Bitcoin resources and references I have collected over the years, grouped so the good ones are easy to find.
Cypherpunk foundations
- A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto
- The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
- The Cyphernomicon
- Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities
- State and Terrorist Conspiracies & Conspiracy as Governance
- Libertaria in Cyberspace
- Crypto Glossary
- Why I Wrote PGP
- From Crossbows to Cryptography
- Digital Cash & Privacy
- Politics vs Technology
- Cyberspace, Crypto Anarchy, and Pushing Limits
Money and economics
- Shelling Out: The Origins of Money
- Foundation for Economic Education – books and essays
Mining and nodes
- Was Satoshi a greedy miner? – mining history and charts
- Download the Bitcoin blockchain
- Install Bitcoin Core on Ubuntu
- Build a Raspberry Pi node
- Run mainnet and testnet side by side
- Things to see and do on a bitcoin node
- Run a Bitaxe Gamma in South Africa
Buying bitcoin without KYC
Watch and listen
- Cypherpunks Write Code
- Bitcoin is Generational Wealth
- Interview with Saifedean Ammous, author of The Bitcoin Standard
- Human B: Die Reise in den Bitcoin-Kaninchenbau (English subtitles)
- Hard Money – documentary
- Gigi: Cryptography is Not Enough (Baltic Honeybadger 2022)
Hayek on bitcoin
My take
People who are well off, prospering and making money in the mass-produced, low-quality fiat world tend to hold a negative view of bitcoin.
Remember when the internet was just an online library? It now carries so much utility that everyday life is difficult without it.
People have had enough of legal theft backed by the threat of violence, and of regulated trade that makes it hard to build and progress.
Bitcoin has already won.
Essays and context
- The trouble with science
- The irrelevance of experts
- Bitcoin and the American West
- The case for Bitcoin
Did you know?
A day before the bitcoin.org domain was first registered, someone bought netcoin.org through the same registrar. Satoshi was weighing the two names and dropped netcoin.org.
