Blockchain Book “Chasing Casascius” is the most advanced book launch in history, and is selling out fast
Chasing Casascius is a photobook and that uses bitcoin and associated terminology in its story about a “Block Explorer” seeking an “orphaned block” depicted as a Casascius Gold Plated Bar. Casascius Gold Plated Bars are rare physical bitcoins created by Mike Caldwell. Purchasers of the book are entered into a third party raffle for the gold plated bar.....
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The Newly launched Humble Book Bundle is all about hacking, programming, and Bitcoin this time. A lot of valuable books can be picked up for a very fair price, and cryptocurrency enthusiasts can pay in Bitcoin as well. Every now and then, there is a new Humble Book Bundle, which combines various books on a particular topic and offers them at a very low price to support charity. This week’s bundle is focusing on hacking, programming, and there is a Bitcoin book as well. Especially this latter one is kind of interesting, as it will give people a better understanding of the cryptocurrency....
Join Tim O'Reilly, Michael Casey, Adam Levine, Daniel Cawrey and Lorne Lantz among others for a very special "Mastering Blockchain" book launch event.
The Age of CryptoCurrency, the recently released book by Wall Street Journal reporter Paul Vigna and senior columnist Michael J Casey, has been permanently recorded on bitcoin's public ledger, the blockchain. The book is the first by a major publisher with its exposure and interest to have a time-stamped digest recorded in the blockchain, actively demonstrating the technology beyond just the subject of the book. Digital Currency Council (DCC) director of curriculum Dan McArdle copied the book into Block 341705 using the firm's Blockchain Recordation Toolbox, which allows DCC professionals....
Forbes' own Kashmir Hill, who has written extensively about bitcoin, has published an e-book titled Secret Money: Living on Bitcoin in the Real World. Hill has the credentials to write about living on bitcoin, too. Last year, she lived strictly on bitcoin for a week - a challenge, but one that she managed just fine. You can read all about the book here, but what we would like to make a note of is that Kashmir Hill required that the book be sold for bitcoin in addition to legal tender. Not so surprising, is it? The electronic can be had for 0.0048279 BTC (at the time of this writing), or....
Princeton University’s first complete draft of the Princeton Bitcoin textbook, all 308 pages of it, is now available ahead of the book that is due to be published by the Princeton University Press in 2016. The first draft of the Princeton Bitcoin textbook, is now freely available. The book is aimed at computer science students, both undergraduate and graduate, as well as advanced students and researchers, software developers, entrepreneurs and technology hobbyists alike. The book is authored by: Arvind Narayanan, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton, Joseph Bonneau, a....