What I hope you’ll come out of after reading Would Mao Hold Bitcoin:

1- A much better understanding of Bitcoin’s history, some of the more fundamental aspects underpinning Bitcoin’s price, its use as a financial tool that can help protect people’s freedom and privacy, and why that’ll matter more with each passing year.

2- Enough recent Chinese history to understand why China played an unique role in Bitcoin’s growth – and how China’s economic ascent helped shape the world we live in today.

3- You’ll understand that there’s an ongoing war that will affect your freedoms and your wallet when it comes to choosing between state-driven authoritarian technologies, and open-source “freedomtech” like Bitcoin and Nostr.

4– What happens in China with bans placed on Bitcoin and the creation of a technological surveillance state will matter for your freedoms and wallets.

5– Ultimately, China is trying to export its model country-by-country while competing with open-source tech. However, polling seems to indicate that both the United States and China are seeing increasing disillusionment with both their models.

6– What’s required is a positive vision beyond these two alternatives – and Bitcoin provides that, with many Chinese people still using it to shelter their wealth despite the fact that Bitcoin/Tether trading can land people into jail.

7- My book unearthed Chinese cypherpunks posting on Nostr, and the stories of Chinese entrepreneurs who helped build the first generation of Bitcoin businesses, some who are still building in the space.

8- My hope is that by reading my book, you can get a deeper view on the intersect between technology, personal stories, geopolitics, history, and economics that the canvas of Bitcoin and China provides.