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# Days Before

## Perceiving web 3

> *What's all the fuss about?*

*Learn to make sense of what is actually going on right now in the larger context of history.*

### Core Activities

- :+1: confirm your availability
- What are the best times for meeting? Please use [this link]()
- :eyes: something to see
- [Peer-to-Peer Money in a Historical Context](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-EpKQ6xIJs&list=PLFjTj8QScrlnl_iYZSLBmRxMmtjPhUbu9&index=1)
- [Bitcoin and the coming Infrastructure Inversion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ca70mCCf2M&list=PLFjTj8QScrlnl_iYZSLBmRxMmtjPhUbu9&index=2)
- [Money as a Content Type and the Grand Arc of Technology](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vFgBGdmDgs&list=PLFjTj8QScrlnl_iYZSLBmRxMmtjPhUbu9&index=3)
- [Applications: Today & 2025](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jPYk7ucrjo&list=PLFjTj8QScrlnl_iYZSLBmRxMmtjPhUbu9&index=4)
- :ear: something to hear
- [Bitcoin's Pre-History and the Cypherpunks](https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-beginners-guide-to-bitcoin-part-3-bitcoins-pre-history-and-the-cypherpunks-with-aaron-van-wirdum)
- [The History of Bitcoin](https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-beginners-guide-to-bitcoin-part-5-the-history-of-bitcoin-with-marty-bent)
- [Altcoins, A History of Failure](https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-beginners-guide-to-bitcoin-part-9-altcoins-a-history-of-failure-with-nic-carter)

### Bonus Activities

- :newspaper: something to read
- [Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System](https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf)
- [Ethereum Yellow Paper](https://ethereum.github.io/yellowpaper/paper.pdf)
- Everything on [nakamotoinstitute.org Literature](https://nakamotoinstitute.org/literature/)

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> *Perspective is worth 80 IQ points*
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> *-- Alan Kay*
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> *Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points*
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> *-- Anonymous*

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