Best money & monetary policy books according to redditors

We found 504 Reddit comments discussing the best money & monetary policy books. We ranked the 115 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.

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Top Reddit comments about Money & Monetary Policy:

u/davidmhorton · 84 pointsr/IWantToLearn

Buy and read these books (first):

Bogle on Mutual Funds https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/111908833X/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Bogleheads Guide to Investing
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1118921283/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The Four Pillars of Investing
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071747052/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

After reading those, download Robinhood and put $100 in (no more) and play around for like 6 months before even thinking about trying to play with larger amounts.

-- OR - skip Robinhood and download "Betterment" and just slowly put money in there and build some wealth.

Happy Learning.

u/helloluis · 72 pointsr/Bitcoin

The Little Bitcoin Book was coauthored by myself, Jimmy Song, Alena Vranova, Alex Gladstein, Lily Liu, Alejandro Machado, Timi Ajiboye, and Alex Lloyd, and is our contribution to this ever growing ecosystem.

https://littlebitcoinbook.com is the official landing page, and you can order the print or Kindle editions now at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1641990503 .

u/wildsatchmo · 44 pointsr/btc

"Gold mining is a waste, but that waste is far less than the utility of having gold available as a medium of exchange. ... The utility of the exchanges made possible by Bitcoin will far exceed the cost of electricity used. Therefore, not having Bitcoin would be the net waste." - Satoshi Nakamoto
Posted Aug 7th 2010, 05:46:09 PM

"Each node's influence on the network is proportional to its CPU power. The only way to show the network how much CPU power you have is to actually use it. If there is something else that each person has a finite amount of that we could count for one-person-one-vote, I can't think of it." - Satoshi Nakamoto
Posted Aug 7th 2010, 05:46:09 PM

"Bitcoin generation should end up where it's cheapest. Maybe that will be in cold climates where there's electric heat, where it would be essentially free." - Satoshi Nakamoto
Posted Aug 9th 2010, 09:28:39 PM

Source The Book of Satoshi, Pages 236 - 237

u/HetzerGer · 26 pointsr/ethtrader

I love it:
https://www.amazon.com/Token-Economy-Blockchains-Contracts-Revolutionize/dp/3982103827/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=token+economy+shermin&qid=1564816048&s=gateway&sprefix=token+e&sr=8-1

Somebody needs to ground me again. I am so bullish while reading this book. Give it a try. I thought that I already read a lot and knew how to explain the Ethereum ecosystem and blockchain in general. I was wrong. This book is awesome. Easy to understand, great read, all general topics covered with many references and links for a further deep dive in the topic.
I could convince monkeys to buy Ether after this read.

About the Author

Shermin Voshmgir is the director of the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics, and the founder of BlockchainHub in Berlin. In the past, she was a curator of "The DAO", and advisor to various startups like Jolocom, Wunder and the Estonian E-residency program. In addition to her studies at the Vienna University of Economics, she studied film and drama in Madrid. Her past work experience ranges from Internet startups, research & art. She is Austrian, with Iranian roots, and lives between Vienna and Berlin.

TED Talk with her: https://youtu.be/JPGNvKy6DTA

u/intertron · 22 pointsr/btc

If you haven't ever read Satoshi's writing I highly recommend it.

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Satoshi-Collected-Writings-Nakamoto/dp/0996061312

That is the one I had. It is great.

u/TheGreatMuffin · 20 pointsr/Bitcoin

If I may - I humbly recommend to read a proper book on bitcoin, not some fluff piece.. Just assuming from the way that you chose your post title that you might be interested in a more substantial bitcoin reading :) Please ignore if that's not the case, don't wanna ruin your reading pleasure or anything.

Economic perspective: The Bitcoin Standard - The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

Not technical at all, very beginner friendly, but also not a lot of practical information: The Internet Of Money

Gently technical, beginner friendly: Inventing Bitcoin: The Technology Behind the First Truly Scarce and Decentralized Money Explained

Technical deep dives:

u/Mr_Yukon_C · 20 pointsr/ethtrader

This is a pretty big deal IMO, and very telling:

#1 Best Seller in Money & Monetary Policy on Amazon

u/lordpanda · 17 pointsr/worldnews

I find it interesting that so much people on here feast on the losses of others.

Yeah it's down <20% in a day but it's still back to the value it was 3 days ago.

Invest in it or don't. It is speculation but the technology behind it is still very interesting and promising.

I recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about BTC and the whole blockchain technology:

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/1119300312/ref=s9u_simh_gw_i1?ie=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1119300312&pd_rd_r=367e0e64-d5e4-11e7-8608-8970f4803fc8&pd_rd_w=bMYm0&pd_rd_wg=L5q8E&pf_rd_m=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQB&pf_rd_s=&pf_rd_r=JG9T72GDBKS21XR15HRJ&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=07871b8e-d32a-4963-b98f-ba712077f7f5&pf_rd_i=desktop


And yes I did invest in Bitcoin over the past year. I find it's a nice diversification to my stocks portfolio.

u/killver · 14 pointsr/ethtrader

Just got the book "Ethereum: Blockchains, Digital Assets, Smart Contracts, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations" delivered. Hoping for a good read! https://www.amazon.com/Ethereum-Blockchains-Decentralized-Autonomous-Organizations/dp/1523930470/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1496854273&sr=8-1&keywords=ethereum

u/calm_thoughts · 12 pointsr/ETHInsider

Note: If anyone finds a major flaw in this news or my reasoning about it, don't hold back criticism.

To the best of my understanding, during a taped on-stage talk given at the NYC Ethereal Summit [Friday, May 19th], William Mougayar said that "a traditional company with millions of users" is going to be announcing a token issuance on the public blockchain on May 25th at the Token Summit conference. I am presuming "public blockchain" is "Ethereum blockchain," inferred from context in which he spoke of other, earlier, smaller new companies issuing ICO tokens. (Obviously it's not the bitcoin blockchain.)

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/6c5y0d/ethereal_summit_william_mougayer_big_company/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P66dtflB14&feature=youtu.be&t=53m33s


His specific quote starts around 54:30 or so, but listen to a minute or two before that for context.

The fellow speaking is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mougayar

Not an impressive Wikipedia entry, very skimpy. Is he just blowing smoke or hot air? Exagerrating from sloppiness? Who IS this guy?

In the footnotes of the Wikipedia entry Vitalik Buterin is named. In what capacity?
https://www.amazon.com/Business-Blockchain-Practice-Application-Technology/dp/1119300312/

William Mougayar wrote the book. VB wrote the foreward to the book. I don't think W. Mougayar is making up stories about this.

u/thebrightsideoflife · 11 pointsr/politics

>"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson."
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a letter written Nov. 21, 1933 to Colonel E. Mandell House

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>“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
Henry Ford

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>"The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining super capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control.... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent."
Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets

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>“Bankers own the earth; take it away from them but leave them with the power to create credit; and, with a flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again... If you want to be slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the bankers control money and control credit.”
Sir Josiah Stamp, Director, Bank of England, 1940.


.... it's been going on a long time and some say the real tipping point began in 1910

u/gizram84 · 11 pointsr/Bitcoin
u/slepyhed · 10 pointsr/Bitcoin

Here's a great explanation for how blockchain works: https://youtu.be/bBC-nXj3Ng4

For a more in depth understanding of Bitcoin, Mastering Bitcoin is great: https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Bitcoin-Programming-Open-Blockchain/dp/1491954388/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1537090991&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=mastering+bitcoin&psc=1

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To get an idea of why Bitcoin has value, The Bitcoin Standard is great: https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Alternative-Central/dp/1119473861/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537090929&sr=8-1&keywords=the+bitcoin+standard

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There are lots of videos by the authors of these books that are great also.

u/AscentofDissent · 9 pointsr/politics

Should be required reading imo. Kindle edition is only five bucks.

u/eeeggg333 · 9 pointsr/CryptoCurrency

The whole history of this plus many other currencies all the way up to bitcoin are laid out in this amazing book https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Alternative-Central/dp/1119473861

A must read for every crypto enthusiast

u/BaurusdB · 9 pointsr/Bitcoin

I was under the impression barter in itself never really took place, that it is more of a myth.

> Economists since Adam Smith have assumed that barter was the historical predecessor of money, but there is no empirical, archaeological, or other evidence for the existence of a widespread premoney barter economy. In fact, it appears that premoney economies were based largely on credit - the promise to return value in the future in exchange for value delivered today. The ancient credit system allowed intertemporal exchanges, as it does today, and solved the problem of the simultaneous coincidence of wants. Historical barter is one more example of economists developing theories with scant attachment to reality.

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u/Bo_gogo · 8 pointsr/NEO

People should really do a little more research. Before you go and make any rash decisions I would go pick up a copy of this book.

https://www.amazon.com/Ethereum-Blockchains-Decentralized-Autonomous-Organizations/dp/1523930470

And read about it rather than just YouTube ing it and watching 12 year olds give you advice about what they just watched 2 seconds earlier and just wanted some god damn likes on their you tube page.

I wish there was a place here for real talk these days. Can someone point me in that direction?

u/skytomorrownow · 8 pointsr/philosophy

>part of [the reason for the abolition of money] is the removal of objectifying relations between people

Objectification is generally defined as something which treats a person as a thing. I haven't seen it refer to treating a relationship between persons as a thing. I assume you mean to highlight money's role in enabling objectification. While money does objectify some concepts, for example time, it does not objectify people. It can be utilized as an enabling technology which allows some humans to objectify others, but money is not doing the objectification. One could consider money a 'unit of objectification' if you will.

Martha Nussbaum (1995, 257) has identified seven features that are involved in the idea of treating a person as an object:

  • instrumentality: the treatment of a person as a tool for the objectifier's purposes;
  • denial of autonomy: the treatment of a person as lacking in autonomy and self-determination;
  • inertness: the treatment of a person as lacking in agency, and perhaps also in activity;
  • fungibility: the treatment of a person as interchangeable with other objects;
  • violability: the treatment of a person as lacking in boundary-integrity;
  • ownership: the treatment of a person as something that is owned by another (can be bought or sold);
  • denial of subjectivity: the treatment of a person as something whose experiences and feelings (if any) need not be taken into account.

    All of these features of objectification can be accomplished with or without money. When we consider money in and of itself to be the issue, we err, because money is a consequence of scaling up post-agricultural human societies, not the other way around. For example, slavery, which certainly most of us would agree is objectification, or requires objectification, is found in non-hunter-gatherer (agrarian) cultures where there is no money. Interestingly, hunter-gather societies rarely take slaves. Some semi-agrarian cultures, such as some Native American cultures, or tribes such as the Yanomamo feature violence and slavery, all without money. So, I conclude that it is post-hunter-gatherer human culture which creates objectification, as objectification so far has been a key element to scaling up human groups. We can certainly become more mature, aware, and sophisticated in our understanding of the deleterious effects which come with objectification, but it is not necessary to eliminate money in the process. I do think money could use some more thought though. And I have hope that some of the deleterious effects of money can be remediated by a more sophisticated approach to money as examined in Rethinking Money by Lietaer, and Dunne.

    Related articles:

    http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201105/how-hunter-gatherers-maintained-their-egalitarian-ways

    http://www.slideshare.net/PaulVMcDowell/reverse-dominance-hierarchies

    http://measureofdoubt.com/2011/10/20/what-is-objectification-and-whats-wrong-with-it/

    http://lesswrong.com/lw/4vj/a_rationalists_account_of_objectification/

    edit: grammar, spelling
u/beowulfpt · 7 pointsr/investing

Getting a % of the market currently in Gold or other long term store-of-value choices. Proven itself for over a decade of political, economical and technical attacks.


I think we're far from having it as a Standard, but expect BTC to be part of many portfolios in the next 5-10 years.
IMO a lot of people are excessively optimistic about how long it will take, but others are being unwise by totally dismissing it just because there's a lot of nonsense/scams in that [young] market.

u/BoominBuddha · 7 pointsr/ethtrader

I can highly recommend Ethereum: Blockchains, Digital Assets, Smart Contracts, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations.

I also just received notice that Consensys released their first blockchain/Ethereum book about an hour ago which can be found here. I obviously haven't read this yet but plan to do so within the next few weeks.

u/mikey4eth · 7 pointsr/ethtrader

Hey anyone know what that book was called about token economics that everyone was talking about in here the other day?

found it: https://www.amazon.com/Token-Economy-Blockchains-Contracts-Revolutionize/dp/3982103827

u/GrayLo · 6 pointsr/conspiracy

and this is a must read http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Federal-Reserve-Eustace-Mullins/dp/0979917654

probably the most important book on the subject

u/gonzobon · 6 pointsr/Bitcoin

>So Bitcoin’s main goal is to let people use their money when/how/where they want and replace or bypass the banking system of the world?

Bitcoin has no main goal. It's just a ledger. It trustlessly moves tokens on a digital ledger between parties that don't trust each other.

>Is there an endless amount of Bitcoin available to the world ie printing paper and susceptible to inflation/deflation?

Bitcoin is deflationary. There will only ever be 21 million coins. A certain number are mined every 10 minutes. Every ~4 years the distribution amount halves (we call this the halvening).

>“Okay I’m ready to buy some bitcoin but this site is charging a fee for my purchase”. Where is a good place to buy bitcoin from the U.S. without having to pay a fee?

Limit orders on a professional exchange like Coinbase Pro or Gemini often have low/no fees. This is the best way to go about it.

>What is the state of Bitcoin ie is it close to being recognized as a form of currency on the world stage and from governments? If not, what would it take for Bitcoin to surpass say an entire continents financial system and maintain a regular usage instead of paper notes?

World governments are very differing in their positions on Bitcoin. Iran for example isn't a big fan. Venezuela's government isn't either, but their citizens are. The G5 countries are tolerating (and taxing) crypto earnings. The SEC is regulating some of the projects in the space. Merchants do accept it for payment, but the tax structure makes it harder to spend as a day-to-day currency currently. Calculating capital gains on every purchase of coffee is a PITA.

>Can Bitcoin handle Billions of people using the system for daily use? Is this where other crypto currency’s come into play to fill the void of an overloaded system?

Right now? No. But Bitcoin is scaling up slowly. Other crypto currencies are mostly pump/dump scams that serve no real purpose. They would have issues scaling up to a large payment network without compromising decentralization. Check out the lightning network, segwit, schnorr signatures a bit technical, but you can find some great summaries.

>Does Bitcoin become the “gold standard” and nations start to utilize hoarding Bitcoin or will it turn into nations valuing their own currency against Bitcoin like the world values everything against the USD? (If that last part makes sense)

Here's a great book. https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Alternative-Central/dp/1119473861









u/Klutzkerfuffle · 6 pointsr/btc

You need to study Austrian Economics.

I recommend this book if you really want to understand what is going on.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1119473861/ref=cm_cr_arp_mb_bdcrb_top?ie=UTF8

u/MisterMaury · 6 pointsr/BitcoinBeginners

The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and the Blockchain Are Challenging the Global Economic Order https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250081556/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_IZngAbT8MRDRB

u/ThrowawayIrequire · 6 pointsr/cscareerquestions

Outstanding answer my man!! I have been interested in getting into blockchain development as well, and I am planning to do a project on it for my networks course this semester. My experience mainly lies with C++, and I'm comfortable with sockets as well in it(boost and regular UNIX sockets), I also did take a distributed systems course as well.

Any ideas for a semester long project? I am currently reading [this] (https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Bitcoin-Programming-Open-Blockchain/dp/1491954388/ref=dp_ob_title_bk#reader_1491954388) and this to get started.

u/Gandblaster · 5 pointsr/Libertarian

Maybe its time to revisit how the fed was created?

Century of Enslavement: The History of The Federal Reserve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IJeemTQ7Vk


Glenn Beck Exposes the Private Fed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB5LK-jihgk


G. Edward Griffin, the author of the bestselling The Creature from Jekyll Island and a long-time Federal Reserve researcher, explains:

"We pick up the story, appropriately enough, under cover of darkness. It was the night of November 22, 1910, and a group of the richest and most powerful men in America were boarding a private rail car at an unassuming railroad station in Hoboken, New Jersey. The car, waiting with shades drawn to keep onlookers from seeing inside, belonged to Senator Nelson Aldrich, the father-in-law of billionaire heir to the Rockefeller dynasty, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. A central figure on the influential Senate Finance Committee where he oversaw the nation’s monetary policy, Aldrich was referred to in the press as the “General Manager of the Nation.” Joining him that evening was his private secretary, Shelton, and a who’s who of the nation’s banking and financial elite: A. Piatt Andrew, the Assistant Treasury Secretary; Frank Vanderlip, President of the National City Bank of New York; Henry P. Davison, a senior partner of J.P. Morgan Company; Benjamin Strong, Jr., an associate of J.P. Morgan and President of Bankers Trust Co., and Paul Warburg, heir of the Warburg banking family and son-in-law of Solomon Loeb of the famed New York investment firm, Kuhn, Loeb & Company.

The men had been told to arrive one by one after sunset to attract as little attention as possible. Indeed, secrecy was so important to their mission that the group did not use anything but their first names throughout the journey so as to keep their true identities secret even from their own servants and wait staff. The movements of any one of them would have been reason enough to attract the attention of New York’s voracious press, especially in an era where banking and monetary reform was seen as a key issue for the future of the nation; a meeting of all of them, now that would surely have been the story of the century. And it was.

Their destination? The secluded Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia, home to the prestigious Jekyll Island Club whose members included the Morgans, Rockefellers, Warburgs and Rothschilds. Their purpose? Davison told intrepid local newspaper reporters who had caught wind of the meeting that they were going duck hunting. But in reality, they were going to draft a reform of the nation’s banking industry in complete secrecy."


The Creature from Jekyll Island : A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
http://www.amazon.com/The-Creature-Jekyll-Island-Federal/dp/0912986212

G Edward Griffin Creature From Jekyll Island Second Look at the Federal Reserve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dba9OY0QatU


More Input:
The Secrets of the Federal Reserve
http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Federal-Reserve-Eustace-Mullins/dp/0979917654

-Free Copy
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm

u/kailey_hunter · 5 pointsr/litecoin

Blockchain Basics is probably the best high level overall business blockchain book, which focuses on proof of work mostly.


Blockchain Revolution is a good use case book. Not technical, but gets a little sci-fi with how blockchain may be used in the future.


But if you want technical, the best I've found is Mastering Bitcoin.


Business Blockchain was pretty good and gave me ideas for a couple extra slides for my Blockchain 101 presentations throughout my company.


But Book of Satoshi was probably my favorite read. It was great to get a slight history of bitcoin and see some of Satoshi's views from his perspective.

u/fskfhg · 5 pointsr/BlockChain

Haha THE FUCK!? You literally just copied and pasted the description of Don Tapscott book (https://www.amazon.com/Blockchain-Revolution-Technology-Changing-Business/dp/1101980133) without crediting the author. I mean really, that you even put your own username in BOLD text at the bottom at this bluntly stolen text makes you look like a real asshat.

u/luke_bob · 5 pointsr/investing

Bogle On Mutual Funds: New Perspectives For The Intelligent Investor (Wiley Investment Classics) https://www.amazon.com/dp/111908833X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_GJfACb92QTX4V

u/JeffB1517 · 5 pointsr/investing

I tend to think the r/investing crowd is too negative on many of the qualify closed end and open ended mutual funds out there. While the range of ETFs is exploding the mutual funds still offer a lot of diversity of product that just doesn't exist (yet?) for ETFs. That being said what you are describing here is a strategy called "performance chasing". An investor jumps into funds with really strong track records and stays in them while they continue to outperform. That sounds appealing and it sounds like it should work. In reality however that literally is one of the worst possible investing strategies around. It was a proven failure from the 1960s (gogo fund era) when open ended mutual funds became the primary non-real estate mainstream investment vehicle till the early 2000s when indexing and passive really came into vogue. As an aside for closed end funds it didn't work out well in the 1920s either.

That's not to say you have to use cap weighted indexing exclusively. That's not to say you can't buy mutual funds from quality houses that specialize in particular skills. But the reason you are going to get a lot of negative feedback on the approach you are considering is that it a genuinely terrible strategy, though one that sounds initially appealing.

What makes a mutual fund rack up a terrific record are often properties that can't or won't be repeated once the fund becomes popular. There are spectacular managers. The first no load open ended mutual fund manager, Thomas Rowe Price, being a terrific example. John Neff, Peter Lynch, Bill Nygren,Marty Whitman, Edward Johnson ... exist. But for every one of those there is a ton of Gerald Tsai's who crush the market using a strategy, accumulate a lot of assets and watch the strategy horrifically underperform because it just perfectly fit a certain point in time. The investors who performance chase, because they don't have an ideological commitment, get the later far more than the former. All the guys with the tremendous lifetime records had many years of underperformance. They were rarely the top 10 fund in any given year they just were consistently excellent across longer time periods. The investors who profited did so because they believed in the fund's strategies even when they didn't work out that year.

Since performance chasing is a 1990s strategy I'll give you what at the time was probably the best first investing book at the time: Bogle on Mutual Funds. The book is a bit dated but he talks at length about why performance chasing is a terrible strategy providing lots of data and examples. While you probably aren't going to listen I'd strongly suggest you read this book before you try what you are about to try.

u/grafgarage · 5 pointsr/investing

If you read this i guarantee you'd reconsider your position. https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Alternative-Central/dp/1119473861

You're completely missing the point on what a non-sovereign money brings to the global marketplace. Do you do business internationally? Send money across borders ever? International banking absolutely sucks. What about the several billion people that are unbanked because it's a permission based system that they don't have the privilege to be a part of? How about you're living in a country like Venezuela, Iran, Turkey, Greece, etc that are experiencing hyper-inflation and seeing their savings absolutely devastated by poor economic policies instituted by broken governments?

If you think bitcoin is all about speculation you haven't done your homework. It's about taking back control of your finances and being your own bank.

u/barefooter · 5 pointsr/Ripple

A rally is a period where the price continues to rise, because either new fiat money is flowing into crypto, or people are leaving one crypto for another at that time.
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rally.asp


I use bittrex and coinbase and like them, but there are many options for exchanges. I live in Washington state, so I have less options because Kraken and Poloniex are not available here.


I'd recommend getting either a ledger nano s or trezor hardware wallet. I have a ledger and it's really cool. Others like the trezor, but I don't have experience with it. Look into both and figure out which one you like more. This is the most secure way to store many coins.


This stuff is definitely worth the effort. I think it will be a multi trillion dollar market in five years, so it's still really early days. If you have a background in tech, then you have a good advantage in assessing the technology and making a lot of money investing. Good luck to you!


Oh also, if you want to dive deeper into the tech, a good first read is Mastering Bitcoin. Even though it's about bitcoin, you'll learn the fundamentals that are used by all cryptocurrencies.
book link

u/tnpcook1 · 5 pointsr/ethtrader

Having knowledge of object oriented programming helped me a bit going in.
I found a lot of similarities in logic of central-server game-engine network synchronization and smart-contract programming.
Such as an expected data object to be synchronized to clients(nodes) with authority from the server(blockchain consensus/validation/contract setup) . Users(address) can send requests(transactions) to the server to update things, and cause logic mechanisms to act.

A book I can recommend to see if you'll enjoy the aspiration of working in blockchain tech,
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1523930470/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The path I've seen people follow is -
Getting an address and using a private wallet.
Using and understanding how a hardware wallet works.
Then playgrounding contracts in a private chain or Remix(online compiler), until they can make little tools.

edit: had two book links, one was no longer available.

u/mmhall79 · 4 pointsr/Economics

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve

It's not new, (2nd edition created after dot.com crash), but it puts our current crisis in it's proper historical perspective... definitely a must read.

u/jaumenuez · 4 pointsr/Bitcoin

No way. If you think this can be a coincidence, you should learn more about Satoshi's work. The Book of Satoshi could be a good start.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0996061312/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_OZpuDb5CAGWGH

u/Kpenney · 4 pointsr/CryptoCurrency

Blockchain Revolution by Don and Alex Tapscott is another good read. https://www.amazon.ca/Blockchain-Revolution-Technology-Changing-Business/dp/1101980133

u/notthematrix · 4 pointsr/Bitcoin

learn the book the bitcoin standard

https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Alternative-Central/dp/1119473861

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its simple on exchanges you have uncovered bitcoins and covered bitcoin.

if you take btc to you own wallet the coin can no longer be double lent it is out of the exchange suppley!
btc is limited , and CAN NOT be created out of thin air like bank can with fiat money.

u/BinaryResult · 4 pointsr/Bitcoin

Read The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous, it's a great introduction to bitcoin's deflationary "hard money" properties.

u/idelovski · 4 pointsr/croatia

Uplatio sam prije par sati, sad kažeš da sam mogao doć mukte. Nije fer.

Zar niste mogli prvi dan počet u 10:00 da se ljudi malo aklimatiziraju na Split.

Izabrao sam poslovnu radionicu kod Luke Klancira? Jesam se zeznuo? Inače sam programer ali me zanima taj dio, veza banaka, platnog sustava i budućnost financija.

Kod registracije sam izabrao riblji menu ali ako dobijem frigane srdele uzet ću piletinu.

Edit, moje predznanje je ovo:

Od korica do korica, skoro

Uvod pa još malo

Do pola

Plus skidanje jsona sa:

https://bitkonan.com/info/api

https://www.cryptocompare.com/api

za neku iPhone aplikaciju u izradi

u/LDSGeek · 4 pointsr/Bitcoin

Another one you can add to your collection is "The Little Bitcoin Book": https://www.amazon.com/dp/1641990503/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_V9zBDb8XSEKMQ

u/jlars221 · 4 pointsr/BitcoinBeginners

I really like Andreas antonopoulos’ The Internet of Money Series. I support him on patreon too and have learned a ton there. https://www.patreon.com/aantonop
Jimmy Song’s programming bitcoin just came out and is good!
I also used Pamela Morgan’s cryptoasset inheritance planning to make sure my crypto is secure and my family will get it if something happens to me.

u/NimbleBodhi · 3 pointsr/Bitcoin

I'd recommend reading his book, it's very insightful.

u/TheHammer7D5x4S7 · 3 pointsr/Bitcoin

Andreas should send that dude a copy of his book. As I doubt he can use GitHub.

u/Allways_Wrong · 3 pointsr/CryptoMarkets

Ignoring everything technical you can look at these coins almost as a naturally occurring element. Bitcoin (and its derivatives) is a system that creates a digital thing that cannot be copied. Before Bitcoin that was impossible.

There is a lot we can do with an invention like that, but the most obvious is currency.

I’d recommend The Internet Of Money as an absolute must read, and it is aimed at absolute beginners. Non technical.

u/[deleted] · 3 pointsr/economy

>It was implemented because everything was a mess. Every bank had their own currency, and nobody knew what anything was worth, which created HUGE costs and inefficiencies.

False. YOU need to read up on the history of the Fed. It was NOT implemented to help the dollar or help the economy. It was to cartelize the banks and to ensure that they will always have a source of cash, even if it means to the detriment of the rest of the economy.

Read books dude, instead of making universal bullshit claims like "no anti-Fed person has EVER read up on the history of the fed".

Read What Has Government Done to Our Money?.

Read Mystery of Banking

Read The Creature from Jekyll Island

Read books and stop accusing anti-Fed people of not reading.

>nobody knew what anything was worth

Ya, the Fed sure fixed THAT problem, huh? hahaha

u/trukurt1 · 3 pointsr/Austria

> Wo kann ich mich tiefer mit der Materie beschäftigen ohne dass alles super shady wirkt?

Falls du Bücher magst, kann ich dir The Book Of Satoshi empfehlen. Wenn du die ersten zwei Kapitel verstanden hast, weißt du wahrscheinlich schon viel mehr über Bitcoin als die meisten anderen Menschen.
Auf YouTube kann ich dir die Videos von Andreas Antonopoulos empfehlen.

> Was ist an Bitcoins besser als an normalen Währungen?

  • Banken können Bitcoin-Transaktionen nicht verhindern.
  • Man kann mit relativ geringen Transaktionsgebühren Bitcoin ans andere Ende der Welt senden.
  • Man kann beliebig hohe Summe an Bitcoin über Landesgrenzen transportieren ohne dass jemand was davon erfährt.
  • Kryptowährungen sind nicht nach Lust und Laune inflationierbar, weil im Fall von Bitcoin beispielsweise die maximale Geldmenge nach oben hin begrenzt ist. Man kann natürlich auch eine Kryptowährung entwickeln, die absichtlich eine hohe Inflation hat. ZCash ist zum Beispiel sehr inflationär. Der Punkt ist aber, dass man nicht gezwungen ist, eine bestimmte Währung zu benutzen, die man vielleicht schlecht findet. Man benutzt die Währung, die man für sinnvoll erachtet und der freie Markt entscheidet, ob sie sich langfristig durchsetzen wird.
  • Wenn du Bitcoin hast, dann hast du sie (eigentlich den privaten Schlüssel) in deiner Wallet. Keiner kann sie dir so einfach wegnehmen. Wenn du Euro auf dem Bankkonto hast, kannst du dir sicher sein, dass die Bank davon nur einen Bruchteil (Die Teilreserve beträgt zur Zeit nur noch min. 1% in der EU) wirklich (also als Zentralbankengeld) besitzt. Kryptowährungen haben das Potential Zentralbanken komplett und Banken zumindest ein Stück weit obsolet zu machen.

    > Wie sicher ist das Ganze?

    Sicherer als der Euro oder jedes andere Fiatgeld, wenn du mich fragst. Stichwort: Teilreserve, Inflation

    > Lohnt es sich als Spätstarter?

    Wieso denkst du, dass du ein Spätstarter bist?
    Basierend auf der Anzahl der Bitcoinadressen, die Geld enthalten, (= UTXO set), würde ich schätzen, dass weit weniger als 1% der Weltbevölkerung Bitcoin besitzt.
    Damit sind wir wahrscheinlich noch weit von einer Massendurchsetzung entfernt.
    D. h. wenn du an eine Massenadaption der Kryptowährungen glaubst, bist du noch nicht zu spät dran. Das Problem ist, dass man rückblickend immer denkt, dass man zu spät dran ist. Wenn du heuer nicht einsteigst, würdest du dir in zwei Jahren vielleicht wieder denken, dass du zu spät dran bist, wenn sich der Kurs vielleicht wieder verzehnfacht hat.

    > Kann ich in normalen Shops wie Amazon häufig damit zahlen, so dass es sich lohnen würde statt Paypal (was ich verabscheue) zu verwenden?

    Mit TenX müsste es gehen. Das ist eine Debitkarte, die man mit Kryptowährungen aufladen kann. Man kann damit, glaub ich, überall mit Kryptowährungen zahlen, wo Visa akzeptiert wird. Wie gut die Karte wirklich funktioniert, kann ich noch nicht sagen. Irgendwann wird Amazon aber hoffentlich auch Bitcoin akzeptieren.

    > Österreich ist Bitcoin Land? Wieso?

    Was mir dazu einfällt, ist die Österreichische Schule der Ökonomie, die im Gegensatz zum Keynesianismus, der sich ja durchgesetzt hat, meint, dass Zentralbanken und das Teilreservesystem (mit-)schuld an der Konjunktur sind. Viele Bitcoin-Besitzer haben so wie "die Österreicher" eine liberale Einstellung zur Wirtschaft und wollen mit der Benutzung von Kryptowährungen dem Bankensystem Macht entziehen.
u/daveragebeard · 3 pointsr/Futurology

I'm reading Tapscott's book Blockchain Revolution and can recommend it if you're interested in a non-technical explanation of the potential for the blockchain to change the financial world dramatically.

u/dalebewan · 3 pointsr/Bitcoin

>Anybody in the bitcoin sphere delve deep into what economies actually look like and function using bitcoin as default world currency/reserve?

No. We're all just a bunch of "lambo moon boys" and none of us have any formal study or experience in the world of economics. ^(/s)

You do realise that this is a multi-billion dollar industry? A lot of very smart people have spent a lot of time and effort examining this from many angles.

If you want a good introduction to what a world based on Bitcoin might look like, I'd recommend starting off with forgetting about Bitcoin specifically and first reading some of the basic works from the Austrian economists such as Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek. Once those concepts are in your head (whether you agree with them or not), then move on to "The Bitcoin Standard" by Saifedean Ammous (which also spends over half the book not talking about Bitcoin before it finally does; for good reason).

The reason I suggest to start off with the Austrian economists is that you need to first realise that you've got a lot of assumptions that might not necessarily be grounded in reality. One of the most common that I see for example is people saying, "deflation is bad!" as a general rule without further context. I agree that under our current economic model, deflation causes significant issues, but things that are true under our current model are not necessarily true under every model.

>Any experts that talk about the reality of Bitcoin adoption?

As above, Dr Ammous is an economist with multiple degrees in relevant fields. I think he qualifies as at least one kind of expert.

There's also myself, but since you don't know who I am and I have no intention of linking my pseudonym to my real name, any credentials I say that I hold are something you'd just have to trust me on, and I fully understand you have no reason to.

>And also, what will psychological make people trust a newly created digital asset class? It's untested.

Everything new is untested and untrusted at some point and over time this changes. I've seen enough "new tech" in my lifetime to know that this really isn't such an issue.

>And whether true or not people will assume it's 'so-called' security will eventually be compromised as just about every technology becomes obsolete and has breaches. I'm talking public opinion.

This is a combination of education and experience. Everybody knows that theoretically banks can get hacked, but they still trust their money to the bank. Even if they wrongly assume that Bitcoin is somehow able to completely compromised (and this definitely is wrong, because it's based on a false assumption of how the network operates), they only need to trust it to a similar or greater level than their bank in order to be willing to use it. And for that trust to be built, it only takes enough time of the system not being compromised.

u/llewsor · 3 pointsr/Bitcoin

u/TheGreatMuffin gave you golden advice. you need a solid philosophical foundation of what bitcoin is - otherwise you'll get rekted by the price and fud.


start with andreas antonopoulos - watch every single video no matter how old they are or how long they are because all of the info is relevant to today. the q&a after his talks are sometimes even more valuable than his lecture.


then for a deep dive visit jameson's site to get into detail about what andreas talked about. andreas also has a couple of books:

https://www.amazon.com/Internet-Money-Andreas-M-Antonopoulos/dp/194791006X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1540574615&sr=1-2&keywords=internet+of+money&dpID=4137Zf9hIaL&preST=_SY344_BO1,204,203,200_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Bitcoin-Programming-Open-Blockchain/dp/1491954388/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1540574648&sr=1-1&keywords=mastering+bitcoin&dpID=51nnYGq964L&preST=_SX218_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch

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also check out saifdean ammous' book: https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Alternative-Central/dp/1119473861


very easy read and a clear explanation to the economic significance of bitcoin. good luck.

u/BTC_Forever · 3 pointsr/Bitcoin

For those who still didn't read this amazing book The Bitcoin Standard is a must read if you really want to get into Bitcoin Revolution.

u/pecuniology · 3 pointsr/btc

>"[Russian Central Bank Governor, Elvira Nabiullina's] gold buying makes me think she has read Saifedean Ammous’s The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking.  Don’t let the title fool you. This book is not the cover-to-cover crypto cheerleading/gold bashing other authors attempt to jam down our throats.  Dr. Ammous Is actually a Professor of Economics, and none other than “Black Swan” author Nassim Taleb wrote the introduction."

u/diydude2 · 3 pointsr/Bitcoin

The Bitcoin Standard is a good place to start.

u/corpski · 3 pointsr/technology

Perhaps give Bitcoin a fair handshake before you call it stupid?

Here’s what I would call a very good resource on it:
https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Alternative-Central/dp/1119473861

u/MonetaryFew · 3 pointsr/ethtrader

It's not a surprisingly positive article. It's Paul Vigna! He seems to be the go-to-guy for cryptocurrencies at the WSJ. He wrote a book about cryptocurrencies... A good one too!

The Age of Cryptocurrency

u/tenmileswide · 3 pointsr/Bitcoin

Some of the WSJ guys also have a book coming out on cryptocurrency. They've been doing a lot of stuff on Bitcoin on their web broadcasts lately and seem to be huge proponents of it. I transcribe their shows as a part time gig and these particular segments have been enjoyable to do.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Age-Cryptocurrency-Challenging-Economic/dp/1250065631

u/flakesobran · 3 pointsr/Buttcoin

I just finished reading

http://www.amazon.com/The-Age-Cryptocurrency-Challenging-Economic/dp/1250065631/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1422474277&sr=8-1

If you want an objective look at the subject, that's where I would go. If you want to validate your pre-conceived notions (either for or against), by all means go elsewhere.

u/mikec717 · 3 pointsr/Bitcoin

Invest an evening or two reading this for a solid overview: https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoassets-Innovative-Investors-Bitcoin-Beyond/dp/1260026671

u/jreddit83 · 3 pointsr/ethtrader

If you think you're invested there's a few experts dedicating their time and energy on future books about the cryptos bears love to hate https://www.amazon.com/dp/1260026671/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1490913646&sr=8-6&keywords=bitcoin+and+beyond

u/emelbard · 3 pointsr/ethtrader

Great book. Walks you through everything. Written by IBM's Liason to Ethereum Core.

Ethereum: Blockchains, Digital Assets, Smart Contracts, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations https://www.amazon.com/dp/1523930470/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apip_uYFqCmTS1MtFi

u/Aussiehash · 3 pointsr/Bitcoin
u/strafefire · 2 pointsr/Economics
u/ydtm · 2 pointsr/btc

Great stuff!

Film: The Creature From Jekyll Island (by G. Edward Griffin)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu_VqX6J93k

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Book: The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0912986395

u/BrianDeery · 2 pointsr/Bitcoin

Happy cake day!

This was the same cover art that /u/eggdescrambler used on his Book of Satoshi. So incredibly circular.

The latest cryptoshow we were talking about someone who had claimed to be Satoshi, who named himself after Pikachu's chum, unrelated to Bitcoin's ThePiachu, then ThePiachu using the cover photo from the Book of Satoshi.

u/wisequote · 2 pointsr/btc

Please check the logical ordering of emails/threads as presented in this book, it might inspire you:

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0996061312/ref=pe_2480960_170170910

u/burtonash · 2 pointsr/CryptoCurrency

It's quite high level but The Business Blockchain was a good read/listen (I'm an audiobook guy)...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Business-Blockchain-Practice-Application-Technology/dp/1119300312

u/BitcoinFan7 · 2 pointsr/Bitcoin

The Bitcoin Standard covers it in detail

u/ProfessorPurrrrfect · 2 pointsr/options

I don’t know how I knew. Maybe you have a youthful and optimistic writing voice.

I’m 37, and I actually manage money for a living as an RIA (registered investment advisor). If you’re unsure about a career for yourself, I’d highly recommend it. Someone only 20 years old with your expertise would have no trouble getting into the business and be very successful.

Using Bitcoin or any hard currency as opposed to fiat adds immeasurable value to society. Read “The Bitcoin Standard” by Saifedean Ammous and your perspective will be expanded

https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Alternative-Central/dp/1119473861 and buy

And get a copy of the reference tome: Options as a Strategic Investment

https://www.amazon.com/Options-as-Strategic-Investment-Fifth/dp/0735204659

And your investment game will be better than most advisors by the time you’re 22. That’s the best advice I can give👊

u/BobAlison · 2 pointsr/BitcoinBeginners

If technically-minded, there are two topics that if you mastered them would put you among the most educated Bitcoin users:

  1. electronic cash (e.g., https://bitzuma.com/posts/bitcoin-think-of-it-as-electronic-cash/)
  2. hash functions (e.g., https://bitzuma.com/posts/seven-things-bitcoin-users-should-know-about-hash-functions/)

    There are many scholarly resources regarding (2). No so much (1), but you can find good leads in the footnotes to the Bitcoin white paper.

    If socially-minded, how about the role that financial privacy or trust plays in modern society and what Bitcoin's role is likely to be? This essay is packed with resources: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565

    If financially-minded, you might think about whether restricive money supply policies help or hurt the poor (or some group you might care about). There's a lot of academic research on that. Bitcoin offers a laboratory to test these ideas, and a lot has been written about this as well.

    For example, a new book is:

    https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Alternative-Central/dp/1119473861

u/vakeraj · 2 pointsr/Bitcoin

Saifedean is the author of The Bitcoin Standard. Probably the most important book for any Bitcoiner to read, alongside Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopoulos.

u/NikhilRao1334 · 2 pointsr/CryptoCurrency

https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Alternative-Central/dp/1119473861

Read and understand.

Your statements are long debunked by several people.

u/don2468 · 2 pointsr/btc

> How does the LN affect your ability to use BTC as p2p permissionless cash? You can simply choose not to use it.


if LN or any second layer solution is the preferred scaling method it would take ~8 years for 1Billion users to open just one LN channel, no other commerce happening on chain just opening LN channels (lets hope none of them need to close their channel in a hurry) onchain fees will sky rocket (considerably less than 100 million people using Bitcoin in Dec 2017 led to $50 fees) that's how LN affects people who can't afford $50 fees to move a few hundred dollars around.


They wont' be able to choose to simply not use it when the fee is a significant percentage of the value they want to move.


or do you align with Samson Mow that Bitcoin is not for the poor.

the alternative is CUSTODIAL 2nd layer / or Bitcoin "Backed" Credit Cards that's what all you maxi's have been railing against but is in fact what the likes of the the author of BTC Maxi White Paper 2.0 Saifedean Ammous espouses we can have Bitcoin backed credit cards which by their very nature will be custodial

u/stoopidemu · 2 pointsr/politics

So... very high level. The blockchain is the system that underlies bit coin. It uses public/private key encryption. The public key is on the blockchain and everyone can see it but no one can read it. You have the private key. When you combine the private key and the public key you decrypt the address and this allows you to send bitcoins to other people. The chain is completely public and runs on every computer that is mining bitcoin which makes it essentially uncomfortable (someone would need to own 50% of the computing power on the network to corrupt it).

It is a whole hell of a lot more complicated than that, obviously. And I don't truly understand the whole technology. If you're interested in it, you should read The Age of Cryptocurrency by Paul Vigna and Michael Casey of the Wall Street Journal. They focus a lot on the blockchain as opposed to other books which mostly focus on Bitcoin. There are so many theoretical applications of the blockchain. Banks are already using it for internal currency transfers. I believe Blockchain voting is one of the ideas they touch on.

u/Ethereum_dapps · 2 pointsr/ethtrader

https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoassets-Innovative-Investors-Bitcoin-Beyond/dp/1260026671

Fred Wilson recommended this one today in his VC blog. He's big into crypto.

u/Oolong007 · 2 pointsr/CryptoCurrency

But they promised me a lambo... /s

Link to book on amazon for those who are interested.

u/emergepython · 2 pointsr/investing

Huh?

Satoshi created the blockchain whilst creating Bitcoin.

Bitcoin (and others) are commonly referred to as cryptocurrencies, or cryptoassets, or simply just 'crypto'.

So you do now agree that it was Satoshi who created the blockchain, and that Bitcoin was the first implementation, and that basically every single large tech, finance or accounting institution is involved in crypto in some way now? Whether they are looking to open up crypto trading, or use blockchain technology?

u/Quantumbtc · 2 pointsr/Bitcoin

Maybe it would help you to:
Watch Andreas youtube channel

Read : Mastering Bitcoin

  • Tons more of good channels on youtube
u/tawhidkhn63 · 2 pointsr/Bitcoin

thank you but I heard that book is mostly about why we need bitcoin and basically hypes it up. I as thinking of more along the lines of what is a btc lol. Would this be good?:

https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Bitcoin-Programming-Open-Blockchain/dp/1491954388

u/edbwtf · 2 pointsr/Monero

Downloading the blockchain is much easier than understanding the code. I just synced the Bitcoin blockchain from scratch in less than 30 hours.

Just diving into the code won't get you far, I'm afraid. Monero uses difficult cryptography and Bitcoin has been optimized for performance rather than readability. (By comparison: downloading the 6 GB Fastcoin blockchain, based on an older version of Bitcoin and Litecoin, took me two weeks.)

To understand Monero, I'd start by reading the Moneropedia and the Monero StackExchange. For Bitcoin, there are educational books like the Princeton Bitcoin book, and Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopoulos (free draft).

u/EB_FIRE · 2 pointsr/cscareerquestions

Interesting.

The issue for you here is that BI is really just expected to know SQL, Excel, and Tableau. Maybe some very light programming in R or SAS; but honestly if you knew python reasonably well you would probably have a major advantage over everyone else in most BI departments. I imagine your company changed titles for this exact reason when they realized they didn't need the full skillset of a data scientist/analyst (or didn't want to pay for it). Anyway, most of this stuff is not directly applicable to blockchain so even though you would hypothetically have more credibility simply by the fact you are working with technology, I don't know if it would necessarily give you enough to make the jump to blockchain. An equal concern would be you getting the experience necessary to do so which as I mentioned is not likely.

Of course if you really feel this is your best way to move into tech then by all means go for it. But if I were in your shoes, I would take a second look at cloud. Building cloud based applications will give you experience that is very directly applicable to what you are trying to do. There's also more ways into cloud than data. You can come in through a lower end web/frontend role or even a devops/admin role. There's a lot of resources and employers are more willing to hire 'unconventional' candidates because they need more bodies coding. You can get by with self-learning and then build something eye catching.

I'm not sure if you have seen this already but you might look into this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Bitcoin-Programming-Open-Blockchain/dp/1491954388/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527055715&sr=8-1&keywords=blockchain+python

I have read parts of it and it seems very good. It approaches the topic from a programming perspective though, but after you learn python it could be useful to you to align your knowledge of coding with blockchain.

u/DRIP-Coin · 2 pointsr/BitcoinBeginners

Online resources are great - but I'd also advise a good book.

A good book will contain accurate, well-researched, information and is easier to learn from than the, sometimes conflicting, online information.

Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopoulos comes highly recommended.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Bitcoin-2e-Andreas-Antonopoulos/dp/1491954388/ref=pd_sim_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=0HP80T1Q51BYJ4PT1182

u/mattblack_crypto · 2 pointsr/ethereum

I just purchased the following books:

u/BlueSkiesCaptain · 2 pointsr/ethtrader

https://www.amazon.com/Ethereum-Blockchains-Decentralized-Autonomous-Organizations/dp/1523930470/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506027569&sr=8-1&keywords=ethereum

It's a year old, but is written very straight forward for someone like me, a non-programmer. Also it's fun to see how things are changing/have changed even since then

u/caferrell · 2 pointsr/EndlessWar

I am glad to see that someone gets it. Apparently no one in Washington can shift their focus from today's politics to see that the US economy is dead and the dollar, IMF and World Bank are all in deep trouble

Read The Death of Money.

u/ItsAConspiracy · 2 pointsr/ethereum

Time based currencies aren't anything new. There have been a bunch of local currencies on that basis, many of them pretty successful.The book Rethinking Money talks about them. Ithica Hours was the first in the U.S.

Doing it on a blockchain is new, as far as I know. Seems like an interesting experiment.

u/ivanraszl · 2 pointsr/Bitcoin

You can pre-order the book on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Age-Cryptocurrency-Bitcoin-Challenging-Economic-ebook/dp/B00L73JQ18 Too bad one can't pay with BTC yet.

u/fortunative · 2 pointsr/Bitcoin
u/etmetm · 2 pointsr/Bitcoin

Interesting - while amazon.com only features the paperback you can buy the Kindle version on the international Amazon sites like amazon.de at roughly half price:
https://www.amazon.de/Internet-Money-English-Andreas-Antonopoulos-ebook/dp/B01L9WM0H8

I'd be good to be able to buy it as epub or a similar open format directly from Andreas through openbazaar or directly on his site.

u/benthecarman · 2 pointsr/Bitcoin

You should read The Bitcoin Standard, you see value from a weird standpoint. Generally, things gain monetary value because of how hard they are to obtain or create. Bitcoin is the more pure form of decentralized digital scarcity that no other coin can replicate. Bitcoin will always have value unless someone finds a way to make it not scarce anymore. Things like commodities are essentially the same way, sunlight is useful for creating energy but because it isn't scarce it has no monetary value, but something like oil which require work to get from the ground and refine to make usable energy, it then has value because of its scarcity. Bitcoin is in the same vein where it creates a digital entity that is scarce while also being digital which was never done before without a controlling 3rd party.

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u/HiIAMCaptainObvious · 1 pointr/BitcoinAll

Here is the post for archival purposes:

Author: Ivo333

Content:

>As published via CoinLive

>Bitcoin is breaking through a major level of resistance at $9k as the rally continues. This article looks to provide insights behind some of the key metrics and other fundamental aspects backing Bitcoin.

>

>Remember, when we see a pump in price, it doesn't necessarily mean that one can pinpoint the reason fueling the higher valuation. A whole plethora of factors outside the public knowledge may influence such decision to buy the token, however, by analyzing the latest key fundamental advancements, we can assess how well justified the rise is.

>#1 Google Trends: 'Bitcoin' Picking Up</strong>

>
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>#2 Social Media Hype Solid</strong>

>The social media activity via Twitter and Reddit on Bitcoin has been consistent since early April. We've drawn a line around 22.5k, which when broken, should provide further evidence that the hype is truly back.

>We like to use the website Solume.io illustrates the change in sentiment, as it helps us track the social activity on Reddit and Twitter.

>

>
#3 Developer's Update via Jimmy Song</strong>

>As seen in the Newsletter we love to follow Proof of Work .

<ul>
<li>> The Bitcoin Standard and my review of it</li>
<li>>Tx Fee Visualization </li>
</ul>

>#4 Bitcoin Lightning Network Matures</strong>

>According to Bitcoinist: "Data showing current activity on Lightning’s Bitcoin mainnet implementation reveals a network capacity of $148 million, up from $80 million April 10. At one point, over 2000 active public nodes were available to process transactions, which can confirm almost instantly for a fee of less than one satoshi per byte.What’s more, the network has now reached 7000 active channels."

> Read the full story via Bitcoinist.

>
#5 BTC Over the Counter Activity Huge</strong>

>As CoinLive has reported via Twitter: "Our network of Insiders telling us between 5000-10.000 BTC are being sold every week OTC by Chinese BTC miners to Israeli buyers - Wall Street type - as they look to accumulate a big hand in BTC."

>We also noted the tweet back in early April via Jeremy Gardner @Disruptepreneur: "OTC market demand for bitcoin right now is unlike anything I’ve ever witnessed. Several asks for multi-billion dollar blocks..."

>Read the original source. Also, read a story carried by NY Times on the same topic.

># 6 Bitcoin Market Opens to 1.6 Billion Muslims</strong>

>An Islamic scholar recently declared Bitcoin “permissible” under Sharia law, which opens the market to 1.6 billion Muslims around the world.

>‘Is Bitcoin Halal or Haram: A Sharia Analysis,’ a report written by Muhammad Abu Bakar, a certified Muslim legal expert, analyzes whether cryptocurrencies fall under halal or haram (prohibited) based on Islam’s strict definitions of money.

>Read the full article at iconow.net

>
# 7 End of US Tax Season Clears the Path for Fresh Capital</strong>

>"Selling pressure in cryptocurrencies could ease after tax day", those were the words from Tom Lee, the head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisors.

>Lee was quoted via Bloomberg earlier in April:

>"The April 15 income-tax filing deadline is contributing to crypto’s falling prices as investors who won big betting on the digital tokens sell some of their remaining holdings to pay $25 billion in capital-gains levies, Tom Lee, the head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisors, wrote in a note Thursday. Bitcoin dropped more than 40 percent over the past month, including a 2.4 percent decline on Thursday to $6,664 as of 9:39 a.m. in New York.

>“This is a massive outflow from crypto to dollars,” Lee wrote. “Historical estimates are each $1 of USD outflow is $20-$25 impact on crypto market value.” Lee says that $25 billion prediction -- derived from his estimate that U.S. households had $92 billion in taxable gains from cryptocurrencies in 2017 -- would represent 20 percent of capital-gains tax receipts to the U.S. Treasury. He estimates total capital gains receipts will hit a record $168 billion for tax-year 2017."

>#8 Technical Breakout Sees Further Shorts Liquidation</strong>

>The area of resistance at $9k represents a major hurdle, so when it broke, some shorts saw their stops triggered which creates an initial flash-type move on the combination of shorts buying back to close their positions and new longs coming in.

>

>To gain access to additional stories on Bitcoin, find below a timeline of the most relevant headlines in recent times. One can visit
CoinLive's 24/7 News Terminal </strong> to gain access to all the news stories.

>

u/cm9kZW8K · 1 pointr/CCW

> I'm really honestly consumed with curiosity about this crazyness

It not craziness, its a a mainstream theory of economics, Austrian, which is taking over and replacing the largely invalid Keynesian model which has been the orthodox for the last century and a half.

Some classics which give the basics: http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html

If you are genuinely curious about what the future holds, this is a good start: http://daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf

I also recommend:

https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Alternative-Central-ebook/dp/B07BPM3GZQ

In short, to directly answer your question: mercenary armies dont work. They always cost you more than what they can conquer.

u/censorship_notifier · 1 pointr/noncensored_bitcoin

The following comment by MarvinaFaustino was silently greylisted.

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> There is a large bitcoin twitter community that I follow that strongly oppose any hard forks. It's not just the devs, there is a large community that see any hard fork as a risk or more hard forks and any block size increase as a risk of further increase (and thus loss of decentralization).
>
> Saifedean Ammous and his book The Bitcoin Standard is one of the strongest voices in this space. He has almost no connection to the Core developers.

u/linuzri1976 · 1 pointr/Bitcoin

Read these two books to understand why Bitcoin matters :

  1. The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous

  2. Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopolous
u/GregFoley · 1 pointr/CryptoCurrency

I'm in the same position as you, but I've added these to my reading list:

The Internet of Money: A collection of talks by Andreas M. Antonopoulos, by Andreas M. Antonopoulos

Some Blockchain Reading looks like a good reading list, mostly whitepapers

Introducing Ethereum and Solidity: Foundations of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Programming for Beginners, by Chris Dannen

u/Supermoon26 · 1 pointr/IAmA

Hi Mr. Gates- I recommend you read The Internet of Money, by visionary Andreas Antonopoulos. I have been devouring blockchain literature for ages now, and this is the best book on blockchain and cryptocurrency that I have come across.

It is a collection of speeches on blockchain technology and how currencies will work in the future, and I think it will change the way you think about crypto and bitcoin. Actually, I think it will blow your mind and you'll do a 180 on crypto. Check out the reviews.

I'm an engineer, a programmer, and a policy wonk and this book satisfies my every craving.

If you put it on your Amazon wishlist I will buy you a copy.

u/BitcoinAllBot · 1 pointr/BitcoinAll

Here is the post for archival purposes:

Author: nopara73

Content:

>I don't seem to be able to buy it. All roads lead to Amazon .

u/BTCwas2500 · 1 pointr/Bitcoin

To those of you who want to know what Bitcoin is and what it does, here's a great book that I recommend to everyone: https://www.amazon.com/Internet-Money-Andreas-M-Antonopoulos-ebook/dp/B01L9WM0H8

u/bithoncho · 1 pointr/Bitcoin

I think The Age of Cryptocurrency is interesting so far, I got if from the library and will finish it up this weekend.

u/CryptoEra · 1 pointr/Bitcoin

The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L73JQ18/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1#navbar

u/peeonyou · 1 pointr/politics

I don't think you have an idea of history here. Read the book "the creature from jekyll island".

That book will explain to you the pains that were taken to ensure the federal reserve act was passed and who had interests in it and why.

u/callmethebreeze · 1 pointr/AskReddit

The Creature from Jekyll Island - Even at 600+ pages, it is the most thoroughly researched, well written book on money that I've ever read. Take your time with it. I assure you that by the end of the journey, you will have experienced a paradigm shift in thought.

u/logical · 1 pointr/Bitcoin

This is a promotional article for Don Tapscott's new book out today.

Don Tapscott has written a couple of insightful books in the past. I'll give this book a listen on Audible and see if there's anything profound there. The amazon listing already has endorsements from Steve Wozniak, Marc Andreesen, Clay Christensen and Dan Shulman.


http://www.amazon.com/Blockchain-Revolution-Technology-Changing-Business/dp/1101980133/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1460958196&sr=8-1&keywords=blockchain+revolution

u/ElephantCoconut · 1 pointr/india

If you intend on learning someday, here

u/myquidproquo · 1 pointr/Bitcoin

It's hard to go back and try to find what really clicked about Bitcoin. I had kind of a background on network security and cryptography (although not at the level to be a Bitcoin developer myself, unfortunately...).

I first heard about Bitcoin on the Security Now podcast probably in 2013 and completely ignored it. I didn't know anything about investing, money or the economy so I just didn't care.

Later in 2015/2016 I started to hear about it again. I was starting to get interested in economy, finance, valuation and all that stuff. So I've tried to read the wikipedia article about Bitcoin and didn't understand any of it. Public ledger and all that stuff...

Then finally I've stumbled on the original Bitcoin whitepaper. Read it. Loved it.

I was lucky enough to have just enough background in cryptography to understand it. It's very well written, very easy to read. You should read it if you haven't done it already. I believe you only need to have an idea of what a hash function is and what public key cryptography is to understand it pretty well.

Then I've started to dive into the question of "What is money?". Everyone will have a different opinion on it. In my opinion money is just a technology to help people make transactions and if possible to store some value that can be used in the future...

I've read The Bitcoin Standard which is kind of interesting and the famous post Shelling Out: The Origins of Money by Nick Szabo which some people believe might be the real Satoshi Nakamoto.

I really don't care if some economists believe that money needs "intrinsic value" or it needs to be "backed" by something. If you are trading it for goods and services and you can store it it is some sort of money.

And then there are some properties that makes some money more desirable than another.

Some of the properties of Bitcoin are very similar to the properties that make gold a good store of value. It is kind of neutral, nobody controls it, there's a limit amount of it. But it adds a lot of stuff that can make it better than gold:

  • It's digital.
  • Easier to transact.
  • Easier to transport.
  • Easier to conceal.
  • You can travel with millions in Bitcoin without being noticed, without putting yourself or your family at risk (just imagine if you're running from war in your country)
  • Easier to prove you own it.
  • Easier to prove it's real and not a counterfeit.
  • When demand goes higher you can't create more supply of it. (You can produce more physical gold by using more miners and machines when demand goes higher. But you can't create more Bitcoins/time)
  • You are not dependent on monetary policies that change over time and might be subject to political and social influence. The monetary policy was defined on its creation. No one can change it.
  • Bitcoins stock-to-flow will be greater than gold on the next halving. And will keep doubling every 4 years.

    I can certainly remember some more properties that make it more interesting than gold. But of course it doesn't have the track record. It just didn't exist 1000 year ago... It is not a good electrical conductor and it is not shinny and beautiful. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

    Bitcoin might not work out but it looks like a good asymmetrical bet to take. Gold current market cap is around $7 Trillion. Bitcoin's market cap is around $150 Billion...
u/Ce_ne · 1 pointr/Bitcoin

Here you go ... https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Alternative-Central/dp/1119473861

Edit: Please make sure you read this by any means. It can turnout to be the most important piece of literature you will ever ready in your lifetime.

u/ScienceRecruit · 1 pointr/Bitcoin

If you read The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous it will make sense.

u/Scarface_74 · 1 pointr/Bitcoin

Everyone interested on the subject should read:

The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking by Saifedean Ammous

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1119473861/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I have spent 3 fascinating days reading non-stop.

u/gmerideth · 1 pointr/Bitcoin

Pauls' a friend of mine - he and his friend wrote a book The Age of Digital Currency

u/tritter211 · 1 pointr/news

The Age of Cryptocurrency by Paul Vigna

Its written by a Wall Street Journal reporter, so its kind of a nice exhaustive basic introduction to everything crypto related.

u/JohnCryptoRambo · 1 pointr/CryptoCurrency

The Age of Cryptocurrency

https://www.amazon.com/Age-Cryptocurrency-Blockchain-Challenging-Economic/dp/1250081556

Back in 2016 when people felt crypto could change the world. It will come back again as BTC price rises.

u/bengjii · 1 pointr/CryptoCurrency

Read the Cryptoassets book, it's a superb overview of markets strategy and investing, well worth a read, it will pay for itself many times over.

https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoassets-Innovative-Investors-Bitcoin-Beyond/dp/1260026671

u/El-Chapo · 1 pointr/BitcoinMarkets

https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoassets-Innovative-Investors-Bitcoin-Beyond/dp/1260026671

Fantastic read and just came out recently so quite relevant.

u/TonyF1983 · 1 pointr/CryptoCurrency

I'm currently working my way through Chris Burniske's new book Cryptoassets, which I'd highly recommend:

https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoassets-Innovative-Investors-Bitcoin-Beyond/dp/1260026671

u/st00katz · 1 pointr/CryptoCurrency

This book is an interesting read.

u/unfortunateVictim · 1 pointr/BitcoinBeginners

It is still a good time to invest, but only the amount you can afford to lose. A good read is
https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoassets-Innovative-Investors-Bitcoin-Beyond/dp/1260026671

u/bergs007 · 1 pointr/Vechain

I just got done reading Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond. It was fantastic. It went into all sorts of discussions about the various phases that assets grow through; how speculation, volatility, and price discovery all evolve together; different ways to categorize crypto assets; how to think about crypto assets as part of a larger portfolio; red flags that have proven true; and similarities/differences when doing either fundamental or technical analysis when compared with more traditional assets.

u/Metalgear_ray · 1 pointr/financialindependence

That presupposes I'm interested in convincing you. You know it's funny, while your post inspired my initial response the reason I laid it out with the challenge at the end was to see if this community (well known as staunchly anti-crypto) could lay forth a convincing argument about why it would be wrong or why I should pull my money out. Perhaps something about the limitations of the technology, discussion of the effect of a recession or a potential black swan event I hadn't considered that showed someone had actually taken an objective look at the value proposition of bitcoin/cryptos and said I can't possibly add this to my portfolio. Instead what I mostly see are tired outdated talking points about crypto and ideology (index funds > all) of FI as outlined by people like MMM. There's nothing wrong with the principle tenets of FI and I follow them very closely but I also actively look at my portfolio to see how it can be enhanced or diversified through various investment instruments with varying levels of risk. Your OP represented to me that this sub would rather just not think about anything other than 3 fund portfolio index funds. Perhaps that's fine for the average person but I can't help but take a critical eye to everything I do with my money to maximize return while minimizing risk. Hence why I think bitcoin/crypto is worthy of discussion in this forum and further why I think it should be part of your portfolio (however small that may be). In any case, I find it humorous because we're coming from opposite ends where you say my argument is the 'least shitty' while I look at the likely thousands of people who have entered this topic and not one could provide a definitive argument of why my challenge is wrong or why I should not invest. It's almost disappointing that some of the smartest people on the planet gathered into this community with incredible foresight and outside the box thinking toward FI could not come up with something better.
You in particular have offered less than nothing, implicitly agreeing that I am correct with my challenge and even outright trying to misinterpret the spirit of the question to somehow turn it against me. Sad, really but that's the state of things. Many will come around to this space when it's too late or not at all but I suppose that is their loss, not mine.


In any case, if I were to indulge your supposed good faith inquiry as to why you should invest in bitcoin or otherwise, I would start by reading the white papers for Bitcoin and Ethereum. It will help you understand the first generation of a public blockchain as compared to the second generation which offers greater versatility than a simple digital distributed ledger.


A good book to read on why cryptos are a good investment would be the one I linked below. They highlight a lot of why an uncorrelated asset like bitcoin, despite the risk and volatility, actually reduces the risk of your overall portfolio.


If you're interested in a professional trader's opinion, I would check out this video by Bob Loukas on the "bitcoin cycle". He specializes in asset bubbles and believes bitcoin operates like an emerging asset going through several cycles as adoption increases. It's tied to the economic policy built into bitocin via the halvening, cutting supply issuance in half per block every 4 years.

Here's another interesting article for the case of a small allocation of bitcoin.

Searching youtube for Andreas Antonopoulos, he talks a lot more theory about why bitcoin is revolutionary.



There are other resources of course but frankly I think we are wasting key strokes on one another. It is quite likely one of us will be thoroughly embarrassed in the next few years and I really don't think it will be me.

u/Malefiicus · 1 pointr/personalfinance

Everyone gives me shit when I tell people to buy cryptocurrency in here, but I'm pretty confident that they don't understand it and haven't researched it anywhere near deeply enough to have a valid opinion on it. You should buy some cryptocurrency, I'd recommend somewhere between 1% - 10% depending on your risk tolerance. If you don't understand crypto, there's an excellent book that really goes over it well called Cryptoassets.

Modern portfolio theory has a lot of different suggestions, Morgan Stanley says 56% stocks, 19% bonds, 3% cash, 28% alternatives. Your asset allocation is very important for building a robust portfolio. Most models put alternative investments at around 20%, but considering the volatile nature of crypto I don't want you getting scared because it can ruin a good investment. If you're investing, you need to invest an amount that you won't worry about. Don't make the stakes so high in any singular investment that a large loss would really mess you up.

If the amount your investing makes you worried, lower the amount, whatever that amount is, invest it. 1%, 5% 10%, whatever, just make sure that you have some exposure to the cryptocurrency market, because it's going to revolutionize the future whether the average person understands it or not. You can wait till cryptocurrency indexes are available, I believe coinbase has an index of their cryptocurrencies, though personally I don't like their asset grouping.

Regarding paying off your debt or investing, it depends on your APR rates. Investing in the stock market should net 4-7% per year, you can get similar numbers loaning on prosper. If your house apr is less than your average returns, investing is > paying off the house. That goes for credit cards and everything, it all comes down to math. My cars APR was 1.5%, obviously paying that off is not smart, because investing in any index will beat that by a good chunk. Money is the score, and the goal is to get more of it, the only way to do that, is to use math, watch the numbers, and strategize.

I'll also add that some of your debt can be moved around in order to lower your APR rates, for instance credit card debt can be balance transferred for 3-5%, sometimes 0% if you get a new card or a good promo. It's all about keeping your debt APRs low, and your investment ROIs high.

u/ensignlee · 1 pointr/BitcoinMarkets

https://smile.amazon.com/Mastering-Bitcoin-Programming-Open-Blockchain/dp/1491954388/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1512055205&sr=8-3&keywords=andreas+antonopoulos

It is?

Then why is it for sale? Even the kindle version is for sale.

Maybe I'm wrong - can you point to where he said he intended the book to be free?

u/edouardh · 1 pointr/CryptoCurrencies

I don't give a damn about lambos. I'm a developer and what makes me thrive in my everyday life are coding challenges. But I won't ask you to understand that...

If you think the biggest interest about blockchains is making money, you are far from understanding a damn about it. Neo is a governance token, as Ethereum is too. And the real revolution rests upon that principle.

Again, some reading/watching suggestions, in case you wish to educate yourself instead of posting non-constructive comments :

u/youngrubin · 1 pointr/booksuggestions

I was in the same boat as you and read a number of books on the subject. Most of those book didn't have much proof and got redundant. It felt like the books were selling me on hypothetical scenarios about how blockchain could change the world instead of explaining how it is changing the world.

That all changed with "The Internet of Money: Talks by Andreas M. Antonopoulos". This book changed the way I look cryptocurrency. I definitely reccomend it.

If you're technically inclined and want to learn more about how crypto currencies work, "Mastering Bitcoin" is a good book too.

Both these books have open source versions that can be found on github:

Internet of money: https://github.com/erangadbw/IoMv1

Mastering Bitcoin: https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook

However if you would like the kindle/softcover version you'll need to purchase them.

The internet of money: https://www.amazon.ca/Internet-Money-collection-Andreas-Antonopoulos/dp/1537000454/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=P0PTRQG90Q7D8MZ8X9WE

Mastering bitcoin: https://www.amazon.ca/Mastering-Bitcoin-Programming-Open-Blockchain/dp/1491954388/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525026587&sr=8-1&keywords=mastering+bitcoin

u/MarchewkaCzerwona · 1 pointr/BitcoinUK

To be honest I have more trouble selling bch than buying.

Try bitcoin.com for desktop and mobile wallet or Electron for desktop wallet.
Fees are at the moment below £0.02 for transfer.

Bittylicious is accepting gbp bank transfer, but it is not the cheapest site. Not most expensive either tbf.

When it comes to exchanges you have to read their rules individually as they are not the same.



Edit: I also highly recommend this book.

First edition was better, but this will save you a lot of money in long run.

u/witheredeye · 1 pointr/boulder

There are a lot of great resources available. It looks a little daunting at first, but I highly recommend reading the original bitcoin whitepaper, and then spending some time watching some videos. I would first recommend this one, followed by anything that looks interesting to you from Andreas Antonopoulos - He literally wrote the book on bitcoin.

u/c-789 · 1 pointr/Monero

Unfortunately that's beyond my level, but someone else may chime in.

You might find "Mastering Bitcoin" by Andreas M. Antonopoulos to be helpful or at least interesting. Even though it's not Monero-centric it still has good info. The [newest version on Amazon] (https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Bitcoin-Programming-Open-Blockchain/dp/1491954388/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1497328728&sr=1-3&keywords=mastering+bitcoin) is releasing in about 2 weeks.

u/sonicraf · 1 pointr/Bitcoin

hmm so I am reading Mastering Bitcoin by Antonopoulos, and here is what he says:

>Transaction outputs consist of two parts:

> An amount of bitcoin, denominated in satoshis, the smallest bitcoin unit

> A cryptographic puzzle that determines the conditions required to spend the output

...

> The cryptographic puzzle is also known as a locking script, a witness script, or a scriptPubKey.

...

>The second part of each output is the cryptographic puzzle that sets the conditions for spending. Bitcoin Core shows this as scriptPubKey and shows us a human-readable representation of the script.



what the hell is he talking about :)

u/mnijs · 1 pointr/Bitcoin

It is more like a high school final exam, not too difficult. Depends how much you know about bitcoin though. Funny thing is, the exam requires payment in bitcoin only, and that is a test on its own. If you used bitcoin wallets to transact you are probably half way through.

Here is the study guide

https://cryptoconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CBPStudyGuide.pdf

You can just use this to research the internet to clarify those aspects you don't know. The generic questions such as what is money etc are easy. Concentrate on cryptography, mining and wallets, i.e. the technical stuff specific to bitcoin.

The exam is mostly true/false choices, but pace is very fast. You have to answer questions within 16 seconds on average (20 minutes for 75 questions).

If you use bitcoin on a regular basis you are probably a bitcoin professional without the exam.

Andreas Antonopoulos, who is on board of this exam, can answer almost all your questions. Just google topics, and if you see one of his videos definitely watch it. Last but not least, if you read through his book Mastering Bitcoin you are good to go.

Free book here https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook

Buy on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Bitcoin-Programming-Open-Blockchain/dp/1491954388/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

u/x102oo · 1 pointr/Bitcoin

https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Bitcoin-Programming-Open-Blockchain/dp/1491954388/

Goes pretty deep into tech and not all is necessary to know, but its a great book.

u/BeachJustic3 · 1 pointr/ethtrader

Buy this

https://www.amazon.com/Ethereum-Blockchains-Decentralized-Autonomous-Organizations/dp/1523930470

Read it in a day or two. You will know everything you need to know.

u/LookingforBruceLee · 1 pointr/ethtrader
u/samsidsof · 1 pointr/ethtrader

Great list. Making my way through a few of those.

I've also been reading this one:

Ethereum: Blockchains, Digital Assets, Smart Contracts, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations by Henning Diedrich

u/gonopro · 1 pointr/ethtrader

Im in the middle of reading Ethereum: Blockchains, Digital Assets, Smart Contracts, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations I'm loving it so far, it's covering all the terminology, and breaking everything down in a fairly concise way for the layman.

u/Rufio6 · 1 pointr/SecurityAnalysis

You might like The Death of Money - Amazon Link. The first review explains each chapter in depth.

It kinda has a doomsday feel IMO, but lays out the current players involved in world economics and pushes some views on what can go wrong.

Econ is also one of my weaker topics. I'm interested in learning more about emerging markets and capital flows, but I'm not sure where to start aside from following the trail of amazon bestsellers and recommendations.

u/arthashastri · 1 pointr/badeconomics

> To me, it reads more than anything else like the person is getting a commission from some company which sells gold to suckers.

What even remotely gives you that impression? Come on, accusing people of shilling just based on intuition without any factual source is bullshit. People here area accused of that all the time, surely you can be better than that.

I was totally sold on the "He's crazy" part. He has written many books like this one, it seems.

https://www.amazon.com/Death-Money-Collapse-International-Monetary/dp/1591846706/

> Fortunately, it’s not too late to prepare for the coming death of money. Rickards explains the power of converting unreliable money into real wealth: gold, land, fine art, and other long-term stores of value. As he writes: “The coming collapse of the dollar and the international monetary system is entirely foreseeable. . . . Only nations and individuals who make provision today will survive the maelstrom to come.”

u/pineapplepaul · 1 pointr/ethereum

More currencies is a good thing on net. Not all currencies have to become reserve currencies of the world. They could be useful just to a small group of people, maybe even just a neighborhood. I suggest you check out this book. It really opened my mind to how new and accessible currencies could really improve the lives of many, many people.

Rethinking Money https://www.amazon.com/Rethinking-Money-Currencies-Scarcity-Prosperity/dp/1609942965

u/001Guy001 · 1 pointr/suggestmeabook

Don't know if it's exactly what you want but you can check out Bernard Lietaer & Jacqui Dunne - Rethinking Money

(Bernard worked at a central bank and in trading funds and he explains along with Jacqui how money is created/works/etc.)

u/beaverpi · 0 pointsr/Silverbugs

I've heard this argument before, and the nothing backing it really makes no sense. I initially thought the same thing. What it represents is a transfer of value. Understanding the history of "currency" from Rai stones to jewels to precious metals on to government based fiat really explains the value in this.

If you care to see why crypto currency makes sense, I would strongly suggest reading The Bitcoin Standard: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119473861?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

u/mossyskeleton · -1 pointsr/CryptoCurrency
u/Darius510 · -1 pointsr/personalfinance

Edit: Really? Downvoting a book? I get that some of you don’t like bitcoin but come on, that’s ridiculous.

This is a good book to get the basics down.

https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoassets-Innovative-Investors-Bitcoin-Beyond/dp/1260026671

It took me months before I felt like I actually understood it though. I've personally never come across a single person who understood blockchain/crypto enough to speak intelligently about it's intricacies but despite that still thought there was no place for it in the future. The hardest thing to wrap your mind around is how it isn't just a digitized version of traditional assets, yet it's hard to discuss with those unfamiliar with it without making comparisons to equities, commodities or currencies. But it doesn't quite fit into any of those boxes.

Anyway, that's a really good book to give you a broad overview. Then you can decide for yourself if you think they're the future or not. FWIW, I decided they were a few years ago and needless to say I do not regret making that decision.

u/ninethirtyone · -1 pointsr/weedstocks

Educate yourself.

https://www.amazon.com/Internet-Money-Andreas-M-Antonopoulos-ebook/dp/B01L9WM0H8

Obligatory, I didn't write this book, I'm not profiting from posting the link, etc. It's just a decent book that'll broaden your perspective on something you obviously know nothing about.

u/bluethunder1985 · -7 pointsr/collapse

thankfully we have bitcoin as an escape chute.