April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
8h 36m
English
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Index
- 51% attack, 242–245
- aggry beads, 13
- altcoins, 251–257
- anarcho‐capitalism, 203–204
- antifragility, 230–232
- art, 98–104
- aureus, 25
- Austrian school of economics, 3, 70, 106, 142–145, 204
- barter, 1
- bezant, 28–29
- Bitcoin, 33–34, 167
- block subsidy, 187, 199, 218
- blockchain, 257–272
- breakdown of the family, 95
- Bretton Woods conference, 56–57
- business cycle, 116, 119, 145
- Byzantine empire, 28–29
- Byzantium, see Byzantine empire
- capital goods, 9, 75, 109–116
- capitalism, 92, 109–111, 118, 200
- cargo cult science, 258
- cash, 169, 171, 207, 238
- cash, digital, see digital cash
- central banks, 39–40, 56–57, 59, 69, 89, 117–119, 210–212
- coin clipping, 25
- coincidence of wants, 2
- coins, 18
- comparative advantage, 108
- Constantine, 28
- counterparty risk, 208
- crime, 238–240
- Croesus, 18, 25
- cypherpunk, 203, 246
- DAO, see Decentralized Autonomous Organization
- Dark Ages, 29–30
- Decentralized Autonomous Organization, 254, 266–267
- deflation, 121, 140–141
- denarius, 25
- depression, economic, 49–53, 120–124
- depression, psychological, 95
- digital cash, 168–170, 182, 200, 207, 238
- digital goods, 201–202
- digital scarcity, 177, 199–200
- dinar, 28–29
- Diocletian, 26, 28
- direct exchange, 1
- ducat, 30
- easy money, 5
- easy money trap, 5
- Ehrlich, Paul, 195
- Ethereum, 254
- Federal Reserve, 49, 51, 59, 120, 125
- fiat money, see government money
- Finney, Hal, 209, 223, 252
- Fisher, Irving, 124
- florin, 30
- fractional reserve banking, 113, 124, 161, 206, 209
- Friedman, Milton, 121–123, 125, 140, 155
- Galbraith, John Kenneth, ...
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