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Welcome to Books & Articles Weekly. I'm happy with the state of the territory as we head into 2026. The highlight and top post of the week was @jimmysong’s book review of “Leaving A Legacy”, while @elvismercury gave us a thought provoking look at an Adam Mastroianni article, and @Scoresby gave us a book review of The Electric Church. All three posts are worth checking out, if you haven’t read them already.

Thanks to everyone who contributed, and Happy New Year!

There is a zap award for the top 5 posts weekly. It will be broken down as follows:

1. 1000 sats
2. 250 sats
3. 250 sats
4. 250 sats
5. 250 sats

Posts will be judged using SN zaprank. The cut off time is 9:00am EST (1300GMT) Saturday morning. I will post the top 5 winners shortly around 9:00am every Saturday morning.

I reserve the right to not award any sats for the week. I also reserve the right to deny sat awards to bare link posts. I recognize that link posts can be valuable, so I will only only exercise discretion for low quality links that garner few sats or engagement from stackers.

Happy reading!

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Top Posts Of The WeekTop Posts Of The Week

• Book Review: Leaving a Legacy by Johann Kurtz by @jimmysong
• So you wanna de-bog yourself (2024) by @elvismercury
• The Tuttle Twins and the Creature from Jekyll Island by @siggy47
• REVIEW: The Electric Church by Jeff Somers by @Scoresby
• Which personal finance book had the biggest impact on you? by @86b4dc92cd

Siggy’s SuggestionsSiggy’s Suggestions

• Love Language by Arthur Hayes (RMP = QE) by @BlokchainB

If you can get past Arthur Hayes’ bit of shitcoinery, this is an excellent article that taught me a new euphemism for money printing - RMP. As @BlokchainB says, “Take what you will but I always enjoy Hayes’s writing style. To bring flare to something as boring as banking takes real talent.”

• Bitcoin Original: Forked Lessons, 2029 by @GreaterthanFiction

The latest bit of fiction from @GreaterthanFiction. Give it a read.

Index

Index Of Selected PostsIndex Of Selected Posts

Writing ContestsWriting Contests

• Writing Contest #1
• Writing Contest #2
• Stacker News Fiction Month

Stackers’ BlogsStackers’ Blogs

• Fighting The Daily Grind by @cryotosensei
• Personal Blog, Got My First Job by @CyberCrypto

My Bitcoin JourneyMy Bitcoin Journey

Inspired by Writing Contest #1, this is where stacker’s bitcoin origin stories will be posted for easy reference.

• Grayruby’s Bitcoin story by @grayruby
• I Put ¼ Of A Bitcoin In A Landfill by @brandonsbytes
• From Selling Newspapers To Finding Bitcoin by @Coinsreporter
• My bitcoin journey by @Carreson
• "Who are you?" — How do I want to answer? by @IamSINGLE
• "My journey with Bitcoin: the experience of an ordinary Cuban" by @BTCLNAT
• @realBitcoinDog Bitcoin Story - No, social media had nothing to do with it xD by @realBitcoinDog

Book ClubsBook Clubs

• Stoic Book Club:Meditations by @Se7enZ
• Jordan Peterson SN Bookclub -- We Who Wrestle With God by @denlillaapan
• Broken Money_ book club: index and reflection by @elvismercury

BooksBooks

• The Universal Good Deal by @cleophas
• Who Brought The Steak Tartare?, Chapter 1 by @cleophas
• The Final Product by @cleophas
• The Penal Preserve, Chapter 1 by @cleophas
• Happy The Hippo, an absolutely wonderful children’s book written by @cryotosensei for his son.
• The Rogue Scholar by @jbschirtzinger
• Submersible by @johnbnevin
• And Then She Disappears - Block 1 by @ginkgo

Book ReviewsBook Reviews

• Book Review: Leaving a Legacy by Johann Kurtz by @jimmysong
• REVIEW: The Electric Church by Jeff Somers by @Scoresby
• Book Review – Blood Of The Bourgeoise, by Michael R. Sullivan by @siggy47
• What is the Wheel of Time tv series? by @Undisciplined
• Book Review: Four Thousand Weeks, by Oliver Burkeman by @denlillaapan
• [REVIEW] Poor Economics: My Three Takeaways by @BlokchainB
• My first review: The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati by @LiterarySummary
• Submission: A Novel by Michel Houellebecq by @LiterarySummary
• The Anxious Generation by @LiterarySummary
• I’m a Hallmarked Girl!? by @samhainsam
• [Review] Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1998) by @hermione
• Klara and the Sun | Book Review by @SimpleStacker
• “Shigoto e no Michi” by @cryotosensei
• “Is a Camel a Mammal? All about Mammals” by @cryotosensei
• “Malice” by @cryotosensei
• “Yours sincerely, Giraffe” by @cryotosensei
• “Dracula and Daughters” by @cryotosensei
• “What dwells in the deep?” by @cryotosensei
• “My life cycle” by @cryotosensei
• “The Marriage Test” by @cryotosensei
• Timothy and the Phubbers by @cryotosensei
• “I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki” by @cryotosensei
• “Rumble in the Jungle” by @cryotosensei
• “Let’s discover our farms, Singapore” by @cryotosensei
• “Days at the Morisaki Bookstore” by @cryotosensei
• “Tales from the Cafe” by @cryotosensei
• “Before the coffee gets cold” by @cryotosensei
• "Mindset" (Dr. Carol S. Dweck) by @cryotosensei
• Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong bookshop” by @cryotosensei
• SN Book Reviews: Categorized (Redux) by @SimpleStacker

Bitcoin Academic Articles & ReviewsBitcoin Academic Articles & Reviews

• Bitcoin Pricing, Adoption, and Usage: Theory and Evidence | Article Review by @SimpleStacker
• Minneapolis Fed Bitcoin Paper | Article Review by @SimpleStacker
• Bitcoin: What Does Mainstream Economics Have to Say? | Article Review by @SimpleStacker
• Competition and trust in the private provision of money | Article Review by @SimpleStacker

Movie & Television ReviewsMovie & Television Reviews

• Sound of Freedom | Movie Review by @SimpleStacker
• Movie Review | “How to make millions before Grandma dies” by @cryotosensei
• Movie Review | “Culinary Class Wars” by @cryotosensei
• Movie Review | “Culinary Class Wars” by @cryotosensei
• El Encargado | Argentinian TV series | very good comedy by @DarthCoin
• The IT crowd | hillarious super funny comedy TV series by @DarthCoin
• Two TV series about the "Schrodinger's cat" theory by @DarthCoin
• From | Que sera, sera... | new season 3 TV series by @DarthCoin
• Bingeworthy: Slow Horses by @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears

EssaysEssays

• An Empty Jar of Asparagus by @bitcoingraffiti
• Prose piece | Running by @carlosfandango
• Prose piece | The storm by @carlosfandango
• Nihilism Wants Empire:Camus On Nietzsche by @jurraca
• Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction by @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears

PoetryPoetry

• Avoidant Attachment 101: A Beginner's Course by @bitcoingraffiti
• Realized Loss by @bitcoingraffiti
• Saint Nicholas by @bitcoingraffiti
• The Secondary Land by @bitcoingraffiti
• The Tourism Consumerist Apex by @bitcoingraffiti
• Amsterdam by @bitcoingraffiti
• The Great Dali by @bitcoingraffiti
• I want to start a church by @bitcoingraffiti
• I am the Rat Man — Exterminate where i can by @bitcoingraffiti
• Which person is truly healthy & which one is poisoning me? by @bitcoingraffiti
• How to Grieve — The 5 Step Plan by @bitcoingraffiti
• [PM] I am a man smoking outside shops 🚬 by @bitcoingraffiti
• [PM] Why my waitress' gone awry by @bitcoingraffiti
• Reflections on the recent holiday by @plebpoet
• internet feelings by @ek
• Sorelle by @Myshkin
• Autunno by @Myshkin
• Poetry:unresolved between a thai lad and I by @cryotosensei
• plebpoet’s original poem + discussion by @plebpoet
• a new kind of poem (that you can see 👀 and hear 🦻) by @plebpoet
• I am not man enough by @Nuttall
• If A Day Comes... by @Tef
• Let's pretend we loved each other by @Nadia
• That's MINE! Poetry. by @Malach17
• Silly rhymes written by a guy (maybe) fallen in love by @0268a5c238

Short StoriesShort Stories

• Bitcoin Original: Forked Lessons, 2029 by @GreaterthanFiction

-Ghost Blocks: The Fight Against Bitcoin’s Stamp Tax (2091) by @GreaterthanFiction

• Stacker News Fiction Month by @Scoresby
• [FICTION] Cherry Orchards by @TotallyHumanWriter
• Citizen Zero (2028): When Britain’s Digital ID Failed, Bitcoin Saved Identity by @GreaterthanFiction
• The Cost of Certainty by @GreaterthanFiction
• The Rite of Keys by @GreaterthanFiction
• Proof of Love (2031)- When all is lost much can be found by @GreaterthanFiction
• Taste of Freedom by @GreaterthanFiction
• Of Sovereign Men by @TheFictionFactory
• Golden Silence by @TheFictionFactory
• The Great Delete by @TheFictionFactory
• Bob’s Brunch With Bitcoin Buddha by @siggy47
• Short story | The motel by @carlosfandango
• The poet and the reader || short story by
  @02879c7d869
• 'little fictions' presents: Cowboys Don't Belong by @plebpoet
• Short Story: “Quarter” by Eduardo Prospero by @eduardopro
• Neo’s Adventure In The Digital Realm: Discovering The Treasure Of Bitcoin by @VEINTIUNO

ComicsComics

• Apriori Flower 01:16 - Are We Better? - Dhamma Comic by @Nuttall