Terrifying as well…. great to hear you are giving it a go!

@carlosfandango gave you a great recommendation. Scary what went on, and you also get a nice introduction to the history of money.

I am reading one of his books: World Without Cancer

Also one tip for anyone who is living in places where it is hard to buy English books or want to avoid ordering from Amazon, just go to a local printing shop to print it out, simple.

Part of the reason I am enjoying this book is because everyone has a brief introductory sentence or two allied with a description of their job. This allows you to paint somewhat of a multi-dimensional mental image of this person. Now imagine inviting him or her to sit back, take a load off, and tell you about themselves. Fully candid and uncensored. And then imagine yourself listening to this imaginary character you just created, in whatever setting your mind conjures up, as her or she talks your ear off. You'll be able to envision their body language, tone, and voice and all in the theatre of your mind. That's sort of how the book reads.

I just finished one that I think would resonate with a lot of bitcoiners. It is about Fred Ringley, a copywriter and salesman; his wife, and 5 kids.

He says: "I realize there are only two ways to do things: work for somebody else or be an owner. There are two classes of people, the haves and the have-nots. The haves own."

Fred had it all. The family, a house in the suburbs, the country club membership, two cars, etc, and living what he thought was the American Dream. But the high taxes and ever increasing stress made he and his wife more nervous which lead to them drinking and smoking more. So they sat down one day and essentially said fuck that shit, sold everything, moved to Arkansas, bought a farm with cattle and other animals, opened a burger joint, busted their fucking asses putting in WORK, and gave themselves a life out on the ranch where they also created the one of the worlds largest man-made lakes to go fishing, picnicking, climb a mountain, or whatever else your heart desires.

He went from long, shitty days at work; fighting with his wife about bills, and barely seeing his children to opening his own business, being in the best health of his life, and spending all of his time with his family. On a humongous ranch where he sells beef.

Definitely a Bitcoiner.

I've read parts of it and loved it -- was interesting to see what work meant back then, and interesting to contrast that till now.

I always wanted to read this one! Let us know how it turns out

Edit: okay borrowed the e-book version from my local library haha

That looks super interesting. How far are you?

I watched a couple of interviews with Alex Gladstein. Some of the statistics are quite revealing, for example about a third of debt in the global south is denominated in CNY, not USD 👀

It’s a good read and philosophy… although a more recent version would be ‘yes Bitcoin, no Bitcoin, maybe gold’ as I’m never sure where he stands.

I couldn’t get into book 1. I did reread (and enjoy) The Stand this summer though. I’ll give it another go at some point.