Books

It depends on what you want to understand first — the technology, the money behind it, or the history. Three routes into our range:

• Starting from scratch: "Discovering Bitcoin" walks through how Bitcoin works step by step and assumes no technical background. "The Little Bitcoin Book" explains in plain language what is wrong with today's money and closes with a Q&A section. "Coinfinity Bitcoin Blinks" condenses the core concepts into short chapters.
• Economics and monetary theory: "The Bitcoin Standard" by Saifedean Ammous walks through the history of different forms of money and from there to Bitcoin. "The Bullish Case for Bitcoin" by Vijay Boyapati places Bitcoin in monetary theory concisely and in a way beginners can follow.
• Technology, protocol, history: "Unconfiscatable Money" explains the technical level in precise but simple language. "The Book of Satoshi" collects the original writings of Bitcoin's inventor including the whitepaper. "The Blocksize War" documents the fight over control of the protocol between 2015 and 2017.

Three titles by Saifedean Ammous are on the shelf: "The Bitcoin Standard", "The Fiat Standard" and "The Economics of Human Action", his introduction to the principles of the Austrian School. "Money in Brief" traces the evolution of money across 25 chapters, from shells and the Rai stones of Yap through gold and paper money to Bitcoin and central bank digital currencies.

If you want the fundamentals without the Bitcoin angle: "Economics in One Lesson" by Henry Hazlitt was first published in 1946 and covers inflation, taxes, prices and government intervention in 24 chapters. In its "Foundations of Economics" series, Aprycot Media also republishes essays by Frédéric Bastiat and Carl Menger — Menger's is about the origins of money and why a good becomes money in the first place.

Both are by Saifedean Ammous, and that is the order to read them in. "The Bitcoin Standard" works through the history of different forms of money — what gave them their monetary status and how they lost it again — and derives from that which properties hard money needs and how Bitcoin meets them.

"The Fiat Standard" applies the same analysis to today's state money: Ammous describes fiat as a technology, shows that new money is created whenever government-backed institutions extend credit, and what distortions follow from the absence of any inflation limit. "The Economics of Human Action" is the third book along this line.

Lyn Alden describes the technological evolution of money and asks why our money is still so inadequate in the 21st century. There are more than 160 currencies worldwide, each with a monopoly inside its own jurisdiction; most of them lose value over time and are barely accepted beyond their borders.

Alden's argument: political intervention produces local and short-term improvements, but only technology changes things for good — the way gold replaced shells and the telegraph was one stage on the path towards Bitcoin. The book is therefore less an introduction to Bitcoin than a diagnosis of today's financial system.

Yes, two — for different age groups. "Samira & Milo — On the Trail of the Toshis" is a forest story for children aged 4 and up that conveys the values behind Bitcoin in a playful way: responsibility, patience and sticking together.

"Marla's Bitcoin Adventure — The Fall into the Rabbit Hole" is aimed at children aged 8 and up: the bee Marla learns from Karl the rabbit what digital scarcity, a decentralized network and a store of value are, explained with examples from the animal world and illustrated with comic elements and chat messages.

The titles in this category are German-language editions. The English titles shown in this shop are translations of the book titles for orientation — the text inside the book is German. Several of them are translations of international bestsellers that kept their original English title, such as "Broken Money", "The Blocksize War" and "Economics in One Lesson".

Most of the range comes from Aprycot Media, a German-language publisher specialized in Bitcoin literature, plus individual titles from other publishers such as the "Bitcoin Blinks" by Coinfinity.

"Storing and Inheriting Bitcoins — A Practical Guide" by Marc Steiner is the hands-on book for that: how to keep Bitcoin in wallets, secure them against theft, harden your IT systems and plan your digital estate. It comes with an online tool for estate planning and a set of instructions for your heirs — the part where most setups fail.

The book does not replace hardware, it puts it in context: the keys live on a hardware wallet, the recovery phrase belongs on a metal seed backup. Once you have both and have settled how they get passed on, the critical part is done.