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