Zanglebert Bingledacks Reading List

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The following is a post that imho deserves its own topic, as otherwise it would vanish under
the plethora of pages in the longest thread on BT:

The way the holders have the balls to hold is that they understand what is happening. The world is switching over to secure digital asset ledgers. They are simply unquestionably superior. Since they've already cashed out enough fiat currency to meet their daily needs, the only thing they care about is increasing their share in that asset register.

If you want be able to hold on to your coins, deeper research and thought about the system in the grand sweep of things is essential. Here are some links for deep Bitcoin scholarship:

Money as Memory

http://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/sr/sr218.pdf
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1fw3m5/bitcoin_is_memory/
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=232137.0
http://libertyhq.freeforums.org/fed-economist-predicts-bitcoin-will-end-the-fed-t938-20.html
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=230416.msg2450191#msg2450191
http://archive.freecapitalists.org/forums/t/31743.aspx

Natural Order

I, Pencil video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYO3tOqDISE
I, Pencil essay: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/I,_Pencil
http://mises.org/journals/scholar/hasnas.pdf
http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebsite/TIL.PDF
http://archive.freecapitalists.org/forums/t/8889.aspx
http://archive.freecapitalists.org//forums/t/18619.aspx
Google "FA Hayek, The Fatal Conceit" (book, available in PDF)


Panarchy

Balaji Srinivasan, Silicon Valley's Ultimate Exit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOubCHLXT6A&t=1m0s
http://athousandnations.com/2009/10/20/towards-youtopia-are-all-public-good-providers-earthbound/
http://www.panarchy.org/knott/bitcoin.html
Nullification: A Libertarian Gallop through American History

Economics

Google "Economics in One Lesson" (book, available in PDF)
http://mises.org/Books/humanaction.pdf (PDF)
Applying Economics to American History: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-LJ3wZjD4I
Trade is Made of Win
Trade is Made of Win, Part 2


Also look into the revolutionary nature of:

- P2P

- Open Source

- Cryptography

(^ need links here, anyone feel free to add to this list and distribute)


Summaries

http://evoorhees.blogspot.ch/2013/05/bitcoin-2013-role-of-bitcoin-as-money.html
http://konradsgraf.squarespace.com/storage/On%20the%20Origins%20of%20Bitcoin%20Graf%2023.10.13.pdf
http://archive.freecapitalists.org/forums/p/32931/512864.aspx
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=230416.msg2450191#msg2450191


Future Applications

Mike Hearn's 2012 talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD4L7xDNCmA

Disclaimer: I have only read a fraction on this list, but what I have read or watched is impressive.
Probably sticky-worthy.

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[Zangelbert Bingledack]

Just noticed this. Thanks for posting it! I've been putting off cleaning it up for a Main post, but hopefully will fairly soon. In the meantime anyone is welcome to post it around or add stuff if something is deemed worthy.

[Zangelbert Bingledack]

Two to add under Economics:

• Xapo CEO Wences Casares's talk about the origins of money and Bitcoin. This is my new favorite explanation of why Bitcoin is a thing. It's basically a more intuitive explanation of money as memory, along with a theory on the origins of money based on money as memory. I attempt to explain the significance here.
• I've also noticed that the discussion on dishoarding rates in Risto Pietila's Simple and Sane Bitcoin Saving's Plan (the "SSS") doubles as perhaps the best rebuttal to the "deflationary spiral" argument against Bitcoin (other than the more obvious fact that Bitcoin isn't yet used primarily as a currency, and that by the time it is - that is, by the time it "gains currency" - it will be dramatically less deflationary).