Frances Coppola provided an extensive, harsh, critical review of the hyped “The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking” by Saifedean Ammous.
Not that maximalists would change their mind after appointed issues of the book. All historical perspective is always selective, of course. And asserting causation to millenia old economic developments might be an useful intellectual tool.
Moreover, Ammous’s book gives us an interesting account of current Bitcoin economic environment, and such is granted by Coppola.
But Coppola’s critique show how one must be careful before any attempt to decree a necessary outcome from historical fact-picking tale.