Money on Trial

Is Bitcoin digital gold, or a feedback loop that only looks like one? Does crypto bank the unbanked, or just give people a new way to lose money? Fifteen years in, everyone has an opinion. Almost no one has run a real test.

Money on Trial takes crypto's eight biggest claims - and the four biggest claims made against it - and puts each one through the same discipline courts use on evidence: state what would prove it wrong before you look, build the strongest opposing case before you check a single fact, and render a verdict that isn't just yes or no.

The result isn't a hit piece and it isn't a pitch. Of eighteen claims tested against real, dated evidence - crisis-period price data, court records, mining statistics, on-the-ground adoption numbers from four countries - four were Supported, seven were Contradicted, four came back Unsupported, two are still genuinely Unresolved, and one turned out to be Unfalsifiable: a claim built so no evidence could ever touch it.

Every verdict comes with the exact evidence that could overturn it, and a date to check back. Including the book's own.

If you're about to buy your first coin, or you've already argued about this at a dinner table, this is the book that shows you how to actually settle it - not by picking a side, but by learning to ask the one question that matters: what would prove you wrong?