I believe this to be one of the most important Bitcoiner books (though it's not directly about Bitcoin):
https://whitepaperbooks.com/products/finite-and-infinite-games
The rules of the Bitcoin protocol (or nostr, or any other open protocol) is a Finite Game within an Infinite Game. But "Bitcoin" (distinct from the rules of the protocol) is also itself an Infinite Game.
When you read this book and understand the difference, so much of our current situation becomes clearer and all of the beauty of it shines brighter. (Especially ideas adjacent to Jeff Booth (npub1s05…eyhe) 's observations about the impossibility of measuring something from **within** a system that doesn't and cannot incorporate the target of your measurement.)
#bookstr #gameTheory #philosophy #bitcoin
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