Time and Energy: A Proof of Work Story

This is not a Bitcoin book in the conventional sense. Time and Energy is a meditation on proof of work - the older meaning of the phrase. The meaning that has governed which human creations last and which ones do not, long before any technology existed to attach the phrase to. Aaron Copenhaguen grew up in Argentina watching his family build and lose across generations - honest work stored in containers that kept leaking. When the 2020 shutdown classified his ten-year music career as non-essential in a single press conference, he sat down with a stack of books and asked a question he had never asked before: what is actually mine? What followed was years of reading, rebuilding, and arriving at an answer that connects his grandfather nailing shoe soles at eight years old to the first monetary system in history that does not require trust in any institution to function. The book is for anyone who works hard and wants to understand where the work is supposed to go.

Pages: 88, Paperback, Independently published