21 Lessons: What I've Learned From Falling Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole21 Lessons_ What I've Learned From Falling

Gigi in recent (Dec. 2021) Bitcoin documentary, [Human ₿](https://humanb-film.com/), [crowd-funded in bitcoin on Tallycoin](https://tallyco.in/s/higwxl/) ([forum post](https://isidore.co/forum/index.php?topic=270.0)). [on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/658711759) & torrent 🧲 link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:fe56d5a3c721f82418521ca31dccaefde4e447eb ([bonus clip](https://vimeo.com/662024257)) @10:42: "Personally, I find it fascinating how bitcoin caused me to confront so many topics." ( *eine intellektuelle*[ *Auseinandersetzung*](https://www.dwds.de/wb/Auseinandersetzung), lit. bitcoin caused him to have "an intellectual confrontation/debate"). *Human ₿* is the sort of film version of *21 Lessons* ([several translations](https://21lessons.com/translations) and [audiobook](https://21lessons.com/audio)). PDF generated with pdflatex and biber from 17 Feb. 2021 commit [bf2090e](https://github.com/Geremia/21lessons-book/commit/bf2090e4c3ca0a7fee7209cec53238845cdb0682). cites Dempsey's [*Interest and Usury*](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=5277) * * * Falling down the Bitcoin rabbit hole is a strange experience. Like many others, I feel like I have learned more in the last couple of years studying Bitcoin than I have during two decades of formal education. The following lessons are a distillation of what I've learned. First published as an article series titled "What I've Learned From Bitcoin," what follows can be seen as a third edition of the original series. Like Bitcoin, these lessons aren't a static thing. I plan to work on them periodically, releasing updated versions and additional material in the future.Bitcoin is an inexhaustible teacher, which is why I do not claim that these lessons are all-encompassing or complete. They are a reflection of my personal journey down the rabbit hole. There are many more lessons to be learned, and every person will learn something different from entering the world of Bitcoin. I hope that you will find these lessons useful and that the process of learning them by reading won't be as arduous and painful as learning them firsthand. * * * cf. the related films: 1. [*Hard Money*](https://www.hardmoneyfilm.com/) (2020); 🧲 link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:d472b462e3982e84d1fc20ff37f4dddf6c713e57 2. [*Anatomy of the State*](https://www.anatomystatefilm.com/) (2021); 🧲 link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ecec5575980883c20981438f4159b8a5ecbf742b 3. [*Petrodollars*](https://www.petrodollarsfilm.com/) (2022); 🧲 link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:84d70a61c568a4bbd5ab2d14d5199ddf71ba6268