Key Links
We find ourselves sharing key links and content so often, because it’s so good, we’ve decided to list it below.
TL;DR: Read The Bitcoin Standard and The Bullish Case for Bitcoin.
• We recommend people buy Bitcoin with CoinCorner They are an established exchange since 2014 allow you to regularly save into Bitcoin using ‘AutoBuy’ from as little as £10.
• If you are not based in the UK, we don’t have a stong recommendation, but you could try Luno.
• This Wences Cesares video explains in less than 15 minutes the history of money and how Bitcoin is the next evolution in money.
• If you haven’t seen this discussion between Michael Saylor and Ross Stevens before, it’s a powerful and passionate explanation for why Bitcoin.
• The best known Bitcoin podcasts ‘Beginner’s Guide to Bitcoin‘ series.
• Why Bitcoin Matters & Why You Should Care by Till Musshoff
• Why Bitcoin Maters for Human Rights – Alex Gladstein (2 minute video)
• Bitcoin for the Financially Non Priviledged by the Human Rights Foundation
• Dont Buy Bitcoin – It’s Going To Crash (Joke video)
This is a short list of reading material to help guide you through the journey of understanding what Bitcoin is, the enormous significance and how we have the potential to participate and benefit in this by owning Bitcoin.
To Start
• The Bullish Case for Bitcoin by Vijay Boyapati is a great place to start.
• Case Bitcoin gives a great intro for beginners.
• Heard some reason why Bitcoin will fail? Chances are its already listed here.
More In Depth
• This Stone Ridge 2020 Shareholder letter is illuminating and profound.
• Lyn Alden takes a walk through some common misconceptions around Bitcoin.
• Parker Lewis wrote one of the greatest blog series on Bitcoin, Gradually Then Suddenly. Take the time to read this and expand your understanding of Bitcoin.
• Saifdean Ammous’s book The Bitcoin Standard illuminates the question ‘what is money?’ and demonstrates how Bitcoin is set to become ‘global money’.
• Hardware wallets are one of the most secure ways to take self-custody of your Bitcoin. If you don’t have custody of your Bitcoin and it sits on an exchange, you don’t own Bitcoin – you own an IOU to Bitcoin.
• Buy a hardware wallet direct from the manufacturer. Never buy from a reseller eg Amazon or eBay else your Bitcoin could be at risk.
• Here is a list of well known Bitcoin hardware wallet manufacturers you might like to try:
https://www.coldcard.com (Bitcoin only)
Feel free to ask us at a meetup to explain:
• Why hardware wallets and self-custody are important
• How bitcoin wallets and transactions work
• How to secure your hw wallet seed phrase backup
• What is Multisig
• A few Bitcoin related events in the UK and their social media accounts:
• Bitcoin’s impact on the environment is commonly raised as an objection to Bitcoin. This is a common misconception and you can find out more about Bitcoin’s energy use and how it funds renewable energy projects below:
• Twitter threads by an ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) fund manager: Twitter thread 1, Twitter thread 2, Twitter thread 3
• Michael Saylor on Bitcoin Energy Usage (2 minute video)
• Parker Lewis on Why Bitcoin Does Not Waste Energy
• Nic Carter on Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption
• Nic Carter and Ross Stevens report: Bitcoin Net Zero
• Swan Bitcoin’s documentary ‘This Machine Greens’
• Newsweek – just one example of mainstream misunderstanding of Bitcoin’s energy use
• 5 part course at the Saylor Academy ‘Bitcoin for Everybody‘ covering:
Unit 1: Bitcoin Economics, Unit 2: Bitcoin Investment, Unit 3: Bitcoin History and Philosophy, Unit 4: Bitcoin Technology, Unit 5: Bitcoin in Practice
• 4 Module Course from ‘Looking Glass Education‘
After taking this course you will have gained an understanding of:
- What money is
- The evolution of money
- The key events that have paved the way for where we are today
- How money, debt and inflation underpin our economy
- The byproducts of debt and inflation
- The tools available to us to help protect against inflation and economic instability