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What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is the first distributed consensus-based, censorship-resistant, permissionless, peer-to-peer payment settlement network with a provably scarce, programmable, native currency. Bitcoin (BTC), the native asset of the Bitcoin blockchain, is the world's first digital currency without a central bank or administrator. The Bitcoin network is an emergent decentralized monetary institution that exists through the interplay between full nodes, miners, and developers. It is set by a social contract that is created and opted into by the users of the network and hardened through game theory and cryptography. Bitcoin is the first, oldest, and largest cryptocurrency in the world.
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Books
Saifedean Ammous - The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking (PDF eng | book eng | book ita)
Yan Pritzker - Inventing Bitcoin: The Technology Behind The First Truly Scarce and Decentralized Money Explained (PDF eng | book eng)
Andreas M. Antonopoulos - Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain (PDF eng | online eng | book eng)
Vijay Boyapati - The Bullish Case for Bitcoin (PDF eng | book eng)
Gigi - 21 Lessons: What I've Learned from Falling Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole (PDF eng | online eng | online ita | book eng | book ita)
CoinGecko - How to Bitcoin (PDF eng | book eng)
Relai - Bitcoin in 10 minutes (PDF eng | PDF ita)
Articles
Vijay Boyapati - The Bullish Case for Bitcoin (eng | ita)
Gigi - Dear Family, Dear Friends, a letter to all of you who still have no bitcoin (eng | ita)
Alexandar Svetski - Fiat, Fascism and Communism (eng | ita)
James Holloway - Central Bank Digital Currencies and the Orwellian New World Order (eng | ita)
Alex Gladstein - Check your financial privilege (eng | video)
Robert Breedlove - Money, Bitcoin and Time (part 1 eng | part 2 eng | part 3 eng | part 1 ita | part 2 ita | part 3 ita)
Beren Sutton - What is Bitcoin? And Why Should I Care? (eng | ita)
Documentaries
The Great Reset and the Rise of Bitcoin (YouTube)
Le mystère Satoshi: Aux origines du Bitcoin (Arte | sub eng | sub ita)
Bitcoin: Digital Gold? (YouTube)
Cryptopia: Bitcoin, Blockchains and the Future of the Internet (Netflix | Prime Video | Vimeo)
Netflix Explained: Cryptocurrency (Netflix)
Banking on Bitcoin (YouTube)
Quotes
I don't believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can't take them violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something they can't stop.
- Friedrich A. von Hayek (1984)
I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that's missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash - a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B without A knowing B or B knowing A.
- Milton Friedman (1999)
I've been working on a new electronic cash system that's fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party. The main properties: double-spending is prevented with a peer-to-peer network, no mint or other trusted parties, participants can be anonymous, new coins are made from Hashcash style proof-of-work, the proof-of-work for new coin generation also powers the network to prevent double-spending.
- Satoshi Nakamoto (2008)
Links
WTF Happened in 1971? (website)
Timothy C. May - The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (eng | ita)
Eric Hughes - A Cypherpunk's Manifesto (eng | ita)
Satoshi Nakamoto - Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (whitepaper) (PDF eng | PDF ita)
Friedrich Hayek Predicts The rise of Stablecoins, Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency (YouTube)
Bitcoin is Protecting Human Rights Around the World (YouTube)
Francesco Focher - Bitcoin: criptovaluta in (cripto)soldoni (PDF ita)
Blogs
Gigi (eng)
Bitcoin Train (ita)
European Bitcoiners (homepage | ita)
Bitcoin in Italiano (ita)
BitBlinker (ita)
Privacy Chronicles (ita)
Francesco Simoncelli's Freedonia (ita)
Learn
CoinMarketCap Alexandria (eng)
Ledger Beginner's Guide (PDF eng | website eng)
Learn & Earn
Coinbase Earn (sign up - referral code: focher_9 | link)
CoinMarketCap Earn (sign up - referral code: 7076KMZZ | link)
Buy & Trade
Binance (sign up - referral code: 119391439)
Coinbase (sign up - referral code: focher_9)
Crypto.com (sign up - referral code: zzp4fzjzqg)
Store & Spend
Ledger Nano (website | Amazon)
Metamask (install)
Phantom (install)
Yoroi (install)
Crypto.org (install)
Models
PlanB - Modeling Bitcoin Value with Scarcity (Stock to Flow) (eng | ita)
Harold Christopher Burger - Bitcoin's natural long-term power-law corridor of growth (eng)
Jamie Redman - Visualizing Bitcoin's Future Price Cycles With the Power-Law Corridor Model (eng | ita)
Jamie Redman - Spiral Out: Using the Golden Ratio and Fibonacci sequence to Predict Bitcoin Price Cycles (eng | ita)
Charts
Woobull Charts (link)
Look Into Bitcoin (link)
Buy Bitcoin Worldwide (link)
Fear & Greed Index (link)
Glassnode Studio (link)
Into The Block (link)
CryptoQuant (link)
TradingView (link)
News
Bitcoin Magazine (eng)
Blockworks (eng)
CoinDesk (eng)
Coin Metrics Insights (eng)
Decrypt (eng)
Digital Gold Institute CryptoWeek (ita)
Glassnode Insights (eng)
Il Bitcoin (ita)
The Block (eng)
Other resources
bitcoin.org (eng)
Bitcoin Resources (eng)
Bitcoin is Hope (eng)
risorsebitcoin by Mir (ita)
Bitcoin in Italiano (ita)
Bitcoin: tutto quello che devi sapere (ita)