Web3 Essential Reading List

Updated: Dec 26 2022

Essential books:

• Digital Gold - the Untold Story of Bitcoin, Nathaniel Popper: Amazon

• Mastering Bitcoin, Andreas Antonopoulos: Amazon

• Mastering Ethereum, Andreas Antonopoulos: Amazon

• The Bitcoin Standard, Saifedean Ammous: Amazon

• The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything, Matthew Ball: Amazon Link

Essentials Blog Posts:

• A Letter to Jamie Dimon

• The Crypto Story, by Bloomberg

• Introduction to Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopoulos Introduction to Bitcoin: what is bitcoin and why does it matter?

• Crypto Mega Thesis by Multicoin Capital

• Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble, by NYT

• Technologies behind Bitcoin, summarized

• Bitcoin for the open minded sceptic, Matt Huang

• Len Sassaman and Satoshi: a Cypherpunk History

• Chris Dixon, Why Decentralization Matters

• Bitcoin at Twelve, by Nic Carter

• Paul Tudor Jones on Bitcoin and the "Great Monetary Inflation"

• A16Z Crypto Resources

• Michael Saylor on Bitcoin: Michael Saylor: Bitcoin has no existential threats and will dominate 21st century (Pt. 1/2)

• Michael Saylor & Ross Stevens on Bitcoin

• The Bitcoin whitepaper and early conversations with Satoshi Nakamoto

• Decentralized Finance: On Blockchain by Prof. Dr. Fabian Schär

• Peter Van Valkenburgh Director of research at Coin Center, explains Bitcoin to the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee: Video / Transcript

• The Ownership Economy, by Variant Fund.

• Accenture Song life trends 2023.

Essential videos