Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

About the Author

Foreword

Prologue

Chapter 1: Money

Chapter 2: Primitive Moneys

Chapter 3: Monetary Metals

Why Gold?

Roman Golden Age and Decline

Byzantium and the Bezant

The Renaissance

La Belle Époque

Chapter 4: Government Money

Monetary Nationalism and the End of the Free World

The Interwar Era

World War II and Bretton Woods

Government Money's Track Record

Chapter 5: Money and Time Preference

Monetary Inflation

Saving and Capital Accumulation

Innovations: "Zero to One" versus "One to Many"

Artistic Flourishing

Chapter 6: Capitalism's Information System

Capital Market Socialism

Business Cycles and Financial Crises

Sound Basis for Trade

Chapter 7: Sound Money and Individual Freedom

Should Government Manage the Money Supply?

Unsound Money and Perpetual War

Limited versus Omnipotent Government

The Bezzle

Chapter 8: Digital Money

Bitcoin as Digital Cash

Supply, Value, and Transactions

Appendix to Chapter 8

Chapter 9: What Is Bitcoin Good For?

Store of Value

Individual Sovereignty

International and Online Settlement

Global Unit of Account

Chapter 10: Bitcoin Questions

Is Bitcoin Mining a Waste?

Out of Control: Why Nobody Can Change Bitcoin

Antifragility

Can Bitcoin Scale?

Is Bitcoin for Criminals?

How to Kill Bitcoin: A Beginners' Guide

Hacking

The 51% Attack

Hardware Backdoors

Internet and Infrastructure Attacks

Rise in Cost of Nodes and Drop in Their Numbers

The Breaking of the SHA-256 Hashing Algorithm

A Return to Sound Money

Altcoins

Blockchain Technology

Potential Applications of Blockchain Technology

The Economic Drawbacks of Blockchain Technology

Blockchain Technology as a Mechanism for Producing Electronic Cash

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

List of Figures

List of Tables

Index

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