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If you were fast enough and could pay enough, geography was frictionless; if you couldn’t, you were stuck, and likely stuck with higher risk for catching COVID.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
If we act now, we can make sure that democratic values—freedom of speech, individual economic privacy, free enterprise, and free capital markets—are encoded in the digital future of money.
J. Christopher Giancarlo, Cameron Winklevoss, • CryptoDad: The Fight for the Future of Money
“The rationalist utopia is a power trip,”
Nate Silver • On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
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Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
It was a fear of the economic and social upheaval that might be caused by money losing its value that drove Britain to adopt "sound money" policies nearly 300 years ago. This move coincided with an unplanned switch to using gold instead of silver as the basis of money and, ultimately, to the accidental birth of the gold standard. Its "parents"
... See moreMichael Green • In Gold We Trust? The Future of Money in an Age of Uncertainty (Kindle Single)
Une croissance de 5 % par an peut ne pas sembler élevée mais elle double la masse monétaire d'un pays en l'espace de quinze ans seulement. C'est la raison pour laquelle la monnaie perdit la partie dans la course monétaire au profit de l'or dont l'offre plus réduite allait de pair avec une érosion plus lente de son pouvoir d'achat.
Marie Oneissi • l'Étalon-Bitcoin
This will change when people start selling not just their fiat, and not just their time, but when they start liquidating real assets.