The Bitcoin Investment Handbook

Handcrafted Heirloom Leather Edition

Limited to three copies

The 976-page Bitcoin Investment Handbook is being issued in a full, leather-bound, handcrafted volume created individually for each copy.

Intended for dedicated, established, and discerning Bitcoin investors, this edition is for the collector who values innovation and wants something that cannot be replicated. A serious Bitcoin collector understands the value comes from work. In this case, the craftsmanship is visible. The provenance record is durable because it is managed by the Bitcoin blockchain itself. And once the edition is complete, there will never be another copy exactly like yours.

Each volume features full leather over boards, custom debossed cover tooling, gold-foil spine titling, handmade endpapers, artisan construction, and a signed and numbered limitation page with Bitcoin blockchain identifier. Every copy is finished individually, with the natural variation expected of hand-bound work. Different elements of this work are created by three separate artisans on two continents. This edition presents the book as a hand-finished collector’s volume, with materials and craftsmanship far beyond the commercial binding while preserving the original 976-page work.

How does this leather edition differ from a traditional leather rebinding?

This is an original, publisher-commissioned, author-designed collector’s edition, conceived as a complete work. It incorporates exclusive copyrighted artwork, artisan craftsmanship, and is strictly limited to three signed copies as part of a numbered series. Each volume also contains an embedded cryptographic NFC chip linking the physical book to its unique provenance record, anchored directly to the Bitcoin blockchain. The technology presented and explored in the book becomes part of the book itself.

BUILDING VALUE TAKES TIME. THE PRICE FOR THIS BOOK IS $1995; THERE IS A NON-REFUNDABLE DEPOSIT FOR THE ORDER, WHICH IS SCHEDULED TO BE FILLED IN 2027.

Bitcoin Provenance

Each copy is permanently associated with a unique cryptographic identity and pseudonymous ownership record anchored to the Bitcoin blockchain.

The physical book, edition number, and blockchain record together establish the provenance of that individual copy.

What’s Inside

The definitive guide to Bitcoin investing—so investors can evaluate, value, and allocate to Bitcoin with institutional discipline. Comprehensive in every respect, this book has something for everyone.

The Bitcoin Investment Handbook helps professional investors clearly understand sources of value, elements of risk, portfolio role, and implementation considerations.

Instead of relying on headlines, price charts, or promotional claims, readers get a disciplined way to judge Bitcoin with evidence. Major scientific and economic frameworks are brought together so investors can understand and evaluate:

• What Bitcoin is and why it has value
• Whether fixed supply can support durable monetary value
• What can break: protocol risk, custody risk, exchange risk, and governance risk
• How proof of work, mining, settlement, and forks affect investment judgment
• How network growth, adoption curves, and monetary design support valuation
• What price, value, utility, liquidity, and risk imply for position sizing
• Trade-offs among spot Bitcoin, ETFs, trusts, miners, and related equities
• How Bitcoin changes portfolio construction, rebalancing, and risk budgeting
• How to evaluate Bitcoin across inflation, crisis, treasury, and reserve use cases
• How to justify the decision for clients, committees, and fiduciaries

About the Author

Timothy F. Peterson, CFA, CAIA, is a recognized and leading global authority on Bitcoin investment and valuation. With 30 years of institutional asset management experience, he brings Wall Street discipline to digital assets. Peterson authored the first peer-reviewed methodology for valuing Bitcoin using Metcalfe’s Law, helping establish network economics as a serious framework for Bitcoin valuation. His research has been accessed by investors in more than 100 countries. SSRN ranks him among the top 0.2% of authors worldwide across all topics. His insights have appeared in Forbes, Newsweek, Yahoo Finance, Investing.com, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, and he was featured in Mastering Crypto Assets alongside other prominent industry figures.

Peterson is the author of two other books, one on alternative investments and one on monetary history. He has served as an instructor for graduate and undergraduate finance coursework, created and taught an MBA-level course on blockchain and network economics, and created and taught the popular Introduction to Digital Assets course at the Graduate School of Banking at LSU. He holds degrees in finance and economics from the University of Colorado and has completed the prestigious program on Investment Decisions and Behavioral Finance at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.