The Most Recommended Bitcoin Books

Bitcoin books are a great investment if you want to escape the fiat world and gain a better understanding of economics, finance and bitcoin.

There are many recommended bitcoin books and we have compiled a complete list for you.

Recommended Bitcoin Books for Beginners

Bitcoin books for beginners make the complex easy and allow anyone without even without technical expertise to get an idea of bitcoin.

The Internet of Money Volume 1
Andreas Antonopolous

While many bitcoin books explain the how of bitcoin, The Internet of Money delves into the why of bitcoin. Acclaimed information-security expert and author of Mastering Bitcoin, Andreas M. Antonopoulos examines and contextualizes the significance of bitcoin through a series of essays spanning the exhilarating maturation of this technology.

Bitcoin, a technological breakthrough quietly introduced to the world in 2008, is transforming much more than finance. Bitcoin is disrupting antiquated industries to bring financial independence to billions worldwide. In this book, Andreas explains why bitcoin is a financial and technological evolution with potential far exceeding the label “digital currency.”

Andreas goes beyond exploring the technical functioning of the bitcoin network by illuminating bitcoin’s philosophical, social, and historical implications. As the internet has essentially transformed how people around the world interact and has permanently impacted our lives in ways we never could have imagined, bitcoin–the internet of money–is fundamentally changing our approach to solving social, political, and economic problems through decentralized technology.

Marc Andreessen: “I’ve always wondered what would have happened if we had built one-click payments into the browser from the very beginning. With bitcoin, we finally get this ‘Internet of Money’.

But this book isn’t just an ode to bitcoin — it’s an ode to open protocols, what happens when you connect people online, and the power of innovation on the internet.”

Balaji Srinivasan: “With Mastering Bitcoin, Andreas Antonopoulos wrote one of the best technical books on digital currency. With The Internet of Money, he’s matched that feat by compiling his talks into one of the best books on Bitcoin for a broad audience. Highly recommended!”

Raoul Pal: “This book will help you understand the technology and the philosophical potential of the [Bitcoin] space”

Michael Saylor recommended The Internet of Money on his Bitcoin website, Hope.com

The Little Bitcoin Book

You’ve probably heard about Bitcoin on the news or heard it being discussed by your friends or colleagues.

How come the price keeps changing? Is Bitcoin a good investment? How does it even have value? Why do people keep talking about it like it’s going to change the world?

The Little Bitcoin Book tells the story of what’s wrong with money today, and why Bitcoin was invented to provide an alternative to the current system. It describes in simple terms what Bitcoin is, how it works, why it’s valuable, and how it affects individual freedom and opportunities of people everywhere – from Nigeria to the Philippines to Venezuela to the United States.

This book also includes a Q & A section with some of the most frequently asked questions about Bitcoin. If you want to learn more about this new form of money which continues to gain interest and adoption around the world, then this book is for you.

Anthony Pompliano: “This 100 page book was written for pre-coiners by some of the most well-respected Bitcoiners in the world.”

Balaji Srinivasan: “The Little Bitcoin Book was written in a few days by N people, one chapter each, and then published on Amazon”

Michael Saylor recommended The Little Bitcoin Book on his Bitcoin website, Hope.com

21 Lessons

21 Lessons is a bit of an unusual bitcoin book. But hey, Bitcoin is a bit of an unusual technology, so an unusual book about Bitcoin might be fitting. This book came to be because of one simple question: What have you learned from Bitcoin? I tried to answer this question in a single tweet. Then the tweet turned into a tweetstorm. The tweetstorm turned into an article. The article turned into three articles. Three articles turned into 21 Lessons. And 21 Lessons turned a book.

Other Bitcoin Books for Beginners

Books about Bitcoin which can be read by anyone, no special background knowledge or education required. As mentioned above, I consider The Bitcoin Standard required reading for anyone interested in Bitcoin.

• The Blocksize War by Jonathan Bier
• The Book Of Satoshi by Phil Champagne
• The Bullish Case For Bitcoin by Vijay Boyapati
• Why Bitcoin? by Tomer Strolight
• Why Buy Bitcoin by Andy Edstrom

Bitcoin And Economics Books

• Check Your Financial Privilege by Alex Gladstein
• Cryptoeconomics by Eric Voskuil
• The Ethics Of Money Production by Jörg Guido Hülsmann
• Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
• What Has Government Done To Our Money by Murray Rothbard

Technical Bitcoin Books

• Programming Bitcoin by Jimmy Song
• The Art Of Unix Programming by Eric S. Raymond
• Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopoulos
• Bitcoin Alpha V0.01 by Pirate Hash
• Inventing Bitcoin by Yan Pritzker

Complete List of Bitcoin Books

• 21 Lessons by Gigi
• A New Kind Of Science by Stephen Wolfram
• American Kingpin by Nick Bilton
• Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Argentarius by Alfred Lansburgh
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• Bitcoin, A Work In Progress by Sjors Provoost
• Bitcoin Alpha V0.01 by Pirate Hash
• Bitcoin Billionaires by Ben Mezrich
• Bitcoin & Black America by Isaiah Jackson
• Bitcoin Clarity by Kiara Bickers
• Bitcoin For Kiddos by Chris and Frieda Bobay
• Bitcoin Is Venice by Allen Farrington, Sacha Meyers
• Bitcoin Money by Michael Caras
• Bitcoin by Knut Svanholm
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Broken Money by Lyn Alden
• Check Your Financial Privilege by Alex Gladstein
• Cryptoeconomics by Eric Voskuil
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• Cypherpunks by Jacob Appelbaum, Julian Assange, Andy Zimmermann
• Debt by David Graeber
• Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper
• Economics In One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
• End The Fed by Ron Paul
• Energy And Civilization by Vaclav Smil
• Energy by Richard Rhodes
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Fiat Money Inflation In France by Andrew Dickson White
• Fooled By Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Fossil Future by Alex Epstein
• Free Software, Free Society by Richard Stallman
• Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
• Goodnight Bitcoin by Scott and Mallory Sibley
• Grokking Bitcoin by Kalle Rosenbaum
• Hard-Boiled Egg Index by Kudzai Joseph Gumunyu
• Honest Money by Gary North
• How Is Fiat Money Possible by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
• Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
• If You Give A Monster A Bitcoin by Scott and Mallory Sibley
• Independence Reimagined by Knut Svanholm
• Inventing Bitcoin by Yan Pritzker
• It Doesn’T Have To Be Crazy At Work by David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried
• Layered Money by Nik Bhatia
• Magic Internet Money by Jesse Berger
• Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopoulos
• Money, Sound And Unsound by Joseph Salerno
• Money by Riccardo Siotto
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) by George Orwell
• On The Origins Of Money by Carl Menger
• Programming Bitcoin by Jimmy Song
• Quantum Computing Since Democritus by Scott Aaronson
• Remote by David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried
• Rhyming Bitcoin by Brekkie
• Sade’S Satoshi by Charlene Fadirepo
• Skin In The Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• Thank God For Bitcoin by Bitcoin and Bible Group
• The Art Of Unix Programming by Eric S. Raymond
• The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous
• The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• The Blocksize War by Jonathan Bier
• The Book Of Satoshi by Phil Champagne
• The Bullish Case For Bitcoin by Vijay Boyapati
• The Cathedral And The Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
• The Creature From Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Ethics Of Money Production by Jörg Guido Hülsmann
• The Fiat Standard by Saifedean Ammous
• The Grid by Gretchen Bakke
• The Hitchhiker’S Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• The Internet Of Money (Volume 1) by Andreas Antonopoulos
• The Internet Of Money (Volume 2) by Andreas Antonopoulos
• The Internet Of Money (Volume 3) by Andreas Antonopoulos
• The Lessons Of History by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
• The Little Bitcoin Book by Timi Ajiboye, Luis Buenaventura, Alex Gladstein, Lily Liu, Alexander Lloyd, Alejandro Machado, Jimmy Song, Alena Vranova
• The Machinery Of Freedom by David D. Friedman
• The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver
• The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein
• The Mystery Of Banking by Murray Rothbard
• The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas
• The Price Of Tomorrow by Jeff Booth
• The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg
• The War Of Art by Steven Pressfield
• There Are No Electrons by Kenn Amdahl
• True Names by Vernor Vinge
• V For Vendetta by Alan Moore
• What Has Government Done To Our Money by Murray Rothbard
• When Money Dies by Adam Fergusson
• Why Bitcoin? by Tomer Strolight
• Why Buy Bitcoin by Andy Edstrom
• Working In Public by Nadia Eghbal

Bitcoin Novels

A special shoutout to Bitcoin University who has published a wonderful review about the Bitcoin book “The Mandibles”

Lionel Shriver’s dystopian novel “The Mandibles,” may be the best Bitcoin book ever, even though it mentions Bitcoin only once. Mandibles is set in the near future (2029-2047) and follows the impact of a massive economic and social collapse on the fortunes of the Mandible family.

In this dystopian future, private gold ownership and cash are forbidden, and everyone pays for goods and services with brain chips that contain a form of CBDC (central bank digital currency). There is also crazy money printing, hyperinflation, and shortages of basic goods, including food. Mandibles is a great book to recommend to someone who likes fiction, but has no interest in Bitcoin– yet.