Resistance Money

Resistance Money is the academic case for Bitcoin — three philosophers building the argument the way philosophy does it: define the thing, steelman every objection, and follow the logic. The framing device is the veil of ignorance: not knowing where in the world you’d be born, would you want Bitcoin to exist? Their answer is yes, argued through chapters on privacy, censorship, inflation, banking exclusion — and honest chapters on energy, crime and volatility that engage the strongest critiques rather than the weakest.

It is rigorous but readable, with the rare quality of conceding points: the authors accept real costs and argue the ledger nets positive anyway. The apparatus (citations, distinctions, formalized arguments) makes it citable in contexts where advocacy books are not.

It suits academics, policy people, and any reader who wants the case tested rather than told. It is the book to hand the smartest skeptic you know — precisely because it was written by people who took the skeptics seriously.