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.
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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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The Bitcoin Standard
Saifedean Ammous · 2018
Monetary history told through an Austrian lens, arguing Bitcoin is hard money for the digital age.
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Broken Money
Lyn Alden · 2023
How each era's technology shaped money, and why today's system strains savers.
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Layered Money
Nik Bhatia · 2021
Explains money as a stack of claims, from gold to central bank reserves to Bitcoin.
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The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation is the Key to an Abundant Future
Jeff Booth · 2020
Technology is deflationary, but a debt-driven system fights falling prices with easy credit. Booth argues abundance comes from accepting deflation, with Bitcoin as a monetary alternative that fits that world.
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The Big Print: What Happened To America And How Sound Money Will Fix It
Lawrence Lepard · 2025
Traces how America's monetary system drifted from sound money into inflation and financialization, and makes the case that sound money—including Bitcoin—is how to fix it.
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Mastering Bitcoin (2nd ed.)
Andreas M. Antonopoulos · 2017
The standard technical reference on keys, transactions, scripts and the network.
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Digital Gold
Nathaniel Popper · 2015
Narrative reporting on the early people and companies that built Bitcoin.
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The Blocksize War
Jonathan Bier · 2021
A chronicle of the 2015–2017 fight over who sets Bitcoin's rules.
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The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
Stephanie Kelton · 2020
Counterpoint read: the leading popular case for Modern Monetary Theory, which sees government money as a flexible tool limited by inflation, the opposite of Bitcoin's fixed supply. Read it to understand the other side. See our MMT page.
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