I’ve been looking for books that don’t reinforce my maxi bitcoiner point of view since i’m attempting to find the holes in the narrative that currently has my heart.
Read so much awesome literature that brought me confirmation bias, now i want to find stuff worth reading on the other side.
Any recommendation is welcome, i’m starting with a controversial one:
Hijacking Bitcoin from Roger Ver 😅
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Love this approach. 💜
Thanks Chip! Are you currently reading anything interesting? :)
I’m actually working at an off grid cabin for a few weeks - raided the books here and found an epic copy of Swiss Family Robinson. I love revisiting reads when I’m finding my regular materials a little stale.
Been a while since i read Swiss Family Robinson :) how was revisiting? Does it reverberate with the times?
Not Ver, no. He is a sociopath that tried to destroy bitcoin.
The problem with these books is they end up as a social attack on a very successful project.
Try: "Kicking the Hornet's Nest: The Complete Writings, Emails, and Forum Posts of Satoshi Nakamoto". He pointed out many holes in the narrative.
You can work out where bitcoin has weak points, though:
- social attacks are the biggest weakness
- possibility of fork + chain split is a weakness (related to 1)
- possibility of a reorg when the subsidy is low
- slogans and dogmatic thinking such as the term "maxi" is an imported term
- bitcoin moving from a technical project to a political one
- propaganda style attacks, false narratives
- large custodial weak points such as coinbase or bitgo
The biggest weakness right now in bitcoin is agitation for an urgent soft fork, that could lead to a chain split. There is no urgency. The feigned urgency is to increase the chance of a chain split.
Influencer narratives should be questioned, and are mainly wrong.
Try to figure this out for yourself before you read a book.
Thanks for those points and for the book recommendation 🤓
I do try as i can to make up my own mind in the utilities and trade offs that i value most through the time spent in digging down the rabbit hole.
However, not being a technical person, i find myself having to trust others even when i do my own research 😅
I also had thought about immersing myself in more technical books like “Mastering Bitcoin”, but i think i heard nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy mention somewhere that some things hadn’t aged well.🙃
If you do read a sociopath like Ver, a very good technique is to take sentences that 'sound' reasonable or authoritative, and then figure out the opposite. Often the opposite is correct.
Yeah, i’m trying to see if any of his arguments has any merit, but find my brain keeps shooting them down.
