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Hal’s Li₿rary

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Bitcoin Resource Library
Curated by Finney21
Honouring the Legend of Hal Finney

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2025-03-30 14:15:47

Unlike real estate, the cost to own and store bitcoin is effectively zero
No taxes, fees, maintenance or surprise costs
Bitcoin can be HODLed with maximum capital retention compared to any other asset
95% of people don’t understand it yet
Makes sense to get some just in case it catches on
#nostr #bitcoin #money #hodl
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2025-01-11 17:24:45

878,799
The Bitcoin Standard
Author: Saifedean Ammous
Published: March 2018
Format: Book (304 pages)
#nostr #money #bitcoin #library
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2025-01-11 17:16:01

878,798
Bitcoin First: Why investors need to consider bitcoin separately from other digital assets
Author: Chris Kuiper
Published: January 2022
Format: Formal Research Report (26 pgs)
https://fwc.widen.net/s/kx6vn9hkfw/bitcoin-first
#nostr #wealth #bitcoin #library
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2025-01-10 17:32:56

878,660
Bitcoin Obsoletes All Other Money
Author: Parker Lewis
Format: online article, 31 min read
https://unchained.com/blog/bitcoin-obsoletes-all-other-money/
#nostr #money #bitcoin #library
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2025-01-10 17:29:29

878,659
Shelling Out: The Origins of Money
Author: Nick Szabo
Format: online article, originally published in 2002
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/library/shelling-out/
#nostr #money #bitcoin #library
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2025-01-08 16:59:39

878,370
The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
Author: Vijay Boyapati
Format: online article (40 min read)
https://vijayboyapati.medium.com/the-bullish-case-for-bitcoin-6ecc8bdecc1
#nostr #wealth #bitcoin #library
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2025-01-08 16:47:56

878,369
Dear Family, Dear Friends. A letter to all of you who still have no bitcoin
Author: Gigi
Format: online article (12 min read)
https://dergigi.com/2020/04/27/dear-family-dear-friends/
#nostr #wealth #bitcoin #library
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2025-01-08 15:40:31

878,360
Introduction to money - principles, functions, properties
@BlockTalks Ep.006
Format: ~10 minute podcast
https://rss.com/podcasts/bitcoinstoa/1824953/
#nostr #money #bitcoin #library #podcast
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2025-01-08 15:32:42

878,359
Stone Ridge 2024 Shareholder Letter
Author: Ross Stevens
Format: Annual report (18 pgs)
https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/614e11536f66309636c98688/6772064c0f83b9dad82414b4_Stone%20Ridge%202024%20Investor%20Letter.pdf
#nostr #wealth #bitcoin #library
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2025-01-05 14:41:29

877,949
Introduction to public/private key cryptography
@BlockTalks Ep.007
Format: ~10 minute podcast
https://rss.com/podcasts/bitcoinstoa/1826267/
#nostr #keys #bitcoin #library #cryptography
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2025-01-05 14:16:39

877,948
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Author: Satoshi Nakamoto
Published: October 31, 2008
Format: Formal Whitepaper (9 pgs)
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
#nostr #bitcoin #library #satoshi #whitepaper
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2025-01-05 14:05:45

877,947
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
Author: John Perry Barlow
Written: February 8, 1966
Format: Formal Declaration (844 words)
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Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.
Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not know us, nor do you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. Do not think that you can build it, as though it were a public construction project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows itself through our collective actions.
You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces. You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract. This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different.
Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.
We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.
We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.
Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here.
Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge. Our identities may be distributed across many of your jurisdictions. The only law that all our constituent cultures would generally recognize is the Golden Rule. We hope we will be able to build our particular solutions on that basis. But we cannot accept the solutions you are attempting to impose.
In the United States, you have today created a law, the Telecommunications Reform Act, which repudiates your own Constitution and insults the dreams of Jefferson, Washington, Mill, Madison, DeToqueville, and Brandeis. These dreams must now be born anew in us.
You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you entrust your bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are too cowardly to confront yourselves. In our world, all the sentiments and expressions of humanity, from the debasing to the angelic, are parts of a seamless whole, the global conversation of bits. We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.
In China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, Italy and the United States, you are trying to ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at the frontiers of Cyberspace. These may keep out the contagion for a small time, but they will not work in a world that will soon be blanketed in bit-bearing media.
Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish.
These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers. We must declare our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to consent to your rule over our bodies. We will spread ourselves across the Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts.
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
#nostr #cyberspace #freedom #bitcoin #library
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2025-01-04 21:17:33

Mission:
Create an epic digital library of Bitcoin resources
A Li₿rary in memory of Hal Finney
The Library of Halexandria
#library #nostr #bitcoin
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2025-01-04 21:04:25

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2025-01-04 21:00:13

877,842
Intro to Bitcoin
@npub1qhe…xuec Ep.001
Format: ~10 minute podcast
https://rss.com/podcasts/bitcoinstoa/1815407/
#nostr #wealth #bitcoin #library
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2025-01-04 14:49:28

877,801
How to Position for the Bitcoin Boom
Author: Tuur Demeester @npub13l3…8xc2
Written: April 2023
Format: Formal Research Report (22 pgs)
https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/64146a6197229d65fe665d88/6491bb344793c63f274de778_HowToPositionFINAL.pdf
#nostr #wealth #bitcoin #library
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2025-01-04 14:39:14

877,800
Stone Ridge 2023 Shareholder Letter
Author: Ross Stevens
Format: Annual report (14 pgs)
https://info.nydig.com/hubfs/2023-Stone-Ridge-Investor-Letter.pdf
#nostr #wealth #bitcoin #library
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2025-01-04 14:29:24

877,799
Stone Ridge 2020 Shareholder Letter
Author: Ross Stevens
Format: Annual report (16 pgs)
https://casebitcoin.com/docs/StoneRidge_2020_Shareholder_Letter.pdf
#nostr #wealth #bitcoin #library
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2025-01-04 14:14:03

877,796
Topic: Bitcoin is Wealth Preservation Technology
Author: @npub1v5k…8rd9
Format: Research study, formal article (34 pgs)
https://leonwankum.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Why-Bitcoin-Is-The-Ultimate-Technology-To-Preserve-Wealth_Research-paper-by-Leon-A.-Wankum-2.pdf
#nostr #wealth #bitcoin #library
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2025-01-03 20:40:23

812,460
Topic: Bitcoin collateralized loans
Format: informal notes
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Bitcoin is the reserve asset of the internet economy
The internet economy is an aggregate economy of the entire world and is larger than any single nation economy
Bitcoin is pristine digital collateral for lending
Pristine meaning: Not spoiled, corrupted or polluted
Collateral: something pledged as security for repayment of a loan, to be forfeited in the event of a default
Collateral is something provided to a lender as a guarantee of repayment. It is used to secure a loan
Collateral reduces risk for lenders because if a borrower defaults on the loan, the lender can seize and liquidate the collateral
People who own Bitcoin will have access to the best interest rates
Bitcoin is the apex collateral in a digital world (largely because to it’s unmatched liquidity)
Bitcoin is replacing treasuries as the apex reserve collateral
Why is a Bitcoin collateralized loan a useful product? It is a tool to help individuals or companies avoid ever selling their Bitcoin
By borrowing against your Bitcoin instead of selling it, you:
- Eliminate capital gains taxes (Bitcoin is considered property, therefore a taxable event is created everytime you sell or exchange it)
- Continue to benefit from the price appreciation of bitcoin
- Can write off the interest expense of the loan
Areas to research:
- Dynamically refinanced loans (monthly)
- Counterparty risk of different bitcoin backed loan products
- Rehypothecation considerations
Loan-to-value ratio (LTV): The maximum amount of a secured loan based on the market value of the asset pledged as collateral
A low LTV (conservative) provides protection from liquidation in case the underlying asset has a significant drawdown in price
Bitcoin backed loan products to review: LEDN, SALT lending, Unchained capital, Coinbase
Factors to consider: custody risk, rehypothecation, insurance, origination fees, interest rate, Loan to value (LTV), collateral to principal (CTP), prepayment penalties, tax implications, loan maturity options

2025-01-03 20:36:12

"The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them"
- Hal Finney [November 1992]

2025-01-03 17:37:25

Hello nostr ✋🏽
Happy proof of keys day ‘25
Continuation of @npub1ks2…pkex
We hope you love the Li₿rary we’re building
A database of high signal Bitcoin resources categorized by block height
This is the library our team uses to build custom learning protocols for clients
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#bitcoin #library #nostr
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