How this library is built and limited

What this library is

The library contains 58 research documents in four volumes: gold, the post-1971 monetary system, Bitcoin and Zcash. Each chapter opens with a short answer and cites its sources. Dated observations are point-in-time figures, not live data.

The shared Sources page brings together the four volume bibliographies. Some entries still need exact document and passage locations; inspect the linked material behind a claim.

Research process and source selection

Topic chapters start from the supplied research notes. An evidence registry records sources, claims and dated observations. A claim is published as accepted only with a review state, at least one supporting locator, a reviewer label and a review date. Observations must match an accepted claim’s source and locator. Unverified or contradictory figures are withheld rather than averaged.

Primary documents, official statistics and operator documentation are preferred for magnitudes, legal status and process descriptions. Staff papers and secondary accounts are labeled as such. Comparison cells appear only when an accepted claim and a reachable locator have been attached; empty cells are unknown here, not negative scores.

Evidence statuses and withheld material

Accepted means the stated assertion and scope have supporting locators in the registry. Review means the wording is still being checked. Withheld means the figure or chart is not shown because the dataset, denominator or source location is not ready. Historical-arc quantitative charts remain withheld. Timeline rows distinguish checked chapter sections, reviewed source-timeline fallbacks, and destinations still pending.

Short chapter answers are editor-approved conceptual summaries. They are separate from evidence sign-off for every figure in the chapter body.

Corrections and updates

Substantive revisions should identify the affected chapter and passage so readers can distinguish updated claims from earlier wording. There is no public names, roles or corrections-contact page; that omission is a known trust limitation, not a substitute contact address.

Preferred citation

Money Research, “[page title],” [canonical URL]. Use a verified publication or modification date when the page records one; otherwise cite the URL and the date you accessed it. Reuse terms have not been published because a license has not been clarified by the owner.

Search crawlers and training crawlers

Published HTML on indexable canonical URLs is intended for ordinary web search crawlers, subject to robots.txt, X-Robots-Tag on raw Markdown and JSON, and the host access policy. Preview deployments stay protected.

Access by model-training crawlers is not granted by the search-crawler allow rule and must not be inferred from it. This site does not add a second full-text corpus or bot-only claims.