pickA crazy and occasionally infuriating read. It only lightly skimmed what went down with FTX, but gave a good overview of everything else that was going on at the time.
A quote: I couldn‘t believe that every day, people sent millions of perfectly good US dollars to the Inspector Gadget creator‘s Bahamian bank in exchange for digital tokens conjured by the Mighty Ducks guy and run by executives who were targets of a US criminal investigation.
Started this book at random. I‘m testing out an mp3-reader (I can‘t with calling these ‘purse kindles‘). This particular one is going back because the seller lied about the OS (claimed android 13 when it‘s actually android 8. The kobo app requires minimum android 9). It fits my needs otherwise (it needs a ‘paperlike‘ screen protector and a lanyard, but otherwise…), so I‘ll be replacing it once it‘s refunded.
panSaifedean Ammous is Professor of Economics at the Lebanese American University. This book has useful summaries of the history of money and the development of Bitcoin but his arguments as to how Bitcoin meets the definition of money are unconvincing - no matter how many times he repeats his points - and his Austrian school economic arguments about Bitcoin‘s superiority for settlement smacks of wishful thinking over the real world practicalities.
Yesterday‘s spoils from the book swap after ballet. The activity books are for the little people in my life.
#BookReport
Finished Girl in a Pink Dress 5 🌟. Keeping upon group reads. DNF‘d Hester, it‘s me not the book.
#WeeklyForecast
Just started The Fury, meh so far. Love being back with the Dashwoods in Sense & Sensibility. About half way through Miranda‘s memoir about living with chronic illness. Enjoying it! I loved her character in Call the Midwife and laughed so hard I cried when watching her sitcom. Next up audio will be The Wedding People.
#25Alive!
I have a view of Julia Cameron‘s books on my shelves starting with The Artist‘s Way & including this #Prosperous one.
pickBig finance and big tech already control access to digital money but nothing will satisfy those in power until they have total control. Interesting book! I listened to the audiobook.
panI zoned out a bit while listening to the audiobook so my review is not to be trusted!
