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"When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world's youngest billionaire and crypto's Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side? In Going Infinite Lewis sets out to answer...
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"When Bitcoin was first released in January 2009, each digital coin was worth only a few pennies. A single Bitcoin is now valued at over ten thousand dollars. This book examines digital cryptocurrency and the blockchain technology that makes them possible."--
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"After Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin dropped out of college and launched Bitcoin Magazine, he wrote the Ethereum white paper, which proposed an open source system that would take what Bitcoin did for money and do it for everything else: contracts, social networks, and sharing economies. Now, less than a decade later, his idea is valued at about half a trillion dollars, and it is the foundation for the weird new world of NFT artworks, virtual real...
4) The book of crypto: the complete guide to understanding Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and digital assets
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Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"This book provides a thorough overview of Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and digital assets and their impact on the future of money and finance. It provides a 360-degree practical, concise, and engaging overview of all the topics that one interested about digital assets needs to know including how Bitcoin and Ethereum work, an overview of the most important digital assets in the market, and deep dives into the various types of digital assets including...
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Wiley
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English
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"Get the edge that comes with knowledge Cryptocurrency investing and mining is a 21st century gold rush. Just like the gold rush all those years ago, it's best to have a map to the riches and the tools to turn your prospecting into profit. This book offers the amount of insight into the world of cryptocurrency that you'd need a shelf full of books to get otherwise. Want to get to know how cryptocurrency works? Look inside for information on the basics...
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Wiley
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"The economy is transitioning into digital currency as a means of transferring and processing transactions, but very little know about virtual currencies currently available. Bitcoin, a form of Cryptocurrency for virtual transfers and transactions, is becoming well known not only within businesses but also everyday users. Bitcoin encourages users to use as a transfer method of money in a safe and efficient way. Users have access to use Bitcoin without...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Bitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment in a long line of similar efforts going back to the 1970s. But the story behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and its blockchain technology has largely been untold--until now. In Digital Cash, Finn Brunton reveals how technological utopians and political radicals created experimental money to bring about...
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Harvard Business Review Press
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[2021]
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English
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"Brian Armstrong stepped onto the stage with quiet confidence. He turned to the audience and shared his idea with the simple slogan: "Coinbase, the easiest way to get started with Bitcoin." For a moment late in 2018, one Bitcoin, which physically amounts to a few electrons blipping on a tiny bit of silicon, was worth $20,000-the same as a pound of gold. Libertarian technologists who believed Bitcoin would be the foundation of a new world order saw...
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"The NFT Handbook is a detailed guide on how to create, sell and buy non-fungible tokens without the need for a technical background. Learn exactly what NFTs are, how they evolved, and why they have value. We'll delve into the different types and aspects of NFTs and discuss the different NFT marketplaces and the pros and cons of each. Create Your Own NFTs: Step by step instructions on all aspects of NFT creation, including what types of content to...
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2022.
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A TOP FINANCE BOOK OF 2022 by THE NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB
A SABEW BEST IN BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS FINALIST
A straightforward, practical guide to the newest frontier in investment strategy—crypto—from #1 New York Times bestselling author and personal finance expert Ric Edelman.
Blockchain and bitcoin are here to stay—and as the Bank of England stated, this new technology...
A SABEW BEST IN BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS FINALIST
A straightforward, practical guide to the newest frontier in investment strategy—crypto—from #1 New York Times bestselling author and personal finance expert Ric Edelman.
Blockchain and bitcoin are here to stay—and as the Bank of England stated, this new technology...
12) Red team blues
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2023.
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"New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues is a grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world really works. Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. He lives and roams California in a very comfortable fully-furnished touring bus, The Unsalted Hash, that he bought years ago from a fading rock star. He knows...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Featuring the prophetic insights you'd expect from one of most acclaimed financial advisors, The Truth About Crypto is fun to read and easy to understand--and most importantly gives readers the sound, practical advice we all need to succeed with this new asset class. Best of all, Edelman shows how blockchain works, the difference between digital currency and digital assets, and a comprehensive look at every aspect of the field. This book is a must-read...
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Currency
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[2023]
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English
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"In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it, celebrities like Tom Brady endorsed it, and TV ads hailed it as the future of money. Hardly anyone knew how it worked--but why bother with the particulars when everyone was making a fortune from Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, or some other bizarrely named "digital asset"? As he observed this frenzy, investigative reporter Zeke Faux had a nagging question: Was it all just a confidence...
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Wiley
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Find out the essentials of cryptocurrency mining. The cryptocurrency phenomenon has sparked a new opportunity mine for virtual gold, kind of like the prospectors of a couple centuries back. This time around, you need some tech know-how to get into the cryptocurrency mining game. This book shares the insight of two cryptocurrency insiders as they break down the necessary hardware, software, and strategies to mine Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, LiteCoin,...
18) NFTs
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Provides straightforward answers to the most important parts of the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) phenomenon, helping readers to get a handle on this cutting edge tech and how to start making it work for them."--
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Cotton Malone novels ; 18
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2024.
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English
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"1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japan hid vast quantities of gold and other stolen valuables in boobytrapped underground caches all across the Philippines. By 1947 some of that loot was recovered, not by treasure hunters, but by the United States government, which told no one about the find. Instead, those assets were stamped classified, shipped to Europe, and secretly assimilated into something called the Black Eagle Trust. Present day....
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ECW Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"For readers of Bitcoin Billionaires comes a true tale of Bitcoin boom to bust: the inside story of fortune and new beginnings in the cryptocurrency Wild West Fresh out of university, Ethan Lou moves to Western Canada to write for Reuters, landing in an oil boomtown with deep roots in the past. But before that, he had another life, in the cryptocurrency world, crossing paths with the likes of the late Gerald Cotten of QuadrigaCX and Anthony Di Iorio,...
