With bitcoin surpassing $5000, Have you ever wonder why it is so popular and how blockchain technology work behind the scene? These 5 books have the answer for you.

Bitcoin, the landmark digital money and financial technology, has spawned a global social movement with utopian ambitions. The notion of a new currency, maintained by the computers of users around the world, has been the butt of many jokes, but that has not stopped it from growing into a technology worth billions of dollars, supported by the hordes of followers who have come to view it as the most important new idea since the creation of the Internet.

Believers from Beijing to Buenos Aires see the potential for a financial system free from banks and governments, and a new global currency for the digital age. An unusual tale of group invention, Digital Gold tells the story of the colorful characters who have built Bitcoin, including a Finnish college student; an Argentinian millionaire; a Chinese entrepreneur; Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss; Bitcoin’s elusive creator, Satoshi Nakamoto; and the founder of the Silk Road online drug market, Ross Ulbricht.

With Digital Gold, New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper offers a brilliant and engrossing account of this new technology. At each step of the way, Bitcoin has provided one of the most fascinating tests of how money works, who benefits from it, and what it might look like in the future.

Want to join the technological revolution that’s taking the world of finance by storm? Mastering Bitcoin is your guide through the seemingly complex world of bitcoin, providing the requisite knowledge to help you participate in the internet of money. Whether you’re building the next killer app, investing in a startup, or simply curious about the technology, this practical book is essential reading.

Bitcoin, the first successful decentralized digital currency, is still in its infancy and it’s already spawned a multi-billion dollar global economy. This economy is open to anyone with the knowledge and passion to participate. Mastering Bitcoin provides you with the knowledge you need (passion not included).

This book includes:

A broad introduction to bitcoin — ideal for non-technical users, investors, and business executives

An explanation of the technical foundations of bitcoin and cryptographic currencies for developers, engineers, and software and systems architects

Details of the bitcoin decentralized network, peer-to-peer architecture, transaction lifecycle, and security principles

Offshoots of the bitcoin and blockchain inventions, including alternative chains, currencies, and applications

User stories, analogies, examples, and code snippets illustrating key technical concepts

This book is very informative, It gives step by step path how to purchase Bitcoin anonymously. This book tells you a great way how to use the cash generated by your business to purchase Bitcoins and later use it to pay your business expense to avoid risky cash transactions as you would do it normally.

Blockchain is becoming easier for understanding with this book. Here you will find a great guide that will be useful not only for beginners, but for advanced too. Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies are quite new to our life, but if you to have advantages from using them you should read books like this.

In this book you will learn:

- Introducing Blockchain

- How Does the Blockchain Technology Work — in Plain English

- How Can Blockchain Technology Be Used?

- The Pros and Cons of Blockchain Technology

- How Blockchain Can Reshape Financial Services

- The Technology Behind Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency

- 7 Killer Blockchain Applications That Are Shaping Our Future

- The Technical Guide to the Blockchain Technology

- Smart Contracts

- Business in the Era of Blockchain

- Executive’s Guide to Implementing Blockchain Technology

- 7 Industries that Blockchain Will Disrupt in the Future

- How Governments Throughout the World Are Responding to Blockchain

- The Future of Blockchain — Shaping Tomorrow

And Much, Much, More!

This book is excellent, it not only provides the blockchain 101 but also goes into the various aspects of how the technology works and will likely work in the future, pointing out the limitations and differences between bitcoin and Ethereum.

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