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title: "The Best of Jimmy Song Sam Callahan - Swan Bitcoin"
description: "I’ve learned a tremendous amount from Jimmy and I highly recommend his books to better learn about Bitcoin. Here are some of my favorite pieces from a true Bitcoin OG."
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# The Best of Jimmy Song Sam Callahan - Swan Bitcoin

I’ve learned a tremendous amount from Jimmy and I highly recommend his books to better learn about Bitcoin. Here are some of my favorite pieces from a true Bitcoin OG.

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I’ve learned a tremendous amount from Jimmy and I highly recommend his books to better learn about Bitcoin. Here are some of my favorite pieces from a true Bitcoin OG.

**Sam Callahan** ([@samcallah](https://twitter.com/samcallah))

Jimmy Song has been a prominent Bitcoin educator, developer, and writer for many years now. He has the rare skills to explain Bitcoin at a complex, technical level as well as simplify it for beginners to understand. This is a sign of someone who has truly mastered the subject matter at hand.

Jimmy has authored several Bitcoin books including “The Little Bitcoin Book”, “Thank God for Bitcoin, “Programming Bitcoin”, and “Bitcoin and the American Dream”. He also pens the popular newsletter Bitcoin Tech Talk.

- [Why Bitcoin Works](https://jimmysong.medium.com/why-bitcoin-works-fe32879a73f5) (Jimmy Song): In this piece, Jimmy explains why Bitcoin simply works and the impact that bringing back sound money will have on our society as a whole.
- [Why Bitcoin is Different](https://jimmysong.medium.com/why-bitcoin-is-different-e17b813fd947) (Jimmy Song): In this post, Jimmy explains what sets Bitcoin apart from every other digital asset in the market.
- [Why Blockchain is Not the Answer](https://jimmysong.medium.com/why-blockchain-is-not-the-answer-3b7d5f612d11) (Jimmy Song): Jimmy explains here why blockchains have become an obsession in the media, VCs, and traditional financial world, and why these individuals are mistaken in their thinking that it will solve all the world’s problems.
- [Why Blockchain is Hard](https://jimmysong.medium.com/why-blockchain-is-hard-60416ea4c5c) (Jimmy Song): Jimmy explains here in detail all of the shortcomings of blockchains and why they are really only good for something that is meant to be unchanging and decentralized...like money...like Bitcoin.
- [The Moral Case for Bitcoin](https://medium.com/the-bitcoin-times/the-moral-case-for-bitcoin-561ed592a464) (Jimmy Song): In this blog post, Jimmy explains the moral case for Bitcoin. He argues that Bitcoin aligns with Natural Law. Bitcoin offers us protection for individual rights, something most governments are slowly abandoning today.
- [On Altcoin Valuation](https://jimmysong.medium.com/on-altcoin-valuation-bf19a30ee0df) (Jimmy Song): In this piece, Jimmy explains why altcoins are not a good long-term investment because they are technologically inferior. They only create largely artificial demand for their tokens by using clever marketing campaigns.
- [The Truth About Smart Contracts](https://jimmysong.medium.com/the-truth-about-smart-contracts-ae825271811f) (Jimmy Song): Are smart contracts going to change the world? Jimmy pumps the brakes on the hype around smart contracts by explaining why they are simply too easy to screw up, too difficult to secure, too hard to make trustless.
- [Killing the Hopes and Dreams of Shitcoin Bagholders ](https://open.spotify.com/episode/1mP4FLxYyPlidAamyBVDQX?si=f86c30f613c14a54) (Jimmy Song, Peter McCormack): Jimmy explains here why many shitcoins are engineered poorly and depend on artificial demand for their tokens via marketing instead of actually providing any real value. Therefore, they are bad long-term investments.