Book | When Crypto Makes Sense

A Guide to Use Cases for Liberty

Cryptocurrencies are allowing people to escape currency controls, inflation, and surveillance. Users can also diversify their investment portfolios, pursue higher returns, or profit from trading. Are you missing out?

From personal experience navigating restrictive economies to expert analysis of emerging technologies, When Crypto Makes Sense shares what you need to know about crypto. Whether you wish to maximize your wealth or protect your financial sovereignty, learn the strategies sans hyperbole. You can then decide whether crypto fits the bill.

Inside, you will master crypto fundamentals and discover:

• tools to acquire, hold, and transfer crypto safely;

• tokenization and strategies for including crypto in your portfolio;

• an honest assessment of volatility, scams, and what can go wrong;

• ways to circumvent border controls, censorship, and currency devaluations.

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Table of Contents

1. Foreword

   Get Past Smoke and Mirrors, Find the Value Proposition

2. Preface
   Highs and Lows: My Crypto Coming of Age

3. Introduction
   A Guide to Crypto, DeFi, Tokenization

4. The Pros, Cons of Crypto Investing

   Tremendous Value Rise Comes with Glaring Risks

5. How to Get Started with Your Allocation
   Five Simple Considerations before Taking the Plunge

6. Use Cases for Liberty

   1. Circumventing Currency Controls

   2. Resisting Financial Censorship

   3. Conducting Transnational Payments

   4. Accessing High-Barrier Investments

7. Epilogue

   Three Reasons Crypto Became Status Quo

About the Author

Paz Gomez is a cryptocurrency analyst and educator with experience navigating crypto in restrictive economies. Her research and analysis focus on how technological innovation challenges traditional financial paradigms and empowers individuals in countries facing financial exclusion, currency controls, and crippling inflation.

She has contributed crypto analysis to Econ Americas, the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, the American Institute for Economic Research, and Edward Elgar Publishing. She has also spoken at conferences on crypto adoption and regulation and financial empowerment.

Paz is the cofounder and academic director of Libre Razón, a classical-liberal think tank in Quito, Ecuador; an analyst at Econ Americas, an investment advisory firm specializing in emerging markets; and a blockchain professor at the Mexican Autonomous Technological Institute (ITAM).

She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and international relations from the San Francisco University of Quito and a master’s degree in blockchain and digital currency from the University of Nicosia. She resides in Quito, Ecuador, where she continues to work remotely and promote digital innovation initiatives for development.

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