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The Bitcoin Standard traces the history of money from traded limestone and seashells to metals, coinage, the gold standard, and modern government debt, highlighting how sound monetary regimes have underpinned societal achievement. Saifedean Ammous then introduces Bitcoin as the first fully distributed digital cash, converting electricity and processing power into accurate, verifiable records that allow global value transfer without trusted intermediaries. The book examines Bitcoin’s economic properties, its competitive edge as a store of value and settlement network, and its broader implications for individual sovereignty, capital accumulation, trade, peace, culture, and art. Concluding chapters address common questions about energy use, criminal activity, governance, resilience, and the proliferation of block‑chain applications, positioning Bitcoin as an apolitical, free‑market alternative to national central banks.
First publish date: 2018
Genre: Business & Economics/Finance
Authors: Saifedean Ammous
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"In The Fiat Standard, world-renowned economist Saifedean Ammous applies his unique analytical lens to the fiat monetary system, explaining it as a feat of engineering and technology just as he did for bitcoin in his global bestseller The Bitcoin Standard.
This time, Ammous delves into the world’s earlier shift from the gold standard to today’s system of government-backed fiat money—outlining the fiat standard’s purposes and failures; deriving the wider economic, political, and social implications of its use; and examining how bitcoin will affect it over time.
With penetrating insight, Ammous analyzes global political currencies by analogy to bitcoin: how they’re “mined” whenever government-guaranteed entities create loans, their lack of inherent restraints on inflation, and the rampant government intervention that has resulted in heavy, devastating, and persistent distortions to global markets for food, fuel, science, and education.
Through these comparisons, Ammous demonstrates that bitcoin could be our next step forward—providing high salability across space, just like the fiat system, but without the unchecked fiat-denominated debt. Rather than a messy hyperinflationary collapse, the rise of bitcoin could look like a debt jubilee and an orderly upgrade to the world’s monetary operating system, revolutionizing global capital and energy markets."
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