Bitcoin 401 – Der Gigi’s “21 Lessons – What I’ve Learned from Falling Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole”

Der Gigi’s most enjoyable “21 Lessons – What I’ve Learned from Falling Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole” (website).

• Both entertaining and educational, a must read to dive deeper into the lessons that bitcoin teaches us!
• Each lesson on the site is narrated by Guy Swann, so you can read along.

The entire audio version is also available on podcast @ The Cryptoconomy podcast with Guy Swann (with commentary)

Link to the website: “21 Lessons – What I’ve Learned from Falling Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole“

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter I : Philosophy
• Lesson 1 : Immutability and change
• Lesson 2 : The scarcity of scarcity
• Lesson 3 : Replication and locality
• Lesson 4 : The problem of identity
• Lesson 5 : An immaculate conception
• Lesson 6 : The power of free speech
• Lesson 7 : The limits of knowledge
• Chapter II : Economics
• Lesson 8 : Financial ignorance
• Lesson 9 : Inflation
• Lesson 10 : Value
• Lesson 11 : Money
• Lesson 12 : The history and downfall of money
• Lesson 13 : Fractional Reserve Insanity
• Lesson 14 : Sound money
• Chapter III : Technology Lesson 15 : Strength in numbers
• Lesson 16 : Reflections on “Don’t Trust, Verify”
• Lesson 17 : Telling time takes work
• Lesson 18 : Move slowly and don’t break things
• Lesson 19 : Privacy is not dead
• Lesson 20 : Cypherpunks write code
• Lesson 21 : Metaphors for Bitcoin’s future
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• Translations
• Readings and Commentary
• Down the Rabbit Hole

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