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As Bitcoiners, we strive to expand our knowledge of the decentralized currency when we can. Reading Bitcoin-related books is one of the best ways to increase your understanding of Bitcoin, the current fiat system, and how Bitcoin is a better option as a global currency.

Below are 5 popular Bitcoin books that will help you expand your Bitcoin knowledge. Please note, that there are a large amount of great Bitcoin-related books that are not mentioned in this list. The below are books I personally own and have read myself, and are in no particular order.

There are a lot of other Bitcoin books out there, I have only suggested ones I have read myself.

1) The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous

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This is an obvious one, and arguably the most popular Bitcoin book right now, The Bitcoin Standard provides an in-depth analysis of the history, economics, and philosophy behind Bitcoin. It argues that Bitcoin is the new gold standard and explains how the technology works, its potential impact on the global economy, and why it is important for individuals to understand and embrace it.

2) Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas M. Antonopoulos

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Mastering Bitcoin is a technical guide to understanding and using Bitcoin, written by one of the most prominent voices in the Bitcoin community. It covers topics such as the blockchain, wallets, mining, and security, and provides practical tips for developers, entrepreneurs, and investors looking to leverage the power of Bitcoin.

3) The Book Of Satoshi by Phil Champagne

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The Book of Satoshi is a collection of writings by the anonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. It includes the original white paper that introduced the concept of Bitcoin, as well as email exchanges between Nakamoto and other early Bitcoin enthusiasts. The book offers insights into the motivations and thought processes behind the creation of Bitcoin.

4) Bitcoin Evangelism by Brian De Mint

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For individuals who are new to Bitcoin or those who have already adopted this technology and want to gain a better understanding of technical concepts and share them with others, Bitcoin Evangelism is an excellent resource. This resource can make Bitcoin, blockchain, and cryptocurrency accessible to anyone, as these concepts do not have to be challenging.

5) 21 Lessons by Gigi

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Falling down the Bitcoin rabbit hole as a new Bitcoiner is a dramatic experience. 21 Lessons explores the author's most significant realizations learned in their own orange pill experience.

Final Thoughts

And there you go, that's the list of 5 must-have Bitcoin books to increase your knowledge and understanding of the most popular digital currency.

I also just wanted to quickly plug my first ever book titled Orange Pill'd, out July 31.
Orange Pill'd is a collection of 250 individual Orange Pilled stories from Bitcoiners from 72 countries around the world.

Orange Pill'd is currently available for pre-order with a 30% pre-release discount. I am also giving away $3,000 USD (11.25M Sats) shared between 3 people who pre-order before July 31.

If you want to check it out, head to https://www.orangepilldbook.com. Thanks!

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Great show, hopefully all of these implementations on lightning dont cause any issues, although I'm optimistic about other layer 2's

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I said women want security and freedom. Security. and Freedom. Aren't these opposing forces? And that's the point. Isn't that what a woman is? She runs away from protection in search of freedom. She clings to security and sacrifices freedom. Having children fits inside this quite nicely I think.
I also said there are multiple ways of being, I could not possible capture femininity in a description or definition. That's why my answer if purposefully vague. You can invent meaning for yourself out of my flexible words: security and freedom. Use them as a valance over the life of someone you know, do you see these things as important to her?

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I was having similar question here:
https://stacker.news/items/179331

At the end help me one guy at Bitcoin Pizza Day

  1. Download Bitcoin Core
    you don't need to sync the blockchain
  2. Open console (⌘ + T on mac)
  3. Insert in for example:

createpsbt '[{"txid" : "903f5ba285e093aef7423fac59bbfcd2979441766bf4a73a622f7e1d606ef17e", "vout" :0}]'    '{"bc1qcmkwdrx3e20e0xsfn2se23wzj9r7dc3t4wd9a3": 0.00000546}'
  1. You get this fancy result:
    cHNidP8BAFICAAAAAX7xbmAdfi9iOqf0a3ZBlJfS/LtZrD9C966T4IWiWz+QAAAAAAD9////ASICAAAAAAAAFgAUxuzmjNHKn5eaCZqhlUXCkUfm4isAAAAAAAAA
  2. Open Electrum Wallet
  3. In toolbar select Tools>Load transaction>From text
  4. Insert that weird string and hit Load transaction button
  5. šŸ‘ Now you have a transaction that you can sign
    (this will be disabled, because your wallet doesn't recognize my input)
  6. Click on share> Fo Coinjoin;strip privates > Copy to clipboard
  7. Send it to your peer
  8. He will sign it same way and broadcast it to the network
  9. šŸŽ‰ Profit

Now only change my example to yours. Let me know if you need help with that.. For me it was really frustrating to figure it out šŸ™‚

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One small step backwards for bitcoin, one giant crash for shitcoins.

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Rejecting both the traditional left-wing and right-wing parties, FMLN and ARENA respectively, and looking forward to the 2019 presidential election, he formed his own party, Nuevas Ideas (New Ideas).

Leading up to the 2019 presidential election, Bukele was already polling higher than any of the other potential presidential candidates. The old parties, FMLN and ARENA, teamed up to block his participation in the election. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal — the nation’s highest election authority — ruled that, despite meeting the conditions to register in time for the next election, Nuevas Ideas would not be allowed to compete in elections until after the presidential election was concluded. In order to run for President, Bukele had to run as the candidate of another party. The centre-left Cambio Democratico (Democratic Change) party was the most logical choice, as Bukele had ran for mayor as the FMLN candidate but in alliance with Cambio Democratico. But on the evening of July 25th, 2018, just hours before the deadline for candidates to register themselves for the election, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal secretly met and decided to cancel Cambio Democratico’s eligibility to participate in the election. They also decided to wait until the next day to announce it, when it would be too late for Bukele to change his party affiliation. Bukele got wind of the secret meeting and what was being plotted around 9 or 10 pm. He immediately and secretly withdrew his affiliation with Cambio Democratico, and with less than an hour to go before the midnight deadline, he officially affiliated himself with GANA, a small centre-right party.

Pretty awesome sub-story. It's kind of weird that people are more than willing to conspire under the thinest veil of plausible deniability, yet won't conspire when it's removed. It's like a child protecting itself from monsters by hiding under a blanket.

The operations to reclaim the barrios had put the gang members in a defensive posture. For months, the homicide rate had been extraordinarily low as gang members were forced into hiding. But on March 26th 2022, the gangs went on a killing spree, targeting street vendors, bus passengers, and grocery shoppers. It was El Salvador’s bloodiest day since the civil war. The gangs intended to send a message to the government.
The reaction by the government was swift and resolute. In the early hours the next day, the National Assembly passed a state of emergency and a state of exception. The gangs had treated the public as hostages, now the president began treating their imprisoned homeboys similarly. Meal rations were cut, mattresses and clothes were taken away, the inmates now wore only underwear and slept on concrete. The President vowed that if there were any more waves of gang violence that the imprisoned gang members would not be fed ā€œa single grain of rice.ā€

I want to share more of it, but I'd just recommend reading it all. There's no mention of Bitcoin at all, but it tells a favorable portrait of Bukele, which I won't believe the face of, yet I did learn more about Bukele's tenure and El Salvador from this article than I had in any other (if only because it was written well).

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ZKPs are pretty complex and I don't fully understand their inner workings, so I'll try to explain the proposal (and potential benefits) and skip how ZKPs actually work

The proposal wants to add zero-knowledge proofs to the Bitcoin base layer through a soft fork. Zero Knowledge Proofs would allow for more complex scripting (allowing you to perform computation off-chain and you can provide a succinct proof it happened on-chain).

It could also enable more layer-2's. I believe the one the author proposed is similar to a roll-up, where users would deposit into a single "ZKP address", and transfer funds to each other off-chain. It's not quite clear what improvements this would offer over classic payment channels.

However, there are a bunch of issues with adding ZKPs to Bitcoin too that would also increase complexity. Verification keys, which are needed to verify ZKPs can be larger than 520 bytes, so you can't include them in a spending script. Thus you would include the hash, and then propagate the key separately. The issue with this is that without the key, you can't verify the transaction, so for a ZKP spend to happen, you'd have to somehow make sure every node on the network has received the verification key. You'd also need to store this key (seemingly permanently) to verify past transactions, which would increase storage requirements.

Generating ZKPs (and verifying individual ZKPs) is also quite computationally expensive. The cost can be reduced by "batching", but you still would only have a limited amount of ZKP-transactions in a single block, because each one can take tens of milliseconds to verify.

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You deserve it!
Your work is so much appreciated, for so many years. I was watching your work from the beginning. Well done!

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Pick the one labelled "shitcoin shill"

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If anyone else is a conspiracy theory spectator, check this out from Kim Dotcom:

This is potentially the most significant leak of military technology in history.

There is video evidence from 2014 that the US military is in possession of technology that most would describe as Alien. Objects that fly with some sort of gravity propulsion with unbelievable speed and maneuverability, shielded by a vacuum layer that can potentially penetrate anything.

These advanced objects seem to be able to create portals that can make a Boing 777 airliner disappear in an instant. This evidence has been out there for a decade but it took
@JustXAshton and his investigation to attract wider attention.

Many of you have seen the TicTac UFO videos filmed by US Navy jets in 2004. The 2014 evidence seems to suggest that this technology has been in the possession of the US military for a long time. The evidence is compelling because it was filmed from 3 different surveillance platforms simultaneously: 2 US spy satellites and 1 US military drone.

The leaked videos when combined create a problem for debunkers because the physics match up from different angles. It would take a gigantic effort to fake something like this.

This could be the most significant leak of military technology in history. Surely the US Govt will attempt to discredit it. But it’s now in the public domain and a crowd investigation is taking place.

The implications are enormous. If this technology is real it renders the nuclear deterrence of non-US nations meaningless. These objects can travel faster than any missile and create portals that can make any plane, missile, submarine or satellite disappear.

What makes this discovery so controversial is that this technology was allegedly used to make flight MH370 disappear. A tragedy that is surrounded by many conspiracy theories. How does a passenger plane vanish without a trace?

Please watch this video. I’m following developments closely. Several attempts were made to debunk the video evidence but none of them were credible. https://youtube.com/watch?v=AwaC4AXFqRI

I haven't done my spectating yet, but the claim is that MH370 was sent through a portal created by tictac shaped aircrafts.

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It's so awesome that we get to hear about this directly from the guy who maintains it. You guys rock. No apology necessary. Thank you for all your work. Keep it up!

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Hi there,

First of all, thank you for your work! I have two questions:

  1. Why did the blog post yesterday have a future date? šŸ˜‚

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https://stratumprotocol.org/blog/sri-1-0-0/

  1. What are the main differences between V1 and V2, and how will it improve communication between miners?

Thanks

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Would you be ready to spend 5 minutes of your time to anoymously recommend stuff?

For sats, sure

I can't recommend the Darknet Diaries podcast enough, for example :)

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Started a 21-day challenge in which I aimed to learn something new about Bitcoin or interact with its ecosystem every day. I would also record my progress on Stacker News.

Day 6 - Did some reading up on how I could wean off my dependence on fiat and incorporate habits into my life to use Bitcoin more often. Compiled a list of merchants that accepted BTC payments and even methods on how I could give others sats so that they could experience the Lightning Network first-hand.

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Cul De Sac in Tempe looks pretty promising

https://culdesac.com/

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I experienced something similar when it came to "OG bitcoiners." I held them in reverence as wise old gurus. I eventually learned that some of them were not the sharpest knives in the drawer.

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The stakes are so much higher with Bitcoin it will force us to write better code.

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