trade -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Sound Money and Individual Freedom -- Should Government Manage the Money Supply? -- Unsound Money and Perpetual War -- Limited versus Omnipotent Government -- The Bezzle -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Digital Money -- Bitcoin as Digital Cash -- Supply, Value, and Transactions -- Appendix to Chapter 8 -- Notes -- Chapter 9: What Is Bitcoin Good For? -- Store of Value -- Individual Sovereignty -- International and Online Settlement -- Global Unit of Account -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Online Resources -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Index -- End User License Agreement.
