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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.

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.