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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.

Like Ruble, Like Shitcoin — Only Bitcoin Gets Its Value Organically

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On examination, fiat and shitcoins share the same trick of getting people to give up real value for promises.

No One Understands The Monetary System, And That’s Not OK

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Understanding the monetary system is foundational to seeing what’s wrong with the current system and to have a true grasp of Bitcoin and its importance.

Bitcoin Was Made For This: The Apex Of Apolitical

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The entirety of Bitcoin’s existence is dedicated to its usability by anyone regardless of their intent.

Like All Successful Monies, Bitcoin Is Money For Enemies

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Bitcoin exhibits properties of money that have existed far longer than the protocol and that helps facilitate its rapid growth.

How Bubbles, Price And COVID-19 Changed Bitcoin for Me

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Bitcoin is not a bubble. It’s the monetary escape hatch we need now that the COVID-19 cat is out of the bag.

How Bitcoin Fixes The Old World Bureaucracy Of Payments

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How one man’s journey to receive international payment revealed the bloated bureaucracy of our financial system and the solution offered by Bitcoin.

Like Bitcoin, Everything Important Is Proof-of-Work

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Bitcoin is simply one of many proof-of-work systems that creates the most important outputs and skills in the world.

DCA Isn’t As Effective As Going All In On Bitcoin

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The commonly-cited method of dollar-cost averaging might be less effective than lump-sum purchases.

Bitcoin Can Be The Change You’ve Been Waiting For

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Bitcoin offers a way for us to stop just appearing like we want to fix things, instead making real change.

How Much Of My Portfolio Should Be Allocated To Bitcoin?

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The answer to this question varies based on different circumstances in people’s lives.
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