Laissez Faire, Laissez Passer
Let people act, let goods pass. No planner knows what the market knows, and freedom, not control, should be the default.
Bitcoin technology, monetary theory, and the future of money.

Let people act, let goods pass. No planner knows what the market knows, and freedom, not control, should be the default.

Lyn Alden traces monetary history through a technological lens, from commodity money to fiat to Bitcoin, and why the system fails.

Transactions, blocks, mining, the UTXO model, and Lightning Network: how Bitcoin actually works under the hood, explained in plain terms.

21 million cap, no central authority, permissionless and censorship-resistant. Bitcoin is digital money you truly own. No bank required.

Saifedean Ammous on why prices rise and money loses value, told through the lens of Austrian economics. What stood out to me.

A quick and plain-English summary of Hayek's classic take on freedom, planning, and why good intentions can still go very wrong.

How to set up a self-custodial Lightning node with Alby Hub on a Raspberry Pi. Full control over your funds, 100% open source.

From Greece to Bitcoin: the milestones connecting mathematics, cryptography, computing and the struggle for individual sovereignty.

A detailed analysis of how Bitcoin works, component by component, with its potential and its risks as a monetary experiment.

Your paycheck, your coffee, the house you just bought: taxes are everywhere. Where your money actually goes after payday.

In the early '90s the Cypherpunks set out to defend digital privacy. Their encryption and their ideals shaped the world we live in.

They say Bitcoin is old and boring. This book walks through its latest developments, seen by one of its own developers.

Bitcoin is called programmable money because Script lets you embed conditions into a transaction. How that scripting language works.

From the basics to the deepest technical details of how Bitcoin works. The guide for taking part in the Internet of Money.

Bitcoin did not appear out of nowhere. The people and projects that spent decades trying to build money free of government control.

Satoshi Nakamoto's emails and forum posts from 2008 to 2010: Bitcoin's creation, its design decisions and the vision behind it.

Jonathan Bier chronicles the Bitcoin blocksize war of 2015 to 2017: the players, the strategies, and who controls the protocol.

Bitcoin as more than just money: a deep dive into economics, philosophy, and culture. Like Alice in Wonderland, exploring Bitcoin is full of surprises.

How is a Bitcoin address created? How do private and public keys become a wallet? A technical walk through the fundamentals.

The historical context behind Bitcoin, the economic properties that let it grow fast, and its political and social implications.