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Princeton Bitcoin textbook is now freely available

by t3hSpork on 2/10/16, 11:37 PM with 19 comments

  • by asafira on 2/11/16, 2:39 AM

    Michael Nielsen has a nice intro the protocol, for those looking for another source:

    http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-a...

    (he has other articles I would recommend taking a look at, too --- check them out if you're interested! )

  • by roymurdock on 2/11/16, 12:15 AM

  • by mgraczyk on 2/11/16, 1:16 AM

    I read this book when I took CS251 last fall. It is an accessible, mostly nontechnical overview of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. For those interested in reading the book and learning more about cryptocurrencies, I recommend going through the CS251 reading list which includes this book.

    https://crypto.stanford.edu/cs251/syllabus.html

  • by iamcreasy on 2/11/16, 6:12 AM

    One of the author of this book already had a MOOC about Bitcoin on Coursera.

    Link : https://www.coursera.org/course/bitcointech

  • by jbpetersen on 2/11/16, 3:11 AM

    Despite being a little outdated and justifiably overly focused on the computer-science aspects, this is a huge improvement in bringing academia up to speed on cryptoeconomics.

  • by kang on 2/11/16, 1:50 AM

    I found the book(& course notes) to be interesting but non-technical & little verbose. For those wanting to read technical subject matter I'd recommend the bitcoin developer reference & bitcoin developer guide at bitcoin.org

  • by nissimk on 2/11/16, 2:43 PM

    Since nobody has mentioned it yet, Andreas Antonopoulos' book, "Mastering Bitcoin," is quite good.

    You can build the ePub from source:

    https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook

    Or get it from oreilly:

    http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032281.do

  • by esseti on 2/11/16, 8:35 AM

    epub or any ebook ready format?

  • by sandworm101 on 2/11/16, 3:55 AM

    >> Princeton University Press is publishing the official, polished, and professionally done version of this book. It will be out in summer 2016.

    Is this really freely available? I'd much rather see Princeton release this book to the public domain.