π 5 Books mentioned in "Nic Carter: Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates | Lex Fridman Podcast #173" of Lex Fridman Podcast

Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast
Episode: Nic Carter: Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates | Lex Fridman Podcast #173
Published on April 1, 2021
Hereβs a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!

Bitcoin
Buy Bitcoin by Kalle Rosenbaum on Amazon
Then technical books about bitcoin i like grocking bitcoin uh which is a very computer science-heavy one
Nick Carter recommends 'Grocking Bitcoin' as a technical, computer science-heavy book about Bitcoin.

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies
There's a good textbook um called uh bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies um by arvind naranian I think he's um a princeton um computer science professor which is really good at building intuition
Nick Carter recommends the textbook 'Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies' by Arvind Naranian (Arvind Narayanan), noting it's good for building intuition.

Mastering Bitcoin
Buy Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas M. Antonopoulos on Amazon
um antonopoulos's books uh mastering bitcoin are good
Nick Carter recommends 'Mastering Bitcoin' by Antonopoulos (Andreas M. Antonopoulos).

The Bitcoin Standard
Buy The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous, James Fouhey on Amazon
Would be uh the bitcoin standard a lot of people don't like it
Nick Carter recommends 'The Bitcoin Standard' as a canonical economic work related to Bitcoin, noting that some people dislike it.

The White Paper
Buy The White Paper by Satoshi Nakamoto on Amazon
but my recommendations would be you know obviously the bitcoin white paper that's uh and satoshi's complimentary writings that's very important is to try to understand the intentions behind the system and also to understand the system without having your view colored by some third parties description of it
Nick Carter recommends reading the Bitcoin white paper and Satoshi's other writings as original sources to understand Bitcoin.