Down the Rabbit Hole
I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole, and yet, and yet - it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life.
Through the Looking Glass
After writing 21 Lessons, I wrote some articles and essays to explore a few of Bitcoin’s aspects further. These articles are marked by an 🔍.
I am currently working on my second book, 21 Ways.
Down the Rabbit Hole
Find all ‘Down the Rabbit Hole’ links for each lesson below. A curated list of Bitcoin resources is available at bitcoin-resources.com.
Lesson 1: Immutability and change
- There is no Bitcoin 2.0 by Pete Dushenski
 - DAOs, Democracy and Governance by Ralph C. Merkle
 - Inside the World of the Bitcoin Carnivores - Why a small community of Bitcoin users is eating meat exclusively by Jordan Pearson
 - Unpacking Bitcoin’s Social Contract by Hasu
 - Bitcoin is a Decentralized Organism by Brandon Quittem
 - Bitcoin is a Social Creature by Brandon Quittem
 - Bitcoin - Two Parts Math, One Part Biology by Hugo Nguyen
 - It’s the settlement assurances, stupid by Nic Carter
 - 🔍 The Bitcoin Journey
 - Technical Discussion on Bitcoin’s Transactions and Scripts by Satoshi Nakamoto, Gavin Andresen, and others
 - Marty’s Bent - A daily newsletter highlighting signal in Bitcoin by Marty Bent
 - 🎧 Tales From the Crypt by Marty Bent
 -  🎧 John Vallis & Richard James & Gigi Der & Robert Breedlove on Bitcoin as The Future of Money
JBP#440 hosted by Jordan B. Peterson - 📚 Antifragile - Things That Gain From Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
 
Lesson 2: The scarcity of scarcity
- Modeling Bitcoin’s Value with Scarcity by PlanB
 - Bitcoin Can’t Be Copied by Parker Lewis
 - Presentation on The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous
 -  🎧 Misir Mahmudov on the Scarcity of Time and Bitcoin
TFTC#60 hosted by Marty Bent -  🎧 BTCDCA on Dollar Cost Averaging Bitcoin
BEC#20 hosted by Collin -  🎧 Misir Mahmudov on Bitcoin as Stored Time
OTC#126 hosted by Pomp -  🎧 Hass McCook on the importance of Auto-DCA
SLP#288 hosted by Stephan Livera - 📚 Abundance - The Future is Better Than You Think by Peter Diamandis
 - 📚 The Bitcoin Standard - The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking by Saifedean Ammous
 
Lesson 3: Replication and locality
- Where Am I? by Daniel Dennett
 - 🔍 The Magic Dust of Cryptography - How digital information is changing our society
 -  🎧 Peter Van Valkenburg on Preserving the Freedom to Innovate with Public Blockchains
WBD#49 hosted by Peter McCormack 
Lesson 4: The problem of identity
- What Is It Like to be a Bat? by Thomas Nagel
 - Bitcoin’s Existential Crisis by Nic Carter
 - Ship of Theseus by Wikipedia Authors
 - Trolley Problem by Wikipedia Authors
 -  🎧 Giacomo Zucco on Bitcoin's Identity and Copycats
SLP#75 hosted by Stephan Livera - 📚 The Blocksize War - The Battle for Control over Bitcoin’s Protocol Rules by Jonathan Bier
 
Lesson 5: An immaculate conception
- Catallaxy - the origins of Bitcoin, innovation and spontaneous order by Francis Pouliot
 - Why Bitcoin is Different by Jimmy Song
 - Only The Strong Survive by Allen Farrington and Big Al
 - Against Cryptocurrency - The Ethical Argument for Bitcoin Maximalism by Pete Rizzo
 - Gold - The Extraordinary Metal by the Austrian Mint
 -  🎧 Robert Breedlove on Bitcoin and the Number Zero
TFTC#162 hosted by Marty Bent -  🎧 Saifedean Ammous on Bitcoin's Immaculate Conception and the Fiat Standard
JBP#458 hosted by Jordan B. Peterson - 📚 The Black Swan - The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
 
Lesson 6: The power of free speech
- Why America Can’t Regulate Bitcoin by Beautyon
 - Why Bitcoin Matters for Freedom by Alex Gladstein
 - 🔍 The Rise of the Sovereign Individual - How power is re-aligning itself in an internet-native world
 - A most peaceful revolution by Nic Carter
 - 🔍 How to Kill Bitcoin
 - Bitcoin Cannot Be Banned by Parker Lewis
 - 🔍 Bitcoin's Habitats - How Bitcoin is surviving and thriving between worlds
 - Can Governments Stop Bitcoin? by Alex Gladstein
 - 🔍 Implications of Outlawing Bitcoin
 - 🔍 Inalienable Property Rights - The Law, Language, Money, and Morality of Bitcoin
 - Crypto Wars by Wikipedia Contributors
 - Illegal Numbers by Wikipedia Contributors
 - Illegal Primes by Wikipedia Contributors
 - First Amendment to the United States Constitution by Wikipedia Contributors
 - Freedom of Speech in Software by Phil Salin
 -  🎧 Jameson Lopp on Freedom-Enabling Technologies like Bitcoin
TFTC#29 hosted by Marty Bent -  🎧 Alex Gladstein on Bitcoin’s Role in the Fight for Human Rights
TFTC#76 hosted by Marty Bent 
Lesson 7: The limits of knowledge
- 🔍 Bitcoin's Eternal Struggle - How Bitcoin Thrives on the Edge between Order and Chaos
 - Bitcoin Information & Resources by Jameson Lopp
 - Bitcoin Literature by Satoshi Nakamoto Institute
 - Educational Resources by Bitcoin Only
 - Bitcoin Intro by 6102bitcoin
 -  🎧 Matt Corallo on how Everyone is Ignorant when it comes to Bitcoin
TFTC#7 hosted by Marty Bent -  🎧 Ben Prentice on the Bitcoin Spectrum
BEC#14 hosted by Collin 
Lesson 8: Financial ignorance
- Why the Rich are Getting Richer by Robert Kiyosaki
 -  🎧 Stephan Livera - Intro to Bitcoin Austrian thought
SLP#71 hosted by Stephan Livera - 📚 Economic Depressions - Their Cause and Cure by Murray N. Rothbard
 - 📚 Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
 
Lesson 9: Inflation
- 🔍 Bitcoin Boots on the Ground - Venezuela
 - Economic Crisis in Venezuela by Wikipedia Contributors
 - Hyperinflation by Wikipedia Contributors
 - List of Currencies by Wikipedia Contributors
 - List of Historical Currencies by Wikipedia Contributors
 - List of Dead Fiat Currencies by Trader to Trader
 -  🎧 Ben Prentice & Heavily Armed Clown on WTF Happened in 1971?
TFTC#157 hosted by Marty Bent -  🎧 Saifedean Ammous & George Gammon on Inflation, Deflation, and The Bitcoin Standard
SSL#23 hosted by Brady Swenson - 📚 1980S Unemployment And The Unions - Essays on the Impotent Price Structure of Britain and Monopoly in the Labour Market by Friedrich von Hayek
 - 📚 Economics In One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
 - 📚 Fiat Money Inflation In France - How It Came, What It Brought, and How It Ended by Andrew Dickson White
 - 📚 Good Money, Part 2 - The Standard by Friedrich von Hayek
 - 📚 Hard-Boiled Egg Index - Surviving Zimbabwe’s Hyperinflation by Kudzai Joseph Gumunyu
 - 📚 When Money Dies - The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar, Germany by Adam Fergusson
 
Lesson 10: Value
- Bitcoin Has No Intrinsic Value — and That’s Great by Conner Brown
 - Bitcoin Is Not Too Volatile by Parker Lewis
 - Bitcoin Is Not Backed By Nothing by Parker Lewis
 - Euthydemus by Plato
 - Paradox of Value by Wikipedia Contributors
 - Subjective Theory of Value by Wikipedia Contributors
 - Theory of Value by Wikipedia Contributors
 - 📚 Skin In The Game - Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
 
Lesson 11: Money
- Shelling Out - The Origins of Money by Nick Szabo
 - Money, blockchains, and social scalability by Nick Szabo
 - The Bullish Case for Bitcoin by Vijay Boyapati
 - Gradually, Then Suddenly by Parker Lewis
 - Masters and Slaves of Money by Robert Breedlove
 -  🎧 Tuur Demeester - Bitcoin 101
TIP#244 hosted by Preston Pysh and Stig Brodersen -  🎧 Conner Brown on the intersubjective nature of Bitcoin
TFTC#87 hosted by Marty Bent -  🎧 Parker Lewis - What is Money?
WBD#183 hosted by Peter McCormack - 📚 Argentarius - Letters of a Bankdirektor to his Son by Alfred Lansburgh
 - 📚 End The Fed by Ron Paul
 - 📚 What Has Government Done To Our Money by Murray Rothbard
 
Lesson 12: The history and downfall of money
- Enders Game by Parker Lewis
 - Bitcoin Fixes This by Parker Lewis
 - Bitcoin Obsoletes All Other Money by Parker Lewis
 - Bitcoin Is a Rally Cry by Parker Lewis
 - Bimetallism by Wikipedia Contributors
 - Methods of Coin Debasement by Wikipedia Contributors
 - Thaler by Wikipedia Contributors
 - U.S. Silver Certificate by Wikipedia Contributors
 - 📚 How Is Fiat Money Possible by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
 - 📚 On The Origins Of Money by Carl Menger
 
Lesson 13: Fractional Reserve Insanity
- Austrian School by Wikipedia Contributors
 - Keynesian Economics by Wikipedia Contributors
 - Money Multiplier by Wikipedia Contributors
 - Why the whole banking system is a scam by Godfrey Bloom
 -  🎧 Jörg Guido Hülsmann on Fiat Money and Fractional Reserve Banking
SLP#51 hosted by Stephan Livera - 📚 The Creature From Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin
 
Lesson 14: Sound money
- Bitcoin’s distribution was fair by Dan Held
 - Bitcoin is Common Sense by Parker Lewis
 - Bitcoin’s Controlled Supply by Bitcoin Wiki Contributors
 - Mineral Commodity Summaries 2019 by the United States Geological Survey
 - Money Supply by Wikipedia Contributors
 - Speed of Light by Wikipedia Contributors
 -  🎧 Saifedean Ammous on Bitcoin as Sound Money
Noded#3 hosted by Michael Goldstein and Pierre Rochard -  🎧 Murad Mahmudov on Bitcoin as the World Reserve Currency
TFTC#34 hosted by Marty Bent - 📚 Money, Sound And Unsound by Joseph Salerno
 - 📚 The Ethics Of Money Production by Jörg Guido Hülsmann
 
Lesson 15: Strength in numbers
- Block hashing algorithm by Bitcoin Wiki Contributors
 - Discrete Logarithm by Wikipedia Contributors
 - Dyson Sphere by Wikipedia Contributors
 - How secure is 256 bit security? by 3Blue1Brown
 - Landauer’s Principle by Wikipedia Contributors
 - Last Glacial Maximum by Wikipedia Contributors
 - P versus NP by Wikipedia Contributors
 - SHA-2 by Wikipedia Contributors
 - 📚 Fooled By Randomness - The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
 
Lesson 16: Reflections on “Don’t Trust, Verify”
- Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson
 - Trusted Third Parties Are Security Holes by Nick Szabo
 - The Bitcoin Whitepaper by Satoshi Nakamoto
 - 51% Attack by Bitcoin Developer Guide Contributors
 - Bootstrapping by Guix Manual Contributors
 - Dual EC DRBG by Wikipedia Contributors
 - ECC Backdoors by Wikipedia Contributors
 - Secp256k1 by Bitcoin Wiki Contributors
 
Lesson 17: Telling time takes work
- Nothing is Cheaper than Proof of Work by Paul Sztorc
 - Bitcoin Doesn’t Waste Electricity by Beautyon
 - Blockchain Proof-of-Work Is a Decentralized Clock by Gregory Trubetskoy
 - The Anatomy of Proof-of-Work by Hugo Nguyen
 - 🔍 Bitcoin's Energy Consumption - A shift in perspective
 - Work is Timeless, Stake is Not by Hugo Nguyen
 - Bitcoin Does Not Waste Energy by Parker Lewis
 - Bitcoin Astronomy by Dhruv Bansal
 - The Last Word on Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption by Nic Carter
 - 🔍 Bitcoin Is Time
 - Uncovering The Hidden Costs Of The Petrodollar by Alex Gladstein
 - Controlled Supply by Bitcoin Wiki Contributors
 - Mining by Bitcoin Wiki Contributors
 -  🎧 Trace Mayer on Bitcoin Valuation, Trust, and Energy Consumption
TIP#252 hosted by Breston Pysh and Stig Brodersen -  🎧 Robert Breedlove on Understanding Bitcoin from First Principles
CB#52 hosted by Brady Swenson 
Lesson 18: Move slowly and don’t break things
- Bitcoin Is Not Too Slow by Parker Lewis
 - Parable of the Wise and the Foolish Builders by Wikipedia Contributors
 - Segregated Witness (SegWit) by Bitcoin Wiki Contributors
 - Pay to Script Hash (P2SH) by Bitcoin Wiki Contributors
 - Taproot proposal by Gregory Maxwell
 - Schnorr signatures BIP by Pieter Wuille
 
Lesson 19: Privacy is not dead
- Digital Cash & Privacy by Hal Finney
 - The Case for Privacy by David D. Friedman
 - Protect Your Privacy by Bitcoin.org
 - How Lightning Layers Privacy on Top of Bitcoin by Aaron van Wirdum
 - Dandelions, and a Bright Future for Bitcoin Privacy by Guy Swann
 - The Case for Electronic Cash by Jerry Brito
 - We Must Protect our Ability to Transact Privately Online by Jerry Brito
 - Bitcoin Wiki’s Privacy Aritcle by Chris Belcher
 - How Private is Bitcoin? by Eric Wall
 - Bitcoin and Privacy by Edward Snowden
 - 🔍 True Names Not Required
 - Bitcoin And The Hidden Costs Of Hyper-Adoption by L0la L33tz
 - Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations
 - A lower bound on the length of the shortest superpattern by Anonymous 4chan Poster, Robin Houston, Jay Pantone, and Vince Vatter
 -  🎧 Jameson Lopp on Privacy, Security, and Personal Sovereignty
C&G#35 hosted by CryptoDantes and Stigofthepump -  🎧 6102bitcoin on Bitcoin Privacy, Education, KYC, and Pseudonymity
SLP#178 hosted by Stephan Livera - 📚 American Kingpin - The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton
 
Lesson 20: Cypherpunks write code
- The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto by Timothy C. May
 - A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto by Eric Hughes
 - The Cyphernomicon by Timothy C. May
 - 🔍 Bitcoin Is an Idea
 - Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper announcement by Satoshi Nakamoto
 - Bitcoin version 0.1.0 announcement by Satoshi Nakamoto
 - Cypherpunks Write Code by ReasonTV
 - 📚 Cypherpunks - Freedom and the Future of the Internet by Jacob Appelbaum Julian Assange Andy Zimmermann
 - 📚 The Book Of Satoshi - The Collected Writings of Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto by Phil Champagne
 
Lesson 21: Metaphors for Bitcoin’s future
- The Electricity Metaphor for the Web’s Future by Jeff Bezos
 - How the internet has woven itself into American life by Susannah Fox and Lee Rainie
 - Hyperbitcoinization by Daniel Krawisz
 - Speculative Attack by Pierre Rochard
 - The 7 Network Effects of Bitcoin by Trace Mayer
 - The Rising Speed of Technological Adoption by Jeff Desjardins
 - Hyperbitcoinization - Winner Takes All by ObiWan Kenobit
 - 🔍 The World is Waking Up to Bitcoin
 - Bitcoin, Not Blockchain by Parker Lewis
 - 🔍 Dear Legacy People
 - 🔍 Dear Bitcoiners - An optimistic letter to friends and foes around the globe
 - 🔍 Dear Family, Dear Friends
 - You Are Not Prepared by Knut Svanholm
 - 🔍 On Bitcoin's UX
 - Genesis Block by Bitcoin Wiki Contributors
 - Lindy Effect by Wikipedia Contributors
 - Bitcoin and Technology Adoption S-Curves by Bitcoin Croesus
 -  🎧 Murad Mahmudov on The Ultimate Bitcoin Argument
OTC#25 hosted by Pomp -  🎧 Bitcoin Tina on Why he is Bullish on Bitcoin
TFTC#55 hosted by Marty Bent -  🎧 Pierre Rochard on Hyperbitcoinization and Bitcoin Maximalism
HF#75 hosted by Demetri Kofinas -  🎧 Jack Mallers on how Bitcoin Disrupts Payment Clearing Houses
TIP#BTC007 hosted by Preston Pysh -  🎧 Jack Mallers on El Salvador's Bitcoin Standard
WBD#362 hosted by Peter McCormack 
