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Re:Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in ... by bondarchuk on Monday February 08, 2021 @12:26PM (#26067442)
You can just read "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" by Satoshi Nakamoto, it's very readable. I personally like "Shelling Out: The Origins of Money" by Nick Szabo as well, for giving some background/entry-level theorizing about money.

Here's a pretty large literature list as well: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/literature/

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Re:Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in ... by boc on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:18PM (#26083154)
With all due respect, Nick Szabo is a computer scientist, not an economist or an economic historian.

Personally I'd recommend "The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World" by Niall Ferguson for a more complete look at what makes money, money.

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