Broken Money has now sold over 100,000 copies. The readership demographic is really broad as far as I can tell. Many sales are individuals, in many countries. But for example there is a big tradfi institutional money manager that has given out dozens of copies to his money manager friends, and there is a big CEO that gives out dozens of copies to his CEO friends and members of Congress and stuff. Throughout this year more translations will come out. I think my foreign rights agent has like 7 languages out so far, and another 13+ are in the pipeline.

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BoringBTCNYB 8 months ago
It’s also been to the room where the IMF was created! image
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Trivium 8 months ago
Congratulations....Great book Lyn. I've given away over 10 copies so far myself, but not to CEO friends or member of Congresss 🤣. I'm a bottoms up person, not top down.
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Nick 8 months ago
Congrats Lyne it's a wonderful book!
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unknown 8 months ago
I gave my first copy to my father-in-law a tradfi genius and just bought my second copy from Saif house to read to my son.
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BitcoinIsFuture 8 months ago
Congrats and this is so good for society in so many levels!
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JohnnyKast 8 months ago
Best book to understand the evolution of monetary technology and the value of sound money for Humanity
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elOroReal 8 months ago
Great book. Highly recommend. Nice job Lyn!
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halleck 8 months ago
I finally bought and read it this year. Much deserved success.
Bullish news Lyn, congratulations! I bought my copy 1yr ago but still need to read it 😅
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anubisSonOfRa 8 months ago
Amazing Lyn! You deserve it, it's a fantastic book! 🙌 I bought three copies in order to give away two to of my closest friends. Hopefully they'll read it as well. God knows they need to even though they might not realize it themselves.
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sms 8 months ago
I'm all over Asia and Middle East. Have never seen it even in the biggest shops, like Kinokunia in Dubai , Bangkok , KL , or Singapore. Last i asked , not available even by special order. Same with Layered Money.
@Lyn Alden I saw the same post on X and immediately came looking for it here on Primal. Well done on this amazing achievement and well done for constantly making the effort to double post content in an effort to drive Primal/Nostr tech forwards. Awesome work. (I'm on of the 100k and your book was profound)
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rapadu 8 months ago
Fantastic! Is it still the first edition? Needs to infiltrate much more. I got 2: Original in physical format and 1 electronic in German. Also gifted a couple - best present.
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Christine 8 months ago
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Graz 8 months ago
Congrats..mid way through my second reading
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n 8 months ago
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JDizz 8 months ago
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Bitcoin Burger 8 months ago
Wow, what a success! Congratulations! Does the 100k imclude ebooks?
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Evan Baer 8 months ago
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hasky 8 months ago
Congratulations 🙌
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matevz 8 months ago
does this include translated copies too?
Brilliant! Congratulations 🥂 Maybe you should find a way to connect with Saifedean Ammous, Jeff Booth, Andreas Antonopoulos and Larry Lepard for creating a book package for sale or a jointly written free PDF book summarising all messages. Would make a great Bitcoin starter package or book. 🧡✨👍
I got Polish version to support Freedom Publishing also. It's great, I love the structure and how easy to get it is for non-finance folks. I will definitely buy a few more for the family. Great job @Lyn Alden as always image
Bitcoin Standard and your Broken Money are the two books I recommend to anyone wanting to understand Bitcoin more, especially the “why”. I am currently reading Saifeden’s Principles of Economics which is also excellent.
Your book is the best! I have already read libertarian books and other books like Bitcoin Standard, Internet of Money and nothing matches your book. Together with a technical book named "Grokking Bitcoin" from Kalle Rosenbaum, where the algorithms that ensure Bitcoin as a Accounting booking method is tamper-proof are shown, there is no doubt that Bitcoin is the only sane international accounting method. The accounting system used by fiat world is from year 1300, and it's easy -to-fraud chacteristics made it be the L2 network for Gold which crated our current easy-to-fraud fiat world. Bitcoin is the next system, fraud-free! Here about our current Account method used by fiat: Satoshi nakamoto will once be known as the inventor of a tamper-proof account system, ranked together with his 1300s predecessor Luca Pacioli:
If you consider doing a second edition, please consider adding Kalle Rosenbaum, writer of "Grokking Bitcoin". His book show how bitcoin is a fraud-proof accounting system and will take your analogy of shells and stone beads to a new height! What I know from his book and yours is that gold is used as an Implementation of accounting system In which transtitons cannot be frauded due to the scarcity of gold: transfer from economic Energy from one person to another can be done my "moving Gold" between them. Gold is pretty scarce, so it's pretty difficult to take transactions. The accounting system of fiat started as a new later on top of gold, but this system is easy to fake because you just need ink and paper (or an entry in an excel table) to fake entries. So, what guarantee the tamper -proof behavior of gold are chemical laws (you cannot produce gold out of other elements), but you never know what's the max amount of Gold on earth. Tamper-proof behavior of fiat accounting system is human law, which is pretty weak and can be Broken very easily. Tamper-proof behavior of Bitcoin accounting systems are laws of computation, which are impossible to break. Bitcoin is a monetary network and accountjng system at the same time. If you invite Kalle for a talk I bet he will give you unbelievable intuitons foe your next edition! #btc #bitcoin