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Digital Gold is a good read coving the creation and history of Bitcoin. I'm almost done with it. Knowing my blockchain history and the big players in the original tech has come in handy more than I suspected, definitely worth the read!

nope, humans can barely do it. you need general artificial intelligence first, then if it progressed to super artificial intelligence then yes.

if youre interested in what im talking about read these two articles. second article is where it gets good. but you need to read both.

https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html

https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-2.html

more heavy reading

https://www.amazon.com/Superintelligence-Dangers-Strategies-Nick-Bostrom/dp/1501227742

Cryptoassets!

I am reading this book that Vitalik Buterin has referenced several times on twitter. It's a fascinating read into the history of money

Debt: The First 5,000 Years
https://www.amazon.com/Debt-First-5-000-Years/dp/1612191290


> - We did not begin with barter, discover money, and then eventually develop credit systems. It happened precisely the other way around. What we now call virtual money came first. Coins came much later, and their use spread only unevenly, never completely replacing credit systems. Barter, in turn, appears to be largely a kind of accidental byproduct of the use of coinage or paper money


> - it begins to be clear why there are no societies based on barter. Such a society could only be one in which everybody was an inch away from everybody else's throat; but nonetheless hovering there, poised to strike but never actually striking, forever

> - Keynesian orthodoxy started from the assumption that capitalist markets would not really work unless capitalist governments were willing effectively to play nanny: most famously, by engaging in massive deficit 'pump-priming' during downturns

> - Governments use taxes to create money, and they are able to do so because they have become the guardians of the debt that all citizens have to one another. This debt is the essence of society itself. It exists long before money and markets, and money and markets themselves are simply ways of chopping pieces of it up.

> - The story of the origins of capitalism, then, is not the story of the gradual destruction of traditional communities by the impersonal power of the market. It is, rather, the story of how an economy of credit was converted into an economy of interest"

> - Almost all the bubbles of the eighteenth century involved some fantastic scheme to use the proceeds of colonial ventures to pay for European wars. Paper money was debt money, and debt money was war money, and this has always remained the case.