“Mastering Bitcoin” by Andreas Antonopoulos

Acclaimed information-security expert, Andreas Antonopoulos, gives a sweeping overview of the Bitcoin ecosystem, while giving precious detail in an easy-to-read manner. He explains Bitcoin and blockchain as an elegant digital organism brilliantly put together. The author discusses each of the system’s components, how they fit to one another and how this decentralized, borderless, pseudonymous, and highly secure system works. Andreas also gives suggestions on how to secure your crypto-wealth, even providing ways of leaving it to the family in the event of death of the owner.

The title sums it up accurately: Mastering Bitcoin encompasses pretty much all there is to know about Bitcoin in a single volume.