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Saifedean Ammous: The Fiat Standard & The Reversal of Civilization

The Bitcoin Matrix

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How Did You Find the Glass Slipper?

When i started writing the bitcoins tat very few people, understood bitcoin or knew what bitcoin was about. And so i decided to researchit from scratch and explain it to somebody who has no idea what bitcoin is. So er i then decidedthat the best way to tackle this would be to go ahead and approach fiat itself in the same way that i wrote about bat coin. Just come at it from scratch, assume zero knowledge from the reader. Assume thet read somebody born 200 years from now, who's never lived under money and doesn't know what it may be. Or from an isolated tribe of some jungle somewhere around the world where you're trying toexplain them how this thing

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