I would need to know as much about bitcoin and life before I could even begin to criticize Mr. Ammous. And even then I wouldn't.
Discussion
It’s fair enough that some criticisms of the book is that it pulls no-coiners into a world viewpoint they aren’t ready for too quick.
For me it helped de-shitcoin me.
There are fast and slow thinkers in any discipline (Mr. Saylor for example who went from pleb to Giga in a year) so there is a place for everything. If you want a simpler entry point I would suggest the book "Magical Internet Money" or something like that. I have it on my shelf somewhere.
Yeah I took the route of the money aspect and the technical route at the same time and read mastering Bitcoin. That hit a lot of aha moments for me as something who is fairly competent in technology.
For some reason I really didn’t understand mining until I read it. The analogies were too abstract in other literature.
lol AA's book was the first I ever read on BTC and I'm not a coder so you can imagine my dismay.
And yet I got it. And continued on from there.
I’m conflicted.
On one hand, Saifedean’s exhibits classic dunning-Kruger qualities: relying his expertise in one specific niche to validate (obviously misplaced) “mastery” of other areas of study.
On the other hand, I grew up in USA, where things are far from perfect, but the gov/financial system is nowhere near as bad as Lebanon. I recognize that privilege. And so I can understand why someone in a hyper-inflationary environment would argue that gov’t officials and financial “leaders” are unilaterally corrupt.
The world is nuanced, and so are my opinions. As a result, it requires mental and emotional processing to begin “sorting” these conflicts and my opinions thereof.
I think you are being to hard him but thats just my humble opinion. The only real place I have noticed DK is his aversion to vegetables and his love for a carnivore diet.
All else is forgiven because I've not walked a mile in his moccasins and I also love meat. (no homo)
Like I said, it’s nuanced, and I’m conflicted.
When humans were evolving, we were lucky and delighted to slay a Woolly Mammoth and have red meat available for months.
At other times, we were perfectly able to thrive on nuts and berries.
The meat was great, because of high caloric density: we only needed to eat a fraction of the volume, to consume the same potential energy.
Sugar existed in the form of fruit or honey: we had to climb trees, or confront beehives, to access that extremely high level of caloric intake.
It’s all evolutionary. But I digress.
wrt Saife, I appreciate is insights about Bitcoin and economics. Keynesianism is inherently flawed, and Saifedean points that out. He also offers a solution - Bitcoin.
I agree with him on that.
But I think *delivery* is very important. If you want to convey a message that is critically important to humanity’s path, how it’s written matters, and I think Bitcoin Standard could use a “second edition” in that regard.
Like I said, it’s nuanced, and I’m conflicted.
When humans were evolving, we were lucky and delighted to slay a Woolly Mammoth and have red meat available for months.
At other times, we were perfectly able to thrive on nuts and berries.
The meat was great, because of high caloric density: we only needed to eat a fraction of the volume, to consume the same potential energy.
Sugar existed in the form of fruit or honey: we had to climb trees, or confront beehives, to access that extremely high level of caloric intake.
It’s all evolutionary. But I digress.
wrt Saife, I appreciate is insights about Bitcoin and economics. Keynesianism is inherently flawed, and Saifedean points that out. He also offers a solution - Bitcoin.
I agree with him on that.
But I think *delivery* is very important. If you want to convey a message that is critically important to humanity’s path, how it’s written matters, and I think Bitcoin Standard could use a “second edition” in that regard.
I would have been rare for early sapiens to kill a mammoth and they certainly could not have preserved the the meat for months as you said.
But anyway, the species has progressed and now we eat our meat in leisure at the top of the chain instead of at the bottom.