The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Money only works when nobody can make more of it easily. That single idea runs through Saifedean Ammous’s history of currency, and it’s the lens he uses to judge everything from Rai stones to the dollar. When money is hard to produce, it holds its value, people save, and prices tell the truth. When a government can print it at will, whole societies drift toward debt, short horizons, and broken price signals. Bitcoin matters, he argues, because it rebuilds the one property that made gold work — scarcity — in a form no state can dilute.

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The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking