Bitcoin authors writing books be like:🧐✍️📙
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Publishing credits
- Preface
- Contents
- About this book
- Acknowledgements
- How to read this book
- Introduction
- Why I wrote this book
- Prologue: The Genesis Block
- A note on sources and bibliography
- Chapter 1: The Extended History of Commodity Money in Ancient Mesopotamian Agrarian Society
True or no?
Laughed out loud here.
Not having read a Bitcoin book, I wouldn't know if they all start like that, but it just about fits my expectation of Bitcoin books.
Does not compute
The only Bitcoin book I've read is cryptoeconomics.
Maybe you can count Learning Bitcoin from the command line but it's not really a book.
It's the only one I may have finished beginning to end. I'm not 100% sure because I read it on the wiki.
I'm honestly super surprised. I thought you'd be the type to read all or most of them.
I don't mind crawling through someone's x archive or their bitcointalk history, but I am not likely to read their book.
You read so much and never read a book about Bitcoin? I’m surprised!
I can't bring myself to read any of them. Usually, I can find very good articles and forum posts on any topic in bitcoin. Hard to imagine a book competing.
That’s fair. The technical ones can outdate quickly, and others are hit-and-miss. I have read maybe five or six, and parts of a few more. Out of those, I enjoyed the Blocksize Wars and Resistance Money. Regarding technical books, Mastering Bitcoin 3rd Edition is great, but I’m biased: I was one of the technical editors for it.
Ha! This is the most true thing I've read so far this month.
And then, "Chapter 58: An introduction to Bitcoin" in the 60 chapter book.
ironic that it is, in fact, so incorrect then? #1611289
I think he's just poking fun. At least, that's the spirit I took it in and was continuing with.
That said, I haven't read a single one of the books you mention in that comment. 😳 Which do you most recommend?
oh man, you're missing out. They're ALL great.
Genesis book, first. (Aaron just released/opened preorder for a new, limited edition and GORGEOUS version of the book)
LOL, exactly!
Nicely put, and I def recognize this pattern...
but. Quite a lot (most? The best?) don't.
Not The Genesis Book... #588212
Not _Abundance Through Scarcity #1579572
Not Principles of Bitcoin #1573664
Not Tetek's Separation of Money and State #1586863 (Fine, a little Greek and Roman history in chapter 3...)
Not Scott Dedels' The Age of Time #1591951
I read the Genesis Book recently. Well worth it. Excellent compendium.
ATS - I read the 1st edition. The start is highly engaging, then the text wanders and I didn't have a clear takeaway.
Haven't ready Principles of Bitcoin (seems academic)
Josef Tetek is an absolute legend. I love his writing, his work, and general attitude.
Age of Time - I would argue this book is more about time that Bitcoin, but yeah, it's a bloody good one without any preamble.
But apart from these, EVERY Bitcoin book has a ridiculous amount of front matter. Agreed?
Noeh, these were just some I thought of off the top of my head... It I looked through everything, I'd probably find more
Prologues for Bitcoin authors has its first impression to what the reader has to expect when flipping through each page & what it depicts, whether intriguing or captivating.
Haha so true! By the time you finish all the dedication, foreword, preface and acknowledgements, you don already read half the book before Chapter 1 even starts. Just give us the Bitcoin!
You stopped too early. The full canon continues:
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