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The Bitcoin Standard
Business
Ammous traces the history of money from seashells to the gold standard and argues that Bitcoin is the first monetary technology in history to combine absolute scarcity with digital transferability. Michael Saylor credited it with driving Microstrategy's $425 million Bitcoin purchase; also recommended by Nassim Taleb, Raoul Pal, and Anthony Scaramucci on Rooke's site.
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Nassim Taleb
“Bitcoin has no owner, no authority that can decide on its fate. It is owned by the crowd, its users.”
Taleb wrote the book's Foreword; this is the full foreword text.
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a16z
Foundational economic text for the Crypto Canon; provides the Austrian-economics grounding for Bitcoin as hard money that underlies a16z's asset-class framing.
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Network School Reading List
Crypto reading making the economic case for Bitcoin as sound, hard money.