Ok, I've bragged about this a few times before (#1414732, #965278) so here's a more proper rundown of all the Bitcoin books, across three tiers.
STACK 1, EXCELLENT BITCOIN BOOKS
(left stack, properly aligned: count = 19)
Obviously I gotta shill the high-end books I've worked on:
- Bitcoin Age, by Nik Bhatia (#910275, #910275)
- The Genesis Book, by Aaron van Wirdum
- Broken Money, by Lyn Alden
As I highlighted to @Kontext, Vijay Selvam's book (#1415171) is seriously great and seriously underrated. It's one of the few titles in this stack of supreme Bitcoin books I haven't written about or somehow reviewed (yet... Saif's new, and Big Print are in the works, also). And it's out by an established publisher, Columbia University Press!
Otherwise, Resistance Money is worthy (#782208), and Erik Cason's Cryptosovereignty and Svetski's Bushido of Bitcoin are two titles that will live on/stay relevant for a long while.
STACK 2, DECENT BITCOIN BOOKS
(middle stack: count = 14)
This stack includes titles like
- The Hidden Cost of Money by Seb Bunney
- I'm Not Your Burh, by George Mekhail
- Bitcoin: The Inverse of Clown World, by Knut Svanholm
These are good-ish books that serve some specific purpose (e.g., Mekhail's parenting book, or Jason Maier's A Progressive's Case for Bitcoin). You could skip them, and compared to what you'd get from even, say, half of the titles in the main stack, there are few things you could learn here. Neat reads, almost all of them, and while I definitely have things to quibble with, for instance Bunney (#1015955), you can learn a bunch and have fun. Another theme, I notice now, is that they are also less dense, less treatise-type of books than Tier 1 -- that seems like a Den judgement... I guess I just think that more detailed, in-depth, serious books are better or somehow more worthy than the slightly more casual titles in the second stack.
STACK 3, MEH BITCOIN BOOKS
(stack to the right: count = 11)
Here's a stack you can ignore (minus Mr. Livingston's #1414564, who's newest book I'm about to open, )
...and then there's some fiction (oh, and I guess Tim Niemeyer's History Echoes Bitcoin that I worked on and that belongs in the 2nd tier, sorry!)
Missing from this gathering is a half-dozen titles I have elsehwere (with friends, in a storage unit, at parent's house etc): Ioni's Abundance Through Scarcity (which is wacky, but amazing, and belongs squarely in 2nd -- maybe even 1st); the 21 Futures follow-up (Financial Fallout, sorry @TotallyHumanWriter!); Thank God for Bitcoin; Roger Ver's monstrosity; and obvs Natalie Brunell's Bitcoin is for Everyone (that I just read, #1403332). I don't see my copy of Bitcoinization of Finance, and I definitely have that somewhere.
Two titles I know I don't own are one of the god books (that I worked on early on, The Gospel According to Bitcoin) and Bitcoin is Better (another title I edited)
By my count that's 55 total,By my count that's 55 total,
out of a total Bitcoin books universe of (acceptable, respectable) 70-80 titles?
Here's a Danny screenshot from a recent WBD episode. You can't make out individual titles really, but from colors and context we can made educated guesses. Is there anything he has that I'm missing?! Is there anything the schtackers have/have read that I'm unaware of?
Sorry I didn't provide Amazon links to absolutely every title... That's too crazy tedious, even for me.
Where is 21 Futures: Tales from the Time Chain - Who Let the Bitcoin Dogs Out
Left side of frame
Oh wait, I see it. It literally is there ~lol
I tried to separate out fiction, cuz no idea how to judge them compared/same category as the nonfiction. Mr. @TotallyHumanWriter is the expert here
Is Saifedean's new book the economic fiction one?
yes! It's pretty cool, actually... I'm positively surprised.
(There's a decent bit of actual history and economics in there, too, in addition to his dreaming)
Looking forward to your review!
Layered Money?
The Price Of Tomorrow?
They're both there, in the main stack
Oh, okay.
so the first good habit I began deliberately acquiring in the days before I found your[1] saloon, was unifying bookmarkes and looseleaf. sometimes all I had was last night's bill, that's also good enough. you do however need a pen, even if only borrowed for scribbling the ISBN, LCCN, DDS, or, failing all else, mockery of MLA citation, onto the scrap of found paper that you now upcycle.
that is no longer last night's reckoning against liquid capitalism; that is your new reading record. cherish it beyond the library stamps, librarian codes, or even margins you might consider worth ripping out, so full of your wisdom they've grown...
ten years down the road, people will begin caring less what you scribbled in one margin, and more about which houses printed and bound.
despite the quote, I'm still mostly talking to any stackers reading long after denlillaapan's post has lost its place on the front page; and I'm unaware of any commonly accepted second person plural possessive, similar to
y'allandyouse, yet pluralizingyour... ↩let's not forget about dust; a library is a living thing, until respect for Dewey and whatever's dusty outruns idle curiosity and youthful diligence, replaced by the sad silence of libgen's innumerable mirrors.
so you're using the word "shelf" like it's redefined on the goodreads website, as a photo album, or a rolodex of your favorite flavors, if you will; however, the "best shelf in philosophy" is the one that causes the most unexpected pantomime between crowded stacks and heartless mezzanines, not the one where priceless gutenbergs rot in pure dinitrogen behind bulletproof glass.
no, it's a literal shelf, the books are just on the floor for the photo pose
good! and thank you for taking the time to make this obvious both in and out of context; I usually only review media after text and comments, if at all.
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yeah, i am almost the same, look at my nostr profile :D
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sir, you are missing bitcoin venice tho ( very difficult book to read imo )
I'd lobby for adding Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson to your fiction stack.
Yes, yes. It doesn't use the word Bitcoin once. But then again, it was released 1999, so there's that.
The currency in the book doesn't map the properties of Bitcoin exactly, but it gets fairly close. And it does carry the same cypherpunk spirit. I strongly suspect the author was familiar with The Sovereign Individual.
Long story short: I think it's a bloody fun read.
I HAVE INVENTING BITCOIN too! 56
Silly me.
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