The New Humble Book Bundle Includes a Book On Bitcoin
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....
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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....