"Freedom is a monetary matter" explores the social and economic consequences of monetary inflation in the current financial system and provides a comparison in various areas to a system based on sound money (money without inflation). The book has a strong foundation in world history and its major cycles.Rising prices, growing lines at the food bank, major corporations generating billions of dollars in revenues, an increasing threat of war; This book is written for people that want to figure out how to connect the dots in an accelerating chain of seemingly senseless and unconnected world events. Equipped with the overall framework as described in this book, these events will become very understandable and even predictable. It will also become very clear in what way inflation has determined the course of history and how history tells us, that we can expect increasing instability of the current monetary system. In this book you will read how bitcoin — a digitally sound money that dissipates inflation — fits into this picture. It also becomes clear what we can do for our personal financial security in the times ahead.
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Freedom is a monetary matter
The path towards a natural, responsible, and free society
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Table of contents
- Introduction
- - Part 1. - A history of repeating cycles
- Inflation, a major factor in historical cycles
- • Highlights 1. Inflation and wealth transfer
- Cycles in history
- The current world order and some financial history
- The United States and its current situation
- • Highlights 2. Cycles of empires and their currencies
- - Part 2. - Money
- What is money?
- Sound money
- Unsound money: what is inflation?
- Gold
- The problematic upgrade of gold to paper money
- • Highlights 3. Sound and unsound money
- The goldsmith
- Fractional reserve banking: a bank loan is not a real loan
- A system of credit and economic instability
- The central banking system
- CPI masks the impact of innovation on prices
- The mysterious math of missing interest
- Economic theory
- Universal basic income
- • Highlights 4. Inflation masks the impact of innovation
- - Part 3. - The inflation beast
- Colonialism
- Profitability
- The zero sum game
- Human values versus bank loan values
- • Highlights 5. Human values versus bank loan values
- The housing market and inflation
- Money creation for a business
- How inflation leads to monopolies
- How inflation leads to big governments
- Public money obstructs the free market
- Money creation to fund war
- Accountability, responsibility and large organizations
- Disharmony with nature
- Inventions for good versus inventions for evil
- Information with an intention
- Inflation, a sickness
- • Highlights 6. Profitability over human values
- - Part 4. - A sound money world
- The absolute necessity for truly sound natural money
- What money will society choose in the future?
- What is bitcoin?
- Encryption
- The blockchain
- Proof of work and bitcoin mining
- • Highlights 7. Inflation restrained by physics
- Difficulty adjustment
- The bitcoin halving cycle
- Upgrades and the block size wars
- Scalability and the Lightning Network
- Privacy
- Bitcoin beats the altcoins
- Bitcoin: energy usage in favor of the environment
- • highlights 8. Bitcoin and the environment
- Great leveler
- Hyperbitcoinization
- A shift towards freedom bigger than the Renaissance
- • Highlights 9. A shift to freedom and empowerment
- The world on a bitcoin standard
- • Highlights 10. Empowerment and responsibility
- What can we do?
- Conclusion
- Resources
- How to buy bitcoin for starters
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