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Episode: Nic Carter: Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates | Lex Fridman Podcast #173

Published on April 1, 2021

Here’s 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!

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Bitcoin

by Kalle Rosenbaum

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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.

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Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies

by Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller, Steven Goldfeder

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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.

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Mastering Bitcoin

by Andreas M. Antonopoulos

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um antonopoulos's books uh mastering bitcoin are good

Nick Carter recommends 'Mastering Bitcoin' by Antonopoulos (Andreas M. Antonopoulos).

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The Bitcoin Standard

by Saifedean Ammous, James Fouhey

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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.

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The White Paper

by Satoshi Nakamoto

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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.

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