Who has read the bitcoin whitepaper—I mean really read it?
Would anyone be interested in starting a Nostr Nest where we just read it out loud, line-by-line and discuss it?
Discussion
audiobook counts, right?
Yes, but no substitute for reading the words of the original document yourself.
got the words, it’s the math that I still need help with
Check out The Book of Satoshi by Phil Champagne. It goes through various Satoshi writings in detail as well as a good explanation from a mathematical standpoint.
But get the paperback not audible. As you read and reread to learn it, you'll want to be able to quickly flip between pages to look back at a formula again or whatever else.
I somewhat understand the probability because I read the mathmatics of poker.
Hashcash.org helped me understand how how bitcoin mining works because I could hash some of the examples in duck duck go.
Yes I’ve read it, not super long.
Here it is in case anyone wants to read it:
I've read it. It's very short, is on practically every Mac on Earth, and is a great primer on what bitcoin is. Really no excuse for a bitcoiner not to take the 30 minutes to get it done.
>is on practically every Mac on Earth
This is an interesting statement - can you elaborate?
That sounds like a great idea. Even better would be to read section by section and then discuss and interpret the section in detail for those who aren't financially/economically (fintech) literate.
I went over one or twice but in all honesty some of things in it kinda went over my head, though I was much more novice in this area back then.
That’s pretty much what I’m thinking. We wouldn’t have to get through it all in one session. Break it down, discuss the ideas, see what conversation it sparks.
I recite it every morning
But no I’ve been deep diving on it lately. I have thoughts.
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I have pinned to profile…it’s better every time I read it🤙
Thats an outstanding idea
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Pretty short and direct, I think it’s a bigger deal to read a whole bitcoin book honestly
Got into bitcoin in December. Finally read it recently when I decided I needed to really understand bitcoin. It’s interesting how the journey evolves. Got into bitcoin for it inflation resistant monetary characteristics and have reached a point where I don’t care about price, etc. First comes the leap of faith and then comes the rabbit hole. The water just gets deeper and deeper. Seems like someone shouldn’t be allowed to get into bitcoin without reading that paper but that’s not the way this works for most. Some people are technical and will enter bitcoin at the paper but most people (now and the future ahead) will enter at a much different point and likely won’t ever get curious enough to read it. Understanding it is a whole different thing. It’s one thing to believe words but a whole different thing to believe the abstraction of software protocols. That’s basically a long way of saying I don’t understand that paper, I really want to understand that paper, and reading the paper made me realize that much history and functionality came after that paper (BTW someone needs to author the history of bitcoin!). I’d be a part of that book club.
This is a great idea, count me in!