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The Governance Questions That Bitcoin Asks (Roger Huang, Mao-Bitcoin book)
736 sats \ 4 comments \ @denlillaapan 30 Jan BooksAndArticles
Been reading Roger Huang's book _Would Mao Hold Bitcoin?_, and its a wonderful walk-through of China, Chinese history and its connections to bitcoin.
Especially the last chapter, highly recommend. He asks some crucial freedom-governance type questions for our times:
Bitcoin advances a form of democracy that advocates open debate on issues framed in tight technical constraints
My dude!
Bring out the popcorn and leeeesfucking go.
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @IamSINGLE 31 Jan
Thanks. This one is 3rd in my bucket list.
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24 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 31 Jan
After reading this biography of Mao two years ago, I can't imagine even considering the idea:
https://www.amazon.com/Mao-Story-Jung-Chang/dp/0679746323
I can't completely vouch for its accuracy, but it was well sourced. By the end I can't think of him as anything but a power obsessed schemer without any real ideology.
That being said, I can't wait to read the book.
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41 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan OP 31 Jan
Yahz, Roger admitted that it's just a marketing shorthand, Mao being someone westerners know about from Chinese history
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12 sats \ 0 replies \ @xz 31 Jan
On my reading list too.
My short answer is that being that his image is still around on every Yuan, maybe he would force the use of paper with his image printed on it instead.
edit. I know the title is toungue in cheek, just being a douchbag.
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