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Bitcoin for Nonmathematicians: Exploring the Foundations of Crypto Payments
It's thoughtless to start using something you don't trust. It's difficult to start trusting something you don't understand. Bitcoin for Nonmathematicians contains answers to the following questions: how bitcoin is different from other payment systems, and why we can trust cryptocurrencies. The book compares bitcoin with its predecessors and competitors, and demonstrates the benefits of cryptocurrency over any other existing methods of payments. Bitcoin for Nonmathematicians starts from overview of the evolution of payment systems from gold and paper money to payment cards to cryptocurrencies, and ends up with explaining the fundamentals of security and privacy of crypto payments by explaining the details of cryptography behind bitcoin in layman's terms.
138 pages, Paperback
Published March 1, 2016
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Slava Gomzin
16 books1 followerSlava Gomzin is cybersecurity and crypto enthusiast, full-stack technologist and entrepreneur. He is author of multiple publications on information security and technology including books "Hacking Point of Sale: Payment Application Secrets, Threats, and Solutions" (Wiley, 2014) and "Bitcoin for Nonmathematicians: Exploring the Foundations of Crypto Payments" (Universal Publishers, 2016). Slava Gomzin is co-creator of GRAFT and Lyra blockchains.
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April 3, 2019
Finished a lot earlier, but couldn't write the review.
The best thing about this book is, it simply described the concept. But at very basic level. So I think this book can be a great start for your journey towards blockchain and bitcoin world.
BTW, don't think that you don't need to know math by the part of the title Non-mathematician. It said you don't need to be a mathematician, which doesn't mean you don't need math for understanding this book's content. I'll suggest you better polish your high school mathematics and computer science a little bit before coming to this book.
The best thing about this book is, it simply described the concept. But at very basic level. So I think this book can be a great start for your journey towards blockchain and bitcoin world.
BTW, don't think that you don't need to know math by the part of the title Non-mathematician. It said you don't need to be a mathematician, which doesn't mean you don't need math for understanding this book's content. I'll suggest you better polish your high school mathematics and computer science a little bit before coming to this book.
January 29, 2018
Worth reading if you want to know the concept of cryptocurrency - require high school equivalent math knowledge.
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