God reserves some his harshest words of criticism for monetary debasement. The Old Testament describes this practice as “detestable,” “violent,” and “grinding the faces of the poor.”

Jimmy Song, author of the book Fiat Ruins Everything: How Our Financial System Is Rigged and How Bitcoin Fixes This, discusses the implications of this economic fraud and how we should be thinking about it from a Christian worldview.

Jimmy Song is a Bitcoin developer, educator, and entrepreneur. He’s a software engineer with over 20 years of experience, an open source contributor to many different Bitcoin projects, and the author of Programming Bitcoin, The Little Bitcoin Book, Thank God for Bitcoin, and Bitcoin and the American Dream. Jimmy has been a lecturer at the University of Texas and an expert witness in legal cases involving Bitcoin, and he is an advisor to multiple companies. Jimmy writes a weekly newsletter, Bitcoin Tech Talk, and hosts the podcast Bitcoin Fixes This. His writing can also be found at bitcoinmagazine.com.