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“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…”
“I got a review copy of ‘Bitcoin for the Befuddled’ from No Starch Press (a publisher I’ve really enjoyed over the years). 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,…”
“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…”
“At its most basic level, an NFT is some digital data that can be uniquely distinguished from any other data. This seems simplistic, but it enables up a lot of interesting secondary effects. Understand that in digital terms, true uniqueness of data is rare. Normally, a byte on a hard disk and an…”