Quote from: notbrain on March 24, 2013, 07:51:11 PM

I also recommend Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle trilogy (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of The World). A recurring them is the invention of money and the roots of financial system we have today.

Also worth mentioning the prominent role of the cypherpunks mailing list in Cryptonomicon, which was important in the development of bitcoin. It should be required reading for anyone interested in the environment where bitcoin evolved.