Here are the Top 5 Books to Learn About Blockchain

The New Rage That Is Blockchain

In the context of innovative blockchain technology, it works without the need for a central authority where blockchain is the underlying technological foundation of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum with dozens of leading financial firms including the like of Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are investing heavily in developing the technology as for the people who want to learn more about blockchain technology and its applications, here are the best books on the subject.

1. Cryptoassets by Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar

In this book, Burniske and Tatar look at the blockchain from a financial perspective as they cover key technological concepts along the way. Crypto assets are written for investors rather than programmers or Bitcoin enthusiasts. Here it keeps most of their explanations relevant and comprehensible as they start with the origins of Bitcoin during the 2008 financial crisis and cover the basics, therefore, explaining the crucial differences between Bitcoin and broader blockchain technology. It then goes into detail on the types of crypto assets that have risen such as crypto tokens and crypto commodities.

Further on the book goes far beyond most of the rest of the literature, attempting to define crypto assets as an asset class as there is even a chapter that takes on the difficult task of developing a valuation framework for crypto assets. While the market is still too young, for any framework, to be definitive, they deserve praise for laying the necessary foundations, and finally they also deal with the practical details of blockchain investing. There are blockchain wallets, cryptocurrency exchanges, and initial coin offering covered.

2. Blockchain Revolution by Don and Alex Tapscott

Thereby the father and son team of Don and Alex Tapscott has written the book to explain the impact of cryptocurrencies as the fully open platform of blockchain technology expanding and transforming what we can do online the way we do it, and who can participate. Thereafter according to them, blockchain technology will immensely improve the delivery of expanding financial services and the safeguarding of personal identity information. Here there are benefits for business contracts and the development of the Internet of Things.

It further discusses the various ways that technology is changing the future of money, transactions, and businesses with an expert carefully explaining the technology. They observe it as a simple but transformative protocol enabling financial transactions to be both anonymous and secure through the distributed ledger. Hereafter the authors recognize that the technology is still in its infancy. Here they do an excellent job of separating what the technology can deliver now from its vast potential for the future.

3. The Book of Satoshi by Phil Champagne

The next is about blockchain technology and Bitcoin that are linked because blockchain made cryptocurrencies are possible, where this book offers the writings of the mysterious creator of Bitcoin known as Satoshi Nakamoto and the general public still did not know the true identity of Nakamoto. Whereas the Nakamoto persona has only a virtual existence, much like its cryptocurrency creation as the persona presents only in the online publications as Nakamoto offers to explain Bitcoin during the earlier days of its introduction. Here comes a definitive collection of Nakamoto’s essential writings that include the original paper detailing the idea of Bitcoin. It is in this book that Nakamoto’s explanation of Bitcoins is widely written. 

4. The Basics of Bitcoins and the Blockchain written by Antony Lewis

Another one comes from Antony Lewis who was formerly of early cryptocurrency exchange itBit which has been an expert in the cryptocurrency and blockchain spaces for nearly a decade as Lewis clearly and concisely breaks down technical aspects of blockchain technology in a way that is digestible and understandable for those within and outside of the space. This is while it covers the fundamentals of cryptocurrencies as well as it is also a useful guide for those particularly interested in blockchain technology and its many applications. 

5. The Blockchain Developer by EladElrom

Finally while other books on this list provide a general overview of blockchain technology, here it is written with developers in mind as such the developer does not shy away from the technical discussion and granular detailed information. Thereafter the introductions to the technology and its structure, the author discusses the process of creating the blockchain, building dApps, and more. Here this is a specialized section of the book relating to popular existing blockchain for developers interested in creating apps for preexisting networks as well as a portion of the book about blockchain applications outside of cryptocurrency.