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With the rise of bitcoin and blockchain technology, investors can capitalize on the greatest investment opportunity since the Internet. Bitcoin was the first cryptoasset, but today there are over 800 and counting, including ether, ripple, litecoin, monero, and more. This clear, concise, and accessible guide from two industry insiders shows you how to navigate this brave new blockchain world - and how to invest in these emerging assets to secure your financial future.
In The Truth Machine, Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna demystify the blockchain and explain why it can restore personal control over our data, assets, and identities; grant billions of excluded people access to the global economy; and shift the balance of power to revive society’s faith in itself. They reveal the disruption it promises for industries including finance, tech, legal, and shipping.
A New York Times technology and business reporter charts the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the fascinating personalities who are striving to create a new global money for the Internet age.
The technology likely to have the greatest impact on the future of the world economy has arrived, and it's not self-driving cars, solar energy, or artificial intelligence. It's called the blockchain. The first generation of the digital revolution brought us the Internet of information. The second generation - powered by blockchain technology - is bringing us the Internet of value: a new, distributed platform that can help us reshape the world of business and transform the old order of human affairs for the better.
In this box set, you will find accurate, detailed information that will help you understand what blockchain and Bitcoin are, how they are currently being used, and how you can use them to accomplish your own needs, wants, goals, and ambitions.
Blockchain technology has been called the greatest innovation since the Internet. Governments and companies are rushing to implement blockchain technology in a range of areas that could impact every person on the planet within a few years. Is blockchain technology one of the greatest technological revolutions in history, or is it just hype? Will blockchain technology cause governments and banking systems to change the way they process information, or will it be business as usual? In this book we'll look at the answers to these questions along with addressing the different sides of the arguments for and against blockchain technology. Blockchain is not just bitcoin; blockchain technology is much bigger than bitcoin, and it is predicted to change the world.
With the rise of bitcoin and blockchain technology, investors can capitalize on the greatest investment opportunity since the Internet. Bitcoin was the first cryptoasset, but today there are over 800 and counting, including ether, ripple, litecoin, monero, and more. This clear, concise, and accessible guide from two industry insiders shows you how to navigate this brave new blockchain world - and how to invest in these emerging assets to secure your financial future.
In The Truth Machine, Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna demystify the blockchain and explain why it can restore personal control over our data, assets, and identities; grant billions of excluded people access to the global economy; and shift the balance of power to revive society’s faith in itself. They reveal the disruption it promises for industries including finance, tech, legal, and shipping.
A New York Times technology and business reporter charts the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the fascinating personalities who are striving to create a new global money for the Internet age.
The technology likely to have the greatest impact on the future of the world economy has arrived, and it's not self-driving cars, solar energy, or artificial intelligence. It's called the blockchain. The first generation of the digital revolution brought us the Internet of information. The second generation - powered by blockchain technology - is bringing us the Internet of value: a new, distributed platform that can help us reshape the world of business and transform the old order of human affairs for the better.
In this box set, you will find accurate, detailed information that will help you understand what blockchain and Bitcoin are, how they are currently being used, and how you can use them to accomplish your own needs, wants, goals, and ambitions.
Blockchain technology has been called the greatest innovation since the Internet. Governments and companies are rushing to implement blockchain technology in a range of areas that could impact every person on the planet within a few years. Is blockchain technology one of the greatest technological revolutions in history, or is it just hype? Will blockchain technology cause governments and banking systems to change the way they process information, or will it be business as usual? In this book we'll look at the answers to these questions along with addressing the different sides of the arguments for and against blockchain technology. Blockchain is not just bitcoin; blockchain technology is much bigger than bitcoin, and it is predicted to change the world.
In this box set, you will find accurate, detailed information that will help you understand what blockchain and Bitcoin is, how it is currently being used, and how you can use it to accomplish your own needs, wants, goals, and ambitions. This bundle will start you on your path to making money and creating some freedom with cryptocurrencies.
Cryptocurrencies and digital money are all the rage these days, with news stories and lengthy online discussions highlighting their successes, trends, and potential to grow even bigger in the foreseeable future. In this audiobook, we will cover the ins and outs of getting started as a cryptocurrency investor and how you can set up a balanced investment portfolio that can set you up very well for the future.
Blockchains are new technology layers that rewire the Internet and threaten to side-step older legacy constructs and centrally served businesses. At its core, a blockchain injects trust into the network, cutting off some intermediaries from serving that function and creatively disrupting how they operate. Metaphorically, blockchains are the ultimate non-stop computers. Once launched, they never go down, and offer an incredible amount of resiliency, making them dependable and attractive for running a new generation of decentralized services and software.
Discover the audiobook which will cover everything from a simple "what is Bitcoin" and "what is blockchain” to the advanced Bitcoin coding and blockchain programming. In this audiobook, we’ll address how I made millions of dollars trading Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in six months.
Understanding Ethereum now could equip you with the knowledge ahead of a major technological revolution in these early stages of development. After listening to this audiobook, you will understand how to easily set up an Ether wallet and then buy and trade Ether. This audiobook always contains information about mining Ether including cloud mining and more advanced Ethereum topics.
Bitcoin, a technological breakthrough quietly introduced to the world in 2008, is transforming much more than finance. Bitcoin is disrupting antiquated industries to bring financial independence to billions worldwide. In this book, Andreas explains why bitcoin is a financial and technological evolution with potential far exceeding the label "digital currency."
The Internet of Money by Andreas M. Antonopoulos contains 11 of his most inspiring and thought-provoking talks, including: Introduction to Bitcoin; Blockchain vs Bullshit; Fake News, Fake Money; Currency Wars; Bubble Boy and the Sewer Rat; Rocket Science and Ethereum's Killer App; and many more!
This four-in-one bundle of FinTech Publishing's mind-blowing cryptocurrency series is all you need to learn all you need to get started on a lucrative path to earning big bucks trading cryptocurrency.
Altcoins stand for "alternative coins", or in simple terms, the cryptocurrency that’s NOT bitcoin. There’s Bitcoin and then there’s "everything else". "Everything else" is what altcoins are. Invest in altcoins, the right ones, and you can make insane amounts of money and fast.
Discover how you can make money from cryptocurrency - even if you're a complete novice.
The Book of Satoshi, the collected writings of Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of the bitcoin. The foreword was written by Jeff Berwick.
Learn everything you need to know about blockchain in this audiobook! Phillip Rawson’s audiobook, Blockchain: The new Internet? How You Can Benefit from Blockchain Technology Beyond Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, and Ethereum, is the ultimate guide to understanding how you can put this new technology to work for you. If you are planning on starting and running a business in the future, this is an audiobook you need to have.
Bitcoin became a buzzword overnight. A cyber enigma with an enthusiastic following, it pops up in headlines and fuels endless media debate. You can apparently use it to buy anything from coffee to cars, yet few people seem truly to understand what it is. This raises the question: Why should anyone care about bitcoin?
In The Age of Cryptocurrency, Wall Street journalists Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey deliver the definitive answer to this question. Cyber money is poised to launch a revolution, one that could reinvent traditional financial and social structures while bringing the world's billions of "unbanked" individuals into a new global economy. Cryptocurrency holds the promise of a financial system without a middleman, one owned by the people who use it and one safeguarded from the devastation of a 2008-type crash.
But bitcoin, the most famous of the cyber monies, carries a reputation for instability, wild fluctuation, and illicit business; some fear it has the power to eliminate jobs and to upend the concept of a nation-state. It implies, above all, monumental and wide-reaching change--for better and for worse. But it is here to stay, and you ignore it at your peril.
Vigna and Casey demystify cryptocurrency--its origins, its function, and what you need to know to navigate a cyber economy. The digital currency world will look very different from the paper currency world; The Age of Cryptocurrency will teach you how to be ready.
I learned a tremendous amount about Bitcoin, but more importantly about digital currency the blockchain and technologies that will change the way we do commerce.
At first glance you might think this book would be boring but it's fascinating definitely a must read for any serious person today
11 of 11 people found this review helpful
The good: here is a fine, plain-spoken introduction to this field and its early leading lights. Also, midway in the book, emerges almost another book, which is giving an eye-opening tour of emerging ideas in autonomous business systems, automation, and new permutations of the "sharing" economy (finding and prying new value out of existing assets in the manner of uber, airBnB, etc.). That really got me thinking. In this segment, the book wanders away from "currency" per se and ruminates (quite usefully) about various possible branches of the technology, particularly the blockchain, and more generations and spin-offs to come.
The bad: not since the "dot bomb" era circa 1999 have I heard such journalistic fluffery, "gee whiz, it's so now, so hot, and these people are so so smart, blah blah" kind of tone, and such willingness to ignore (and brush aside) the downsides. Yes, there is some hedging sprinkled across the author's descriptions, but I can see issues that are casually brushed aside to keep the whole (nowadays tedious) "wow, hip and cool" tonality going. It crosses the line between advocacy and reporting, without being transparent (enough for me) about it. Yes, it is a popularization, I get it, and I am a little testy with the casualness of that format. And sheer academic density and dullness can have its own problems. But it is SO breezy, as we are introduced to a bunch of whiz kids many of whom, young and green, (with suitable 60s razzle-dazzle San Francisco dreamin' journalistic puffery) sit in lofts coding and seemingly know next to nothing about business, monetary theory, rudiments of finance, etc., and demonstrate this by apparently making the most simple and boneheaded of mistakes occasioning various reversals. I envision a fair number of them in years hence still without any assets, scraping up pin money and perhaps some turning to cybercrime, for excessive youthful hipness and lack of respect for the ABCs that less hip people bother to learn. (It is good to hear here, some Silicon Valley luminaries are bothering to get some education to these people.) It is a problem I try to warn particularly my more creative students about: don't disable yourself in your desire to be pure in your artistry, as you will be raw meat for many more crafty people, who will extract the value leaving you little. I must allow for the authors that this IS a fast-breaking field (with new headlines the week of this writing), and a lot of the problems have not shown up yet.
Likewise, how are these newfangled automated self-executing contracts going to replace people? As a contracts expert I can see realms of implementation problems blithely brushed aside here. This utopia is a lot further away than it might look here.
In all, I'm very glad I heard this. I just want to add my caveats. Many are the people who want to write a new world. Many are the razzle dazzle salespeople around them, full of sizzle.
16 of 17 people found this review helpful
I initially approached this book as a relative sceptic with respect of Bitcoin. This book radically altered my perspective on a very important topic for all of us. I would highly recommend this book as an introduction to Bitcoin and more importantly, currency and crypto currency's. Read it to understand what you don't understand. Read it to help you radically expand your perspective.
13 of 14 people found this review helpful
The authors do an amazing job of capturing the most significant technology of 2015. The book explains the basics phenomenally, but also goes into great depth.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful
Want to learn what Bitcoin is? Know what it is but don't know why you should care? Thoughtfully written with input from extensive interviews with many many people who are building the future of money, Paul and Mike take the reader on a guided tour not only of the block chain, but the history of electronic money itself.
I can honestly say that after having been involved with Bitcoin since July 2010, I learned quite a bit from the book.
9 of 10 people found this review helpful
If you have even a passing interest in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, definitely get this. Highly educational, and you can't go wrong with Sean Pratt as narrator. A classic.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
The authors clearly do not have a firm grasp on economic theory. They exhibit the shallowest understanding of monetary theory permissible for writing a book like this; they neglect the origin and function of prices and interest rates. They even succumb to several popular, albeit demonstrably absurd economic fallacies, including their conception of monopoly and monetary policy. They make up for these glaring problems with gripping analysis and comprehensive research.
9 of 12 people found this review helpful
I have been reading a lot about this crypto mania and much of the material is just so so, but this one is exactly what I was looking for.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
In short it’s an amazing book. It describes the history and origins of bitcoin and blockchain, going through all events up until 2014. It describes very well the benefits, advantages, risks, ... of crypto currencies. Talks about the impact of digital currencies and blockchain on the global economy and politics. Talks about ethereum and smart contracts, ripple and instantaneous transfers, crypto currency exchanges, wallets, ... and many other related topics.
Even though the book was completed in 2014 but has all what you need to know about the subject.
Finally the narrator, Sean Pratt, is the icing on the cake. He is just perfect.
Amazing book
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
What made the experience of listening to The Age of Cryptocurrency the most enjoyable?
The combination of history, interesting narrative, and good basic explanation of cryptocurrency technologies. This book also provided an interesting summary of many of the various cultures associated with bitcoin and related technologies.
What other book might you compare The Age of Cryptocurrency to and why?
In a way this book reminds me of "Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell" because it also does a beautiful job of covering a tech subculture and a technology that is not that well understood. In this case the subculture was from the 1950s & 60s and ushered in the era of hacking communication networks and communicating over social networks.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful