MUST READS

MUST READS

An incomplete list of essential reading material to better understand the why, and the how, of Bitcoin.

Read the Bitcoin whitepaper!

  1. Shelling out – Nick Szabo
    (On The History of Money)
  2. The Bullish Case for Bitcoin – Vijay Boyapati: 
  3. Bitcoin Obsoletes all other Money – Parker Lewis
    (Why Bitcoin instead of altcoins?)
  4. Bitcoin is One for All – Parker Lewis
  5. Stephan Livera Podcast #71 Intro to Austrian Economics
  6. Masters and Slaves of Money – Robert Breedlove
    (On the history of money creation and how Bitcoin democratizes this proces.)
  7. Invalid Blocks Need Not Apply – Stop And Decrypt
  8. How is the 21 Million Bitcoin Cap Defined and Enforced? – Jameson Lopp
  9. Blockchain Proof-of-Work Is a Decentralized Clock – Grisha
  10. “Everyone’s a Scammer” – Michael Goldstein
  11. “Bitcoin’s Energy Usage Isn’t a Problem. Here’s Why.” – Lyn Alden
  12. A Most Peaceful Revolution – Nic Carter
  13. “The Humanitarian and Environmental Case for Bitcoin” – Alex Gladstein
  14. “The Hidden Cost of the Petrodollar” – Alex Gladstein
  15. Why Proof of Stake Is Less Secure Than Proof of Work – Donald McIntyre
  16. Proof-of-Stake and Stablecoins: A Blockchain Centralization Dilemma – Lyn Alden
  17. Work is Timeless, Stake is Not – Hugo Nguyen
  18. Why Proof of Stake is Flawed with Lane Rettig – What Bitcoin Did Podcast
  19. Bitcoin Astronomy – Dhruv Bansal
  20. Inventing Bitcoin – Yan Pritzker
  21. Mastering Bitcoin – Andreas Antonopoulos

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