In 1889, thousands of men and women lined up along the Oklahoma border to race towards their new plot of land. On May 21, 1980, moviegoers waited hours to be the first to see The Empire Strikes Back. In 2009, the Bolivian government passed legislation to distribute land and natural resources back to Indigenous people.
A race, a queue, a vote; people throughout history have chosen to interact in ways that were not through financial markets. More recently, however, we're moving towards distributing everything in a maximally profitable, financially efficient manner. Crypto is the final frontier of this transition.
The core thesis of this book is that neutrality and financialization are failures.
Cryptocurrencies are pushing the financialization of everything, sacrificing distribution decisions to the global and "neutral" systems that are code and markets. Unstoppable Markets explains why this is not working out.
A fictional narrative of a crypto founder weaves through the book, creating context for each chapter that analyzes a new crypto-specific market failure. Through stories and historical examples, the author examines market design, hyper-financialization, and the quest for neutrality through code. The book uses engaging and accessible frameworks to explain the technological and economic principles that build the foundation of the book.
As a crypto insider, founder, and trained economist, the author has the credentials and reach to make this message an instant debate within the dedicated community of crypto and technology. An established thought leader in the space, he will be promoting his book at the biggest crypto events around the world, as well as through his own and countless other social media accounts.
This is the insider critique of the fundamental economic underpinnings of the entire crypto industry. Hinting at broader political lessons, the stories and historical backing of the arguments help to persuade even the most rigid of market supporters that crypto represents the free market's ultimate trial and failure.
