May 2021
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
7h 22m
English
Content preview from The Promise of Bitcoin: The Future of Money and How It Can Work for You
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INTRODUCTION
1. https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf.
CHAPTER 1
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3. “Barter Economies,” Farming in the 1930s, LivingHistoryFarm.org, 2003, https://livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/money_12.html.
4. Everett Millman, “The Importance of the Lydian Stater as the World’s First Coin,” Ancient History Encyclopedia, March 27, 2015, https://www.ancient.eu/article/797/the-importance-of-the-lydian-stater-as-the-worlds/ ...
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