Bitcoin Media

Bitcoin Media is a collection of common and popular Bitcoin books, websites, podcasts, influencers, and more.

• The Bitcoin Library
• BitcoinWiki is the encyclopedia of Bitcoin knowledge.
• The Nakamoto Institute
• Bitcoiner.guide is an excellent and thorough resource.
• Jameson Lopp's Bitcoin Information Guide
• Bitcoin-only.com
• BitcoinAnswerMan
• Bitcoinist
• Understanding Bitcoin is “a liberty lover's guide to the mechanics and economics of crypto-currencies”

• Beginner-Friendly Bitcoin Resources

• The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous is an excellent primer to the economics behind Bitcoin's ascendancy.
  • The Fiat Standard by Ammous seeks to contrast the Bitcoin story.
• The Book of Satoshi by Phil Champagne
• Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain by Andreas Antonopoulos is one of the most popular Bitcoin books, and for good reason.
  • The increasing level of technical detail means much of it is only interesting for those who want to dive into the technology on an active level.
• Mastering the Lightning Network by Antonopoulos and coauthors
• The Basics of Bitcoin and Blockchains by Antony Lewis
• Cryptoeconomics: Fundamental Principles of Bitcoin by Eric Voskuil et al
• Bitcoin: Sovereignty Through Mathematics by Knut Svanholm and Kalle Rosenbaum
• Thank God for Bitcoin by Jimmy Song and Julia Tourianski
  • A moral and religious case for Bitcoin
• Bitcoin Money by Michael Caras is a children's book
• This Book Will Save You Time by Misir Mahmudov
• The Little Bitcoin Book: Why Bitcoin Matters for Your Freedom, Finances, and Future by Jimmy Song and a bunch of others
• 21 Lessons: What I've Learned from Falling Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole by Gigi
• The Bullish Case for Bitcoin by Vijay Boyapati and Michael Saylor
• The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
• Bitcoin: A Work in Progress

These podcasts focus more on Bitcoin specifically than cryptocurrencies in general.

• The Bitcoin Boomer is Gary Leland's podcast aimed at the Baby Boomer generation, which is not as sophisticated with new technology as younger generations.
• The Bitcoin Standard podcast
• The Rounding the Earth podcast covers many topics, but includes episodes on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency.

• But how does Bitcoin actually work? by 3Blue1Brown.

• Swan Signal
• Rounding the Earth covers some Bitcoin and cryptocurrency content.
• Crypto Words

The Twittersphere is where the cryptocurrency conversations (and memes) rage, primarily. This deserves its own subcategories. Also know that Twitter seems to heavily manipulate feeds, and cryptocurrency is one of the areas in which they do so. If some of these folks irritate your political sensibilities, get over it and put on your filter like an adult.

Why Twitter?

• Nick Szabo is one of the world's best economic minds. Warning: may irritate the Woke. Big Trump supporter. His blog, Unenumerated , is full of gems.
• Andreas Antonopoulos is one of the world's best Bitcoin teachers. Warning: may irritate the MAGA folks. Never Trumper.
• Paul Sztorc also writes the truthcoin.info and BitcoinHivemind.com blogs/sites and is one of the important developers of Drivechain /sidechains, which might link most all cryptocurrencies to Bitcoin in the future.
• Jameson Lopp is one of the great Bitcoin educators .
• Nic Carter is one of the clearest thinkers in this entire space. Better writer than speaker.
• Caitlin Long is my favorite ex-Wall Street Bitcoiner, and also Founder/CEO of AvantiBank .
• Theory of Bitcoin – Warning: While some of the information here may be good, this account may be a propaganda account in an internal war over which Bitcoin fork is the “real Bitcoin”. This is where you have to up your game in terms of filtering information. Often, 90% is good, real information, and 10% is manipulation.
• Eric Voskuil
• Lesley Carhart is an infosec specialist and all around bad ass.
• Jimmy Song is an OG Bitcoiner with develop and writing credentials
• Nakamoto Institute
• Roger Ver was a Bitcoin evangelist who started shilling for the BCH sidechain. Might be an act. Hard to say.
• Plan B with the $100T and stock-to-flow discussion in particular.
• Marty Bent runs a free newsletter.
• This account dedicated to the work of John Nash and his concept of Ideal Money

• Learning Bitcoin

• Autism Capital
• Bitcoin Forum
• Documenting BTC is a lot of fun

• Kristov Atlas (friend of mine)
• Vitalik Buterin

Think of cryptocurrency exchanges like major corporations. They have their own interests. It is important to keep this in mind because the information they emit is valuable, but there is also plenty of politics embedded.

• Binance folks:
  • CEO Changpeng Zhao
  • Linda Zhang
  • Binance Chain Community
• Bisq Network (decentralized exchange)
• Coinbase folks:
  • CEO Brian Armstrong
  • Balaji Srinivasan
• Gemini folks:
  • Cameron Winklevoss
  • Tyler Winklevoss
  • Blair Halliday
• Kraken Exchange folks:
  • Dan Held
• Uniswap Protocol (decentralized exchange)

• Rich Godwin of Cormint (my personal Bitcoin mentor when I started out)

• The @Bitcoin Twitter account is run by the bitcoin.org folks. This is not “the people who run Bitcoin” or anything like that, but is essentially an interest group. Filter appropriately.
• AvantiBank is the first American cryptocurrency-focused (digital assets) bank, started in Wyoming
• Ethereum folks:
  • Vitalik Buterin
  • Joseph Lubin
• Alex Bosworth is the Infrastructure Lead at Lightning Labs and CEO of yalls.org
• Trezor is a well known hardware wallet manufacturer
• ConsenSys
• Grayscale
• Eric Lombrozo is the CEO of Ciphrex
• Meltem Demirors something something CoinShares

Take the title with a grain of salt. Being a “thought leader” is a matter of gaining attention, or the appearance of attention. This could be for positive or nefarious purposes. It may also be that some of these people speak “your language” better than others, so some may be good teachers for you, and some may not be.

• Crypto Cousins Podcast is run by Gary Leland (whom I'm friends with here in DFW)
• Noded Bitcoin Podcast hosted by Pierre Rochard and Michael Goldstein
• Piece of the Py Show
• Ryan Selkis
• Dan Held
• Laura Shin (enjoyed what I heard of her podcast)
• NotSoFast
• WhalePanda is Bitcoin OG
• Tone Vays
• Mike Novogratz
• Nick Sullivan
• Stephanie Murphy (podcaster)
• Nathaniel Whittemore (podcaster)
• Kevin Pham was once a great Bitcoin evangelist who seems to have sold himself out to advertising products. Still says some smart things. Use your filter.
• Richard Heart is a weird guy with accusations of fraud, but does still say some things that make you think. Use a controlled filter with this one.

• Dan Morehead is the CEO of Pantera Capital
• Sunayna Tuteja is the Chief Innovations Officer at the Federal Reserve and a digital asset specialist.
• Ari Paul of BlockTower Capital. Note: Ari hits the notes right talking about Bitcoin, but his firm hasn't even surpassed Bitcoin's returns. I do not particularly trust him for a few reasons, including his promotion of bad crypto projects, and the fact that he's getting rich simply by holding other people's Bitcoin.