*UPDATED* September 2014 - Beliathon's recommended articles and vids

[Beliathon]

Here's my selection of the best and most enlightening bitcoin writing and journalism. Most of these are from within the past few months. Enjoy and share wildly!

Reading:

Why You Should Care About Bitcoin: Money is going digital and it is impacting the biggest growth industry of the past 75 years Medium.com from Sept. 2013

Accelerated Learning for Bitcoin: How I got up to speed on bitcoin in about a month. Medium.com from Nov. 2013

Why Bitcoin is grossly undervalued

I'm hoarding bitcoins and no you can't have any

Bitcoin doesn't have the properties of money, it changes them.

The Advent of Cryptocurrencies: A reason to rethink currency in the 21st century

China, cryptocurrency, and the world order

China, cryptocurrency, and the world order part 2

Code as Law: How Bitcoin Could Decentralize the Courtroom

Virtual currencies can challenge the sovereignty of states

Dark marketplaces positioned to accelerate the collapse of governments

Only the black market matters

Trust no US companies with the future of bitcoin

Bitcoin: Fact, Fiction, Future

European banks are in trouble

Privatize the pound?

Could the bitcoin protocol be the birth of virtual collective consciousness?

Bitcoin: Economy of the Eternal Now

https://paybycoin.intuit.com/

Videos:

The real value of bitcoin and crypto currency technology

Andreas Antonopoulos on Bitcoin @ Maker Faire 2014 Detroit

Bitcoin the Organism TED talk with Jeff Garzik (from April)

Thomas Spaas at TEDxUHasselt - The concepts of Bitcoin and their impact on the worldwide legal space

Interview: Bernard von NotHaus on the Liberty Dollar

Interview: Max Wright

Interview: Mike Maloney - is Bitcoin an NSA setup?

Bitcoin 101, with Daniel Altman

Ron Paul on the possibility of a Bitcoin boom (from January)

Draper's long-term bet on bitcoin

Introducing Crypto Cards!

Why Bitcoin's growth is normal

The Evolving Digital Commerce Ecosystem

Bitcoin can fulfill the role of cash in a digital society

Bruce Fenton: Bitcoin and the New York "BitLicense" proposed regulations

Matt Whitlock on Elliptic Curve Cryptography

[OROBTC]

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Beliathon, you have posted some excellent material!  I hope that you get your wish, that people read (watch) some/many of the pieces above.

Yeah, I am hoarding BTC, as fast as I get my hands on them.

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My contribution to a reading list is just below.  Here I tackle the interesting problem of how to better cover your tracks while using BTC.  A "new" used laptop.  Long daisy chains of transactions.  I did not address TOR and email encryption, as those are beyond my scope.  For now anyway.

"Fun With Bitcoin for Beginners: Part Eight"

http://goo.gl/8ylIVo

[odolvlobo]

Coinjelly exchange offers bitcoin debt cards (with wallet insurance!)

You might want to cross that article off your list. It promotes CoinJelly, which is a scam. Source: http://coinfire.cf/2014/07/08/tale-coinjelly/

[OROBTC]

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Below I write about getting a blockchain.info wallet and trucoin.com's new "BTC by credit card" service.  This is really more for beginners, but FWIW here you all go:

"Fun With Bitcoin for Beginners: Part Nine"

http://goo.gl/zllrtT

[KawalGrover]

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Beliathon, you have posted some excellent material! 

I would second that observation.

[Beliathon]

Coinjelly exchange offers bitcoin debt cards (with wallet insurance!)

You might want to cross that article off your list. It promotes CoinJelly, which is a scam. Source: http://coinfire.cf/2014/07/08/tale-coinjelly/

Thanks for the tip, I removed that link

Updated the OP, added:

Blog article - Bitcoin: Economy of the Eternal Now

article - Why You Should Care About Bitcoin: Money is going digital and it is impacting the biggest growth industry of the past 75 years Medium.com from Sept. 2013

article & links - Accelerated Learning for Bitcoin: How I got up to speed on bitcoin in about a month. Medium.com from Nov. 2013

video - Jeff Garzik TED talk - Bitcoin the Organism

video - Andreas Antonopoulos on Bitcoin | Maker Faire 2014

video - Bitcoin 101: Why Bitcoin's growth is normal

video - The Evolving Digital Commerce Ecosystem

video - Bitcoin can fulfill the role of cash in a digital society

video - Bruce Fenton: Bitcoin and the New York "BitLicense" proposed regulations



Bless all forms of resistance,

Yours in compassion and solidarity,

World Citizen Beliathon

[practicaldreamer]

Hey, Beli - some great links.

Can I be so bold as to add this :-  Matt Whitlock on Elliptic Curve Cryptography

It says in the intro that he's an "Anarcho Capitalist" - but I'll forgive him that one, as his explanation of the maths I thought was really engaging and well explained.


BTW Beli - I am a big fan, as you know - but whats with all this referring to yourself in the 3rd person stuff ? You are starting to sound like Donald Trump 

[Beliathon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JszfLU4ysEM <- Watching now and will tentatively add to list because I like you.

whats with all this referring to yourself in the 3rd person stuff ? You are starting to sound like Donald Trump

It's mostly just for fun, but also to push the World Citizen concept. Also pushing class consciousness (especially for Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaire Americans) and solidarity. As well as the importance of compassion now, at the dawn of humanity's Age of Empathy.

“Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult... Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.”
-Erich Fromm, The Sane Society



P.S.
The Empathic Civilization RSA Animate

[lunarboy]

Bumping this list becasue it's a great place to start.