Aleksandra T.

YOUR GUIDE TO BITCOIN IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY, START UNDERSTANDING BITCOIN. NOW. No matter what is your background. A high school student from India. A practicing doctor from Poland. A recently graduated lawyer from Chile. A farmer from South Africa. A housewife from Serbia.Even if you are not a tech savvy person, but you know how to use your laptop and social media, you have enough tech literacy to begin to educate yourself. Bitcoin started to appear massively again in the headlines for the better half of the half of 2017, after its fame first rose in 2013. Scandals like Mt. Gox and the Silk Road, tarnished its image as a non-secure investment and as the criminal’s currency of choice, but it came back. This time around, Bitcoin is not such an obscure term anymore. A simple Google search will give you, and I am not kidding, billions of legitimate search results ranging from videos to books and articles on what is Bitcoin and what’s happening in the world of cryptoeconomics. I’ll begin with three free sources. The Internet of Money (book) This collection of talks given all around the world by Andreas M. Antonopoulos is the perfect source to begin to understand the core of all the fuss about Bitcoin. As it’s primary review on Amazon says ,,While many books explain the how of bitcoin, The Internet of Money delves into the why of bitcoin.” You can get this one for free if you sign up for an Audible account, or just visit his YouTube channel and see them how they happened live. 99Bitcoins ( website and a 7 day tutorial) This website is a great resource for literally everyone. Initiated by Offir Beigel, a marketer by profession, all their content has a beginner- centric approach by being practical and not too much tech focused. Sign up for the tutorial, which is in the form of daily emails with short, amazingly concise videos and visit it a few times a week to get the latest in the cryptoeconomics world. Princeton’s Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies Yes, the renowned Ivy league university Princeton. The authors of this book are computer science professors from the same university and other universities who offer the pre-publication draft of the book for free and they also offer a MOOC on Coursera, all in order to give the world a scratch on the surface of the nitty gritty technical details of this technology. Understand that Bitcoin’s first implementation in the real world is as a decentralized, peer-to-peer virtual currency, but Bitcoin is more than that. The practical technology it brings with its network and all the technology it inspired since its inception in a relatively short period, will revolutionize our daily lives even more than the Internet. Give a few videos or a couple of pages a shot and become somewhat versed in what tech people think is the next best thing after the Internet. • ALEX T. •-•