## Rabbit Hole Megathread: How I learned about #Bitcoin
Who influenced you most?
In table form: http://cypherdiaries.net/rabbit-hole/
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Areopagitica
John Milton
1644
http://oll-resources.s3.amazonaws.com/titles/103/1224_Bk.pdf
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
1776
https://www.adamsmith.org/the-wealth-of-nations
The Law
Frédéric Bastiat
1850
http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html
Economics in One Lesson
Henry Hazlitt
1946
https://mises.org/library/economics-one-lesson
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
Ludwig von Mises
1949
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/literature/human-action/
The Theory of Money and Credit
Ludwig von Mises
1953
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/literature/theory-money-credit/
Capitalism and Freedom
Milton Friedman
1962
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51877.Capitalism_and_Freedom
Man, Economy, and State
Murray Rothbard
1962
https://cdn.mises.org/Man,%2520Economy,%2520and%2520State,%2520with%2520Power%2520and%2520Market_2.pdf
What Has Government Done to Our Money?
Murray Rothbard
1963
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/what-has-government-done-to-our-money.pdf
Denationalisation of Money: The Argument Refined
Friedrich A. Hayek
1978
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/denationalisation.pdf
Secrecy, Authentication, and Public Key Systems
Ralph C. Merkle
1979
https://www.merkle.com/papers/Thesis1979.pdf
On the Origins of Money
Carl Menger
1982
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/literature/on-the-origins-of-money/
The Byzantine Generals Problem
Leslie Lamport, Robert Shostak, and Marshall Pease
1982
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~luca/cs174/byzantine.pdf
DigiCash Museum
David Chaum
1983
https://www.chaum.com/ecash/
The Mystery of Banking
Murray Rothbard
1983
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/the-mystery-of-banking.pdf
From Crossbows To Cryptography: Techno-Thwarting The State
Chuck Hammill
1987
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/from-crossbows-to-cryptography.pdf
The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
Timothy C. May
1988
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/crypto/cypherpunks/may-crypto-manifesto.html
The Machinery of Freedom
David D. Friedman
1989
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/the-machinery-of-freedom.pdf
Libertaria in Cyberspace
Timothy C. May
1992
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/libertaria-in-cyberspace/
A Cypherpunk's Manifesto
Eric Hughes
1993
https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html
Digital Cash & Privacy
Hal Finney
1993
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/digital-cash-and-privacy/
Politics vs Technology
Hal Finney
1994
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/politics-vs-technology/
Cyberspace, Crypto Anarchy, and Pushing Limits
Timothy C. May
1994
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/cyberspace-crypto-anarchy-and-pushing-limits/
Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities
Timothy C. May
1994
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/virtual-communities/
The Vision of the Anointed
Thomas Sowell
1995
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3044.The_Vision_of_the_Anointed
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
John Perry Barlow
1996
https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
The Sovereign Individual
James Dale Davidson & Lord William Rees-Mogg
1997
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82256.The_Sovereign_Individual
The God Protocols
Nick Szabo
1997
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/the-god-protocols/
Measuring Value
Nick Szabo
1997
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/measuring-value/
Principles of Economics
N. Gregory Mankiw
1997
https://www.econlib.org/library/Marshall/marP.html?chapter_num%3D2%23book-reader
The Geodesic Market
Robert Hettinga
1998
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/the-geodesic-market/
Micropayments and Mental Transaction Costs
Nick Szabo
1999
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/micropayments-and-mental-transaction-costs.pdf
Contracts in Cyberspace
David D. Friedman
2000
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/contracts_in_%2520cyberspace/contracts_in_cyberspace.htm
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Eric S. Raymond
2000
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/
Trusted Third Parties are Security Holes
Nick Szabo
2001
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/trusted-third-parties/
Shelling Out: The Origins of Money & Money, blockchains, and social scalability
Nick Szabo
2002
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/shelling-out/
Scarce Objects
Nick Szabo
2004
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/scarce-objects/
State and Terrorist Conspiracies & Conspiracy as Governance
Julian Assange
2006
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/julian-assange-conspiracies.pdf
The Ethics of Money Production
Jorg Guido Hulsmann
2008
https://mises.org/sites/default/files/The%2520Ethics%2520of%2520Money%2520Production_2.pdf
Deflation and Liberty
Jörg Guido Hülsmann
2008
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/deflation-and-liberty.pdf
Against Intellectual Property
N. Stephan Kinsella, Michele Boldrinand, David K. Levine
2008
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/against-ip.pdf
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Satoshi Nakamoto
2008
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles
Jesús Huerta de Soto
2012
https://mises.org/library/money-bank-credit-and-economic-cycles
Antifragile
Nassim Taleb
2012
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13530973-antifragile?from_search=true&qid=V7xC40py03&rank=1
Bitcoin and Me
Hal Finney
2013
https://messari.io/article/bitcoin-and-me-hal-finney
How the bitcoin protocol actually works
Michael Nielsen
2013
http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-actually-works/
Why Bitcoin Matters
Marc Andreessen
2014
https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/why-bitcoin-matters/
Bitcoin 101
Balaji Srinivasan
2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DJIxwTx7o_B4
The Mandibles
Lionel Shriver
2016
https://jonahfloydkeet.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/the-mandibles-a-family-2029-2047-by-lionel-shriver.pdf
Money, Blockchains, and Social Scalability
Nick Szabo
2017
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/money-blockchains-and-social-scalability/
Bitcoin is. And that is enough.
Beautyon
2017
https://hackernoon.com/bitcoin-is-and-that-is-enough-e3116870eed1
Blockchains will replace networks with markets
Naval Ravikant
2017
https://twitter.com/naval/status/877467629308395521
Bitcoin’s Academic Pedigree
Arvind Narayanan & Jeremy Clark
2017
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id%3D3136559
Hash Power – A Documentary on Blockchains & Cryptocurrencies
Naval Ravikant, Olaf Carlson-Wee, Fred Ehrsam, Ari Paul, Juan Benet, Muneeb Ali, Peter Van Valkenburgh, Jeremiah Lowin, Jameson Lopp, Jordan Cooper, Josh Seims, & Charlie Noyes
2017
http://investorfieldguide.com/hashpower/
Why Decentralization Matters
Chris Dixon
2018
https://onezero.medium.com/why-decentralization-matters-5e3f79f7638e
The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
Vijay Boyapati
2018
https://medium.com/@vijayboyapati/the-bullish-case-for-bitcoin-6ecc8bdecc1
The Bitcoin Standard
Saifedean Ammous
2018
https://saifedean.com/book/
Understanding Cryptocurrency
Ari Paul
2018
https://thecryptocurrencyinvestor.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/bt-educationpdf.pdf
Bitcoin Investment Theses
Pierre Rochard
2018
https://medium.com/@pierre_rochard/bitcoin-investment-theses-part-1-e97670b5389b
Reject Nocoiner Orthodoxy
Elaine Ou
2018
https://elaineou.com/2018/10/10/reject-nocoiner-orthodoxy/
Planting Bitcoin
Dan Hedl
2018
https://medium.com/@danhedl/planting-bitcoin-sound-money-72e80e40ff62
Off the Chain - The Ultimate Bitcoin Argument
Murad Mahmudov
2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DUMK_A0mF8PQ
An Honest Account of Fiat Money
Hasu & Su Zhu
2018
https://medium.com/@hasufly/why-bitcoin-3fdee2328759
Unpacking Bitcoin’s Social Contract
Hasu
2018
https://uncommoncore.co/unpacking-bitcoins-social-contract/
Bitcoin is a Decentralized Organism
Brandon Quittem
2018
https://medium.com/@BrandonQuittem/bitcoin-is-a-decentralized-organism-mycelium-part-1-3-6ec58cdcfaa6
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
2019
https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395700/
Modeling Bitcoin's Value with Scarcity
PlanB
2019
https://medium.com/@100trillionUSD/modeling-bitcoins-value-with-scarcity-91fa0fc03e25
Intro to Bitcoin Austrian Thought
Stephan Livera
2019
https://stephanlivera.com/episode/71/
Inventing Bitcoin
Yan Pritzker
2019
https://www.inventingbitcoin.com/
Why Bitcoin?
Wiz
2019
https://medium.com/@wiz/why-bitcoin-359ada12629e
Digital privacy is the political issue of our time
Jake Brukhman
2019
https://blog.coinfund.io/digital-privacy-is-the-political-issue-of-our-time-6c38c2ad6eb6
The Little Bitcoin Book
Alejandro Machado, Alena Vranova, Alex Gladstein, Alexander Lloyd, Jimmy Song, Luis Buenaventura,Timi Ajiboye
2019
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51815985-the-little-bitcoin-book?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=7EP0h8ccVk&rank=1
How to meme bitcoin to the moon
Michael Goldstein
2019
https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/bit-block-boom/2019/how-to-meme-bitcoin-to-the-moon/
Bitcoin for safety
James O'Beirne
2019
https://jameso.be/2019/08/24/bitcoin-is-for-this.html
A most peaceful revolution
Nic Carter
2019
https://medium.com/@nic__carter/a-most-peaceful-revolution-8b63b64c203e
Pax Bitcoiniana: After The Last Country on Earth
Felipe Sant Ana
2019
https://medium.com/paradigma-capital/pax-bitcoiniana-5f54eda1a9f9
Discovering Bitcoin: A Brief Overview From Cavemen to the Lightning Network
Giacomo Zucco
2019
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/discovering-bitcoin-a-brief-overview-from-cavemen-to-the-lightning-network
Bitcoin is Not Backed by Nothing
Parker Lewis
2019
https://unchained-capital.com/blog/bitcoin-is-not-backed-by-nothing/
Tales from the Crypt #105: Travis Kling
Travis Kling
2019
https://anchor.fm/tales-from-the-crypt/episodes/Tales-from-the-Crypt-105-Travis-Kling-e630u8
21 Lessons
Gigi
2019
https://21lessons.com/
Beginner's Guide to Bitcoin
Peter McCormack
2020
https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/the-beginners-guide-to-bitcoin
A World Without Bitcoin
Alex Gladstein
2020
https://unchainedpodcast.com/alex-gladstein-on-a-world-without-bitcoin/
The Menace of Fiscal QE
George Selgin
2020
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51732575-the-menace-of-fiscal-qe
As the Federal Reserve struggles to fulfill its mandate in a world of low and falling interest rates, it faces yet another challenge: that of resisting a new threat to its hard-won independence.
Tales from the Crypt #138: The Perfect Storm
BitcoinTINA
2020
https://anchor.fm/tales-from-the-crypt/episodes/138-BitcoinTINA-The-Perfect-Storm-ebaj6p
What Happens When Currencies Fail?
Preston Pysh
2020
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-happens-when-currencies-fail-featuring-preston-pysh/id1438693620?i%3D1000468365570