The Bitcoin Standard
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The Bitcoin Standard
| Full title | The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking |
|---|---|
| Author | Saifedean Ammous |
| Published | 2018 |
| Pages | 304 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | A history of money — seashells, Rai stones, gold, the gold-exchange standard, fiat — assembled as the case for bitcoin as hard money. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @WillManidis — named twice in answer to his question “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?” in a thread on X, June 2025 — a useful signal about what that crowd treats as the industry’s canonical text, whether or not one accepts the argument. The full recovered list lives on what is the single best book… (tweet).
Connections
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Cryptocurrency — the industry it argues for.
What links here
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