One of the Best
The website Biblio-Fiend have listed their nine best books about the future of money and I cannot help but be a little flattered to find out that this book is one of them! Here’s the full list:
The Currency Cold War by D. Birch (LPP:2020).
Blockchain Bubble or Revolution by N. Mehta, A. Agasha & P. Detroja (Paravane: 2019).
The Future of Finance by H. Arslanian & F. Fischer (Palgrave Macmillian: 2019).
Beyond Blockchain by E. Townsend (2018).
Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin.
The Internet of Money volumes 1-3 by A. Antonopoulos (CreateSpace: 2016).
Personal Currency by R. Colbourn & A. Riegelmann (Lionhead: 2016).
The Age of Cryptocurrency by M. Casey and P. Vigna (Macmillan:2015).
How Would You Like To Pay by B. Maurer (Duke University Press: 2015).
Needless to say, I was very flattered to be in such good company!
Table of Contents
Here’s the full table of contents for the revised paperback edition of Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin.
Part I
The Past: Money That We Understand
Chapter 1, Money is a technology
Chapter 2, 1066 and all that
Chapter 3, Money and markets
Chapter 4, Crises and progress
Part II
The Present: Money That We Think We Understand
Chapter 5, Goodbye Pony Express
Chapter 6, Consumer technology
Chapter 7, Moving to mobile
Chapter 8, The case against cash
Chapter 9, Why keep cash?
Chapter 10, Thinking about the cashless economy
Chapter 11, After the gold rush
Part III
The Future: Money That Understands Us
Chapter 12, Seeds of the future
Chapter 13, Counting on cryptography
Chapter 14, Who will make money?
Chapter 15, Reimagining money
Chapter 16, Back to the future
Chapter 17, The next money
Coda: The Story of Money
Appendix: around the cashless world.
Revised Paperback Edition
The revised paperback edition of “Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin: From money we understand to money that understands us” was published by London Publishing Partnership in 2019.
This paperback edition has been revised and includes an and extended final chaper (on “smart money’) in response to a few requests from readers.