nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzpaxm2fctmxgmz7l2reksxh69mm3e9yvu99r5hwkpqdpdyg78fcxsqy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qg3waehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5hsq9ts2dmxvn63takxcars2prrs46vdd4kuc2txdzluzFor anyone interested in the list of essential essays from Anil (npub14hn…a32x) (@anilsaidso) on Twitter that TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev) mentioned on Read 856, here it is. I have compiled it with as many of the essays as I could find, along with the audio versions, when available. Additionally, if the author is on #Nostr, I have tagged their npub so you can thank them by zapping them some sats.
All credit for this list and the graphics accompanying each entry goes to Anil (npub14hn…a32x), whose original thread can be found here: Anil’s Essential Essays Thread
1.
History shows us that the corruption of monetary systems leads to moral decay, social collapse, and slavery.
Essay: https://breedlove22.medium.com/masters-and-slaves-of-money-255ecc93404f
Audio: https://fountain.fm/episode/RI0iCGRCCYdhnMXIN3L6
2.
The 21st century emergence of Bitcoin, encryption, the internet, and millennials are more than just trends; they herald a wave of change that exhibits similar dynamics as the 16-17th century revolution that took place in Europe.
Author: tuur (npub13l3…8xc2)
Essay: https://casebitcoin.com/docs/TheBitcoinReformation_TuurDemeester.pdf
Audio: https://fountain.fm/episode/uLgBG2tyCLMlOp3g50EL
3.
There are many men out there who will parrot the “debt is money WE owe OURSELVES” without acknowledging that “WE” isn’t a static entity, but a collection of individuals at different points in their lives.
Author: MartyBent (npub1guh…6hjy)
Essay: https://www.tftc.io/issue-754-ludwig-von-mises-human-action/
4.
If Bitcoin exists for 20 years, there will be near-universal confidence that it will be available forever, much as people believe the Internet is a permanent feature of the modern world.
Essay: https://vijayboyapati.medium.com/the-bullish-case-for-bitcoin-6ecc8bdecc1
Audio: https://fountain.fm/episode/jC3KbxTkXVzXO4vR7X3W
As you are surely aware, Vijay has expanded this into a book available here: The Bullish Case for Bitcoin Book
There is also an audio book version available here: The Bullish Case for Bitcoin Audio Book
5.
This realignment would not be traditional right vs left, but rather land vs cloud, state vs network, centralized vs decentralized, new money vs old, internationalist/capitalist vs nationalist/socialist, MMT vs BTC,…Hamilton vs Satoshi.
Essay: https://nakamoto.com/bitcoin-becomes-the-flag-of-technology/
Audio: https://fountain.fm/episode/tFJKjYLKhiFY8voDssZc
6.
I became convinced that, whether bitcoin survives or not, the existing financial system is working on borrowed time.
Essay: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/gradually-then-suddenly/
Audio: https://fountain.fm/episode/Mf6hgTFUNESqvdxEIOGZ
Parker Lewis went on to release several more articles in the Gradually, Then Suddenly series. They can be found here: Gradually, Then Suddenly Series
TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev) has, of course, read all of them for us. Listing them all here is beyond the scope of this article, but you can find them by searching the podcast feed here: Bitcoin Audible Feed
Finally, Parker Lewis has refined these articles and released them as a book, which is available here: Gradually, Then Suddenly Book
7.
Bitcoin is a beautifully-constructed protocol. Genius is apparent in its design to most people who study it in depth, in terms of the way it blends math, computer science, cyber security, monetary economics, and game theory.
Author: LynAlden (npub1a2c…w83a)
Essay: https://www.lynalden.com/invest-in-bitcoin/
Audio: https://fountain.fm/episode/axeqKBvYCSP1s9aJIGSe
8.
Bitcoin offers a sweeping vista of opportunity to re-imagine how the financial system can and should work in the Internet era..
Essay: https://archive.nytimes.com/dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/why-bitcoin-matters/
9.
Using Bitcoin for consumer purchases is akin to driving a Concorde jet down the street to pick up groceries: a ridiculously expensive waste of an astonishing tool.
Author: saifedean (npub1gdu…6nak)
Essay: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/economics-of-bitcoin-as-a-settlement-network/
Audio: https://fountain.fm/episode/JoSpRFWJtoogn3lvTYlz
10.
The Internet is a dumb network, which is its defining and most valuable feature. The Internet’s protocol (..) doesn’t offer “services.” It doesn’t make decisions about content. It doesn’t distinguish between photos, text, video and audio.
Essay: https://fee.org/articles/decentralization-why-dumb-networks-are-better/
Audio: https://fountain.fm/episode/b7gOEqmWxn8RiDziffXf
11.
Most people are only familiar with (b)itcoin the electronic currency, but more important is (B)itcoin, with a capital B, the underlying protocol, which encapsulates and distributes the functions of contract law.
I was unable to find this essay or any audio version. Clicking on Anil’s original link took me to Naval’s blog, but that particular entry seems to have been removed.
12.
Bitcoin can approximate unofficial exchange rates which, in turn, can be used to detect both the existence and the magnitude of the distortion caused by capital controls & exchange rate manipulations.
Essay: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2714921
13.
You can create something which looks cosmetically similar to Bitcoin, but you cannot replicate the settlement assurances which derive from the costliness of the ledger.
Essay: https://medium.com/@nic__carter/its-the-settlement-assurances-stupid-5dcd1c3f4e41
Audio: https://fountain.fm/episode/5NoPoiRU4NtF2YQN5QI1
14.
When we can secure the most important functionality of a financial network by computer science… we go from a system that is manual, local, and of inconsistent security to one that is automated, global, and much more secure.
Essay: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/library/money-blockchains-and-social-scalability/
Audio: https://fountain.fm/episode/VMH9YmGVCF8c3I5zYkrc
15.
The BCB enforces the strictest deposit regulations in the world by requiring full reserves for all accounts. ..money is not destroyed when bank debts are repaid, so increased money hoarding does not cause liquidity traps..
Author: bitcoinpierre (npub1hxw…40pf)
Essay: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/the-bitcoin-central-banks-perfect-monetary-policy/
Audio: https://fountain.fm/episode/ralOokFfhFfeZpYnGAsD
16.
When Satoshi announced Bitcoin on the cryptography mailing list, he got a skeptical reception at best. Cryptographers have seen too many grand schemes by clueless noobs. They tend to have a knee jerk reaction.
Essay: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/library/bitcoin-and-me/
Audio: https://fountain.fm/episode/Vx8hKhLZkkI4cq97qS4Z
17.
No matter who you are, or how big your company is, 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙞𝙛 𝙞𝙩’𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙫𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙙.
Essay: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/bitcoin-miners-beware-invalid-blocks-need-not-apply/
Audio: https://fountain.fm/episode/bcSuBGmOGY2TecSov4rC
18.
Just like a company trying to protect itself from being destroyed by a new competitor, the actions and reactions of central banks and policy makers to protect the system that they know, are quite predictable.
Author: Jeff Booth (npub1s05…eyhe)
Essay: https://medium.com/the-bitcoin-times/the-greatest-game-b787ac3242b2
Audio Part 1: https://fountain.fm/episode/5bYyGRmNATKaxminlvco
Audio Part 2: https://fountain.fm/episode/92eU3h6gqbzng84zqQPZ
19.
Technology, industry, and society have advanced immeasurably since, and yet we still live by Venetian financial customs and have no idea why. Modern banking is the legacy of a problem that technology has since solved.
Author: allen (npub1sfh…ymqt)
Essay: https://allenfarrington.medium.com/bitcoin-is-venice-8414dda42070
Audio: https://fountain.fm/episode/s6Fu2VowAddRACCCIxQh
Allen Farrington and Sacha Meyers have gone on to expand this into a book, as well. You can get the book here: Bitcoin is Venice Book
And wouldn’t you know it, Guy Swann has narrated the audio book available here: Bitcoin is Venice Audio Book
20.
The rich and powerful will always design systems that benefit them before everyone else. The genius of Bitcoin is to take advantage of that very base reality and force them to get involved and help run the system, instead of attacking it.
Author: gladstein (npub1trr…hdpu)
Essay: https://quillette.com/2021/02/21/can-governments-stop-bitcoin/
Audio: https://fountain.fm/episode/jeZ21IWIlbuC1OGnssy8
21.
In the realm of information, there is no coin-stamping without time-stamping. The relentless beating of this clock is what gives rise to all the magical properties of Bitcoin.
Author: Gigi (npub1der…xzpc)
Essay: https://dergigi.com/2021/01/14/bitcoin-is-time/
Audio: https://fountain.fm/episode/pTevCY2vwanNsIso6F6X
22.
You can stay on the Fiat Standard, in which some people get to produce unlimited new units of money for free, just not you. Or opt in to the Bitcoin Standard, in which no one gets to do that, including you.
Essay: https://casebitcoin.com/docs/StoneRidge_2020_Shareholder_Letter.pdf
Audio: https://fountain.fm/episode/PhBTa39qwbkwAtRnO38W
23.
Long term investors should use Bitcoin as their unit of account and every single investment should be compared to the expected returns of Bitcoin.
Essay: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/everyones-a-scammer/
Audio: https://fountain.fm/episode/vyR2GUNfXtKRK8qwznki
24.
When you’re in the ivory tower, you think the term “ivory tower” is a silly misrepresentation of your very normal life; when you’re no longer in the ivory tower, you realize how willfully out of touch you were with the world.
Essay: https://www.citadel21.com/why-the-yuppie-elite-dismiss-bitcoin
Audio: https://fountain.fm/episode/7do5K4pPNljOf2W3rR2V
You might notice that many of the above essays are available from the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute. It is a veritable treasure trove of excellent writing on subjects surrounding #Bitcoin and #AustrianEconomics. If you find value in them keeping these written works online for the next wave of new Bitcoiners to have an excellent source of education, please consider donating to the cause.
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