Reading list
Popular Bitcoin books
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Beginner intro
Inventing Bitcoin
Yan Pritzker · 2019
A short walk through why Bitcoin works, ideal as a first read.
View on Amazon →The Internet of Money
Andreas M. Antonopoulos · 2016
Talks that frame Bitcoin as an open network for value rather than just a price chart.
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Economics and money
The Bitcoin Standard
Saifedean Ammous · 2018
Monetary history told through an Austrian lens, arguing Bitcoin is hard money for the digital age.
View on Amazon →Broken Money
Lyn Alden · 2023
How each era's technology shaped money, and why today's system strains savers.
View on Amazon →Layered Money
Nik Bhatia · 2021
Explains money as a stack of claims, from gold to central bank reserves to Bitcoin.
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Technical: how Bitcoin works
Mastering Bitcoin (2nd ed.)
Andreas M. Antonopoulos · 2017
The standard technical reference on keys, transactions, scripts and the network.
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History
Digital Gold
Nathaniel Popper · 2015
Narrative reporting on the early people and companies that built Bitcoin.
View on Amazon →The Blocksize War
Jonathan Bier · 2021
A chronicle of the 2015–2017 fight over who sets Bitcoin's rules.
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