An entertaining, informative, non-technical, character-driven narrative and introduction to Bitcoin. Popper recounts the origins of Bitcoin: it was an attempt by fringe, anarchist-libertarian online communities (the Cypherpunks) to create a currency that decentralizes the power […]
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Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
Chikako was once Kikuji’s father’s plaything (Kikuji’s father, deceased in the novel, was a Japanese man of leisure with a reputation in tea ceremony). Kikuji remembers going with his father to Chikako’s home as a […]
The Internet of Money: Volume Two by Andreas Antonopoulos
Great book about Bitcoin by one of the leading educators of the technology. Some great, original insights as well. Bitcoin is “the concept of decentralization applied to the human communication of value” (p. 2), with […]