Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin

Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin begins by explaining why bitcoin was invented, how it works, and where it fits among other kinds of money. The authors then offer a framework for evaluating bitcoin from a global perspective and use it to examine bitcoin’s monetary policy, censorship-resistance, privacy, inclusion, and energy use. The book develops a comprehensive and measured case that bitcoin is a net benefit to the world, despite its imperfections. Resistance Money is intended for all, from the clueless to the specialist, from the proponent to the die-hard skeptic, and everyone in between.

Key Features:

• Provides a philosophical approach that makes use of multiple disciplines in its analysis
• Offers a clearly written, measured academic treatment of bitcoin, comprehensive in scope and free of ideological baggage
• Includes information on the financial, social, and environmental costs of bitcoin, how these costs are sometimes exaggerated, and how they might be mitigated
• Addresses the strongest arguments against bitcoin and shows how some succeed and most come up short.