My reading-over-the-break thread, to be updated as more reading happens:
Kings of Crypto, a business biography (bordering on hagiography) of Coinbase: amazon.com/Kings-Crypto-S…
Won't teach you much if you've spent a lot of time following crypto industry; a reasonably good survey if you haven't.
Won't teach you much if you've spent a lot of time following crypto industry; a reasonably good survey if you haven't.
There are some interesting ideas which are brought up and then heavily underexamined, like e.g. the identity of Satoshi (which the book throws out a high-quality hypothesis in *one sentence* then then observes that Bitcoiners don't talk about this for religious reasons).
"You're being unfair with that phrasing, Patrick."
I'm being extremely, scrupulously fair in reporting the argument explicitly made in the book, and if I had my Kindle on me would screengrab it because my jaw unhinged a bit, too.
I'm being extremely, scrupulously fair in reporting the argument explicitly made in the book, and if I had my Kindle on me would screengrab it because my jaw unhinged a bit, too.
The other vexing part about the book is that while it introduces on the order of a hundred characters whose heroic journey is "Persevered, number went up, now they're rich" and, to the best of my ability to check, exactly three stories of Bitcoin having a use case.
Those are (again I am trying to be fair here):
* The 10,000 BTC for a pizza transaction.
* Some customers used Coinbase as quote their own personal money launderer endquote.
* Non-sovereign money gets brought up in extremely non-specific and handwavy fashion vis Latin America.
* The 10,000 BTC for a pizza transaction.
* Some customers used Coinbase as quote their own personal money launderer endquote.
* Non-sovereign money gets brought up in extremely non-specific and handwavy fashion vis Latin America.
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