The Bitcoin Standard

Table of Contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. About the Author
4. Foreword
5. Prologue
   1. Notes
6. Chapter 1: Money
   1. Notes
7. Chapter 2: Primitive Moneys
   1. Notes
8. Chapter 3: Monetary Metals
   1. Why Gold?
   2. Roman Golden Age and Decline
   3. Byzantium and the Bezant
   4. The Renaissance
   5. La Belle Époque
   6. Notes
9. Chapter 4: Government Money
   1. Monetary Nationalism and the End of the Free World
   2. The Interwar Era
   3. World War II and Bretton Woods
   4. Government Money's Track Record
   5. Notes
10. Chapter 5: Money and Time Preference
    1. Monetary Inflation
    2. Saving and Capital Accumulation
    3. Innovations: “Zero to One” versus “One to Many”
    4. Artistic Flourishing
    5. Notes
11. Chapter 6: Capitalism's Information System
    1. Capital Market Socialism
    2. Business Cycles and Financial Crises
    3. Sound Basis for Trade
    4. Notes
12. Chapter 7: Sound Money and Individual Freedom
    1. Should Government Manage the Money Supply?
    2. Unsound Money and Perpetual War
    3. Limited versus Omnipotent Government
    4. The Bezzle
    5. Notes
13. Chapter 8: Digital Money
    1. Bitcoin as Digital Cash
    2. Supply, Value, and Transactions
    3. Appendix to Chapter 8
    4. Notes
14. Chapter 9: What Is Bitcoin Good For?
    1. Store of Value
    2. Individual Sovereignty
    3. International and Online Settlement
    4. Global Unit of Account
    5. Notes
15. Chapter 10: Bitcoin Questions
    1. Is Bitcoin Mining a Waste?
    2. Out of Control: Why Nobody Can Change Bitcoin
    3. Antifragility
    4. Can Bitcoin Scale?
    5. Is Bitcoin for Criminals?
    6. How to Kill Bitcoin: A Beginners' Guide
    7. Altcoins
    8. Blockchain Technology
    9. Notes
16. Acknowledgements
17. Bibliography
    1. Online Resources
18. List of Figures
19. List of Tables
20. Index
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