Essential Concepts of Bitcoin đź“’anilsaidso.gumroad.com/l/concepts
654 sats \ 4 comments \ @cryptocoin 6 Oct 2022 bitcoin
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25 sats \ 1 reply \ @kilianbuhn 6 Oct 2022
The "PART II: Technology & Systems" section makes it pretty clear that this wasn't written by someone with computerscience knowledge.
Or it's a creative twist about the classical goals of IT security...
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25 sats \ 0 replies \ @Brunswick 7 Oct 2022
"Systems" in this context isn't referring to IT security, rather economic systems and technological adoption patterns. This book is more like a survey of necessary concepts that business people will recognize that are relevant to bitcoin. The book lays the philosophical and state-of-the-art foundation required to fully understand why bitcoin is a viable and better alternative to our fiat system of money, and what to expect from the news and the markets during its widespread acceptance. I purchased this book with lightning and expect to finish it this evening. The inclueed slide deck is a very helpful overview, highly professional.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryptocoin OP 6 Oct 2022
Here's the Tweet that kicks off the Twitter thread where this e-book was announced:
My new book is out today.
It’s a textbook full of key concepts that help explain the forces driving bitcoin’s adoption.
I put an unreasonable amount of work into it and hope the wait was worth it.
The foreword was graciously written by @JeffBooth 🙏
https://anilsaidso.gumroad.com/l/concepts
https://twitter.com/anilsaidso/status/1577696259837956096 [Nitter]
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryptocoin OP 6 Oct 2022
Contents PART I: Economics
  1. Scarcity
  2. Gresham’s Law
  3. Cantillon Effect
  4. Schelling Point
  5. Opportunity Cost
  6. Impossible Trinity
  7. Jevons Paradox
  8. Power Laws
  9. Unit Bias
  10. Veblen Good
  11. Malinvestment
  12. Asymmetric Payoff
  13. Ansoff Matrix
PART II: Technology & Systems
  1. Orders of Magnitude
  2. Network Effects
  3. Accelerating Returns
  4. Higher-Order Effects
  5. Creative Destruction
  6. Feedback Loops
  7. Relativity
  8. Thermodynamics (1st Law)
  9. Thermodynamics (2nd Law)
  10. Moore’s Law
  11. Antifragility
  12. Gall’s Law
  13. Catalysts
  14. Friction
PART III: Psychology
  1. Prisoner’s Dilemma
  2. Social Proof
  3. First Conclusion Bias
  4. Circle of Competence
  5. Category Error
  6. Gartner Hype Cycle
  7. Intransigent Minority
  8. Inequivalence Theorem
  9. Gell-Mann Amnesia
  10. Lindy Effect
  11. Emergence
  12. Streisand Effect
  13. Moral Hazard
Currently, PDF only.
A Free Sample with excerpts is here
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