Twelve essays tracing money from barter to gold to fiat to Bitcoin — and what that history means for how you save, hold, and think about value.
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Before you buy or set anything up, it helps to understand what you're actually choosing between. Here's a plain overview of the three things that matter most — and if you want to talk through your specific situation, that's what the Q&A session is for.
What actually separates exchanges from peer-to-peer purchases, what KYC (know-your-customer) verification means in practice, and how each approach trades off privacy, convenience, and amount.
The real difference between custodial and self-custody, and between hot wallets and cold storage — and what tends to matter most depending on whether you're holding a small starter position or long-term savings.
What a hardware wallet actually does, how a seed phrase is generated, and what separates a solid backup approach from a risky one — the concepts worth understanding before you commit to a setup.
Anyone who's read the series (or is new entirely) and wants these ideas explained in plain terms, in the context of their own situation — whether that's your first purchase, a wallet you already have questions about, or deciding how seriously to take your own security.
That's exactly what the Q&A session is for — a focused hour to get your questions answered properly.
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Twelve essays tracing money from barter to gold, paper, fiat and Bitcoin — and what that history means for how you save, hold, and think about value. Now collected in one book.
Coming soonSpanish and Italian translations of the essays and the ebook are on their way.
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Prices rise under a currency designed to lose value, and this session isn't exempt. Here's the mechanism, in the same terms the series covers.
In 1971, the U.S. severed the last tie between the dollar and a fixed, scarce commodity: gold. Every dollar since has been created by decree rather than backed by anything scarce, and the supply has expanded accordingly — the Cantillon Effect and A History of Money essays go into why.
Below is what that looks like as one concrete number: the U.S. federal minimum wage, priced in gold, then and now.
If wages had kept pace with gold — the closest thing history offers to a stable measuring stick — 1971's $1.60 minimum wage would be worth roughly $202/hour today.
That's about $8,082 a week, or $420,000 a year, before taxes.
No minimum wage looks like that.
The gap isn't the value of the work, it's the measuring stick.
For reference: at $150, this session costs less than what a single hour of minimum wage work in 1971 would be worth today if it had kept pace with gold (~$202/hour).
Every fiat currency in the world today shares the same design flaw as the U.S. dollar.
A number that felt right last year may not cover the same real value this year — not because the work changed, but because the currency it's priced in keeps getting worth less.
This will always be the honest answer to “why did the price go up.”
Figures use the U.S. federal minimum wage ($1.60/hr, set 1968–1974) and gold's official 1971 rate of $35/oz, against a recent spot price of roughly $4,420/oz (September 2026). Gold fluctuates daily — this is an illustration of the mechanism, not a live or precise figure.
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