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Broken Money

Why Our Financial System Is Failing Us and How We Can Make It Better

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Broken Money explores the history of money through the lens of technology. Politics can affect things temporarily and locally, but technology is what drives things forward globally and permanently.

The book's goal is for the listener to walk away with a deep understanding of money and monetary history, both in terms of theoretical foundations and in terms of practical implications. From shells to gold, from papyrus bills of exchange to central banks, and from the invention of the telegraph to the creation of Bitcoin, Lyn Alden walks the listener through the emergence of new technologies that have shaped what we use as money over the ages. And beyond that, Alden explores the concept of what money is at its very foundation to give the listener a framework to analyze and compare different types of monetary technologies and monetary theories.

The book also takes a distinctively human look at how money impacts the lives of real people, and how new monetary technologies shape the power structures within society.

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Such an easy listen and such lucid insights even for me a techie with some economics background

Fantastically accessible

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The best book to understand how the money works and is being broken. and how Bitcoin fixes it.

Fix the money fix the world.

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Very detailed and understandable subject,
Detailing the most powerful movement in our lifetime, simple amazing

Life changing

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Literally everything you need to know. From shells to bitcoin and central bank digital currencies

The evolution of money

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I found the book a joy to listen to and highly recommend it.
I am a veteran of the crypto space and the broken FIAT monetary system. The book was valuable to me but more importantly, I believe this is one of the very best books for relative new comers to the space who wish to better understand this complex, intimidating, opaque and almost mystical component of our everyday life (money).
While I may be fascinated by how monetary technologies shape the power structures within society, the topic is inherently dry and difficult to explain. Alden manages nonetheless to cook up a Michelin star dish from challenging ingredients.
Using everyday language, easy to understand concepts and always keeping to the point. I highly appreciate the neutral style of writing where the author avoids excess and unnecessary opinions. I found the text to be pleasantly "distilled" and precise.
The narrator also did an excellent job.

Michelin star dish from challenging ingredients

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