Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Cryptocurrency and bitcoin

Assets

A fifteen-year asset class with a large literature already split between origin narrative, technical reference, and post-mortem on the frauds.

Books 21Experts 4Recommenders 20

Start here

  1. Digital GoldNathaniel Popper, 2015
  2. The Bitcoin StandardSaifedean Ammous, 2018
  3. Number Go UpZeke Faux, 2023
  4. Mastering BitcoinAndreas M. Antonopoulos, 2014
Mastering BitcoinMastering Bitcoin
T1 Mastering Bitcoin
Andreas M. Antonopoulos · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Bitcoin works underneath: keys, addresses, transactions, mining and the network.

Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan

Digital GoldDigital Gold
T1 Digital Gold
Nathaniel Popper · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

The rise of Bitcoin and the people trying to build a new money for the internet.

The Age of CryptocurrencyThe Age of Cryptocurrency
T2 The Age of Cryptocurrency
Paul Vigna, Michael J. Casey · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

Wall Street Journal reporters on money, trust and the blockchain claim.

The Bitcoin StandardThe Bitcoin Standard
T2 The Bitcoin Standard
Saifedean Ammous · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Sound money must hold value over time, and Bitcoin's fixed supply makes it such.

Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Alex Lieberman and 1 other

Going InfiniteGoing Infinite
T2 Going Infinite
Michael Lewis · 2023
Open LibraryGoodreads

Sam Bankman-Fried's rise through Jane Street, Alameda and FTX to its collapse.

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson

Number Go UpNumber Go Up
T2 Number Go Up
Zeke Faux · 2023
Open LibraryGoodreads

Two years inside the 2021 crypto boom and 2022 bust, starting from Tether.

The Sovereign IndividualThe Sovereign Individual
T3 The Sovereign Individual
James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads

1997 forecast of digital money weakening the nation state

Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Nat Eliason and 11 others

Life After GoogleLife After Google
T3 Life After Google
George Gilder · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

The case that blockchain architectures displace the centralised web

Recommended by: Peter Thiel

The Infinite MachineThe Infinite Machine
T3 The Infinite Machine
Camila Russo · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Vitalik Buterin and others built Ethereum and its smart contracts.

The CryptopiansThe Cryptopians
T3 The Cryptopians
Laura Shin · 2022
Open LibraryGoodreads

The Ethereum world and token economics FTX was built to trade.

The Network StateThe Network State
T3 The Network State
Balaji Srinivasan · 2022
Open LibraryGoodreads

Argument that online communities can become sovereign; crypto-native politics

Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Brian Armstrong and 4 others

Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino CapitalisEasy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud
T3 Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud
Ben McKenzie, Jacob Silverman · 2023
Open LibraryGoodreads

Includes the authors' own interview with Bankman-Fried.

SBF: How the FTX Bankruptcy Unwound Crypto's
T3 SBF: How the FTX Bankruptcy Unwound Crypto's Very Bad Good Guy
Brady Dale · 2023
Open LibraryGoodreads

Crypto-trade reporter's mechanics-first account.

Blockchain RevolutionBlockchain Revolution
T4 Blockchain Revolution
Don Tapscott, Alex Tapscott · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

The high-water mark of enterprise blockchain enthusiasm.

The Business BlockchainThe Business Blockchain
T4 The Business Blockchain
William Mougayar · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Brad Feld, Fred Wilson

Attack of the 50 Foot BlockchainAttack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
T4 Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
David Gerard · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

The sceptic's brief against crypto claims.

Bitcoin BillionairesBitcoin Billionaires
T4 Bitcoin Billionaires
Ben Mezrich · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Anthony Pompliano

DeFi and the Future of FinanceDeFi and the Future of Finance
T4 DeFi and the Future of Finance
Ashwin Ramachandran, Joey Santoro · 2021
Open LibraryGoodreads
Crypto Confidential: Winning and Losing MillCrypto Confidential: Winning and Losing Millions in the New Frontier of Finance
T4 Crypto Confidential: Winning and Losing Millions in the New Frontier of Finance
Nathaniel Eliason
Goodreads

Recommended by: The Barefoot Investor

The Little Bitcoin Book
T4 The Little Bitcoin Book
Bitcoin Collective
Goodreads

Recommended by: Anthony Pompliano, Balaji S. Srinivasan

The Truth Machine
T4 The Truth Machine
Paul Vigna, Michael J. Casey
Goodreads

Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan

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