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Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies
Arvind Narayanan ISBN 1400884152
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Arvind Narayanan ISBN 1400884152
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This book by Arvind Narayanan came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: guest. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies provides a comprehensive introduction to the revolutionary yet often misunderstood new technologies of digital currency. Whether you are a student, software developer, tech entrepreneur, or researcher in computer science, this authoritative and self-contained book tells you everything you need to know about the new global money for the Internet age. How do Bitcoin and its block chain actually work? How secure are your bitcoins? How anonymous are their users? Can cryptocurrencies be regulated? These are some of the many questions this book answers.
“there's a good textbook um called uh bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies um by arvind naranian which is really good at building intuition”— guest
The guest here is Nic Carter: Partner at Castle Island Ventures, co-founder of Coin Metrics, and former crypto asset research analyst at Fidelity Investments. A prominent writer, speaker, and podcaster focused on Bitcoin and decentralized finance. Nic Carter unpacks Bitcoin's core values, the blocksize wars, and why layered scaling, not bigger blocks, is the right path.
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