The Internet of Money
Andreas Antonopoulos is one of the clearest speakers on Bitcoin, and this short book collects a set of his talks aimed at general audiences. He steps back from price and speculation to argue that the interesting question is what happens when money becomes a protocol, open, programmable, and permissionless, in the same way that publishing became a protocol with the internet. He compares the current moment for cryptocurrency to the early years of TCP/IP, when most of the useful applications had not yet been imagined, and lays out the social and economic implications of a payment system without gatekeepers. The talks are structured to build on each other, and readers who found Antonopoulos's technical work Mastering Bitcoin too dense often start here. It has become a standard entry point for policy people, journalists, and technologists trying to understand the case for cryptocurrency.
What you might want to know about The Internet of Money
The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
A collection of talks by Andreas Antonopoulos that explains why Bitcoin matters, not as an investment but as a protocol that changes what money can do.
Srinivasan has cited Antonopoulos's book as the best short introduction to why cryptocurrency matters beyond price, and has recommended it alongside his own writing as a starting point for readers new to the space.
No. It is a set of talks aimed at general readers, and it is often recommended to policy people and journalists who want to understand the case for open money without a computer science background.
The Internet of Money was written by Andreas M. Antonopoulos, published in 2016 by Merkle Bloom LLC.
The Internet of Money is 152 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Internet of Money takes most readers 2 to 3 hours to finish.
The Internet of Money is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
