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In the first place, read the 9-pages-short whitepaper from bitcoin.org or use mirror1, mirror2 (https://bitcoin.anyone.eu.org). Or you can also listen to it.

Related great article is Satoshi’s White Paper - the Hard Part Explained by Tomer.

Here, have a look at some links:

• Bitcoin Exact Forecast
• Bitcoiner.Guide, QnA
• Bitcoin Canon - Swan
• Bitcoin-Resources
• Bitcoin-Only.com
• Bitcoin Magazine
• C-SPAN (search for ‘bitcoin’ there)
  • Edward Felten (Princeton University, Feb 2014)
  • Future Digital Currency Panel (Atlantic Council, Apr 2014)
  • Naomi Brockwell (Billy’s Bitcoin, Jul 2018)
    • short movie
    • web site
  • Jim Harper (Cryptocurrency & The Future of Money, Aug 2019)
• Jordan B. Peterson - The Future of Money?
• movies:
  • Human B (or here)
  • Our Most Brilliant Idea
  • Bit X Bit
  • The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin
  • other movies mentioned at bitcoin.org resources
  • Hard Money
  • Cypherpunks Write Code
• videos:
  • any and all of Ioni Appelberg
  • Max Keiser at Valuetainment
  • CoinDesk videos:
    • Michael Saylor Defends MicroStrategy’s Aggressive Bitcoin Buys
    • Wyoming Senator Says National Debt Is Debasing the Value of the US Dollar
  • Michael Saylor
• Bitcoin is Hope (was: https://www.microstrategy.com/en/bitcoin)
• Books:
  • The Price of Tomorrow

Why 21m (million) bitcoins? Warren Buffett, one of the world’s richest investors, says the total amount of gold in the world - the gold above ground, that is - could fit into a cube with sides of just 20m (meter = 67ft). (See link, link2)

Read A Treatise on Altcoins (or mirror) for a more in-depth analysis on the topic of crypto-currencies other than Bitcoin.

Some more links

• Bitcoin Uptime
• Number of transactions
  • BitInfoCharts
  • blockchain.com
• Bitcoin Price Today & History Chart — the nice thing about this is that you can see both the linear graph and the logarithmic at the same time.
• All-time Bitcoin price chart (logarithmic) and its kind-of-mirror
• Bitcoin Block Halving
• Why Bitcoin is not a giant Ponzi scheme
• Bitcoin Obituaries
• Picking an Exchange
• Market Volume
• Bitcoin ETF
• Bitcoin Markets
• Bitcoinity.org Markets
• Lightning Network
• Large Bitcoin Collider

Other links

• Johoe’s Bitcoin Mempool Size Statistics
• Seed Tool
• BIP39 Mnemonic Code Converter
• A developer-oriented series
• Bitcoin Beach
• M1 Money Stock (FRED)
• Coin Metrics
• Messari
• Forbes
  • Intrinsic Value (2017)
  • Logarithmic Asset (2018)
• Give me bitcoin (liberty) or give me death
• Mayer Multiple
• Bitcoin Savings Plan (jlopp)

Articles

• PoW is Efficient by Dan Held
• The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
• The Greatest Game
• Why Bitcoin Will End The Worst Heist In History
• El Salvador To Make Bitcoin Legal Tender
• Bitcoin is Venice
• Why in the World Would You Own Bonds When…
• Bitcoin Is Time
• Bitcoin Songsheet: A Nation of Rent Seekers

Bitcoin testnet

• Faucets
  • Coinfaucet/btc-testnet
  • Yet Another Bitcoin Testnet Faucet
  • Bitcoin Testnet Faucet
• Documentation
  • Testnet article on Bitcoin.it wiki
  • Testing Applications on bitcoin.org dev docs
• Lightning Network on Bitcoin Testnet
  • StarBlocks
  • HTLC.me
  • Submarine Swaps
  • BTCPay Server

Fun

• reddit relationships
• Universe Size Comparison

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