Bitcoin Basics
Introductory Documentary
Introductory book with a Christian philosophical outlook
Thank God for Bitcoin: The Creation, Corruption and Redemption of Money : Group, Bitcoin and Bible, Song, Jimmy, Higgins, Gabe, Waltchack, Derek, Breedlove, Robert, Bush, J.M., Tourianski, Julia, Pratt, Lyle, Mekhail, George: Amazon.com.au: Books
Thank God for Bitcoin: The Creation, Corruption and Redemption of Money : Group, Bitcoin and Bible, Song, Jimmy, Higgins, Gabe, Waltchack, Derek, Breedlove, Robert, Bush, J.M., Tourianski, Julia, Pratt, Lyle, Mekhail, George: Amazon.com.au: Books
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Articles that Interest Me
The Seven Network Effects of Bitcoin | Satoshi Nakamoto Institute
The […] listed network effects can only serve to strengthen [Bitcoin]. Competitors beware.
- An excellent and highly predictive article from 2015
Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better
2011 essay on how Bitcoin’s long gestation and early opposition indicates it is an example of the ‘Worse is Better’ paradigm in which an ugly complex design with few attractive theoretical properties compared to purer competitors nevertheless successfully takes over a niche, survives, and becomes gradually refined.
- Bitcoins unwieldy, ugly design wins out over sleek competitors.
Every day that goes by and Bitcoin hasn’t collapsed due to legal or technical problems, that brings new information to the market. It increases the chance of Bitcoin’s eventual success and justifies a higher price.
It may be that Bitcoin’s greatest virtue is not its deflation, nor its microtransactions, but its viral distributed nature; it can wait for its opportunity. “If you sit by the bank of the river long enough, you can watch the bodies of your enemies float by.”
The Crypto-Currency: Bitcoin and its mysterious inventor
2011 <em>New Yorker</em> article with descriptions of early Bitcoin people and mining, and the author’s search for Satoshi Nakamoto
- Satoshi's early identity investigated. Satoshi is always interesting.