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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.

Here, have a look at some links:

• 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
• movies:
  • The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin
  • other movies mentioned at bitcoin.org resources
  • Hard Money
• CoinDesk videos:
  • Michael Saylor Defends MicroStrategy’s Aggressive Bitcoin Buys
  • Wyoming Senator Says National Debt Is Debasing the Value of the US Dollar
• Bitcoin is Hope (was: https://www.microstrategy.com/en/bitcoin)

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

Other links

• M1 Money Stock (FRED)
• Coin Metrics
• Messari
• Forbes
  • Intrinsic Value (2017)
  • Logarithmic Asset (2018)

Articles

• Bitcoin is Venice
• Why in the World Would You Own Bonds When…

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

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