VLK249 reviewed Blockchain by Melanie Swan
Review of 'Blockchain' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
The information in this book will be a bit old and outdated now (not when I originally read it), as the blockchain and assorted technologies are vast, ever-changing, and innovating. It gives a broad and slightly generalized overview of most extents of the blockchain at the time of publication. Any deep dives, reference the source material, whitepapers, and so on. But if you're a person who is curious about what the technology does and where it could head, it goes way beyond the basics of "wallets".
I wouldn't recommend this material to people who are looking to invest in cryptocurrency or understanding the hype behind new and old trends within, such as DogeCoin or NFTs (those the latter is touched on, though the psychology of human spending isn't covered here). If you're looking for that stuff, go somewhere else.
It's an accessible read given how convoluted blockchain and assorted technology …
The information in this book will be a bit old and outdated now (not when I originally read it), as the blockchain and assorted technologies are vast, ever-changing, and innovating. It gives a broad and slightly generalized overview of most extents of the blockchain at the time of publication. Any deep dives, reference the source material, whitepapers, and so on. But if you're a person who is curious about what the technology does and where it could head, it goes way beyond the basics of "wallets".
I wouldn't recommend this material to people who are looking to invest in cryptocurrency or understanding the hype behind new and old trends within, such as DogeCoin or NFTs (those the latter is touched on, though the psychology of human spending isn't covered here). If you're looking for that stuff, go somewhere else.
It's an accessible read given how convoluted blockchain and assorted technology can be, and covers what you need to know, and is a great piece of follow up work to those who want to know what it can do than what the news says. It's light. If you're a wannabe cryptoenthusiast, you're the right reader for this book. Again, newbies will not benefit from this, and the people who are experienced in crytpo and the blockchain will find no information to be gained from this. It's niched, and for me, it fits as a solid explanatory read. But most readers are in the larger band who don't want a "this is what the extent of crypto can do", they just want to make money. And the power crypto people (developers, researchers, security specialists, etc) will snuff at this for being uninformative.