Joakim Book

Joakim Book
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Joakim Book is the managing editor for Bitcoin Magazine and he writes the regular book review column "Book's Books." His interests include money, monetary history and financial history. He was a visiting scholar at the American Institute for Economic Research in 2018-2022 and writes regularly for their educational economics project The Daily Economy. He holds degrees in economics and economic history from the University of Glasgow and the University of Oxford.

Michael Saylor Pushes Digital Capital Narrative At Bitcoin Treasuries Unconference

Michael Saylor's remarks at the Bitcoin Treasuries Unconference in NYC continue painting a picture of Bitcoin as yield-generating capital.

Bitcoin Price Hits $117,000 as Treasury Stocks Like MSTR, NAKA Collapse

Bitcoin price is nearing $117,000 — but treasury stocks like MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) and KindlyMD (NASDAQ: NAKA) are collapsing as dilution floods the market. The “paper bitcoin” era is officially over.

Book’s Books: Matt Sekerke and Steve Hanke, “Making Money Work: How to Rewrite the Rules of Our Financial System”

This book on money, by two economists, was so bad that I stopped reading after 33 pages. The authors ignorantly dismissed Bitcoin in a single sentence; thus, I concluded that the title wasn’t worth my time — or indeed anybody concerned with building a better monetary future.

The End of Paper Bitcoin Summer

Is Paper Bitcoin Summer, and the associated extractable premium in price, coming to an end?

At Bitcoin Asia Everything Was Upside Down

In Bitcoinland nowadays, everything seems upside down; despite all the bullish energy, all the records hit, and the bitcoin treasury companies vacuuming the world for cheap sats, the price keeps falling. The dissonance was at a maximum at the recently concluded Bitcoin Asia in Hong Kong.

Bitcoin Price Drops Again — And Nope, It’s Still Not Because of the Fed

The bitcoin price is yo-yoing around like a piñata. What is going on? Who shoved it? And what’s it to do with Powell, the Fed, the bitcoin treasury companies and, uh, just ordinary markets doing markets-y things?

Bitcoin Price Falls — And As Usual, Nobody Knows Why

The weekly bitcoin price overview from your glorified price therapist, I’m here to remind you again that market prices move for reasons nobody can point to. Whatever bitcoin's price does means absolutely nothing for the broader reasons why we’re here.

Who Rugged Rogoff?

Kenneth Rogoff spoke, and the Bitcoin hornet’s nest awoke.  When the celebrated Harvard economist and former chief economist at the IMF yesterday publicly confessed that he was wrong on Bitcoin,...

Are You Even a Bitcoiner If You’re Not on Nostr?

Bitcoiners who aren't on Nostr are missing the point. The purple pill of Nostr is inseparable from Bitcoin's orange pill. In this sit-down interview with Bitcoin Magazine, Derek Ross throws down the gauntlet to Bitcoiners who aren't on Nostr.

How to Think About Bitcoin Treasury Companies: A Bitcoiner’s Dilemma in the Age of Rampant Speculation

With bitcoin treasury companies bringing Wall Street into hype mode and new Saylor contenders launching weekly, what's a Bitcoiner supposed to do? At this, our fiat end times, mNAVs games and regulatory arbitrage are either a recipe for disaster or the blueprint for unbelievable wealth.

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