522 sats \ 15 replies \ @ek 25 Feb \ parent \ on: What do you guys think of Lyn Alden's "Broken Money"? BooksAndArticles
I think Broken Money is the better read at any stage of falling down the rabbit hole.
I was turned off by Saifedean Ammous' lack of objectivity at times but what he wrote still made sense to me so fortunately it didn't turn me off bitcoiners completely. It was my first book about bitcoin.
In contrast, Lyn Alden does not have to resort to talking down and losing objectivity to get her point across. Her explanations and examples are good enough.
Lyn is like the voice of reason in this space.
Now I wonder who argued for which book. I would be willing to bet 10k sats that @elvismercury agrees with me haha
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You mean that thus far it's already been better than TBS?
Yes but my memories of how good or bad The Bitcoin Standard was fading. I think it was good but I don't remember much which is a bad sign.
In the 100 pages of Broken Money that I read so far, I feel like I already learned so much that I will never forget in my whole life but only time will tell.
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When I posted my first learning resources post for the bitcoin beginners territory I said something like "if you are only going to read one book about bitcoin, read The Bitcoin Standard. " At the time I had already read and loved Lyn's book, but I didn't think of it as a bitcoin primer, but more as a brilliant monetary history book.
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If you could have found anybody to take the other side of the bet, you would have won it :)
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Your logic is my logic. Lyn is what you read if you want to understand the complexity of everything. TBS is what you read if you want to own the Libs.
I've talked about this many times but couldn't find a good representative discussion to link.
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I think he meant marxists, not “Liberal” in the classical sense.
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