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Understanding Bitcoin

Cryptography, Engineering and Economics

Pedro Franco

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Understanding Bitcoin is Pedro Franco's technical account of how Bitcoin is built, from keys and transactions to the economics around the network. ChartClub lists the November 2014 Wiley hardcover. Explaining a protocol is not a reason to own the asset.

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Author
Pedro Franco
Audience
Advanced
Publisher
Wiley
Year
2014
Pages
288

Key takeaways

  • The book explains how Bitcoin works. It does not establish that the asset is a good purchase.
  • The November 2014 hardcover is the edition of this cover.
Wiley lists the hardcover as ISBN 9781119019169, November 2014, 288 pages. The stored cover is the file for that ISBN. An electronic edition uses a different ISBN and is not this record. The useful part is the mechanism: signatures, the chain of blocks, mining, and how those pieces fit. A chapter on economics is still the author's framing. It is not a price study, and it is not a verdict that Bitcoin must succeed. This record is protocol education. It is a different book from The Bitcoin Standard, which is a monetary thesis rather than an engineering manual.

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  • bitcoin
  • crypto
  • blockchain

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