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A critical examination of the intersection between technology, finance, and sustainability. Two books. One engineering framework. Zero hype.
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The Bitcoin Pyramid
A Story of Failed Promises, Successful Ponzi Schemes, and a Suffering World

Efficiency is the only metric that matters in engineering. If a system consumes exponential resources to provide linear utility, it is a design failure. This book traces the timeline from the 2008 Financial Crisis to the present day, auditing the "machinery" of cryptocurrency to reveal why it failed to replace the banking system.

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Part I: The Promise. Context matters. I trace the origins from the Lehman Brothers collapse to the contagion of FTX, explaining why society was primed to trust a decentralized alternative.
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Part II: The Reality. A technical dismantling. Why Smart Contracts are code that can't be fixed, and why the "Speculation Machine" is a mathematical inevitability, not a bug.
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Parts III & IV: The Alternatives & Path Forward. If not Bitcoin, then what? I analyze systems that actually work (like Singapore and Kenya) and detail real technological solutions—like Digital Identity and Open Banking—that solve financial exclusion without the waste.
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Part V: The Capture. The new crisis. How the industry is surviving through "Political Capture" and why ETFs act as an extraction mechanism for Wall Street.
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The Bucket-Water Analogy
Exposing The Absurd Economics of Bitcoin's Proof-of-Work

Bitcoin advocates claim mining is "security." Physics tells us it is simply waste. While the first book covers the macroeconomics, this book focuses on the specific mechanism of Proof-of-Work. Using a straightforward "Island Economy" analogy, I demonstrate why competitive energy waste cannot serve as a valid basis for a global currency.

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Part I: Understanding Extraction. An analysis of the "Six Essential Jobs" money must perform, and how the shocking concentration of Bitcoin ownership undermines its democratic claims.
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Part III: Proof of Pointlessness. The core analogy. How creating artificial scarcity leads to a mining arms race that prioritizes energy waste over transaction utility.
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Part IV: The Global Catastrophe. Moving beyond carbon. I examine the hidden water crisis, grid destruction, and the "Renewable Energy Lie".
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