About this episode
When he began researching Bitcoin, David St-Onge decided to purchase and read some of the most popular books on the topic. In this interview, he rates the one that he liked the most and makes recommendations about where you should begin your journey.
This episode is sponsored by Vaultoro (the exchange where you only trade with honest money) and Wasabi (the bitcoin wallet that's optimized to protect your network-level and transaction privacy).
Time stamps:
0:00 Intro
1:41 Presentation
3:48 David’s book reading frenzy
7:49 Mastering Blockchain
11:58 Tokenomics
14:29 Stray Dog visits
15:08 Tokenomics (continued)
16:00 Mastering Bitcoin
19:16 David’s motivations to write his book
20:51 Programming Bitcoin
22:43 The Bitcoin Standard
23:40 What has government done to our money ?
25:15 Layered Money
26:20 The Bitcoin Standard (continued)
28:55 What has government done to our money ? (continued)
30:52 The Bitcoin Money Book
33:58 How David met his publisher
36:08 The little Bitcoin Book
42:41 21 Lessons
45:45 Inventing Bitcoin
50:05 The book of Satoshi
55:10 Why Buy Bitcoin
57:36 The Price of Tomorrow
1:04:02 Books about Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe
1:08:46 The Lessons Of History
1:11:11 Sovereignty through mathematics
1:16:22 The short list
1:16:52 Tout sur Bitcoin (The short list)
1:18:17 Inventing Bitcoin (The short list)
1:18:46 Layered Money (The short list)
1:20:32 The Price of Tomorrow (The short list)
1:20:55 Future reading
1:21:45 The zero interest trap
1:24:30 Thoughts on Bitcoin courses
1:28:45 When did David decide to write his book ?
1:32:55 Where you can buy David’s book?
1:34:35 Bitcoin Twitter
1:35:44 How would David rate Vlad's BTCTKVR magazine ?
1:39:23 Layered Money (rating)
1:39:59 Conclusion
1:47:17 The Hidden book (The Blocksize War)
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