How will China affect Bitcoin's price, your freedoms, and your wallet? How is China pushing the digital yuan and central bank digital currencies? As surveillance technology goes up against open source freedomtech, which will win out? Roger Huang’s Would Mao Hold Bitcoin? is the authoritative resource exploring Bitcoin’s disruptive intersection with Chinese history. Huang not only pulls back the curtain on the characters and events driving that story, but on the larger questions that arise from the clash between state-driven Chinese tech and the open source development that is Bitcoin.

As a longtime observer, Mandarin speaker, and regular contributor to Forbes and other platforms on the subject of Bitcoin in China, Huang is uniquely positioned to evaluate the implications for the future. “Would Mao Hold Bitcoin is a gripping story of China’s tumultuous evolution from money innovator with the first paper currency and cotton backed bills to Bitcoin bans and a new kind of central bank currency.

Roger’s sweeping view of Eastern and Western history, coupled with his unparalleled technical understanding of Bitcoin, make for an essential read to anyone who wants to understand not only the future of money and Bitcoin, but the strange role totalitarian regimes can play in accelerating and thwarting both. While much of the rest of the world has focused on Bitcoin’s use for crime or getting rich, Huang returns to fundamentals, exploring the first truly open cryptocurrency’s promise to free users from authoritarian regimes of any sort.

”— Michael del Castillo, Knight-Bagehot Fellow, Co-Founder Association of Cryptocurrency Journalists and Researchers, former Senior Editor at Forbes“Roger Huang has written a powerful history of Bitcoin in China — the improbable story of how a libertarian experiment with peer-to-peer money took root among aspiring Chinese Bitcoin entrepreneurs and grew into a force that challenged the leviathan party-state. He traces Bitcoin's development in China as a key marker of the unfolding competition over global technology governance and digital network dominance.

In this competition, the future of the internet, the future of money, and the future of freedom are all inherently linked. His book provides an essential contribution to the critical question of our time: How can modern digital societies keep faith with their liberal social contracts as the capacities for digital control continue to grow? Would Mao Hold Bitcoin provides a path to an answer.

”— Matthew Pines, Director, Security Advisory @SentinelOne and National Security Fellow @btcpolicyorg“Huang has given us an important book that weaves together two important subjects: Bitcoin and China. Both are shaping the course of the 21st century, and Roger uses his intelligence, knowledge, and talent for storytelling to show us why these two forces are on a collision course and why it matters to the future of money and geopolitics.

”— Jason Steinhauer, Author, History, Disrupted, adjunct professor at the Maxwell School for Citizenship & Public Affairs at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D. C.

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