The age of cryptocurrency
"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 to truly 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. Cybermoney 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 cybermonies, 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."
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- I resent the implication from the person that wrote the letter that Bitcoin was made to make the rich richer. This is exactly the opposite reason I love Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general. How can anyone look at the current extremely unequal world and think the system of endless printed money going to the people closest to the printer is working?
https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-ameri...
I dream of a decentralized world currency where you can trace where the money the governments use is going, exactly how much money is being created, and where poor people have a chance to not have their money constantly lose value. This is what got me going the first time I read The Age of Cryptocurrency from Vigna and Casey from the WSJ.
https://www.amazon.com/Age-Cryptocurrency-Blockchain-Challen...
- Yes mining is a fool's errand. It was only great when you could do it on your computer. After that, it has just simply been a race against the difficulty and costs of mining. Almost every mining company would have come out further ahead if they simply bought coins rather than mined.
Source: I was a miner and would be a lot richer if I had just started purchasing coins earlier. :) Also any history book on cryptocurrency such as The Age of Cryptocurrency by Paul Vigna and Michael Casey from WSJ. The miners profiled in it are just trying to keep the lights on in 2015 and nothing has changed to the hamster wheel.
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The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin
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The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous
Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper
The Internet of Money by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Creating the Twentieth Century by Vaclav Smil
Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier
Blockchain Bubble or Revolution by Neel Mehta
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies by Arvind Narayanan
Inventing Bitcoin by Yan Pritzker
The Little Bitcoin Book by Bitcoin Collective
Serious Cryptography by Jean-Philippe Aumasson
An Altcoin Trader's Handbook by Nik Patel
The Price of Tomorrow by Jeff Booth
Programming Bitcoin by Jimmy Song
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The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains by Antony Lewis
Bitcoin & Black America by Isaiah Jackson
Mastering Monero by SerHack
Grokking Bitcoin by Kalle Rosenbaum
Why Buy Bitcoin by Andy Edstrom
The Book of Satoshi by Phil Champagne
This Book Will Save You Time by Misir Mahmudov
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital by Carlota Perez
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Cryptocurrency Investing For Dummies by Kiana Danial
The Dreams of Reason by Heinz R. Pagels
21 Lessons by Gigi
Bitcoin Clarity by Kiara Bickers
Rethinking Money by Bernard Lietaer
From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond by John H. Clippinger
The Bitcoin Revolution by Dominick Barbato
The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance by Brett Scott
How Money Got Free by Brian Patrick Eha
Handbook of Digital Currency by David LEE Kuo Chuen
Blockchain Technology Explained by Alan T. Norman
Cryptoassets by Chris Burniske
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain by David Gerard
Bitcoin Billionaires by Ben Mezrich
Code by Lawrence Lessig
Blockchain and the Law by Primavera De Filippi
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The Truth Machine by Paul Vigna
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Investing in Ethereum by Oscar Flynt
- I sold all my Ethereum miners around 2017 I think because proof of stake was “coming soon”. It arrived a few months ago haha. I used the profits and all future money to just buy coins and that has worked much better. :)
I do miss the heat of the Ethereum mine though. Thank you for sharing your story, it brings back a lot of memories. It also echoes the stories of most Bitcoin mining companies I read in The Age of Cryptocurrency by Casey and Vigna. Always racing on the hamster wheel of profitability against the difficulty algorithm and electricity prices and flirting with or going bankrupt. I’m glad proof of stake is finally here and we can move to a more sane way of doing things.
- Please let me know if I'm missing an important book.
The list has the top rated books first.
American Kingpin by Nick Bilton
The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
Mastering Ethereum by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin
Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous
Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper
The Internet of Money by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Creating the Twentieth Century by Vaclav Smil
Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier
Blockchain Bubble or Revolution by Neel Mehta
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital by Carlota Perez
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies by Arvind Narayanan
Bitcoin Billionaires by Ben Mezrich
Inventing Bitcoin by Yan Pritzker
The Little Bitcoin Book by Bitcoin Collective
Serious Cryptography by Jean-Philippe Aumasson
An Altcoin Trader's Handbook by Nik Patel
Programming Bitcoin by Jimmy Song
The Price of Tomorrow by Jeff Booth
Bitcoin by Knut Svanholm
Bitcoin & Black America by Isaiah Jackson
The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains by Antony Lewis
Mastering Monero by SerHack
Grokking Bitcoin by Kalle Rosenbaum
Why Buy Bitcoin by Andy Edstrom
The Book of Satoshi by Phil Champagne
This Book Will Save You Time by Misir Mahmudov
Bitcoin by Knut Svanholm
Cryptocurrency Investing For Dummies by Kiana Danial
The Dreams of Reason by Heinz R. Pagels
21 Lessons by Gigi
Bitcoin Clarity by Kiara Bickers
Rethinking Money by Bernard Lietaer
From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond by John H. Clippinger
The Bitcoin Revolution by Dominick Barbato
How Money Got Free by Brian Patrick Eha
Handbook of Digital Currency by David LEE Kuo Chuen
Blockchain Technology Explained by Alan T. Norman
Cryptoassets by Chris Burniske
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain by David Gerard
Blockchain Basics by Daniel Drescher
Code by Lawrence Lessig
Blockchain and the Law by Primavera De Filippi
Blockchain by Mark Gates
Bitcoin by Dominic Frisby
The Starfish and the Spider by Ori Brafman
The Age of Cryptocurrency by Paul Vigna
The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance by Brett Scott
Bitcoin For Dummies by Prypto
The Truth Machine by Paul Vigna
Blockchain Revolution by Don Tapscott
Digital Cash by Finn Brunton
Blockchain by Melanie Swan
Introducing Ethereum and Solidity by Chris Dannen
Building Blockchain Projects by Narayan Prusty
Investing in Ethereum by Oscar Flynt
Bitcoin and Blockchain Security by Ghassan Karame
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