The Blockchain Behind tBooks

The Technology Powering tBooks

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Defining a tBook

Some might argue a tBook is nothing more than a means of placing a dollar amount into a digital book as a gimmick to motivate sales. This view is shortsighted and patently wrong since the dollar invested in that tBook serves the important purpose of matching a monetary value to an intrinsic value. This erroneous view also overlooks the fact that the books are not sold and instead given away. More than either of these misconceptions, this view overlooks the blockchain technology benefit of decentralized publishing, among many other benefits. Imagine a book that increases in value over time, doesn’t weather with age, and lasts as long as it takes the bit to rot. Imagine books that take advantage of video or voice. These fantasies are not merely possible, but a reality.

This is a tBook!

For generations, the book publishing paradigm demanded authors adhere to specific publishing requirements, less oriented to enhancing quality, and more about squeezing every dime out of a book by trying to fit the book to the market. How many books are turned away for subjective reasons, like "It’s too long. Too short. Or it simply has an audience too limited." Worse yet, how many poorly-written books are accepted for having "a strong social media following" or "celebrity status" rather than literary merit?

No more!

The tBook eliminates these and many more issues by matching the intrinsic value of the book to a dollar amount. You are not alone if you feel lost in digital currency, so lets explore these concepts and learn about decentralized finance and its application to publishing.

Digital Currency AKA: Crypto

Digital currency is a type of currency that is available only in digital form, not in physical form. It is created to facilitate the transfer, sale, and trading of money safely by using cryptography to secure transactions in an immutable way. This digital money is made possible by blockchain technology which creates a ledger that records those transactions. The expansion of this technology allows people from all over the world to safely transfer money or buy and sell. Bitcoin is the most notable digital currency for being the first to gain widespread acceptance and use.

Bitcoin also presented a new way of handling money because it did not necessitate the use of banks since the blockchain allows money to move from peer to peer. If I buy a car and the seller accepts crypto, I can transfer the money and this sale is taking place between me and the seller. There is no need for a bank because the transactions exist in the blockchain and there is no need to write checks or wire money. More importantly, you are not paying a bank to facilitate the movement of your money!

One of the benefits of Bitcoin has been to hedge against inflation. Over time, as fiat currency is used to buy Bitcoin, the value of that digital currency increases. People will tell you Bitcoin is volatile, which it is, but it has also proven to be a strong store of value. No one who bought Bitcoin five years or ten years ago is complaining. Since its inception, it has gone from 1 coin being worth pennies to over $100,000. The reason this happens is no big mystery because its value is based on scarcity and functionality. Only 21 million Bitcoin exist, and as more are purchased and held, they increase in value.

You will hear many arguments against Bitcoin, most notably that Bitcoin has no intrinsic value. Take a moment and consider this idea of intrinsic value and quickly you will realize the erroneous application of the term. Intrinsic value, by definition, means: “belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing.” Misuse of the term is part of a larger issue caused by Capitalism, where people conflate intrinsic and commodity values, such that the value of some 'thing' is solely determined by the commodity backing it. What critics mean to say is that crypto has no "monetary value” due to lacking a commodity standard such as gold, silver, and other resources.

There is not enough gold in Fort Knox to cover American debt. How does the government pay debts? Through public revenue such as taxation, issuing more debt, or by printing money. So what is the true value of the American dollar considering it is constantly at the mercy of increasing debt and printing?

The intrinsic value of the the American dollar is the faith that people have in it.

What is the intrinsic value of Bitcoin? The faith people place in it stemming from its inability to be artificially increased in value and limited quantity. It is scarce, and the more it is used, the more scarce it becomes and the more it is worth. It is this scarcity that gives crypto its intrinsic value. Since the creation of Bitcoin, blockchain technology inspires new decentralized applications beyond currency, and with this understanding of crypto, we have the foundation for understanding other forms of digital assets referred to as tokens.

Tokens

A crypto token is a digital asset that represents value or utility within a blockchain ecosystem. Tokens are created on blockchain platforms and can be used for various purposes, such as granting access to specific goods or services, representing shares in a project, or serving as an incentive for users to participate in a particular ecosystem. Unlike crypto like Bitcoin or Ethereum, which primarily function as digital currencies, tokens are often issued by tech or crypto start-ups to fund their projects or serve as internal currencies within applications. Tokens are supported by blockchains and are not primarily intended for trading, although they are traded on exchanges.

Unless tied to a purpose or utility, tokens have little or no value. These purposeless tokens have grown popular, such as DOGE and PEPE, which have no function but still have value because they have intrinsic value for millions of people. These "meme coins", though serving no real world activity, evidence the idea that intrinsic value can be the mere trust placed in the item and most importantly — their ability to link intrinsic value with monetary value.

The Disposable Invaluable

Capitalism, though excelling at creating efficient practices to increase profit, just as easily destroys value. There are many reasons why capitalism is detrimental in this manner, but suffice to say, capitalism excels at creating economies of scale in which production and administrative costs become relatively fixed due to higher efficiencies as volume increases. This is why large corporations kill small businesses because they can produce products less expensively due to greater efficiency. However, big companies need to produce large amounts of products to accomplish this and often overproduce, which sometimes leads to losses because supply outstrips demand. Large publishing houses need to sell large numbers of books to achieve this level of production and they accomplish this by estimating the market size, proper pricing, allocating proper amounts of advertising, and being choosy about who they publish.

A publisher is far more likely to publish a book by an author who is already famous or someone with a large social media following then an unknown writer. Though sensible, this practice negatively inverts the market, making the author scarce rather than the book. Technology enables mass publication, and digital publishing creates an endless supply of books. This endless supply has no place to go and explains perfectly the graveyard called “Amazon”, where self-published books haunt the pages to eventually NOT sell at .99 cents. Why would you (a self-published author or a publishing house) make infinite books? Why do this especially in light of the genre-filled market of reading further capped by readership size?

Because it is more cost effective then printing a small number of books — no matter how dysfunctional this practice makes the market.

You would have to be a complete moron to say that books have no value when reading increases knowledge, concentration, critical thinking, and many other necessary skills. Literature forms the backbone of knowledge because no matter how great a video or song, more knowledge is often needed to discuss that media intelligently. History cannot be distilled into a twenty minute show or even into an article. Consider for a moment all the books that existed and still only exist in paper form, and you can readily grasp the grotesque disposability of literature when imagining how many texts have been permanently lost to time. Any one with sense admits the intrinsic value of literature but equally frustrates in the lack of monetary value.

Books rot on shelves, fill landfills, and ultimately have no value unless they are kept in pristine condition for a long long time. These problems say nothing of the space and climate control necessary to maintaining a book collection. Capitalism and technology render books, not just monetarily worthless but a drain on the collector wanting to keep them. Try moving a hundred books when you procure a new home. Try paying a mover to move those hundred books and you readily see the cost of book ownership.

So the book that provides so much intrinsic value becomes trapped in its lack of monetary value. If your book collection is huge, the value of the collection must outweigh the cost of maintenance. For most people this is an impossibility. Worse yet, capitalism, due to its focus on dollar value, reduces reading to a chore or academic task by stripping away the monetary value and with it, the intrinsic value. With this understanding, the tBook becomes an obvious means of fixing the problem.

Creating Value With tBooks

In contrast to the meme coin, the tBook has the intrinsic value of books and monetary value to match. The tBook is a combination of digital currency and book. Inside each book is a private key that can be removed from the book and redeemed for cash. Or, if easier, the book can be uploaded to this platform and traded for cash. Once the token is removed, the book ceases to function. By marrying Bitcoin to the book it becomes a tradable asset. The digital currency are part of the books since they are the monetary value assigned to the book based on scarcity, supply, and demand. Books are the currency because they are the intrinsic value linked to the digital currency value.

All tBooks start at a dollar, regardless of their content or length or author.

This point is difficult for people to understand because they often equate the value of a book with its content, length, or the fame of its author. However, the tBook model seeks to decouple these factors and establish a baseline value that reflects the intrinsic worth of the book itself. From a practical standpoint, tBooks are designed to be freely distributed to readers and for the cost of publishing to be low. If you consider the cost of marketing a book, then the cost of a dollar to create a book that appreciates for readers and yourself is astonishingly low. To understand how this works you need to understand tBookenomics.

Tokenomics is short for "token economics" — it’s the set of rules and incentives that govern how a digital token functions within a system. It covers how tokens are created, how many exist, how they’re distributed, and what gives them value. Strong tokenomics help a crypto project stay secure, fair, and attractive to users and investors.

Bitcoin’s tokenomics are famously simple and powerful. There will only ever be 21 million bitcoins, creating digital scarcity akin to gold. New bitcoins are released through mining — a process that rewards participants for securing the network. Over time, these rewards shrink (a process called halving), which slows the supply and helps keep inflation low. Bitcoin’s tokenomics are designed to be transparent, predictable, and resistant to manipulation — a key reason why people trust it.

This definition of tokenomics closely parallels what we call tBookenomics, because each tBook is intrinsically linked to Bitcoin by value. When you purchase a tBook, you're not just buying a copy — you're locking a dollar-equivalent amount of Bitcoin into the book itself, giving it both monetary and intrinsic worth.

It’s helpful to think of Bitcoin and tBooks in banking terms. People often ask, “Where does the $1 go when I purchase my tBook copy?”

When someone buys Bitcoin, the money doesn’t go to a central company or institution. It goes to the seller — whether that’s an individual or an exchange. Think of it like buying a collectible: you pay the seller, and they transfer the item to you. In Bitcoin’s case, the “item” is a digital token recorded on the blockchain. The blockchain updates to show that you now own it, and the seller receives your payment — usually in fiat currency.

So the money doesn’t disappear — it simply changes hands. In the case of a tBook, the dollar you spend is converted into Bitcoin and embedded into the book itself. That Bitcoin isn’t backed by a company or government; its value comes from what people are willing to pay for it, based on trust, scarcity, and utility. The tBook’s value, then, is a blend of its intrinsic content and the dynamic monetary value of the Bitcoin it contains.

One of the novel aspects of the tBook is its base price. By launching each tBook with a starting value of $1, publishing remains accessible to everyone. Authors can build their book libraries and release new works without incurring traditional printing or distribution costs. This pricing mechanism ensures that a book’s value is determined by its readership, the number of copies in circulation, and the organic demand it generates — not by fame or financial backing. Every author starts at the same entry point.

You might ask, “How does this benefit an author with a large following?” The answer flips the traditional model: instead of selling a million copies, a famous author might give away a million copies. In doing so, they become a whale — a market maker who fuels the ecosystem with their investment. They can afford to buy tokens or hold thousands of copies, knowing that their influence and reach will drive future demand and appreciation. Their reward comes not from upfront sales, but from the long-tail value their work accrues.

If pricing were determined by fame or wealth, the tBook would be no different than traditional publishing.

The Benefits of Decentralized Publishing (dPublishing)

When people consider decentralization they often see it as a means of freeing consumers from centralized banking or corporate dominated selling. This is perhaps the most obvious benefit since tBooks remove the need for the publisher and the hassle of obtaining one, but other benefits exist in dPublishing.

The Benefit of Trade

Trading crypto, even the name "crypto" earned a negative view for a variety of reasons outside the purview of this discussion, but perhaps best explained by the Sword Saint, the Kensai, Myomoto Musashi:

The way of the merchant is always to live by taking profit.
The Book of Five Rings

Such contextually isolated statements leave us with an empty feeling, often compressed in other simple adages, like "money isn’t everything.” However, if you build a capitalist society, you should expect some people to prioritize profit beyond saving and investing for the sole purpose of retirement. These are the investors, the traders, who will actively move the price needle of an investment based on perceived value of the tBook, and more importantly, the profit-making of that investment. dPublishing allows books to become an investment for these individuals to do what they love most, create value and profit. This act benefits everyone involved from the author to the collector to the reader.

Traders ensure a long lifespan for a tBook by creating a store of value. By design, the tBook’s limited numbers serve the limited market of readers and this finite supply makes for a good investment since overtime readers will add the book to their collection, thus further limiting the supply and driving up demand and most importantly — price. For authors, this new paradigm of publishing allows their books to increase over time because tBooks are still subject to loss, carelessness, and other issues that will further reduce supply.

Whatever a person believes about traders, they must admit these investors create the value and essential investment for goods that is sorely missing from the traditional book market.

Reduced Copyright Loss

Intellectual property is always threatened by theft mainly because it has monetary value or enough intrinsic value to warrant counterfeiting or stealing. Art such as music, is more readily understood in this way because the market for music is much larger than the market for books. As such, music is duplicated and given away, or pirated for cheap sale. Books have a similar problem in that they are often given away in paperback form or duplicated digitally and shared. While profit may be a large driver of this activity, the larger driver may simply be the act of sharing. If a book is given to someone else to read this is not an act of malice but instead an act of altruism motivated by a desire to share the intrinsic value of the book.

tBooks help reduce this activity by matching the intrinsic with monetary value. Any one in possession of a tBook, or a copy, can remove the private crypto key rendering that specific book useless and rendering any copies worthless. Due to this nature, tBooks incentivise securing one’s library because it carries value. Lending a tBook is risky, even if you trust the person, because the owner doesn’t know if their friend’s computer is secure. As digital citizens, we have become reliant on companies to secure our documents, music, and many other items. In trade, we reliquish true ownership of the good. When a book is purchased on Amazon, do you truly own that book? Can you move it from your Kindle to your Linux computer easily when you tire of Kindle?

No. When you buy a digital book on Amazon, you do not own the book in the traditional sense. Instead, you purchase a license to access and read the book. This is detailed in Amazon’s Kindle license agreement, which states that you have a license to view the eBooks but do not own them outright. Amazon retains the right to revoke access to the eBooks if they choose to do so.

Do not confuse this idea with copyright. Readers must abide by copyright no matter what form the book takes, meaning I cannot reprint or sell a copyright protected book because it is not my copyright.

If you buy a book, you should own that book to transfer to any computer you desire or in a traditional sense to give to a friend. The reason you do not have this option with Kindle is due to the high volume of piracy of books and plagiarism used to make money on your copyright. Entrusting Amazon to protect your book means people give up their ownership in the novel and this further adds to the problem of books being monetarily worthless.

tBooks reduce copyright theft while giving back control to the reader. There is no incentive to lend books or to copy books since it is your investment being put on the line and because it is easier to obtain a copy for free from the author. However, there is incentive to give books away.

A New Marketing Paradigm

As tBooks are published and the price of Bitcoin rises, each new book effectively removes a portion of Bitcoin from exchange circulation — increasing scarcity. When authors give away tBooks, they amplify this effect: book collectors further reduce supply. This act of giving benefits everyone — the author, the reader, and all Bitcoin holders — by simultaneously adding to the cultural ecosystem and subtracting from the liquid bitcoin pool.

If you give away 1,000 tBooks, every recipient who chooses to keep their copy contributes to scarcity. Meanwhile, others may redeem the embedded token on a DEX or through this platform, keeping the market fluid. The system's beauty shines in affordability: authors give what they can afford — and unlike traditional publishing, they do so, confident of each copy's potential to grow in value and live long beyond them.

Scarcity empowers longevity. While ordinary books are ravaged by time and ebooks are easily lost by error, your tBooks will be preserved and cherished for both their intrinsic and monetary value.

How many self-published authors give away books today? Plenty. But how many can do so knowing that each giveaway is an investment — not a loss?

In traditional publishing, fame and wealth dictate reach. In the tBook economy, generosity and vision drive value.

Promotes Reading

We like to believe people naturally understand the value of reading — but as discussed earlier, capitalism often drains value. In a market-driven society, even books are subject to price tags, profit margins, and return-on-investment thinking. To deliver a book’s intrinsic value to an audience, it must first be framed as an economic asset. Whether one agrees with this reality or not is beside the point — it’s the challenge that authors face in today’s publishing landscape.

You cannot live within a capitalist system and expect people to ignore monetary value. By accepting this consequence of capitalism, the tBook model turns reading into an investment — not just in Bitcoin, but in oneself. Every copy given, held, or redeemed reinforces the idea that knowledge, story, and insight are worth something. The tBook doesn’t just promote reading — it revalues it.