As per the title, this is yet another Bitcoin reading list.

I decided to create this list and share it simply because I realized I would have appreciated it when I first started getting seriously interested in Bitcoin, and I hope I’ll be of some help to some fellow beginner. Moreover, I also think I could profit from some more experienced user here to criticize my list and suggest potential additions.

In writing this list, I tried to avoid explicitly criticizing specific parts of the items because I do not want impose my view on readers who are beginning their journey.

1. 3blue1brown (3b1b) - But how does bitcoin actually work?: before even starting, I would watch this video a couple of times. As all 3b1b’s video I watched, this video is masterfully thought, written, realized, and produced. It beautifully explains the basics of Bitcoin with clear passages and extremely helpful visual aids.
2. Bitcoin’s whitepaper: this must be read because it’s clearly written and it’s the start of it all. I suggest to read it after 3b1b’s video because I think it flows better this way. Of course, I do not think this paper can be fully understood upon first reading, and I actually recommend to go back to it after reading every other item in the list.
3. 21 lessons - what I’ve learned from falling down the bitcoin rabbit hole • Gigi: I decided to read this book after reading the amazing article Bitcoin is Time | Satoshi Nakamoto Institute (which I recommend as bonus material after reading the items in this list) by the same author. The 21 lessons book is the perfect first book on Bitcoin. It touches on different aspects of Bitcoin (philosophical, economic, technological), and it does so with a light (but never imprecise) style, with exquisite taste in the order of presentation of the contents, and with a clear (at least to me) will to be readable from a lot of people with possibly very different backgrounds and possibly different reasons to be interested in Bitocoin.
4. The bullish case for bitcoin • Vijay Boyapati: this book is slightly more technical and heavy of the previous one in some contexts, but it’s still written to be digestible by a lot of people. It is clear, somehow balanced (title notwithstanding) in the way it presents its arguments, and it touches upon a lot of technical themes around Bitcoin that may not be immediately clear to those readers who are not into technical stuffs.
5. Broken money • Lynn Alden: this is a very dense book covering a lot more details than the previous items in the list. It may be a tough read, and there can be some points of divergence with the author’s view, but I find it a necessary read. To best enjoy it, I would also consider to expand on it looking at

• _Broken Money_ book club: index and reflection \ stacker news ~BooksAndArticles: I am biased here because this is how I discovered SN (and one of the many reasons I started loving it)
• The Reddit thread: Reaction to Lyn Alden’s book, “Broken Money” : r/btc

Two “bonus readings”:

1. Bitcoin is Time | Satoshi Nakamoto Institute
2. The Bitcoin standard • Saifedean Ammous: of all the books in the list, this has been the first book I read. While reading it, I was first excited because of how the origin of money is discussed, and how historical development is connected with money (something I did not learn in school), but I later started to like the way of writing and the intellectual attitude of the author less and less because of some affirmations I found questionable, and because of ‘verbal attacks’ I found unnecessarily heated.