Books on the Shelf
The best books to learn Bitcoin — for adults and kids. Honest, education-first summaries with the lessons to go deeper.
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FeaturedThe Genesis Book
Aaron van Wirdum
The forgotten inventors and ideas that made Bitcoin possible.
FeaturedThe Price of Tomorrow
Jeff Booth
Technology makes things cheaper. Our money needs them to get more expensive. Something has to give.
FeaturedThe Bitcoin Standard
Saifedean Ammous
Why Bitcoin is the hardest money ever invented.
The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
Vijay Boyapati
How a new money is born — and why Bitcoin is walking the same path.
FeaturedBitcoin Money: A Tale of Bitville
Michael Caras
A children's story about why good money matters.
FeaturedB is for Bitcoin: An ABC Book
Graeme Moore
Learn your ABCs and Bitcoin's words at the same time.
Bitcoin for Kiddos: The Story of Bitcoin
Chris Bobay & Frieda Bobay
The story of Bitcoin, told for the youngest kiddos.
Bitcoin: The Future of Money (Kids Guide)
A. D. Largie & Sabrina Pichardo
A time-traveller's tour of money — and where Bitcoin fits in.
A 10 Year Old Girl Hears About Bitcoin
Brad Reeser
A curious 10-year-old hears about Bitcoin at school — and can't stop asking questions.
Bitcoin Smart Kids: Teaching Kids of Every Age About Bitcoin
Alena LaPointe & Andy LaPointe
Bitcoin, explained for kids of every age.
Goodnight Bitcoin
SHAmory
A cozy Bitcoin bedtime story.
Hedgie's Bitcoin Story: A Tale of Trade, Trust, & Technology
Jeff McLean
A hedgehog's tale of trade, trust, and technology.
Bitcoin Kids
Christina Wilson & Roni Zayed
Bitcoin, explained simply for curious kids.
The Bitcoin Miner's Almanac
Robert Warren
A practical companion to how Bitcoin mining really works.
Defending Bitcoin
Luke de Wolf
How the network defends itself — and how you defend your own bitcoin.
The Praxeology of Privacy
Max Hillebrand
A first-principles case for why financial privacy matters.
Bitcoin Is for Everyone
Natalie Brunell
Why our money is broken — and how Bitcoin fixes it, for everyone.
Mastering Bitcoin
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
The technical deep-dive — how Bitcoin actually works under the hood.
The Internet of Money
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
The *why* of Bitcoin, told through Andreas's best talks.
21 Lessons: What I've Learned from Falling Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole
Gigi
What the Bitcoin rabbit hole teaches you about money, time and truth.
Inventing Bitcoin
Yan Pritzker
Rebuild Bitcoin from first principles, one problem at a time.
Layered Money
Nik Bhatia
From gold coins to central banks to Bitcoin — money has always been layered.
FeaturedBroken Money
Lyn Alden
Why our financial system is broken — and how technology keeps changing money.
Check Your Financial Privilege
Alex Gladstein
For most of the world, sound money is a human-rights issue.
The Little Bitcoin Book
The Bitcoin Collective
A tiny, friendly answer to 'why should I care about Bitcoin?'
Programming Bitcoin
Jimmy Song
Learn Bitcoin by building it from scratch in code.
Softwar
Jason P. Lowery
A national-strategy lens on Bitcoin as a power-projection technology.
Thank God for Bitcoin
The Bitcoin & Bible Group
The moral and ethical case for honest money.