Bitcoin_Review_of_Books

BRB is the open source for Bitcoin authors, researchers, thinkers, innovators and explorers to discover and engage Bitcoin books through scholarly reviews.

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BRB's github is live. Enjoy. See the surprizes inside.
https://t.co/fA9CCqQvb2

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Now’s the time to make those BTC donations to Bitcoin educational resources really count, & there are many outstanding projects from which to choose. Happy satspporting the infrastructure for financial independence & future democracy.

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@ericyakes Satsational.

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Community-funded education. Like, for real. Your sats. Your tax credit. Your decision on what education to support. The system has within it the seeds of its replacement. Plant. Grow. Harvest. Enjoy.

[Bitcoin Scholars Fund @BitcoinScholars]

Yes, you can fund $1,700 of k-12 education directly at $0 net cost to you next year 👀

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Pizza Day! Today we celebrate what persistence, hard work and minds set free to innovative can do... And it happens to be the start of the weekend, a perfect time to deep dive into your next Bitcoin topic.

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@jmanhnt And @SoloSatoshi is an ardent supporter of on-the-ground, in-the-classroom Bitcoin education, consistently doing the work to facilitate Bitcoin teaching across the country with actions over words.

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BRB's mempool has a list of classics and new books for review. One of the most urgent, for a certain BRB editor teaching students next Fall how to create a timechain, is @LukasHozda's Building Bitcoin in Rust @Braiins. Please and thank you.

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Following the Github post, BRB is excited to announce the publication of its newest review, of a core book for everyone interested in Bitcoin, @JosefTetek's Bitcoin: Separation of Money and State, published by @Braiins! Read at your leisure, about what is an urgent task.

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Who’s up for writing the review… Bitcoin security is definitely a topic all Bitcoin education could use more of, at advanced levels.

[Luke de Wolf @lukedewolf]

For the past few months, I started focusing on a new project, and I'm finally ready to share it with the world.

I've written a book. Defending Bitcoin: Industrial-Grade Cybersecurity for the Monetary Grid.

6 months ago, I realized how I could apply my cybersecurity background to Bitcoin, with a perspective grounded in the world of critical infrastructure and industrial control systems.

In Defending Bitcoin, I make the case that Bitcoin is critical infrastructure, and I mean that technically. Critical infrastructure is everything essential for the modern world to run the way it does, and I assert that Bitcoin meets the threshold of that definition.

Defending Bitcoin is grounded in the industrial cybersecurity principles that I use on a daily basis. The framework I've built is based on ISA/IEC 62443, the most widespread industry standard for industrial cybersecurity, and applies universal cybersecurity principles such as defense-in-depth, risk management, and threat modeling. And in all cases, there's always something you can do to improve your security or that of the network as a whole.

I wrote the book for two audiences at once. The first is bitcoiners who want to improve their security posture. The second is technical professionals who may be skeptical about Bitcoin and want to understand it better. I build a base of vocabulary for both sides to understand each other, then cover the threat landscape over the course of 10 chapters.

Launching today is the accompanying website (in the comments) where you can get a preview of the book, read endorsements from @mikko, @JeffBooth, @LawrenceLepard, @LynAldenContact, @V4BTC, and more. I've also built a threat modeling tool where you can check how the book applies to you (fully local, we don't collect any data except your email address, if you want updates).

Defending Bitcoin will be available for purchase online on June 15th, right after @BTCPrague where I'll be debuting the book physically. Use code DEFENDINGBITCOIN for your ticket, and come see me in Prague to get your signed copy!

I'm thrilled to be releasing this book because it's truly the best possible contribution to the space that I can make. I managed to find a way to bridge the two worlds I live in, those of my day job in cybersecurity and Bitcoin. I hope you find the book to be a helpful guide to improving your security, and that it makes a positive impact for Bitcoin as a whole.

I'm looking forward to hearing what you think!

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@Real_PizzAndy @GalaxyMind Oooh, he’s a professor.

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@SoloSatoshi Read Atlas Shrugged.

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@256FOUNDATION Awesome! How often do Bitcoiners get to say “oh, who I voted for actually won” and “the vote winner truly earned that victory”? Not enough, it feels. So, congrats to @256FOUNDATION!!

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Files of the winning research and the past/future calls are in the Prize's GitHub. https://t.co/UjoRtP9lZH

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BRB is super excited for the winners and all the amazing Bitcoin research that students are doing, often totally in silos. We hope that this first Bitcoin Student Research Prize will foster the approval of Bitcoin courses, labs, programs & mining at US educational institutions.

[Bradley Rettler @rettlerb]

ANNOUNCEMENT: @bitstorian and I are thrilled to announce the winners of the Student Bitcoin Research Prizes for the 2025-2026 academic year.

We got a number of good submissions, and these are the best of the best!

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@agbegin @bitstorian @rettlerb The material is now in the Prize's GitHub https://t.co/UjoRtP9lZH

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@theonlyposted @Parasite_wtf BRB uses @Parasite_wtf for transparency. But now let's teach everyone to build their own mining servers at home... Datum Gateways, HydraPool servers, or even just installing ckpool to mine via one's node. Decentralize the entire infrastructure of mining.

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What’s the first book you should read when starting to learn about Bitcoin? That’s simple: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. This the cornerstone of the Bitcoin ethos. Read it before learning anything else in Bitcoin and all of the everything in Bitcoin will make sense as you encounter it. Reading Atlas Shrugged is the first step on the path toward fulfillment.

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@SoloSatoshi @HC_SoloSatoshi From campuses? Classrooms? Dorm rooms? Teachers’ lunchrooms?

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And that hashrate is being produced largely by a hashrate-heating Slim19 built by @RickThomasII - and yes, still in April. It’s snowing here as we speak.

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As we prepare the next Bitcoin Reviews, our donation wallet has been topped up a bit thanks to our hashrate @Parasite_wtf & the recent block, yay. So if you want a print copy of a book to review… :)

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👀 @SoloSatoshi once again proving to be a leader in supporting Bitcoin education, with real actions, with even more BitAxes donated to even more Bitcoin students, for even more Bitcoin learning!

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BRB is super excited for the winners and all the amazing Bitcoin research that students are doing, often totally in silos. We hope that this first Bitcoin Student Research Prize will foster the approval of Bitcoin courses, labs, programs & mining at US educational institutions.