People Worth Following

Bitcoin has a lot of noise — price speculation, tribal arguments, hype cycles. Finding the signal means knowing where to look.

A short list of people whose thinking has consistently been worth following.

Lyn Alden writes about Bitcoin in the context of the bigger monetary picture — debt, energy, inflation, how global money actually works. She’s one of the few people in the space who engages seriously with both the case for Bitcoin and the case against it, and she updates her views when evidence changes. Her work is accessible and clearly reasoned.

Parker Lewis spent years writing a series called Gradually, Then Suddenly — a careful, systematic argument for Bitcoin built from first principles. Each piece addresses a specific objection or misunderstanding. The quality of thinking is unusually high and it holds up well over time.

Nick Szabo is one of Bitcoin’s intellectual parents. His work on digital money and contracts predates Bitcoin by years. Dense reading, but worth it for anyone who wants to understand where the ideas came from.

Michael Saylor’s contribution is different — less original research, more translation. He’s very good at taking the Austrian economics and Bitcoin arguments and explaining them in language that resonates with businesspeople and investors. His long-form interviews — particularly with Lex Fridman — are the most compressed accessible version of the long-term Bitcoin investment case available.

On the technical side, following Bitcoin Core developers like Pieter Wuille on GitHub gives a direct window into how the protocol actually evolves — slow, careful, conservative, exactly as it should be.

Tomorrow: a story — someone whose life changed because of Bitcoin education.

— The Daily Bit