Nick Szabo's Book Recommendations

Nick Szabo is a computer scientist, cryptographer, and legal scholar, best known for his pioneering work on digital contracts and cryptocurrency. Szabo is credited with developing the concept of “smart contracts,” which are self-executing contracts with the terms of the agreement directly written into code. His early work in digital currency, including his project Bit Gold, laid the groundwork for the development of Bitcoin and blockchain technology. Szabo is a prominent figure in the cryptocurrency community and continues to advocate for the use of decentralized systems to enhance privacy, security, and trust online. His contributions to cryptography and digital currencies have made him a foundational figure in the world of blockchain.

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Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand

The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

The Red Queen

Matt Ridley

Metaphors We Live By

George Lakoff, Mark Johnson

The Most Powerful Idea in the World

William Rosen

Masters of the Word

William J. Bernstein

Glass

Alan Macfarlane, Gerry Martin

Getting to Maybe

Richard Michael Fischl, Jeremy R. Paul

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