Hijacking Bitcoin: The Hidden History of BTC by Roger Ver is a great resource for understanding the - 15 years in the making - lore of Bitcoin. This book tells the block size wars from the other side—not the small blockers, the RPi node runners (the economic nodes), and the Bitcoin purists promoting decentralization—but from the side that used BTC to start businesses. It sheds light on the political intrigue tying together the miners, the online community, the core developers, and the entrepr...

"The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze" by Laura Shin is a crucial read for those onboarding to ETH and the broader crypto industry. The book chronicles the major figures who drove blockchain, decentralization, and cryptocurrencies to their current prominence. It traces Vitalik Buterin's journey from his early days as a writer for Bitcoin Magazine to launching and promoting Ethereum, which became the second-largest decentralized network b...