Making Money
Written by Terry Pratchett
Narrated by Stephen Briggs
4.5/5
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"Like the best of its predecessors, Making Money balances satire, knockabout farce and close observation of human — and non-human — foibles with impressive dexterity and deceptive ease. The result is another ingenious entertainment from the preeminent comic fantasist of our time.” — Washington Post.
The hero of Going Postal returns in the 36th installment of Sir Terry Pratchett's beloved Discworld series! Moist von Lipwig, condemned prisoner turned postal worker extraordinaire is now in charge of a different branch of the government: overseeing the printing of Ankh-Morpork’s first paper currency.
Amazingly, former arch-swindler-turned-Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig has somehow managed to get the woefully inefficient Ankh-Morpork Post Office running like . . . well, not like a government office at all. Now the supreme despot Lord Vetinari is asking Moist if he'd like to make some real money. Vetinari wants Moist to resuscitate the venerable Royal Mint—so that perhaps it will no longer cost considerably more than a penny to make a penny.
Moist doesn't want the job. However, a request from Ankh-Morpork's current ruling tyrant isn't a "request" per se, more like a "once-in-a-lifetime-offer-you-can-certainly-refuse-if-you-feel-you've-lived-quite-long-enough." So Moist will just have to learn to deal with elderly Royal Bank chairman Topsy (née Turvy) Lavish and her two loaded crossbows, a face-lapping Mint manager, and a chief clerk who's probably a vampire. But he'll soon be making lethal enemies as well as money, especially if he can't figure out where all the gold has gone.
The Discworld novels can be read in any order, but Making Money is the second book in the Moist von Lipwig series.
Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) was the acclaimed creator of the globally revered Discworld series. In all, he authored more than fifty bestselling books, which have sold more than one hundred million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Part adventure, part biography, part true crime - this fascinating look at the initial beginnings of Bitcoin was captivating. A variety of ideals and different personalities come into play in creating a new technology which will be as disruptive in the long term to the financial sector as Amazon has been to consumer retail.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I didn't pay much attention to BitCoin when it first came out. I've done a little web development over the years, but I'm not a coder. I've also had a curiosity surrounding encryption (when I taught middle school math, we had a unit on encryption), but again, am not an expert in the subject. But I think the main reason I didn't pay attention to BitCoin is that I'm a Luddite, and I have massive suspicion for any new technology, especially financial technologies (which I generally judge to be exploitative).I recently started helping out on a friend's blockchain venture, and finally had to study up on this field. The vast majority of this research has been online, but I was hoping to supplement my research with some books. This was the only one I could find that comes strongly recommended.The book was published two years ago, so it doesn't get into the recent Initial Coin Offering phase, or Ethereum and Smart Contracts. That said, it does cover the fascinating origins in 2008 up into 2014. Our author did a massive amount of research, and collated the seemingly-disparate threads into one unified narrative.Somewhat surprisingly, BitCoin's origins aren't closely tied with Silicon Valley, and only recently has it really been gaining a foothold there. Additionally, even with BitCoin's meteoric rise, it still only has provisional support from the IRS and SEC, and hasn't yet been adopted by any American banks. It seems as though we're still in the very beginnings of the cryptocurrency era.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is an excellent overview of the history of Bitcoin and the many people involved with Bitcoin over the course of its creation and ascendance. Popper does an excellent job telling the human interest side of the story and leaves most technical details to the appendix. The book follows many individuals however the narrative abruptly stops with little to no conclusion about these individuals or the state of Bitcoin at the time this went to press. I also found the technical details lacking which was unfortunate since many questions about the technical details appeared in the book but were not mentioned in the appendix.