What’s your favorite Bitcoin book?
394 sats \ 20 comments \ @NordlysLN 25 Aug 2022 bitcoin
There’s a lot of great books on Bitcoin out there but I’m curious to know what your favorites are. The Bitcoin Standard being an obvious recommendation, so is Bitcoin: Hard Money you can’t F*** with.
I’d also add in “Mastering Bitcoin”.
Anyone have any other gems worth reading?
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62 sats \ 4 replies \ @kilianbuhn 25 Aug 2022
The Bitcoin Standard is unbeatable
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12 sats \ 3 replies \ @NordlysLN OP 25 Aug 2022
Ammous is a legend! He goes a bit off the rails in The Fiat Standard but his rants are certainly good entertainment and enlightening at the seem time.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @kilianbuhn 25 Aug 2022
I think we're a little opposites in this regard 😂 I prefer the more elegantly formulated sentences/declarations over the going off the rails 😬
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @NordlysLN OP 25 Aug 2022
Oh, so do I, but I find it better to envision Ammous jokingly ranting about art, anarchy and fossil fuels rather than taking it all too seriously.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kilianbuhn 26 Aug 2022
There is already a lot or rambling rants about us. What I need is a perfectly perfect declaration in a tuxedo that really hits it home
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262 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 26 Aug 2022
Good suggestions already. I'll add some more:
The White Paper
The Book of Satoshi
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65 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lost_dogz 25 Aug 2022
From best to good:
  1. Bitcoin is Venice
  2. The Price of Tomorrow
  3. The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
  4. Check Your Financial Privilege
  5. 21 Lessons
  6. Layered Money
  7. The Bitcoin Standard (history of money chapters good, but parts also bs)
  8. When Money Dies
On my wish list: The Seventh Property
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @faithandcredit 26 Aug 2022
https://mises.org/library/what-has-government-done-our-money
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @blocktock 26 Aug 2022
Sovereign Individual - you can read my quick summary about it here on StackerNews.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @andyleroy 25 Aug 2022
Not a book - but an extension to Nik Bhatia's 'Layered Money' is all of his extensive writings on the Lightning Reference Rate (4 part series):
And now some great new writings from he and Joe Consorti on LNRR
Already mentioned, for both Bitcoin and Lightning - 'Mastering the Lightning Network' by Andreas Antonopoulos is great
And last - not Bitcoin specific, but Ray Dalio's 'The Changing World Order' is excellent and IMO may as well have been referring to Bitcoin throughout
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomApollo 25 Aug 2022
My two favs are old ones.
When Money Dies.
Fiat money inflation in France
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9 sats \ 0 replies \ @WhiteRabbitBTC 25 Aug 2022 freebie
The Little Bitcoin Book is the book i most frequently gifted to people. It was short and i think relatable in a way most people can understand.
The Internet of Money Vol I - III also was one of the first books I read.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 25 Aug 2022
I really like the classic The Bitcoin Standard, notwithstanding the weird quirky opinions on art and culture expressed by the author, and I really like The 7th Property, by Eric Yates. I'm reading Bitcoin Is Venice right now, and I'm enjoying it very much.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @rijndael 27 Aug 2022
Inventing Bitcoin
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @2big2fail 26 Aug 2022
the seventh property
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @NetWt1oz 26 Aug 2022
You can get your hands on a signed copy of Bitcoin: Everything divided by 21 million
scarce.city/auctions/bitcoin-everything-divided-by
At the time of this comment its at 800k sats...
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitDaya 26 Aug 2022
1984
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BITC0IN 26 Aug 2022
book of satoshi
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @tlmort91 26 Aug 2022
The Blocksize War by Jonathan Bier I really enjoyed. Almost a historical explanation of how bitcoin is what is it today.
I also think some of the best books that led me to bitcoin weren't about it alone, but more about complexity science and the history of economics. Some include: --> Lords of Finance - Liaquat Ahamed --> Incerto series - Taleb --> The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs --> Unsettling of America - Wendell Berry --> The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander --> The Diversity of Life - E.O. Wilson
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 25 Aug 2022
The Book of Dead (banksters) :)
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