The Bitcoin Standard

The Bitcoin Standard examines the historical context to the rise of Bitcoin, the economic properties that have allowed it to grow quickly, and its likely political, economic, and social implications. While Bitcoin is a new invention of the digital age, the problem it purports to solve is as old as human society itself: transferring value across time and space. Ammous takes the reader on an engaging journey through the history of technologies performing these functions from primitive systems of trading limestones and seashells, to metals, coins, gold standards and modern government debt.