Welcome to this week’s issue of the Books And Articles newsletter. Once again, thanks for all of the quality posts.

Sorry for the delay getting this newsletter out. I will get back on schedule next week.

I encourage everyone to check out this post by Shane/Rayo2. He owns Liberty Under Attack Publications, a freedom focused publishing house. You can also learn more at libertyunderattack.com. @TheWildHustle introduced him to Stacker News and to this territory.

That’s it for now.

I hope everyone has a good week.

The top post of the week will be forwarded 50% of the zaps earned on this week’s newsletter post. Rankings will be determined using the SN zaprank.

Here are this week’s top posts:

I’m doing something different this week. I am only going to talk about @elvismercury’s Writing to Think post, which was the territory’s top post of the week. I was unaware of Henrik Karlsson, but the article was ridiculously timely and instructive for me. The news regarding the Samourai indictments really affected me mentally and emotionally. Although I’m a lawyer, I honestly have had no interest in law since my retirement from daily practice. This prosecution made me aware that I haven’t really given much thought to the ways bitcoin can be attacked legally in the U.S. That changed the minute I heard the news. As some of you here might have noticed, I made a bunch of scattershot posts thinking about the implications and possible defenses to this attack. I was literally thinking by writing. I quickly became aware of my limitations. I also knew I wanted to make for myself a comprehensive, organized guide to legal issues concerning bitcoin. I started from the beginning and tried to organize my thoughts. By complete happenstance, @elvismercury posted this article at the same time I began using Obsidian, a powerful note taking app, to organize caselaw, articles, and to capture my own half baked notions and thoughts. Obsidian has a daily note feature which I have also begun using. If I had been doing this all along, I think my Samourai posts would have been far better and more useful. It was as if Karlsson was describing my own confused thinking at times. This passage in particular hit home:

I hope I maintain the discipline to improve. I think all stackers who want to improve their posting would benefit from this article.

This week’s Golden Oldie:

Today’s Golden Oldie is from @Fabs. I can’t believe it’s been more than three months since it was posted. It is a challenging look at the act of reading, and the discussion it inspired provides a ton of valuable insight into the art of reading.

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