I can't really review a book I worked on and (copy-)edited (#910275)... so I won't.
... but I can highlight other thoughtful reviews of the book. Here's Peter Duan on Twitter:
"If there’s one Bitcoin book that deserves far more attention, it’s the Bitcoin Age by Nik Bhatia. Even after spending 1,000+ hours studying Bitcoin, I didn’t expect to learn so much in just 170 pages. Here are some of the most compelling insights I took away:"
- Nik Bhatia is great: competent and credentialed. "Bhatia doesn’t just analyze Bitcoin in isolation - he contextualizes it with financial history and technological development."
- Beauty of the book is how it merges tech and the credit system:
The first section talks about how our current Credit System got started and how it evolved over time. The second section discusses the history of cryptography, cypherpunks, and the various components that lead to the invention of Bitcoin.
- Eurodollar emergence:
- "the technology behind Bitcoin has its origins that predates it by a couple of decades."
Seven main components: Hash functions, Time-Stamps, Cypherpunks, US Constitution, Proof of Work, Distributed Time-Stamping, Satoshi Nakamoto (really: Nakamoto consensus)
You can find the Bitcoin Age here