Here are the books and resources I currently have available for viewing and downloading on the “Resources” page of my Bitcoin educational website. So far I’ve just been buying and giving away hard copies of the books to friends and family. These copies were available on pdfdrive.
https://www.lakelandbitcoin.com/resources
1) Book: The Creature From Jekyll Island - Edward Griffin. This is the story of how the Federal Reserve system came into being in the US, and has subsequently served as a model for how most countries issue money as debt, increasing it’s supply slowly over time as a hidden tax on peoples’ purchasing power.
2) YouTube Video Series: Robert Breedlove’s What is Money? Podcast, Episodes 1-9 “The Saylor Series”. In this series, Robert Breedlove and Microstrategy CEO Michael Saylor discuss the rise of mankind, the advent of money as a means of storing energy over time, the basis for what constitutes “sound money”, and what attributes of various types of money make them better suited to fullfilling the role of currency. This series stands to this day as one of the best podcast series I have ever heard that shows how Bitcoin is superior to other forms of money in its fixed supply, portability and inconfiscatable nature.
3) Book: The Bitcoin Standard - Saifedean Ammous. In my opinion this is the most comprehensive dive into the history of money, how it contributed to the advent of Bitcoin, and how human action is driven by incentives that surround money. The book also lays out one of the most important concepts that determine’s one’s success in life: Time Preference.
4) The Bitcoin Whitepaper - Satoshi Nakamoto. This nine-page Bitcoin white paper is called "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System." It was released on Oct. 31, 2008, by an anonymous author who went by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. It is a paper written in a scholarly style that describes the mechanics of this peer to peer cash system that does not rely on trusted third parties to engage in the transfer of value across the world in any amount, with final settlement in a matter of minutes. Now, with the advancement of transaction layers built atop the Bitcoin blockchain, transactions can happen within a matter of seconds, regardless of borders or geographical distance.
5) Educational Organization - The Mises Institute. The Mises Institute is the legacy of it’s founder, Ludwig von Mises who’s goal is to promote the ideals of Austrian Economics; that is the concepts of sound money, open markets, and minimal human intervention in the way economies and markets operate. From their website: “The Mises Institute exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian school of economics, and individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. These great thinkers developed praxeology, a deductive science of human action based on premises known with certainty to be true, and this is what we teach and advocate. Our scholarly work is founded in Misesian praxeology, and in self-conscious opposition to the mathematical modeling and hypothesis-testing that has created so much confusion in neoclassical economics.”
6) The Teaching and Ideas of Former US Congressman Ron Paul. Dr. Ron Paul was formerly the U.S. Representative for Texas’s 14th congressional district. He has also been a three-time candidate for President of the United States; as a Libertarian in 1988 and as a Republican in 2008 and 2012. He is the father of Senator Rand Paul. Dr. Paul has fought for years for transparency in the monetary system in the U.S., and petitioned heavily for the auditing and dissolution of the Federal Reserve system. These are but a few resources but I highly recommend doing a deep dive into his many writings and posts over the years about the need for “sound money”.
7) BTC Sessions YouTube Channel and BTC Sessions Website. Host Ben Perrin is one of the world’s foremost educators in all topics relating to Bitcoin. The best part is, he’s a fellow Albertan. I’d highly recommend looking at the playlists section on his YouTube channel, beginning with the “Getting Started” section if you want to start gaining a real understanding of the mechanics of managing Bitcoin and keeping it safe. It will give you a good base for some of the topics and practical exercises that Lakeland Bitcoin can walk you through in your journey from acquiring your first portion of a Bitcoin, to safely storing your keys.
8) Book: Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand. This fictional work written in 1957 is almost prophetic in its description of an America in an unspecified time in history, nearing economic collapse. The portion of the book known as “The Money Speech” embodies many of the concepts upon which the idea “sound money” are based. This book is considered essential reading among economists with libertarian leanings.
9) Book: The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Digital Age - William Rees-Mogg and James Dale Davidson. This book is is a thought-provoking look at the impact of technology on individual sovereignty, and the potential for greater personal liberty in a digital world. It discusses ways that people may break the bonds of government overreach in an increasingly totalitarian world.