Broken Money is a specific Books coordinate in the Bitcoin knowledge graph. In practical terms, it identifies the subject described here: Broken Money — by Lyn Alden: Bitcoin, monetary history, sound money and the economics of a scarce digital asset. This definition is narrower than promotional usage and should be read together with the implementation, date and evidence attached to the entry.
Written by Lyn Alden and first published in 2023 by Timestamp Press.
Use this book as a route into Bitcoin, monetary history, sound money and the economics of a scarce digital asset. Its Atlas links connect the reading to the people, mechanisms and events it discusses.
Primary or authoritative records make these details checkable: Lyn Alden's Broken Money surveys monetary technologies, banking, communication systems and digital assets to argue that money evolves with settlement and information constraints; citations support its historical narrative. They should be verified before using the coordinate in analysis.
The practical limit is: a synthetic monetary history is not neutral consensus or a Bitcoin price model, and analogies across eras can hide institutional differences; empirical claims should be checked against primary economic histories. A definition, office, chart pattern or published claim is not by itself a prediction or Bitcoin consensus rule.
For the clearest picture, read this entry together with Fiat money, Bitcoin, Lyn Alden. The reverse links also lead from Lyn Alden.