Library

The documents and books behind BitcoinCommonwealth.

The founding documents

• The Declaration of Independence (1776): why we're free.
• The Constitution (1787): how government is limited.
• The Bill of Rights (1791): what government can never take.

All three at the National Archives, word for word.

Bitcoin

• The Bitcoin whitepaper (Satoshi Nakamoto, 2008): nine pages that started it.
• Bitcoindistilled: every Bitcoin topic in plain words. Start with what Bitcoin is, holding your own keys and why run a node.

The books

• The Sovereign Individual (James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg, 1997). About the book.
• Cryptosovereignty (Erik Cason, 2023). Get the book, and read Cason's essays at cryptosovereignty.org.

What these books argue, in our words: see the Ethos.