LIBRARY

The Bitcoin library

The essential reading in one place: the original paper, the power-law research, and book summaries. Every file is a direct download.

Foundations

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

Satoshi Nakamoto · 2008

The paper everything started from, in nine pages.

9 pages · MIT licence

Arabic translation by Basem Al-Asi, reviewed by Omer Mohammed and Arabic_hodl.

Research

A Mechanistic Derivation of the Bitcoin Price Power Law

Giovanni Santostasi & Stephen Perrenod · 2026

The paper this site is built on: why price follows network age with an exponent of 5.69.

20 pages · CC BY 4.0

The file is the authors' open preprint from Zenodo. The peer-reviewed version appeared in Nonlinear Science (Elsevier).

Summaries

The Internet of Money: the three volumes, summarised

Talks by Andreas M. Antonopoulos · summary by Turki Alsharari

34 talks on why Bitcoin matters, one page per talk.

3 volumes · 34 talks

Built on the recorded talks (CC BY), not on the printed books. Also in Arabic.

Reference

The Bitcoin Standard

Saifedean Ammous · 2018

The history of money and the case for Bitcoin as hard money. The book is under copyright, so these are links to its official pages.

Book · not hosted here

Files hosted here are open-licensed or published freely by their authors and translators, each with its source and credit. Books under copyright are linked to their official page, never hosted.