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Get Chapter 1, What is Money?, as a clean PDF. It is the foundation the whole book builds on: what money actually is, why it emerged, and why that question matters enormously for understanding Bitcoin. No spam and no drip campaign; your email is used to send occasional book news at most.
What the chapter covers
- Money as a technology: medium of exchange, store of value, unit of account
- The coincidence of wants problem and how money solved it
- From commodity money to fiat, and the trade-offs at each step
- Why understanding money is the prerequisite for understanding Bitcoin