I would say:
• Bitcoin is Venice, if you want a mind f*cking deep dive
• Bullish Case for Bitcoin, if you want something quick, potent, and easily understood.
• Layered Money, if you want a history of monetary systems and how they evolve.
• 7th Property, if you want a reexamination of what the characteristics of money are now that we enter the digital age.
(using this list specifically as reference. Other great options are nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc 21 Lessons, and Knut Svanholm's Sovereignty Through Mathematics)
What would be amazing if you put together your Top 10 book list. Even include works outside of bitcoin, if you so choose. Coming from “the guy that has read more about bitcoin than anyone else you know,” would be incredible!
That’s assuming every single sovereign government on earth would be more interested in the welfare of others and not themselves.Last time I checked, men do not act altruistic towards others especially those they do not know.
Secondly, men don’t just automatically lose their houses, food, utilities etc. when transitioning from one monetary network to another. But I’ll agree it is important to decentralize our food system. A centralized food system is more prone to attacks. If you haven’t met your local organic farmer, now may be a good time.
Lastly, competition for bitcoin has already begun and governments will need residents and civilians to help build and maintain their sovereign nation. Restricting humans with basic necessities does absolutely nothing for their own self interests.
This may take many decades, but there will be many pro #bitcoin sovereign nations and bitcoiners will vote with their feet. Those nations will obvious prosper by adopting a bitcoin standard.
Absolutely crushed poor Ben 😂
Banger🔥 by nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bitcoin-audible/id1359544516?i=1000653356612
Just finished reading The Genesis Book by nostr:npub1art8cs66ffvnqns5zs5qa9fwlctmusj5lj38j94lv0ulw0j54wjqhpm0w5
I knew the gist of the history, but this book really put it all together in a fascinating way.
Personally, my take away is this:
It's clear that the people who built the foundations for Bitcoin understood one thing very well:
Bureaucrats would never accommodate / allow for the existence of what they wanted to build.
They knew that if they built it, and it worked, the bureaucrats would eventually come for them.
Now it's working.
And I think we'd do well to remember this, and remind new people of this insight that was so well understood by those early pioneers:
No amount pandering will suffice.
If what we want is freedom and decentralized money, we are fundamentally at odds with the most powerful people in the world.
They will not allow us to fit in, not for as long as the tool we have at our disposal has the ability the shift the balance of power.
Great reminder 🤙🏼
Met with 9 Private Equity firms with a combined AUM of 13.5 Billion. All of them are holding 70% fiat cash.
The consensus is that it’s been difficult in deploying capital. This will change over the coming years. #Bitcoin will be the preferred store of value.
Be grateful. We’re still early.
My son just started and has already earned 30 sats playing video games.
“Look mom, I’m a professional gamer now!”
“Dude trust me, hang out with your kids as much as you can, as long as you can. You will never regret it.
You’ll look back, you’ll lose some jobs, it’s ok. In the long run, that’s the thing.” -Michael Keaton
If you want to hate your country watch the news.
If you want to love your country go out and explore your local markets.
The English (UK) are starting to realize why America is a country.
“Told she could end up with a criminal record for selling non-local produce on their farm.”
https://au.news.yahoo.com/jeremy-clarksons-girlfriend-lisa-hogan-125802634.html
Obviously we will keep buying top! #bitcoin
“People with high expectations have very low resilience. Unfortunately, resilience matters in success.
Greatness is not intelligence, greatness comes from character.
Character is not formed out of smart people, it’s formed out of people who have suffered.” -Jensen Huang NVDA
America is Blockbuster. There’s nothing they’ll able to do to continue as a superpower. A new country (Netflix) will rise up. Let’s hope they have read Human Action
US college endowments stand at
$840 billion.
Pension funds for workers at US companies and state and local governments together held about $9 trillion
That dwarfs the royal Saudi investment fund.
None of these people are here yet. But they are coming.
Stacks sats and chill. #bitcoin
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