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课程名称：ECO21：比特币标准 课程概述：本课程由赛义德·阿穆斯（Dr. Saifedean Ammous）教授，他基于其著作《比特币标准》教授在线课程。课程将书中的内容扩展，并深入探讨塑造这些内容的来源和读物。《比特币标准》分析了比特币崛起的历史背景、促使其快速发展的经济特性，以及其可能带来的经济、政治和社会影响。尽管比特币是数字时代的新发明，但它试图解决的问题与人类社会一样古老：跨越时间和空间转移价值。 课程通过回顾执行货币功能的各种技术的历史，展开了一场引人入胜的旅程，从原始的石头和贝壳交易系统，到金属、硬币、金本位，以及现代国债。探讨这些技术为何具有货币角色，以及大多数技术为何失去这一角色，为了解何为良好的货币奠定了基础，并为其对个人与社会未来导向、资本积累、贸易、和平、文化和艺术的影响提供了经济讨论的舞台。阿穆斯清晰地表明，人类最伟大的成就往往出现在享有良好货币体制益处的社会中，而货币崩溃通常伴随着文明的崩溃也并非偶然。 在建立了这样的背景之后，课程继续以功能性和直观的方式解释比特币的运作。比特币是一种去中心化、分散式的软件，将电力和处理能力转换为无可争议的准确记录，从而让用户能够利用互联网在不依赖任何现实世界的权威或基础设施的情况下执行传统的货币功能。因此，比特币被理解为首个成功实施的数字现金和数字硬通货形式。凭借自动化且完全可预测的货币政策，以及在几分钟内完成全球大额支付的最终结算能力，比特币的真正竞争优势可能就在于其作为价值存储和全球最终结算网络的能力——一种内置结算基础设施的数字黄金。 阿穆斯对技术可能性和货币演变历史现实的深刻理解，为探索自愿自由市场货币的深远影响提供了引人入胜的视角。比特币挑战了政府独占的最神圣权利，将主权的天平从政府转向个人，为我们提供了一个可以完全将货币从政治束缚中解脱出来、不受国界限制的世界的令人振奋的可能性。
Dr. Saifedean Ammous teaches an online course based on his book, The Bitcoin Standard. The course expands on the material in the book, and delves deeply into the sources and readings that shaped it. The Bitcoin Standard analyzes the historical context to the rise of Bitcoin, the economic properties that have allowed it to grow quickly, and its likely economic, political, and social implications.While Bitcoin is a new invention of the digital age, the problem it purports to solve is as old as human society itself: transferring value across time and space. This course embarks on an engaging journey through the history of technologies performing the functions of money, from primitive systems of trading limestones and seashells, to metals, coins, the gold standard, and modern government debt. Exploring what gave these technologies their monetary role, and how most lost it, provides the reader with a good idea of what makes for sound money, and sets the stage for an economic discussion of its consequences for individual and societal future-orientation, capital accumulation, trade, peace, culture, and art. Compellingly, Ammous shows that it is no coincidence that the loftiest achievements of humanity have come in societies enjoying the benefits of sound monetary regimes, nor is it coincidental that monetary collapse has usually accompanied civilizational collapse.With this background in place, the course moves on to explain the operation of Bitcoin in a functional and intuitive way. Bitcoin is a decentralized, distributed piece of software that converts electricity and processing power into indisputably accurate records, thus allowing its users to utilize the Internet to perform the traditional functions of money without having to rely on, or trust, any authorities or infrastructure in the physical world. Bitcoin is thus best understood as the first successfully implemented form of digital cash and digital hard money. With an automated and perfectly predictable monetary policy, and the ability to perform final settlement of large sums across the world in a matter of minutes, Bitcoin's real competitive edge might just be as a store of value and network for final settlement of large payments-a digital form of gold with a built-in settlement infrastructure.Ammous' firm grasp of the technological possibilities as well as the historical realities of monetary evolution provides for a fascinating exploration of the ramifications of voluntary free market money. As it challenges the most sacred of government monopolies, Bitcoin shifts the pendulum of sovereignty away from governments in favor of individuals, offering us the tantalizing possibility of a world where money is fully extricated from politics and unrestrained by borders.
