Princeton Releases Free Academic Bitcoin Textbook
Princeton is giving people the opportunity to learn about Bitcoin for free. The Princeton Bitcoin textbook is a comprehensive write up on the digital currency created by Satoshi Nakamoto and contains over 300 pages. One of the book’s authors Arvind Narayanan introduced the complete first draft via the Freedom to Tinker blog. Narayanan says: When starting to read the peer-reviewed book, it introduces the “corpses of failed attempts” in the online currency world. Out of the 98 mentioned payment systems most have gone nowhere except for Paypal, which the author notes, “And PayPal survived....
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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....
The first complete draft of an upcoming Princeton University textbook on bitcoin is now available. Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies takes comprehensive look at the technology behind bitcoin. The free download is the first complete draft of the book, with an official version expected to be published this summer. Citing its “conversational style”, co-author Arvind Narayanan, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton, wrote in an introductory blog post: “If you’re looking to truly understand how bitcoin works at a technical level and have a basic familiarity with computer....
A Princeton University free online course on "Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies" will be offered by Coursera beginning September 4, 2015. Coursera is an online education platform for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), which partners with top universities and organizations worldwide, to offer courses online for anyone to take for free. MOOCs give anyone, anywhere, the possibility to acquire a world-class education. Courses include video lectures, exercises and online interaction with teachers and other students. Some courses offer certification as well. The Princeton Bitcoin course....
World renowned Princeton University has started an online course on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies. The course will be available on Coursera, which is a leading education platform that aims to partner with "leading universities and organizations worldwide, to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free." Earlier, we had reported that Cryptocurrency was also going to be added to the Stanford's cyber security program. Princeton's cryptocurrency course will be available only in the English language and will need 6-weeks of study with minimum 3-5 dedicated hours per week. In the....
The academic textbook publisher hopes to capture a portion of secondary market sales on digital textbook sales by assigning an NFT to each title. Textbook publisher Pearson has revealed its plans to use non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to keep track of digital textbook sales and effectively “diminish the secondary market" for its digital textbooks. According to a Bloomberg report on August 1, Pearson CEO Andy Bird wants to assign NFTs to its digital textbooks in order to keep better track of sales and capture revenue that was previously lost on the secondhand market.Bird hopes the company can....