5 Must-read Books on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency | All available on Bodhi Library

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Unless you are new to the cryptosphere, you must have heard about blockchains and cryptocurrencies.

Well, if you haven’t, ‘blockchains’ and ‘cryptocurrencies’ are the new buzz words, something the world is talking about.

The ‘blockchain’ is the technology over which ‘cryptocurrencies’ are built. This technology is fairly new – 9 years since it was born.

It started with application currencies like Bitcoin and Litecoin, but with time, the combined technology of crypto and blockchain has carved a niche for itself.

Although such technologies are still not widely accepted in the present scenario, the days when they will inevitably be a part of our daily lives are not too far.

Therefore, if you want to remain a step ahead of others in learning about these new technological advancements, here are some books that we suggest you read.

. Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond

Whether or not one contemplates investing in cryptoassets, anyone with a practical or theoretical interest in financial markets should know about them. Burniske and Tatar do an excellent job explaining this brave new world to us.

. The Age Of Cryptocurrency

Without a doubt a great book on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies for those starting out. The book is written by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey. It gives you a bird’s eye view of Bitcoin’s past, present and its probable future which can be a fate of many other cryptocurrencies that followed Bitcoin. Also, the book becomes highly readable and engaging as you read through because it walks you through the extended use cases of the disruptive blockchain and crypto tech. A book highly recommended for people who aspire to understand bitcoins and blockchains in detail.

. The Business Blockchain

This is a blockchain book for businesses, especially for executives and managers looking after the blockchain technology. The writer – William Mougayar – is an entrepreneur himself and an avid researcher on blockchain technologies. If you are someone who wants to understand the implications of blockchains on financial services and develop some POCs & projects around it, this is a must-read. If you are a beginner, this shouldn’t be your first book.

. Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency Technologies

This is one fantastic read. The name of the book – Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction – is self-explanatory. Whether you are a student, a software developer, a tech entrepreneur or a researcher in computer science, this book is a good tool to enlighten yourself about ‘Internet Money’. Co-authored by five intelligent personnel, this book gives you a factual picture of every core concept of Bitcoin and the technology behind it. Some of the chapters that are particularly interesting are ‘Community, Politics, and Regulation‘ & ‘Alternative Mining Puzzles‘. Overall the best you can get for all levels.

.The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

The book fills a gap on three fronts. First it helps those of us who became enamored with Bitcoin through individual and economic freedom explain our viewpoint in a succinct manner. Second, it serves as a philosophical on-ramp to the multitudes of speculators who flooded into Bitcoin in the past 6 months or so. It provides them a concrete reason to transform their time-preference (a key economic theme in the book) from trader to HODLer. Lastly, it is for people who have never heard of Bitcoin or have heard of it but don’t know or understand much about it. It provides these folks with the very best reason for converting at least some of their government-backed fiat money into the sound/hard money of Bitcoin.

Another overriding theme in the book is security. Without it there is no such thing as financial freedom. Near the beginning of the book Ammous explains:

“Should you come out of reading this book thinking that the bitcoin currency is something worth owning, your first investment should not be in buying bitcoins, but in time spent understanding how to buy, store, and own bitcoins securely.”
This is without a doubt the best advice one could possibly give regarding Bitcoin.

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