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Bitcoin

Bitcoin-Is-Worse-Is-Better
By Gwern Branwen · 27 May 2011 · Link

Ok, So What Is Bitcoin Disrupting?
By Mircea Popescu · 26 Jan 2016 · Link

Lets Get This Straight, Bitcoin Is An Experiment In Self-Organizing Collective Intelligence
By Jordan Hall · 16 Feb 2016 · Link

Bitcoin Doesn't Waste Electricity
By Beautyon · 30 Mar 2017 · Link

Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree
By Arvind Narayanan and Jeremy Clark · 29 Aug 2017 · Link

Bitcoin
By Nassim Taleb · 22 Jan 2018 · Link

The Bullish Case For Bitcoin
By Vijay Boyapati · 02 Mar 2018 · Link

That's Not Bitcoin, That's Bcash
By StopAndDecrypt · 27 Apr 2018 · Link

Visions Of Bitcoin
By Nic Carter and Hasufl · 29 Jul 2018 · Link

Media Coverage Of Bitcoin Is Still A Total Disaster
By Nic Carter · 11 Aug 2018 · Link

How To Critique Bitcoin: A Guide
By Nic Carter · 06 Sep 2018 · Link

Bitcoin As A Privacycoin
By Aaron van Wirdum · 03 Oct 2018 · Link

A Conflict of Crypto Visions
By Arjun Balaji and Yassine Elmandjra · 29 Jan 2019 · Link

Money

Triffen Dilemma
By Wikipedia · Link

Shelling Out: Origins Of Money
By Nick Szabo · 01 Jan 2002 · Link

Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles
By Jesús Huerta de Soto · 06 Mar 2006 · Link

The Yield From Money Held Reconsidered
By H.H. Hoppe · 14 May 2009 · Link

Money, Sound And Unsound
By Joseph Salerno · 07 Oct 2010 · Link

On Monetary Restandardization
By Mencius Moldbug · 11 Apr 2011 · Link

Hyper-Monetization Reloaded: Another Round Of Bubble Talk
By Konrad S. Graf · 07 Nov 2013 · Link

Why Central Banks Will Fail At Digital Currencies
By Beautyon · 07 Jun 2016 · Link

Ideal Money
By John Nash · 01 Jul 2017 · Link

Stablecoins Are Doomed To Fail
By Preston Byrne · 10 Dec 2017 · Link

The Many Traditions Of Non-Governmental Money
By Nick Szabo · 23 Mar 2018 · Link

Bitcoin Economics

Bitcoin Banks
By Hal Finney · 30 Dec 2010 · Link

Cryptoeconomics
By Eric Voskuil · 01 Jan 2011 · Link

Synthetic Commodity Money
By George Selgin · 06 Feb 2012 · Link

Bitcoin Is Money, Bitcoin Is A Bubble
By Mencius Moldbug · 08 Apr 2013 · Link

Bitcoin And Mises’ Regression Theorem
By Jeffrey Tucker · 07 Sep 2014 · Link

Bitcoin And Deflation: The Last Word
By Paul Storzc · 15 May 2015 · Link

Information Theory Of Money
By George Gilder · 10 May 2016 · Link

Economics Of Bitcoin As A Settlement Network
By Saifedean Ammous · 17 May 2017 · Link

An Inquiry Into John Nash's Proposal For Ideal Money
By Soaker Patoshi · 09 Aug 2017 · Link

Getting Off The Ground: The Case Of Bitcoin
By William J. Luther · 02 Jan 2018 · Link

How A Bitcoin System Is Like And Unlike A Gold Standard
By Lawrence White · 11 Jan 2018 · Link

Can Bitcoin's Volatility Be Tamed
By Saifedean Ammous · 20 Mar 2018 · Link

The Bitcoin Standard
By Saifedean Ammous · 24 Apr 2018 · Link

Mining and Consensus

Bitcoin Is Not Democratic
By Beautyon · 14 Apr 2014 · Link

On Stake And Consensus
By Andrew Poelstra · 22 Mar 2015 · Link

ASICs
By Andrew Poelstra · 08 Apr 2015 · Link

Nothing Is Cheaper Than Proof Of Work
By Paul Storzc · 04 Aug 2015 · Link

Measuring Decentralization
By Paul Storzc · 09 Oct 2015 · Link

Forced Soft Forks
By Peter Todd · 18 Jan 2016 · Link

Terminology - Forks And Splits
By Paul Storzc · 02 Nov 2017 · Link

The Anatomy Of Proof-Of-Work
By Hugo Nguyen · 10 Feb 2018 · Link

Proof-Of-Stake & The Wrong Engineering Mindset
By Hugo Nguyen · 18 Mar 2018 · Link

The State Of Cryptocurrency Mining
By David Vorick · 13 May 2018 · Link

Bitcoin Miners Beware: Invalid Blocks Need Not Apply
By StopAndDecrypt · 01 Jun 2018 · Link

Bitcoin Governance
By Pierre Rochard · 08 Jul 2018 · Link

Work Is Timeless, Stake Is Not
By Hugo Nguyen · 12 Oct 2018 · Link

Granular mining pool mapping with Bitcoin’s coinbase outputs
By Nic Carter · 07 Jan 2019 · Link

Technical

The Computer Science Of Crypto-Currency
By Nick Szabo · 22 Nov 2014 · Link

Rusty's Remarkable Unreliable Guide To Bitcoin Storage
By Rusty Russell · 25 Jun 2016 · Link

Cryptocurrency Technologies Book
By Princeton Professors · 19 Jul 2016 · Link

Blockchain Control Flow
By Mark Wilcox · 27 Nov 2016 · Link

Data Insertion In Bitcoin's Blockchain
By Augustana Professors · 01 Jul 2017 · Link

Mastering Bitcoin
By Andreas Antonopoulos · 01 Jul 2017 · Link

Transactions
By Andreas Antonopoulos · 01 Jul 2017 · Link

Quantum Attacks On Bitcoin And How To Prevent Them
By Divesh Aggarwal and Gavin K Brennen and Troy Lee and Miklos Santha and Marco Tomamichel · 28 Oct 2017 · Link

Blockchain Proof-of-Work Is a Decentralized Clock
By Gregory Trubetskoy · 23 Jan 2018 · Link

Bitcoin Optech 2018 Year in Review Special
By Bitcoin Optech · 28 Dec 2018 · Link

Grokking Bitcoin
By Kalle Rosenbaum · 01 Apr 2019 · Link

Cypherpunk

The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
By Timothy C. May · 22 Nov 1992 · Link

A Cypherpunk Manifesto
By Eric Hughes · 09 Mar 1993 · Link

The Beauty Of Ecash
By Hal Finney · 16 Mar 1994 · Link

Cyphernomicon
By Timothy C. May · 10 Oct 1994 · Link

The Complete Satoshi
By Nakamoto Institute · 31 Oct 2008 · Link

Bitcoin, What Took Ye So Long?
By Nick Szabo · 28 May 2011 · Link

The Book Of Satoshi
By Phil Champagne · 05 Jun 2014 · Link

Smart Contracts

Smart Contracts: Building Blocks For Digital Markets
By Nick Szabo · 01 Jan 1996 · Link

The God Protocols
By Nick Szabo · 01 Jan 1997 · Link

Formalizing And Securing Relationships On Public Networks
By Nick Szabo · 01 Oct 1997 · Link

Micropayments And Mental Transaction Costs
By Nick Szabo · 01 Aug 2006 · Link

To The Dao And The Ethereum Community: Fuck You
By Mircea Popescu · 18 Jun 2017 · Link

Cryptography

Applied Cryptography
By Bruce Schneier · 10 Nov 1993 · Link

Elliptic Curve Cryptography: A Gentle Introduction
By Andrea Corbellini · 17 May 2015 · Link

Technology Roadmap - Schnorr Signatures And Signature Aggregation
By Bitcoin Core · 23 Mar 2017 · Link

Scaling

Block Size Increase Discussion
By Bitcoin Developers · 06 May 2015 · Link

Let's Address Even More Of The More Common Pseudo-Arguments Raised By The Very Stupid People That Like The Gavin Scamcoin Proposal Pt. 2
By Mircea Popescu · 12 Jan 2016 · Link

Let's Address Even More Of The More Common Pseudo-Arguments Raised By The Very Stupid People That Like The Gavin Scamcoin Proposal Pt. 1
By Mircea Popescu · 12 Jan 2016 · Link

Segregated Witness Benefits
By Bitcoin Core · 26 Jan 2016 · Link

Money, Blockchains, And Social Scalability
By Nick Szabo · 09 Feb 2017 · Link

My Thoughts On Your Thoughts
By Brian_Trollz · 28 Jun 2017 · Link

Understanding Segwit Block Size
By Jimmy Song · 03 Jul 2017 · Link

Big Blocker Perspective
By Mark Wilcox · 06 Feb 2018 · Link

Bitcoin Turning Into A Multi Layered System Is The Most Interesting Thing In Crypto In 2018
By Bèr Kessels · 09 Feb 2018 · Link

The Future Of Bitcoin: What Lightning Could Look Like
By Aaron van Wirdum · 02 May 2018 · Link

How to scale Bitcoin (without changing a thing)
By Nic Carter · 19 Apr 2019 · Link

Investing

Bitcoin NVT Ratio
By Willy Woo · Link

Bitcoin, Or How To Hammer In Nails With A Microscope
By Stanislav Datskovskiy · 11 Oct 2012 · Link

Bitcoin: A $5.8 Million Valuation
By Mr. Game and Watch · 25 Jul 2017 · Link

Rethinking Network Value To Transactions (NVT) Ratio
By Dmitry Kalichkin · 03 Feb 2018 · Link

The Bullish Case For Bitcoin
By Vijay Boyapati · 02 Mar 2018 · Link

Doubts About The Long-Term Viability Of Utility Cryptoassets
By John Pfeffer · 02 Apr 2018 · Link

Rethinking Metcalfe’s Law Applications To Cryptoasset Valuation
By Dmitry Kalichkin · 21 May 2018 · Link

Bitcoin Investment Theses
By Pierre Rochard · 09 Jun 2018 · Link

Ether Bearish Thesis
By Tetras Capital · 16 Jul 2018 · Link

Cryptocurrencies Are Money Not Equity
By Brendan Bernstein · 22 Jul 2018 · Link

Bitcoin Market-Value-To-Realized-Value (MVRV) Ratio
By David Puell and Murad Mahmudov · 01 Oct 2018 · Link

Bitcoin Network Momentum
By PositiveCrypto · 18 Oct 2018 · Link

Bitcoin Delta Capitalization
By David Puell · 29 Jan 2019 · Link

Society

James' Liberty File Collection Index
By James A. Donald · Link

Propaganda
By Edward Bernays · 01 Jan 1928 · Link

Use Of Knowledge In Society
By F.A. Hayek · 01 Oct 1945 · Link

Postscript On The Societies Of Control
By Gilles Deleuze · 01 Oct 1997 · Link

The Sovereign Individual
By James Dale Davidson · 26 Aug 1999 · Link

Trusted Third Parties Are Security Holes
By Nick Szabo · 01 Jan 2001 · Link

Loic, Wikileaks, Boycotts, Bitcoin And Game Changing
By Blogdial · 10 Dec 2010 · Link

Interacting With Fiat Institutions
By Mircea Popescu · 06 Mar 2014 · Link

What The WoT Is For, How It Works And How To Use It
By Mircea Popescu · 12 Apr 2014 · Link

Bitcoin Declaration Of Sovereignty Filed
By Bingo Boingo · 08 Nov 2014 · Link

The Untold Story Of Silk Road
By Joshua Bearman and Tomer Hanuka · 01 May 2015 · Link

A Quick-and-Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism
By Nick Land · 25 May 2017 · Link

Toward's Liberty
By Max Hillebrand · 09 Aug 2017 · Link

Worse Than Useless: Financial Surveillance
By Andreas Antonopoulos · 26 Jan 2018 · Link

Blockchain Is A Semantic Wasteland
By Nic Carter · 05 Oct 2018 · Link

Dropgangs, or the future of darknet markets
By Anonymous · 26 Dec 2018 · Link

The Economics of Sound Money

What Is Austrian Economics?
By Mises Institute · Link

Theory Of Money And Credit
By Ludwig von Mises · 20 Jul 1912 · Link

What Has Government Done To Our Money?
By Murray Rothbard · 15 Jun 1963 · Link

Denationalisation Of Money
By F.A. Hayek · 15 Oct 1990 · Link

The Case Against The Fed
By Murray Rothbard · 01 Jan 1994 · Link

Gold And The Central Banks: The Game Theory
By Mencius Moldbug · 03 Dec 2009 · Link

Has The Fed Been A Failure?
By George Selgin · 03 Feb 2012 · Link

Deflationary Spiral Bogey
By Robert Blumen · 14 Feb 2013 · Link

Why Debates Over Inflation Are Pointless
By Scott Sumner · 07 Dec 2014 · Link

Ten Things Every Economist Should Know About The Gold Standard
By George Selgin · 04 Jun 2015 · Link

How Central Banking Increased Inequality
By Louis Rouanet · 15 Aug 2017 · Link

The Ethics Of Money Production
By Jörg Guido Hülsmann · 22 Oct 2018 · Link

Nakamoto Institute

The Problem With Altcoins
By Daniel Krawisz · 22 Aug 2013 · Link

The Bitcoin Central Bank's Perfect Monetary Policy
By Pierre Rochard · 15 Dec 2013 · Link

I'm Hoarding Bitcoins, And No You Can't Have Any
By Daniel Krawisz · 12 Feb 2014 · Link

Hyperbitcoinization
By Daniel Krawisz · 29 Mar 2014 · Link

Appcoins Are Snake Oil
By Daniel Krawisz · 24 May 2014 · Link

Speculative Attack
By Pierre Rochard · 04 Jul 2014 · Link

Everyone's A Scammer
By Michael Goldstein · 11 Nov 2014 · Link

Bitcoin As A Store Of Value, Medium Of Exchange And Unit Of Account
By Daniel Krawisz · 12 Jan 2015 · Link

It’s Not About The Technology, It’s About The Money
By Daniel Krawisz · 13 Jul 2016 · Link

Additional Resources

Bitcoin Only
By 6102bitcoin · Link

Bitcoin Resources
By Jameson Lopp · Link

Bitcoin Wiki
By Miscellaneous · Link

Nakamoto Institute
By Nakamoto Institute · Link

Bitcoin Resources (Beginner Friendly)
By Dergigi · 05 Jun 2019 · Link