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Blockchain Basics
This is a guide to help you develop a mental model of blockchain technology as well as its impact on society and business. We have compiled this guide to touch upon all the material you need to feel confident in your blockchain knowledge.
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Published February 1, 2018
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February 28, 2018
Overpriced, very brief, but still useful.
I'd call it a collection of blog posts / articles more than a typical book. Articles are of good, quality, without usual marketing fluff and (what is important for non-tekkies) without technical jargon. The most useful part is definitely the one about decentralised systems economy - its non-obvious risks & opportunities. This book doesn't try to build up crypto-currency hype (like 95% of similar books ...) - which is definitely a big pro.
The are several important aspects that I think are still missing - about organic nature of ethereum ecosystem, about private blockchains & their applications, about challenges of "transaction-ness" in consensus-based systems.
One final big pro (worth 0.75 star) - great reference table (links to sources) at the very end of the book.
I'd call it a collection of blog posts / articles more than a typical book. Articles are of good, quality, without usual marketing fluff and (what is important for non-tekkies) without technical jargon. The most useful part is definitely the one about decentralised systems economy - its non-obvious risks & opportunities. This book doesn't try to build up crypto-currency hype (like 95% of similar books ...) - which is definitely a big pro.
The are several important aspects that I think are still missing - about organic nature of ethereum ecosystem, about private blockchains & their applications, about challenges of "transaction-ness" in consensus-based systems.
One final big pro (worth 0.75 star) - great reference table (links to sources) at the very end of the book.
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