The Internet of Money — Volume 2

Written by Andreas M. Antonopoulos and first published in 2017 by Merkle Bloom.

Use this book as a route into Bitcoin’s relationship to freedom, institutions, inequality and social change. Its Atlas links connect the reading to the people, mechanisms and events it discusses.

Primary or authoritative records make these details checkable: The Internet of Money volume two collects further Andreas M. Antonopoulos talks on Bitcoin architecture, privacy, governance, scaling and open networks, retaining the public-speaking origin of each chapter. They should be verified before using the coordinate in analysis.

The practical limit is: edited talks mix education, analogy and advocacy and may predate later deployments; technical status, security assumptions and quantitative claims require current specifications and implementations. A definition, office, chart pattern or published claim is not by itself a prediction or Bitcoin consensus rule.

The Internet of Money, Volume Two is Andreas M. Antonopoulos's 2017 Merkle Bloom collection of talks explaining Bitcoin's social and technical significance to a general audience.

The essays develop recurring themes—open access, neutrality, privacy, scaling and the difference between a network protocol and a company—through analogies rather than step-by-step implementation detail.

It records the author's arguments at a particular stage of Bitcoin's scaling debate. It is advocacy and interpretation, so technical or historical claims should be paired with specifications and independent evidence.