# Bitcoin, Currencies, and Bubbles by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

<https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/BTC-QF.pdf>

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## What Jamie wrote

I've read three of [Taleb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb)'s books. [Fooled by Randomness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fooled_by_Randomness), [Black Swan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Swan:_The_Impact_of_the_Highly_Improbable), and [Antifragile](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile). All have been fabulous reads, if you can see your way through Taleb's hubris. Taleb [tweeted this draft article](https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1408100834601279490) arguing Bitcoin is worthless. It is good to read all views, particularly on something so innovative and particularly disruptive as crypto. 

*Taleb seems to delete things off his site so I [cached a copy of my own](https://files.thingelstad.com/reference/crypto/BTC-QF-20210624.pdf) for reference.*

## Facts

- Kind: [Paper](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/paper/)

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