Content tagged with "crypto"

Beginning Ethereum Smart Contracts Programming: With Examples in Python, Solidity, and JavaScript
Book Review
December 27, 2021
118

On the plus side, this book had a good explanation of blockchain in the beginning. It also explains the basics of Smart Contracts. But it’s essentially a user manual for a bunch of software tools. A lot of the book is screenshots of UIs. It was hard to “zoom out” and get a longer view of what the…

Bitcoin for the Befuddled
Book Review
December 7, 2014
976

I got a review copy of “Bitcoin for the Befuddled” from No Starch Press . The title is an accurate description of where I’m at on Bitcoin – I have a basic understanding of it, but the intricacies are escaping me. Sadly, Duning-Kruger being what it is, reading the book left me more confused, but most…

Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World
Deane’s Library
Book Review
July 6, 2018
141

This is NOT a technical book. It’s more about the larger societal and business implications of blockchain – like, how the world will change because blockchain exists. However, the book might have done well with some more technical information. The most frustrating phrase is “on the blockchain.” The…