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Listen to [https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-tom-woods-show/ep-1171-the-bitcoin-standard-Z6swip2x4j5/ this interview] to learn more about the book. | Listen to [https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-tom-woods-show/ep-1171-the-bitcoin-standard-Z6swip2x4j5/ this interview] to learn more about the book. | ||
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== The Fiat Standard: Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization == | == The Fiat Standard: Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization == | ||
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The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
Audiobook
Most of us have an inherent understanding that a gold standard would be better than the endlessly printed fiat we have today. Many bitcoiners were “gold bugs” before bitcoin. Their core ethic hasn’t changed. In a world of instant communication and wire transfers between countries, bitcoin converts the cost of energy generation into the ideal commodity that has both intrinsic value and ultimate transportability.
Listen to this interview to learn more about the book.
The Fiat Standard: Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization
Audiobook
Written by the author of “The Bitcoin Standard”, “The Fiat Standard” explains how societies of the past flourished when there was a strong monetary standard and how devolution to a fiat standard is savagely linked to a “high time preference” which results in everything from fiat food (think seed oils) to fiat art and architecture (think modern art and oppressive/depressing government buildings). Bitcoin will return us to a “low time preference” world in which a higher priority is placed on the long-term consequences of one’s actions.
Part 1 and Part 2 of this interview provide great insight into the book and author.
Principles of Economics
Audiobook
This is the third and most recent bitcoin-related book by the author of “The Bitcoin Standard.” This one explains the importance of bitcoin against a wide background of economics and the long historical arc of civilization. Bitcoin has the potential to minimize the current bleak state of debt-based consumerism and return civilization to a paradise of leveraged productivity.
Good interview to familiarize oneself with the author and his purpose for this book.
Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better
Audiobook
Broken Money explains why the gold standard HAD to be abandoned in a world where speed was more precious than universal value. Then it shows how bitcoin is able to merge the best of both worlds with technology that is far superior than the buggy system electronic system that has been cobbled together by banks since the 1950s.
Learn about Lyn’s engineering background and get a better idea of the insightfulness of this book by listening to this interview.