Dear @MikhailaAleksis,
It was a pleasure meeting you in cyberspace today to talk #Bitcoin. For your convenience, I have collected some follow-up resources below. I am sharing them publicly so others might benefit from this list as well.

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Gradually, Then Suddenly series by @parkeralewis

nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/series…
The Ethics of Money Production by Jörg Guido Hülsmann

amazon.com/dp/B003NX6Z3W/
An Economic Analysis of Ethereum by @LynAldenContact

lynalden.com/ethereum-analy…
@camilacampton was kind enough to recommend my little book, 21 Lessons. You don't have to buy it; you can read and listen to it online for free.

21lessons.com
Since you will be talking to @Breedlove22 soon, I want to highlight one piece of his body of work: The Number Zero and Bitcoin

"Masters and Slaves of Money" is excellent as well, as is the Saylor Series of his What Is Money podcast.

breedlove22.medium.com/the-number-zer…
I know that this is a lot. I know that it is overwhelming. I know that there are only ~144 blocks in a day.

Unfortunately, I don't think there are many shortcuts. Understanding Bitcoin takes time and work. Dismissing it is easy. Accepting it is hard.
Luckily, there are more and more resources coming out every day that make Bitcoin more accessible and easier to understand for more people.

I try to collect some of them here:

bitcoin-resources.com
That's it.

Let me just say that I'm glad that you've bought your first stack, that you're sticking around, and that you're still curious and asking questions.
Thank you for everything you do, and welcome to this strange world that is ruled by the orange coin we all know and love.

I wish you and your family nothing but the best. I hope that Bitcoin will serve you well. Hold on, enjoy, and keep stacking sats!
...oh, and enjoy the flood of memes that will surely come your way.

*drops mic*

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More from @dergigi

14 Mar
I predict 3 prevailing FUD narratives going forward. In order of intensity:

1) Energy FUD
2) Inequality FUD
3) Bitcoiner FUD
Re 1:

a) Bitcoin uses too much energy.
b) Bitcoin uses the wrong kind of energy.
c) Bitcoin does "useless" computations, it should rather fold proteins or solve cancer.
d) Bitcoin is bad for the environment regardless of energy use or source; waste of time and precious metals.
Re 2:

a) It is unfair that early adopters get rich.
b) It is unfair that rich people can buy a lot of bitcoin.
c) There has to be a better way to do fair distribution.
d) Poor people will never be able to afford bitcoin.
Read 4 tweets
14 Jan
1/ Everyone knows that time is money. In the digital realm, however, money is also intricately related to time. It has to be.

swanbitcoin.com/bitcoin-is-time
2/ Among other things, money solves a coordination problem. Trading a single good against others solves the combinatorial explosion of a barter economy. It is a scalability solution that allows coordination across large groups of people.
3/ The two basic forms of money are ledgers (made of information) and physical tokens (made of atoms). Physical tokens keep track of themselves. Ledgers need someone who is in charge.
Read 13 tweets
13 Dec 20
Dear legislators:
* a wallet is a collection of private keys
* private keys are just information

Do you realize what outlawing information would entail?
Information can be represented in all kinds of ways. Do you want to make QR codes illegal? Flags? Art?
Do you really want to move into the territory of illegal numbers? Do you want to outlaw speech?
Read 5 tweets
14 Oct 20
"Bitcoin is protected by a wall of encrypted energy. The fact that there's a lot of energy involved is a good thing. It creates security to the network." -- @michael_saylor
Source: Swan Signal Live E33 with @michael_saylor and @DiMartinoBooth hosted by @CitizenBitcoin / @SwanBitcoin
If you're interested in exploring this idea, I wrote about it at length in 2018.

dergigi.com/2018/06/10/bit… Image
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8 Oct 20
1/ GigaChad, the thread.

Why Michael Saylor is - and probably will remain to be - the #Bitcoin GigaChad for quite a while.

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2/ He went from zero to cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom faster than anyone else, realizing that there is only one game in town: #bitcoin.

3/ How did he do it? He dove down the rabbit hole, quickly and deeply. Bitcoiners know that all roads lead to Bitcoin maximalism. For some, it's a long and rocky path. For GigaChad it's a 5 minute ride in his rocket car.

Read 16 tweets
21 Sep 20
1/ Bitcoin still feels weird, clunky, and complicated at times. Because it is! But so was any kind of computer network, not too long ago.

Some thoughts on Bitcoin's UX.👇

swanbitcoin.com/on-bitcoins-ux/
2/ We often forget how far we have come, and how difficult the most basic stuff used to be. In Bitcoin, some of the basic stuff is still difficult.

Pete in 1991: "What is an IRQ?"
Peter in 2020: "What is an XPUB?"
3/ But also in Bitcoin we have come far: BIP32, BIP39, BIP44, BIP141 - all of them make Bitcoin easier to use. We take them for granted, but we shouldn't. A lot of thought and hard work went into these improvements, leading to better UX in the end.
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