Andrew M. Bailey Craig Warmke Bradley Rettler ❤️

Bitcoin bookshelf thread! This is the beginnings of the UW Bitcoin Research Institute’s bookshelf. Are we missing any important books? What’s on your bitcoin bookshelf?

In honor of bitcoin🍕 day reposting why we should #MakeBitcoinMoneyAgain (reclaiming hashtag from the Knots brigade)

“Unfortunately, dictators are more united than democracies.” — Masih Alinejad 🏳️

“What we want is for critical news stories not to compete with cat videos. Journalism was not designed for that.” — Anjan Sundaram , on the importance of Nostr

NEW: Human Rights Foundation (HRF)'s #Bitcoin Development Fund grants 800 million satoshis to 22 projects worldwide!

Note — had Bitcoin “changed the code” to proof of stake (like the campaign wanted but is impossible), it wouldn’t have been able to do methane capture, and wouldn’t be trending carbon-negative. A good lesson for us all about hubris and unintended consequences.

Environmentalists love bitcoin.

As the 10th known Bitcoin Core contributor, Matt Corallo 🟠 has played a key role in Bitcoin’s development. He’ll join us at the Bitcoin Policy Summit to discuss the importance of non-custodial tools and why DC must protect innovation, not discourage it. 🎟️lu.ma/btcpolicysummit

Hidden Falls in Curt Gowdy State Park. Only 25 miles from the University of Wyoming College of Law.

Awesome to see this. The Oslo Freedom Forum was full of stories of activists using bitcoin to resist. Great to see specific education for them.

Tyrants everywhere are afraid of accountability

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Seriously, we really need to hire philosophers now, OpenAI Sam Altman please. these models are not to be explained by technicians, programmers, mathematicians, coders, They’ve become something else: The Other.

This is like saying that scientists have disproved free will — ridiculous. Qualia is *what it’s like* to experience something. Scientists can measure brain states, but — as Nagel pointed out — they can never tell us what it’s like for a bat to be a bat.

This follows from a more general principle.

I’m at least 5 books behind, but I finally picked up Resistance Money. It’s rare to read an intro to #bitcoin that actually teaches you something new after years in the space. But I wouldn't expect anything less from Andrew M. Bailey, Bradley Rettler, and Craig Warmke.