We’ve approached three merchants who sell books for bitcoin, but none of them are interested in stocking this volume. We will keep on trying until we find someone who will, though. Unfortunately we can’t take on the merchant role ourselves — we have day jobs and can’t afford the time and expense of stocking and shipping books; that work is best left to experts.

If anyone is reading this and interested in selling our book for bitcoin, drop me a line. We can hook you up with a significant author discount (30% off list price, shipped anywhere in the world — roughly $22 USD/each), and you’d be free to mark it up from there and pocket the difference.

Amazing. Thank you!

Cash is good. Bring back supernotes, and in bigger denominations — $500, $1,000, even $10,000. But for better financial privacy, we need supercoins too, without serial numbers. This is perhaps my most unusual money policy stance: the US should mint $100 and $1,000 coins.

Thank you, General! Glad to have met you in person, too!

The latest review of Resistance Money is out — this time in The Spectator: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/does-bitcoin-fit-the-definition-of-good-money/

Good taste. Let us know what you think of ‘Resistance Money’ when you get the chance!

immediately implementing a jubilee: closing all browser tabs, marking all messages as read, restarting laptop

It is good to be free.

Unfortunately, Saifedean blocks the authors of the book on Twitter and doesn’t take kindly to folks who have the temerity to disagree with him. But we don’t hold a grudge and would love to see our book for sale on his site for bitcoin!

“Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be… oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. And you may quote me.”

(From _Harvey_, 1950)

Correct. But people inside universities should study bitcoin too. We will help them do so responsibly.

There is virtually no chance that Saifedean will sell our book on his site, I think. He blocks the authors on Twitter and doesn’t seem to care for dissenting views. Sad!

Do you know who runs that site? We’d love to hook them up with discounted copies of ‘Resistance Money’ to resell for sats.

If you’d like an ebook, it can be downloaded for free at all of the usual sites (DM for more info if you’re not familiar with these)

On this, and other Frequently Asked Questions, see: https://www.resistance.money/faq/

Where do you usually buy books with bitcoin? I would try there first, as the book is available basically wherever books are sold. We are still working on getting a dedicated merchant on this, of course — but that will take time.

There are some very bad objections to the idea of a strategic bitcoin reserve on the part of the US Federal Government. For example:

1. Bitcoin is bad for the world (false; our best science shows that, on net, bitcoin is good)

2. Bitcoin isn't valuable (false; bitcoin is precious, and useful)

3. Buying or holding bitcoin undermines American values and empowers foreign adversaries (false; bitcoin embodies American values, and a huge chunk of bitcoin is held by Americans)

4. Buying or holding bitcoin weakens the American dollar (this one is complicated, and depends on what it means to 'weaken' the dollar, and how the reserve strategy is actually implemented)

5. People only like the strategic reserve idea because it pumps their bitcoin bags (this one is very psychologically important -- but irrelevant to the merits of the policy as such)

Following are some other objections that strike me as more sensible. What do you think? What are the best replies to these objections? Are there other sensible objections I'm missing?

6. A bitcoin-stockpiling strategy gives the state more incentive to seize bitcoin

7. The state should be neutral between asset classes and assets within them; to hold or buy bitcoin is to pick a winner

8. Massive state holdings confer powers in contentious fork wars that the state shouldn't have (e.g., to massively sell off the more freedom- or privacy-oriented side of a hard fork, and thus move markets in that direction)

9. A sovereign wealth fund should aim at yield-bearing assets to displace taxes or debt, but bitcoin doesn't offer any yield

10. Policy should be neutral about a 'number go up' thesis; but stockpiling bitcoin is pretty plainly a bet on that thesis

11. Impoverished and indebted governments should pay down debts rather than acquire assets

I’m putting together a strategic bitcoin reserve — a stockpile if you will.

You know what doesn't shut down when Windows goes haywire?

Cash.

Today is a good day to act accordingly.

Everything you say in public will be recorded and remembered forever. We are all surveilled by the future, more so than even Caesars and prophets of old.

Your great-grandchildren will judge you for any intellectual dishonesty. Act accordingly.

Thank you so much, Tim!

Depends on your threat model. Signal is a good step up from WhatsApp or, god forbid, Telegram; avoid the desktop app if there’s a ’hance your desktop device is compromised, of course. Those who face more sophisticated adversaries will want to try out more sophisticated tools like Session.