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Articles, papers, and books to learn about Bitcoin.

  • 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

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