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The Economics Behind Bitcoin
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What is Bitcoin?
- An Introduction: Welcome to Bitcoin
- Bitcoin Mining
- Why Bitcoin is good for the environment
- Cryptography 101: Defending Privacy
Bitcoin economics, status and culture
- Bitcoin-related economic laws
- Explore the Bitcoin time chain
- Models to price bitcoin
- Funny bitcoin things
- Bitcoin quotes
- Bitcoin stats
How to Buy Bitcoin
- EUR Relai, Get Bittr
- EUR +USD Kraken
- USD Swan BitcoinPerson-2-Person // No KYC Bisq, HodlHodl
- What is dollar cost averaging? dcabtc.com
- Support bitcoinsupport.com
How to store Bitcoin
- Cold Storage Ledger, Trezor
(bitcoin only) Bitbox, Coldcard - Seed Storage Metal Bitcoin Seed Storage
- Multi-Sig Casa, Unchained Capital
- Mobile Wallets Blue Wallet, Samourai, Muun
- Lightning Wallets Bluewallet, Phoenix, Breez, Muun Wallet, Zap, Zeus
- Self Hosted Multi-Sig: Specter, Sparrow Wallet, Caravan, Electrum, FullyNoded, Gordian Wallet
- Desktop Wallets Samurai, Wasabi, Electrum, Core
Other resources
- Explanation Hardware Wallets The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado Podcast; Wallets Q+A by Bitcoiner.Guide;
- Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies – Chapter on WalletsHow to run a node
- Pre-Build Node Full Node Package; myNode One; Nodl; Start9 Embassy; Lightning in a Box
- Build your own Umbrel
Guides Umbrel: Parts, Assembly and Software Installation; myNode: How to run a myNode;
Arman the Parman’s ‘Six reasons why you should run your own Bitcoin Node’ - Calculate DCA profits: Dca-Signals.com
Bitcoin privacy
- Resources: kycnot.me
- Podcast: Protecting Your Bitcoin Privacy
- Newsletter: This Month in Bitcoin Privacy
- Article: Four Part Understanding Bitcoin Privacy Series
- Wallet: Wasabi Open-source, non-custodial, privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet for Desktop. Implements trust-less CoinJoin, which is a technique that mixes bitcoin transaction of manny, to create more privacy for the individual transaction.
Samourai Wallet bitcoin wallet forged to keep your transactions private and your identity masked - Operating System: Umbrel private operating system
Learn how to start a new digital Identity
Online Education
- MIT Introduction for Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018 (No need to watch further than Lecture 11)
- MIT Cryptocurrency Engineering & Design Lecture, 2018
Watch
- Bitcoin is Generational Wealth – A Short Film by Matt Hornick and Tomer Strolight
- Human B | The Insight Journey Into The Bitcoin Rabbit Hole
- I, The Individual Exist – Talk by Max Hillebrand at HCPP20
- Bitcoin: Beyond The Bubble – Full Documentary
- How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio
- RT – The Finance Curse
God Bless Bitcoin (2024)
Podcast
- Bitcoin Audible by Guy Swann, where Guy reads out excellent pieces on Bitcoin & Sounds Money principles
- “What is Money Show“ with Robert Breedlove: The Saylor Series on the History of Money
- The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado – The Technical Side of Bitcoin
- The Investors Podcast – Bitcoin Series
- The Bitcoin Matrix Podcast
- Bitcoin Magazine Podcast
- Swan Bitcoin Podcast
- Zeitsprung (Deutsch)
- What Bitcoin Did
- Crypto Voices
Essays
- The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto – Timothy C. May (1988)
- A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto – Eric Hughes (1993)
- Towards Perpetual Peace – Immanuel Kant (1795)
- Private Property – Ludwig von Mises (1949)
- “Crypto Rebels“ – Wired Magazine Story on the CYPHERPUNK Movement from 1993
- A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace – John Perry Barlow (1996)
- Shelling Out: The Origins of Money – Nick Szabo (2002)
- The Bitcoin White Paper by Satoshi Nakamoto (2009)
- The Bullish Case For Bitcoin – Vijay Boyapati (2018)
- “Bitcoin Is Time” – Der Gigi
- Not Too Technical Overview of This Bitcoin Thing – Arman The Parman
- Implications of Open Monetary and Information Networks – Lyn Alden
- Universal Access to Basic Finance by Andreas Antonopoulos (2019)
- Schrödinger’s Coin Model – Valuing Bitcoin as a Store of Value
- Your Secret Right to Cash, Peter van Valkenburgh (2017)
Books
- Andreas M. Antonopoulos – The Internet of Money (Talks by Andreas M. Antonopoulos)
- Jeff Both – The Price of Tomorrow (Why Deflation if the Key to an Abundant Future)
- Gigi – 21 Lessons: What I’ve Learned from Falling Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole
- James Dale Davidson & Lord William Rees-Mogg – The Sovereign Individual
- Saifadean Ammous – The Bitcoin Standard & The Fiat Standard
- Knut Svanholm – Bitcoin (Sovereignty Through Mathematics)
- Jonathan Bier – The Blocksize War
- Nik Bhatia – Layered Money
Website
- Gigi (Bitcoin Resources)
- Parker Lewis (Gradually Then Suddenly Blog & Newsletter Series)
- What Bitcoin Did – The Beginner’s Guide To Bitcoin (Audio)
- Swan Bitcoin – Academy for Learning all about Bitcoin
- Saylor Academy – Bitcoin for Everybody
- Bitcoin Guides by Arman The Parman
- Max Hillebrand (Bitcoin education for Sovereign Individuals)
- Bitcoiner.Guide – A website set up to educate on all things Bitcoin
- Resistance Money – a Bitcoin Research Collective
- James Loop (Bitcoin Information & Resources)
- Matt Odell (Bitcoin Privacy)
- Bitcoin Magazine
- Bitcoin Wiki
Newsletter
- Leon Wankum (The Bitcoin Newsletter)
- Lyn Alden (Monthly Newsletter on Macroeconomics)
- The Bitcoin History Newsletter
Cryptography-Specific research
- Diffie & Hellmann “New Directions in Cryptography” (1976)
- RSA Encryption Scheme „A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems“ by R.L. Rivest, A. Shamir, and L. Adleman (1978)
- Crypto Rebels“ – Wired Magazine Story on the CYPHERPUNK Movement from 1993
Bitcoin & Real Estate
- Why bitcoin is digital real estate
- Bitcoin as real estate. A thought experiment
- Why every real estate investor should own bitcoin
- Is leveraging legacy assets to buy bitcoin a good strategy?
- ls leveraging real estate to buy bitcoin a good idea?
- Bitcoin vs Real Estate: Which is the Better Store of Value? (Why Bitcoin is Digital Real Estate II)
- Bitcoin vs. Real Estate: Which is the better store of value in times of crisis?
- The “What is Money” Show with Robert Breedlove “Bitcoin is Digital Real Estate with Leon Wankum” (WiM291)
- Bitcoin vs. Real Estate | Hard Money Show by Swan Bitcoin featuring Michael Saylor, Jeff Booth, Leon A. Wankum
- If you’re going to buy a Property with 20% down vs #Bitcoin, the numbers work out like this over 10 years (British HODL)
- Bitcoin As Property: What Perfection Looks Like with Michael Saylor | The Bitcoin Layer
- Jealousy and Fairness in Bitcoin Distribution (bitcoin is digital real estate (property/land)).
- Bitcoin: Better property than Property
- The Future of Real Estate under a Bitcoin Standard
- While other try to tokenize everything, Bitcoin store value
- How Bitcoin can transform the real estate industry
- Nakamoto Portfolio Theory – Real Estate as a store of value
- Bitcoin: Digital Land Rush
- Bitcoin & Urbanism – Wyatt O’Rourke x CU Bitcoin
Matthew R. Kratter Bitcoin vs. Real Estate Series:
- I Why Bitcoin Is Much Better Than Real Estate
- II Why Real Estate Is A Bad Inflation Hedge
- III The Digital Transformation of Property (Bitcoin)
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