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Broken Money has now sold over 100,000 copies.

The readership demographic is really broad as far as I can tell. Many sales are individuals, in many countries.

But for example there is a big tradfi institutional money manager that has given out dozens of copies to his money manager friends, and there is a big CEO that gives out dozens of copies to his CEO friends and members of Congress and stuff.

Throughout this year more translations will come out. I think my foreign rights agent has like 7 languages out so far, and another 13+ are in the pipeline.

namosca 7mo ago

If you consider doing a second edition, please consider adding Kalle Rosenbaum, writer of "Grokking Bitcoin".

His book show how bitcoin is a fraud-proof accounting system and will take your analogy of shells and stone beads to a new height!

What I know from his book and yours is that gold is used as an Implementation of accounting system In which transtitons cannot be frauded due to the scarcity of gold: transfer from economic Energy from one person to another can be done my "moving Gold" between them. Gold is pretty scarce, so it's pretty difficult to take transactions.

The accounting system of fiat started as a new later on top of gold, but this system is easy to fake because you just need ink and paper (or an entry in an excel table) to fake entries.

So, what guarantee the tamper -proof behavior of gold are chemical laws (you cannot produce gold out of other elements), but you never know what's the max amount of Gold on earth.

Tamper-proof behavior of fiat accounting system is human law, which is pretty weak and can be Broken very easily.

Tamper-proof behavior of Bitcoin accounting systems are laws of computation, which are impossible to break.

Bitcoin is a monetary network and accountjng system at the same time.

If you invite Kalle for a talk I bet he will give you unbelievable intuitons foe your next edition!

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