{"product_id":"the-bible-and-bitcoin","title":"The Bible and Bitcoin","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScripture has a great deal to say about money, and almost none of it is about coins. It is about weights and measures, about the labourer worthy of his hire, about a day's wage for a day's work, about what happens to a people when the standard they trade by can be quietly altered by whoever holds the scales.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlin Armstrong takes that seriously and asks what Bitcoin looks like from inside it. The argument runs through human time and human energy — the two things nobody can counterfeit, and the two things a person actually spends when they earn. Money that cannot be created without expending energy stands in a different relation to a day's work than money that can be created by decision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA short book, a hundred and twenty pages, with a foreword by J.M. Bush. It is a theological exploration rather than a technical one, so it will not teach you how a transaction is signed. What it will do is set the monetary argument you already know beside a moral tradition that has been examining the same question for three thousand years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead it with the Douay-Rheims on the same shelf. The passages it reaches for are worth having open beside it, and in a translation that took the Vulgate word for word.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Amazon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50456541233219,"sku":"The-Bible-and-Bitcoin-10271160729667","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0635\/4737\/5683\/files\/61PO530IVFL._SL1500.jpg?v=1790346078","url":"https:\/\/cafe.tollbooth-dpyc.com\/products\/the-bible-and-bitcoin","provider":"Good Brew","version":"1.0","type":"link"}