The Simplest Bitcoin Book Ever Written
Bitcoin is the great incentivizer.
The genius of Satoshi was such that in bitcoin, for the first time, both good and bad actors are incentivized to play by the rules.
"The incentive may help encourage nodes to stay honest. If a greedy attacker is able to assemble more CPU proof-of-worker than all the honest nodes, he would have to choose between using it to defraud people by stealing back his payments, or using it to generate new coins. He ought to find it more profitable to play by the rules, such rules that favour him with more new coins than everyone else combined, than to undermine the system and the validity of his own wealth."
~ Satoshi Nakamoto 2008-10-31