Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy

I'm relatively non-technical, but was able to get my head around the Blockchain and Bitcoin concepts with this book. Great read.

I have always admired O'Reilly's use of animals for their covers but this is a genuinely unfortunate choice. One simply cannot resist the temptation to trot out the witticism "A point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between". Fortunately for the witticism, there's a good deal of truth in this particular subject. While this is a competently researched and written summary (based on a dissertation?), the author does become overly enthusiastic about the possibilities of the technology; one would not be all that surprised to hear that it cured warts, dropsy and the putrid throat. There is a reasonable critical balance towards the end, however. The book does fill a useful gap for anyone needing a comprehensive briefing as well as a cautionary feeling for the fervour that surrounds the subject.

Good content, and well researched overview of the field, spoilt by writing style. Very difficult to read in many places.

Excellent introduction to the business impact this amazing and complex technology could have.

Had trouble following how blockchain changed the way things could be done or what could be done. Jumped from one example to the next without really illuminating anything. If your happy with words like "effectuating" and "illiberty" then you may be happier with this than I was.

Much like any other tech book, it was out of date before it even hit print. Alright as a primer, but things have moved on considerably so not worth looking at now.

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If you're not looking for a technical diagnosis of blockchain but a history of and where it may possibly head this is the book for you. Thoroughly enjoyed it, on to the next one

Easy explanation

The best book for getting the big picture of use cases, it’s high-level, so you don’t need to be a developer or IT expert to understand it. Consider that Blockchain is an evolving technology under development, and this book was written in 2015, the basis are the same to understand the foundations of the technology, I totally recommend it.

The taxonomy of blockchain, crypto currencies and few other important technology information words are well described. The fundamental is strong and it is clear the attempt to make this book a “first read it”; issued in 2015. Still, for research purpose, it misses few “top class” papers and relevant magazines which is completely understandable if you think about the lack of literature at that time in the past. I read and I have it as a backbone of my initial research about the topic.

This is not a technical book on Blockchain or Bitcoin, but it is an excellent summary of the current technology supporting cryptocurrencies and an inspiring collection of ideas for how Blockchain could support a multiplicity of applications, in both the short term and the long run. Copiously sourced with an extensive index. Puny appendices on basic crypto, but again that's not the point of this book; for that see Satoshi white papers and relevant RFCs.

muy bien explicado y muy sencillo de entender aunque ya un poco antiguo