Nothing is more exciting than when one works on something for a long time and finally it is ready to see the light of day.
I have been enthusiastic for several years about everything related to Bitcoin in particular and the crypto world in general, and what excites me most is the deep implications and the great impact they are going to have (they already have) on society and on our relationship with “money”. That is my conviction.
For me, we are in a moment of change, even if it is not talked about constantly; only sometimes enthusiastic news and other times alarming ones, of a change as deep as the appearance of the Internet at the beginning and its exponential expansion years later. Now it is something equal or even more important: modernizing money, nothing less, because Bitcoin is the “Internet of money”.
My first contact with Bitcoin was in 2013, as I mention in the introduction of this new book, but I lost interest until years later, in 2018; as I read and read and delved deeper into Bitcoin and the crypto world, I gradually began to understand the implications and importance of all of this.
I thought then that I had arrived late to the party, only to discover that, in reality, we are still in a very early stage of adoption.
I have read everything that has come into my hands about Bitcoin and related topics (books that I include in the bibliography), and it is rare for a day to go by without me reading an article or spending some time on this emerging sector. In fact, I still follow many companies and professionals already working in this field on LinkedIn.
I also believe we are facing a huge opportunity for software developers, with growing demand for professionals who know about this, and you only need to look at the salaries being offered.
In fact, I started working on a book to teach people how to “program services with Bitcoin,” since I had become familiar with its technical details and its use, but I soon realized that even in our sector there is a big vacuum in understanding it, or even rejection, due to lack of information, which is what I believe.
So I set out to write a different kind of book from anything I had read before (too academic, too superficial, or too technical), one that anyone without prior knowledge of Bitcoin or even with little technical background could understand.
This is my first book aimed at a general audience.
As I state in the book, understanding Bitcoin also requires understanding the current economic system, which is inherently inflationary and debt-based, and I dedicate several chapters to that. I fear many will be surprised when they better understand the traps of our economic system, with its benefits but also its systemic flaws.
And Bitcoin was born as an alternative to all of this, which explains the acid and aggressive discourse of many economic agents, such as banks, investment institutions, and even governments. Of course, a technology arrives that makes them obsolete, inevitably taking away from “power” nothing less than monetary policy.
This may now seem astonishing and even unsettling to some, while for others it represents a great hope and opportunity for humanity in general. You do not have to look far when you consider that the “free exchange of information” that the Internet represented made politicians nervous back in the 90s (something I myself witnessed at the time).
Some countries already accept Bitcoin as “legal tender,” and its expansion is bound to be inevitable. Why? Because its attributes as a currency are far superior and there is nothing equal; similarly, email made postal mail obsolete, to give an example.
Jack Dorsey, the former CEO and founder of Twitter, left that position a few months ago to dedicate himself fully to Block and to promote Bitcoin and decentralized finance, so I wonder what he saw as a visionary in this sector.
I do not know whether you already have an opinion about Bitcoin and the crypto industry that is emerging, but I encourage you to read this new book I have just launched with the hope of bringing this new revolution closer to anyone who wants to learn about it and take advantage of all the opportunities we have now at this still-early stage of adoption (although it is estimated that around 140 million people already have Bitcoin accounts).