Bitcoin Reading List

A curated set of the books we think every UK Bitcoiner should read. From plain-English primers to deep monetary history, sorted roughly from beginner to advanced. Links go to Amazon UK.

Bitcoin is for Everyone
Beginner
Bitcoin is for Everyone
Natalie Brunell
Journalist and broadcaster Natalie Brunell — host of Coin Stories — makes the case for Bitcoin in an approachable, human way. Perfect for gifting to someone curious about Bitcoin for the first time.
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Broken Money
Intermediate
Broken Money
Lyn Alden
Macro analyst Lyn Alden provides a sweeping history of monetary systems — from shells and gold to fiat currency — and explains how our broken monetary system affects everyone.
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Layered Money
Intermediate
Layered Money
Nik Bhatia
A brilliant exploration of how monetary systems work in layers — from gold to central bank reserves to commercial bank deposits — and how Bitcoin is forming the base layer of a new monetary system.
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Everything Divided by 21 Million
Beginner
Everything Divided by 21 Million
Knut Svanholm
A short, philosophical meditation on what it means to live in a Bitcoin world. Svanholm writes beautifully about scarcity, time preference, and how a fixed money supply changes everything.
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The Price of Tomorrow
Intermediate
The Price of Tomorrow
Jeff Booth
Entrepreneur Jeff Booth argues that technology is inherently deflationary — it drives prices down — but our monetary system is built on inflation. Bitcoin sits at the centre of the solution.
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The Big Print
Beginner
The Big Print
Lawrence Lepard
A clear, accessible guide to understanding why governments print money, what it does to ordinary people's savings, and why Bitcoin is the most powerful tool available to protect yourself from monetary debasement.
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The Sovereign Individual
Advanced
The Sovereign Individual
Davidson & Rees-Mogg
Written in 1997, this prophetic book predicted the rise of digital money, the decline of nation states, and the emergence of sovereign individuals. Required reading for the philosophical case for Bitcoin.
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The Internet of Money
Beginner
The Internet of Money
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
A collection of talks from one of Bitcoin's greatest communicators. Andreas explains Bitcoin not as a currency but as a revolutionary technology — the internet of money — in a way that anyone can understand.
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