The Card Catalog — Curated Resources on Money, Bitcoin & Economics

There are hundreds of Bitcoin books and thousands of hours of podcasts out there. Nobody needs another list of forty recommendations. What you need is a filter and an order, and that’s what this page is.

Every entry in the Card Catalog passed the same test: I read it or listened to it myself, and it earned its spot by changing how I think about money. Nothing is here because it’s trending. A few of the book links earn a small Amazon commission (full disclosure above), but the list would look exactly the same without them. I’d rather you borrow every one of these from a library than buy a book you won’t finish.

Where you start depends on where you are.

If you’re brand new to all of this, start with The Bitcoin Standard. It’s long, and Ammous can be blunt, but it remains the single best explanation of why money with a fixed supply matters. Follow it with Lyn Alden’s Broken Money if you want the fuller history of how the current system was built, told by the most even-handed writer in the space.

If you already own some Bitcoin and want to understand what you’re holding, go to Parker Lewis’s Gradually, Then Suddenly. Each chapter is a standalone argument you can read in twenty minutes. Gigi’s 21 Lessons does something similar with a more personal tone.

If the economics is what interests you, Rothbard’s What Has Government Done to Our Money? is about a hundred pages and explains more than most textbooks. When Money Dies is the cautionary tale that makes the theory feel real.

If you’d rather listen than read, start with Preston Pysh’s Bitcoin Fundamentals, then work through Robert Breedlove’s What is Money? show when you have patience for long conversations.

And if you just want one thing, read Satoshi’s whitepaper. Nine pages, free, linked below. Everything else on this page is commentary on it.

The sections below run roughly from accessible to advanced. Take your time with it. This material rewires how you think about savings, and that doesn’t happen in a weekend.

Friedman’s ten-part PBS series, still the clearest televised case for market economics ever made. Every episode links to the rights-holder’s own page at Free To Choose Network.

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