“Everyone’s a scammer.” - bitstein
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Thanks. i like to keep religion out of bitcoin 🤙🏽
It's a fun read -- I'm not religious at all, I am fascinated by other's beliefs
Bitcoin is an idea I'd hope to extend past multiple lifetimes; religion has a pretty good track record in keeping itself together so (maybe) there's probably something valuable to get from it.
For example, it can be said that Bitcoin has its own form of value/ethics that must be upheld (those who don't uphold them fork off). Coming up with guidelines for hoe Bitcoin users to conduct themselves and how they interact with their peers is what node software does -- sounds a bit like religion, no?
After everyone that could have possibly interacted with Satoshi is six feet under, all the core developers in our lifetime have been forgotten, all the meme-ers have gone outside to touch grass forever, books lost to history... How to expect Bitcoin to keep going uncorrupted by easily-corruptible users?
bitcoin has survived 15 years.
it will become normal like email.🤙🏽
Email might not last 100 years for the same reason the world stopped using Telex, who is to say these initial 15 years aren't the easiest?
Bitcoin isn't email 👀
humans will keep using the tools that matter 🤷🏽♂️
How Bitcoin matters to humans today may be unrecognizable to the users who aren't even born yet. heck, PDF format might not be used in 100 years -- satoshi's 9 pages might as well be the Rosetta stone in the future 🤷
To be able to provide a meaningful set of guidelines for the generations we'll never meet to not fuck up Bitcoin is worthwhile -- I think religion's timeless lessons have something to offer as one passes Bitcoin on as the world changes 🙏
Bitcoin may very well be invincible to not have to worry at all, but we're still lucky to remember when it was at its most fragile -- Lots to pass on, and don't need to follow some man in the sky to tell what needs to be done
bitstein and the Nakamoto Institute..
🥳 been a fan since the beginning!
I’m new here🙋🏽♂️
shill me the best ones 😅
Off the top of my head, Shelling Out, Ethics of Money Production, all the Timonthy May stuff from the Library. Everyone's a Scammer, Speculative Attack, Hoarding Bitcoins, Gradually than Suddenly from the Mempool.
I started out with Shelling Out because it was like "the thing to read" before The Bitcoin Standard was a thing
if you read enough Bitcoin books, then eventually you'll end up reading all of the articles posted in the institute anyways as many are cited (some of them already turned into books)
Bitcoin will give you a reading habit whether you like it or not 🤣
my reading hack is loading up epub files in Librera Reader and have Google Text-to-Speech read them
tech dog!⚡️👏🏽
I’ve listened to The Internet of Money vol 1,2,3
Yep, a lot of podcasts and posts sound like they listen to Antonopoulos and other OGs😆
Imho,I don't think Andreas holds up anymore 🤭
Some more unique things are like Gigi's essays and 21 lessons, Brandon Quittem's Mycelium of Money, or Erik Cason's Cryptosovereignty, those books will take you on some fun rabbit holes 🥳