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Reddit mentions of Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money

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Reddit mentions: 18

We found 18 Reddit mentions of Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money. Here are the top ones.

Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
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Found 18 comments on Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money:

u/bobsummerwill · 9 pointsr/ethereum

It will be special, guys.

Treasure these moments. Like me and Michael Trout at DEVCON2.

Embrace the crazy. Blockchain will be as boring and uncontroversial as databases in a few years.

https://twitter.com/BobSummerwill/status/983618539545243649

Like the stories told in Digital Gold. I am dying to see an equivalent "drama" book for Ethereum:

https://www.amazon.ca/Digital-Gold-Bitcoin-Millionaires-Reinvent/dp/006236250X

u/tokyosilver · 5 pointsr/btc

I helped him a bit when he first came to Tokyo back in early 2014. He started working on "Digital Gold" back then. I really liked the book. Now is the time for him to work on his new book! https://www.amazon.co.jp/Digital-Gold-Bitcoin-Millionaires-Reinvent/dp/006236250X

u/CadmeusCain · 5 pointsr/Bitcoin

You're doing great for someone in only a month!

Hardware wallet, not trusting exchanges, not panic selling. All good stuff :). If you're up for it, I highly recommend learning about the technology and ecosystem as much as you can.

A good place to start is Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper. Bonus points if you find a site that will accept payment for it in Bitcoin.

u/argbarman2 · 4 pointsr/ethfinance

I like ETH a lot more than BTC, but am going to come to BTC's defense here because I disagree with some of your points.

>I've seen a few people argue that BTC is an excellent SoV because it's up thousands of percent in 5 years. But that makes zero sense to me..

This also makes zero sense to me. BTC is not a SoV simply because the price has generally been appreciating over time. It will be a SoV in the future because of predictable monetary policy enforced at the protocol level.

>So then it became a 'Store of Value'...

The SoV/digital gold narrative has been around for a while, dating back well before the late 2017 bubble (e.g. this book from early 2015).

I think BCH is closer to fulfilling the promises of digital cash with fast txns with low fees. But fast txns with low fees for a currency whose only purpose is to be spent (i.e. no incentive to hold, like what there will be with ETH) presents pretty poor tokenomics unless it can actually replace fiat (obviously very difficult in the short term), especially when compared to a model where the whole point is to hold and not really use your BTC for anything (enforced through increasing scarcity and, like it or not, slow txns with high fees that incentivize people to treat BTC like digital gold). So what we've really learned from 2017 is that the SoV narrative is worth a lot more than the digital cash narrative, despite the fact that it is undermining some of the principles from the initial vision.

>Since it has become a SoV it has had only 7 months out of the last 21 months (since Dec 17) where it has been trading above $10k.. so how does that at all prove that it is a viable SoV??

BTC is not supposed to be a SoV right now. I generally disregard any person who tries to insinuate that increases in BTC's price can be attributed to the same flight to safety that drives up gold and bond prices (at least, at this point in time).

The value of BTC as a SoV is inversely correlated to the value of BTC as a lucrative investment. In other words, by the time BTC actually begins to act as a viable store of value, its price will be much higher than it is now.

u/MemoryDealers · 3 pointsr/btc

Thanks for keeping an open mind. I’m one of the main characters in these best selling books #1, 2 and they do a great job covering my involvement. If you read either one, you will never questions my dedication to the space again.

u/tjmac · 3 pointsr/CryptoCurrency

I read "Digital Gold." Would highly recommend, as well as "This Machine Kills Secrets." Both fantastic exploratory introduction works to the community by top-notch, easy-to-understand journalists who turn the crypto revolution into the fascinating, potentially world-changing story that it is through their writing.

• Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money https://www.amazon.com/dp/006236250X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_yHSqzb7NB84J0

• This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers https://www.amazon.com/dp/0142180491/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_7HSqzbMTVSMFP

u/Happy_Pizza_ · 3 pointsr/Bitcoin

> Need to have good source material to read and preferably academic reference

Read the book Digital Gold. It's a detailed history on the formation and history of bitcoin (basically everything 2015 and previous.). It's written by a New York Times reporter so it's from a reliable source. It's also amazingly well written, it basically reads like a novel.

https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Gold-Bitcoin-Millionaires-Reinvent/dp/006236250X

u/habba_dasha · 3 pointsr/Bitcoin

I would like to do that. How do you set up the auto buy? I'm relatively new to the community, so I don't know the acronyms or any of the mechanics really. All I've really done is read this book.

u/DJ_Pace · 2 pointsr/Bitcoin

A book called Digital Gold.

This book gives you more of a history behind bitcoin, how it started, what some of the hurdles were...etc. You'll better understand bitcoin because of it. It's not technical, but it does explain some things.

Excellently written.

https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Gold-Bitcoin-Millionaires-Reinvent/dp/006236250X/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1505798888&sr=8-5&keywords=bitcoin

u/Mario_Speedvvagon · 2 pointsr/btc

Since you're a newbie, you really should first start by getting caught up on Bitcoin's history. I suggest reading materials and interviews that occurred before 2015. Andreas Antonopoulos may be a bit of a Core shill now, but all his talks before 2015 were really great and inspiring. Then there's this book that was first published in 2015 and does a great job recanting the history and foundation of Bitcoin's beginnings up to 2015.

If you wonder what direction Bitcoin should be going, why not read what Satoshi Nakamoto himself had to say? All of Satoshi's public thoughts are published on http://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/

edit: forgot to mention James D'angelo's blackboard series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhe61JaNFLU&list=PLzctEq7iZD-7-DgJM604zsndMapn9ff6q&index=6

u/msolomon4 · 2 pointsr/BitcoinBeginners

I just read Digital Gold, which I'd recommend. It's more about the history of Bitcoin and major events around it, as opposed to details about the technology. But it does explain what Bitcoin can do, who can benefit from it, etc.

u/thats_not_montana · 2 pointsr/CryptoTechnology

Digital Gold is a good read coving the creation and history of Bitcoin. I'm almost done with it. Knowing my blockchain history and the big players in the original tech has come in handy more than I suspected, definitely worth the read!

u/BitcoinAllBot · 1 pointr/BitcoinAll

Here is the post for archival purposes:

Author: TecnoPope

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>I wanna gift a book on bitcoin to someone. Preferably a beginners guide. I searched this sub for some good recommends but there's a lot of them it seems.

> This is the #1 most reviewed on Amazon.

u/scarpoochi · 1 pointr/ethtrader

I also recommend Digital Gold. Tells the history if bitcoin. Great read.

https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Gold-Bitcoin-Millionaires-Reinvent/dp/006236250X