The Best Cryptocurrency Books
The Sovereign Individual is one of those books that forever changes how you see the planet. It was published in 1997, but the degree to which it anticipates the impact of blockchain technology will give you chills. We're entering the fourth stage of human society, shifting from the economic to the information age. You may wish to read this book to grasp the scope and scale of how things are changing.
The authors prognosticate Black Tuesday and, therefore, the collapse of the country. And then they predict that the rising power of the people will coincide with the development of decentralized technology, nibbling away at the facilities of governments.
They predict a rare death risk for the nation-countries. Prescience is going to be private digital cash. When that happens, the dynamic of hard-working citizens with governments as stationary bandits will change. If you've come to someone who can solve problems for people anywhere in the world, you're on the brink of entering the new cognitive mobility. Don't miss this boat.
When technology is mobile and deals happen on the go in cyberspace, as they increasingly
will do, governments will no longer be able to charge more for their services than they're
worth to the people who pay for them.
A Brief History of Humankind (Sapiens)
Whenever I want to impress someone with how good this book is, I ask: "Do you want to know the fundamental difference between humans and monkeys?" A monkey can jump up and down on a rock and wave a stick around and screech to his friends that he's seen a threat coming their way. "Danger! Danger! Lion!" A monkey can also lie. It can jump around on the rock, wave a stick around, and scream about a lion when there isn't one. He's just fooling around. But what a monkey cannot do is jump up and down and wave a stick around and screech, "Danger! Danger! Dragon!"
Why is this? Because dragons are not real. As Harari explains, it's the moral imagination, our capability to believe in and talk about effects we have never seen or touched, that elevates the species to cooperate in large figures with nonnatives. There are no gods in the macrocosm, no nations, no Plutocrats, no mortal rights, no laws, no persuasions, and no justice outside the common imagination of mortal beings. It's us that make them so.
All of which is a rather magnificent preamble to where we're at this moment. After the Cognitive Revolution and the Agricultural Revolution, Harari takes you into the Scientific Revolution, which got underway only 500 years ago and which may have started a commodity fully different from humankind. Plutocrats, still, will remain. Read this book to understand that a plutocrat is the greatest story ever told and that trust is the raw material from which all types of plutocrats are formed.
Sapiens, in discrepancy, live in a triadic-layered reality. In addition to trees, gutters, fears, and solicitations, the Sapiens world also contains stories about plutocrats, gods, nations, and pots.
Here are the links to all of the books referenced in this article:
- 1. The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
- 2. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- 3. Learning Bitcoin
- 4. Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else






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