The Bitcoin Standard is written by an academically dishonest and disingenuous individual who wilfully locks himself in an echo chamber. Even Nassim Nicholas Taleb who wrote the foreword of this book has blocked him on Twitter.

The book is chock-full of logical fallacies, grammatical errors; e.g., writing “seniorage” instead of seigniorage, an economic term misspelled by an “economist”. Secondly, he carefully chooses historical examples to fit his narrative, omitting counter-examples, and he plainly gets history wrong as well, such as mistakenly thinking that plumbing was invented in the nineteenth century instead of ≈6500BC. Thirdly, his excessive use of ad hominems is staggering, placing him among my top pick of modern demagogues.

He's okay with his book being pirated, so don't give him any money, here you go: b-ok . cc/book/3498561/965aa8.