Replying to Avatar karo

#NostrBookClub starts today!

📚 Week 0 📚 The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous

To kick it off, here's this week's discussion question:

Why do you want to read this book? What're you hoping to learn? I'll tag and feature some responses in next week's post!

Happy reading this week and there will be a discussion question on Chapter 1 next Wednesday 26th! 🤓

I started this as a project to help me get through reading the book in a reasonable time so it will be fairly fast paced at one chapter a week. For more background info on this book club project, check out my previous note

#[0]
Avatar
karo 2y ago

#NostrBookClub meeting!

📚 Week 1 📚 The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous

How did you guys like Chapter 1? It laid a really solid foundation for Money.

Here's this week's discussion question:

What did you learn about money that you didn't know before? Or, what ideas about money were explained differently than how you learned them?

Another chapter for next week with Chapter 2, Primitive Moneys. There will be new discussion questions posted next Wednesday, May 3rd 🤓

If you're coming across the book club for the first time, check out last week's discussion question:

#[0]

Reply to this note

Please Login to reply.

Discussion

Avatar
karo 2y ago

I don't remember much of my education about money since college days. It's not really something I think about, except how to spend it 😆 🛍️

I did know that things that become money have to have specific attributes but not what they were or why they had to have those attributes. The author did a good job of explaining this and I really appreciated that. Seeing it spelled out made me think of a really good discussion question but it is better suited for next week so I'm saving it for then.

It was a short chapter and I've filled it with highlights now. I think I'll be referring back to it quite a bit when I need a refresher on basic money stuff.

Avatar
CATLANTIS 2y ago

Hey! I just came across this. I’m actually starting to read this book too! What a happy coinkidink! I just finished chapter 2, though. 🤗

Avatar
karo 2y ago

sweet! you're right on time. the discussion question for chapter 2 is going up this Wednesday. so happy you're joining 🥳

Avatar
CATLANTIS 2y ago

How do I find all the discussions?

Avatar
karo 2y ago

I'm having a little trouble making past notes easily accessible. so far I've resorted to making them public bookmarks so you'll have to go to my profile and see my bookmarks there.

Avatar
CATLANTIS 2y ago

Where do I find note bookmarks? I didn’t know this was a feature.

Avatar
karo 2y ago

if you're using Amethyst, you can click on my profile pic to get to my profile. then scroll across to see my bookmarks.

if you don't use Amethyst, then I dunno, sorry 😔

Avatar
CATLANTIS 2y ago

Yeah, I’m on Damus. Lol no worries.

Avatar
CATLANTIS 2y ago

Also, one part I did highlight in chapter 1 was this:

“Free-market monetary competition is ruthlessly effective at producing sound money, as it only allows those who choose the right money to maintain considerable wealth over time. There is no need for government to impose the hardest money on society; society will have uncovered it long before it concocted its government, and any governmental imposition, if it were to have any effect, would only serve to hinder the process of monetary competition.”

That was pretty deep and we can see parallels today.

Avatar
karo 2y ago

yes! I highlighted that part too