Joakim Book

Bitcoin is a vote of no confidence in the fiscal and monetary mess our officials made for us. We want rules, not rulers.

Echo chambers prevented many from hearing what voters actually care about.

Central bankers who attack bitcoin should apply the same skepticism to a legacy system of fiat money.

Our political and philosophical tribes may come down to how well we calculate risk.

"Even under this supposed solution to a market failure, we’re getting less public goods than we get shafted for. Like many other well-intentioned public finance policies, in time they turn into pure money grabs." ~Joakim Book

"The conversational tone is excellent for the wide audience he intends — those skeptical of economists and economics — and it’s easy enough to follow along his clear prose even for those without prior training in our arcane arts. " ~Joakim Book

"The conversational tone is excellent for the wide audience he intends — those skeptical of economists and economics — and it’s easy enough to follow along his clear prose even for those without prior training in our arcane arts. " ~Joakim Book

"Goods and services received gratuitously are not the same as those obtained as a right, especially when governments have extorted tax-'payers' at the point of a gun." ~Joakim Book

"Compared to ballot voting, moving has larger individual impacts, which mean greater incentives to acquire knowledge; it provides a better signal to both the country you’re leaving and the one you’re joining." ~Joakim Book

"Freedom money, wielded by its users and resistant to capture, identification, and censorship, doesn’t dispel unfair laws or make evil rulers go away — but almost nothing else does that either." ~Joakim Book