Episode · The Rubin Report · 2024-07-08
Dave Rubin & Robert Breedlove: books mentioned on The Rubin Report
The Real Reason the US Gov't Fears Bitcoin — It Isn't What You Think | Robert Breedlove
Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Robert Breedlove, host of the "What Is Money?
Robert Breedlove recommended The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, The Blocksize War by Jonathan Bier, and The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and others, and discussed Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Creature from Jekyll Island
The Creature from Jekyll Island by G.
Recommended“so although I think you know you could read a book like the creature from Jackal Island about the Inception of the Federal Reserve which is the Central Bank of the United States”
Where to get it
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The Blocksize War
The Blocksize War by Jonathan Bier is an analytical deep dive into the intense scaling conflicts and ideological battles that tested the decentralized governance of Bitcoin.
Recommended“you could read a book like the blog siiz wars of 2017 where a very influential group and well-healed group of people tried to take control of Bitcoin”
Where to get it
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Seeing Like a State
James C.
Discussed“so this is from the book uh seeing like a state he said that the state tries to make taxpayers legible”
Where to get it
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The Sovereign Individual
The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg is a visionary late-twentieth-century book that anticipates the decline of the nation-state and the rise of decentralized digital economies, remote work, and cryptocurrencies.
Recommended“there is a great book uh the sovereign individual that was written in 1997 and it predicted the emergence of a number of things like social media”
Where to get it
