The Internet of Money: A collection of talks by Andreas M. Antonopoulos by Andreas M. Antonopoulos (PDF)

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While many books explain the how of bitcoin, The Internet of Money delves into the why of bitcoin. Acclaimed information-security expert and author of Mastering Bitcoin, Andreas M. Antonopoulos examines and contextualizes the significance of bitcoin through a series of essays spanning the exhilarating maturation of this technology.Bitcoin, a technological breakthrough quietly introduced to the world in 2008, is transforming much more than finance. Bitcoin is disrupting antiquated industries to bring financial independence to billions worldwide. In this book, Andreas explains why bitcoin is a financial and technological evolution with potential far exceeding the label “digital currency.”Andreas goes beyond exploring the technical functioning of the bitcoin network by illuminating bitcoin’s philosophical, social, and historical implications. As the internet has essentially transformed how people around the world interact and has permanently impacted our lives in ways we never could have imagined, bitcoin–the internet of money–is fundamentally changing our approach to solving social, political, and economic problems through decentralized technology.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “I’ve always wondered what would have happened if we had built one-click payments into the browser from the very beginning. With bitcoin, we finally get this ‘Internet of Money’. But this book isn’t just an ode to bitcoin — it’s an ode to open protocols, what happens when you connect people online, and the power of innovation on the internet.”–Marc Andreessen, co-founder Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz”With Mastering Bitcoin, Andreas Antonopoulos wrote one of the best technical books on digital currency. With The Internet of Money, he’s matched that feat by compiling his talks into one of the best books on Bitcoin for a broad audience. Highly recommended!” –Balaji Srinivasan, CEO 21.co”Over the past three years, awareness of the sweeping, transformative potential of bitcoin and its underlying blockchain technology has grown exponentially. That required people to grasp not only how this unorthodox technology worked but also its profound promise for society. No one has done more than Andreas Antonopoulos to get them over that hurdle. Read him. It will make you wiser.” –Michael J. Casey, co-author of The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order About the Author Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a technologist and serial entrepreneur who has become one of the most well-known and well-respected figures in bitcoin. He is the author of Mastering Bitcoin, published by O’Reilly Media and considered by many to be the best technical guide to bitcoin. As an engaging public speaker, teacher and writer, Andreas makes complex subjects accessible and easy to understand. As an advisor, he helps startups recognize, evaluate, and navigate security and business risks. Andreas was one of the first to use the phrase The Internet of Money to describe bitcoin and its potential impacts on humanity.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐My daughter suggested that I read The Internet of Money, and once I started I couldn’t stop. I just finished Volume 3 and wish there was another volume. Before I read these books, I had to ask my grandson what a bitcoin was. I’m 75 years old and he just rolled his eyes before giving me a very intelligent and coherent answer. I still feel like I’m in pre-school — there is so much more to learn about the world of crypto currency, block chain, Ethereum and more. I was so touched by the author’s explanation of the plight of the unbanked. We who are privileged have no idea how bad it is. I was grateful to learn about ways to mitigate the plight of those people, both in the US and around the world. Now my husband is reading the first volume!

⭐I’ve been studying Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies for a few months now. I think it’s never enough to go back to the beginning every now and then. There is always something more to learn.Speaking from my experience, I live in a third world country. Fortunately, I can say I live better than 90% of the population here – I have access to banking, I can afford to spend money on investments, have access to clean water and electricity 24/7. However, this book is very important in the sense that it is life-changing, and can give power back to the people. Banks will have a make a choice: adapt to the blockchain or die. And since people realized they can have more for less, banks will have a hard time to stand on their own feet. People in countries like mine will jump from being unbaked to being their own banks, and I can’t wait to see that happening. There are so many implications to this: they will finally be able to develop themselves as human beings born with rights, the line between classes will blur and they will have the chance to dream and fight for more. Blockchain technology is here to stay, and this is only the beginning.There was, however, one question I had left for Andreas, and which I will seek an answer to via e-mail or social media, maybe Twitter: he mentions a couple times in the book, how someone who lives in the middle of nowhere can have access to bitcoin using only a solar panel and a Nokia 1000. Considering that this person – probably – has no access to banking, how will he or she get their fiat money across exchanges to buy bitcoin? Or is there a way to fix this issue in the future? For what we see now, we need to have a bank account to wire the money to an exchange and then buy bitcoin. How can we fix this problem for those who are unbanked? That still seems like a very big obstacle – the biggest that when it’s tackled will take bitcoin into the path of worldwide adoption.

⭐This is just transcripts of his online talks…no bigg deal really…but one would expect a bit more when ordering a book for there to be more extended information than what one can find on the internet…but saddly not so…

⭐Andreas Antonopoulos is a legend in the bitcoin community, especially with his talents as a public speaker. His speeches uploaded to youtube are the best speeches and lectures about bitcoin out there. Which kind of hurts this book, let me explain.This book is a collection of his speeches. It is upfront about it, and admits it is talking to a crowd, not a reader. As a result, some ideas and themes are repeated. And reading a speech leaves out the cues of humor, pauses, etc. I can forgive that.The reason I can’t rate it 5 stars is because as a book full of speeches, it assumes something about the audience: his speeches are at bitcoin meetups, corporate blockchain events, and fintech developer gatherings. It assumes that the recipient has a basic understanding of what bitcoin is, and WHY it is so revolutionary.If I gave this book to my grandmother, she would never read chapter 2, because she doesn’t know why this technology is so revolutionary, or why she should trust it, or why she should be interested in it. I think this book would benefit greatly with a proper introduction to bitcoin. I also think a topic on bitcoin game theory would be appropriate. When people are introduced to this new idea, they look for holes in the logic. What keeps the miners honest? What prevents bitcoin from being copied? How can it be hacked? To someone that understands the basics of cryptocurrency, its a great read. But to find a book that I can give to the people unfamiliar to the topic, I will have to keep looking.

⭐Definitely a must if new to crypto or need a refresher. Explains things real well and in a different way!

⭐It gives a solid primer on the technology and potential of blockchain (and bitcoin in particular), but it does next to nothing to address some of the real caveats. If you own or know about cryptocurrencies, this book is preaching to the converted. Anyone less invested will genuinely benefit from this accessible, humorous and well-presented knowledge.My problem with this at times repetitive collection of transcripts from freely-available YouTube lectures is that it ignores the inherent issues of blockchain and thus doesn’t disseminate them to the general public in the way it does with its benefits. Problems like ever-increasing transaction fees, canonical cryptocurrency fragmentation, inaccessible wallet technology, blockchain size scalability and wild, unpredictable price fluctuations aren’t addressed and neither are crucial issues like centralisation of hashpower or the fundamentally unsustainable concept of proof-of-work mining.A more balanced account, and changing most mentions of “bitcoin” to “blockchain”‘ as well as mentioning rival technologies such as Tangle would have made this a far greater piece.

⭐The full version of the talks compiled in this book are available on youtube. Antonopoulos has a knack for explaining this subject in layman’s terms. Highly recommend this if you want to better understand why bitcoin is such a big deal.The books central message is that the technology behind bitcoin has “the ability to bring to the world a level of financial integration that the world has never seen before.” with implications that go far beyond just transforming finance.I already had a good understanding of blockchain before I read this book, but I still came away with some key insights.It makes the case that Bitcoin isn’t just digital money but a complete “transformation of the technology of money”, comparing the technology of bitcoin to the infrastructure behind the internet because Bitcoin is the first money to be protocol and network-based. Think of the Blockchain industry now being like the state of the internet in the early 90’s.Bitcoin is harder to understand then it needs to be, but this will improve with time. The community around bitcoin is evolving and can develop better UX design as time goes on. Society learned how to use the internet when it was new and hard to understand and its doing the same with bitcoin.Another useful chapter is on “infrastructure inversion”; when cars were first invented, they had to use dirt roads designed for horses. Once the roads were paved, new inventions like motorbikes, skateboards, scooters and bicycles were invented to use on them, but the old horses could use the new roads too. No one could have predicted these new inventions before the roads were paved but once the disruptive technology of the car came, and the infrastructure was built, all the new inventions were created to use on the roads.The “internet of money” will be like the new network of roads for finance. Think of the internet; it allowed the world to connect and interact in new ways that weren’t possible before. Bitcoin will do the same.The author is passionate about this technology, going far beyond an interest in it as just digital currency. I find it useful and inspiring so have given it 5 stars.

⭐Astonishing book. This is only the second time that I have been moved to write a review since I joined Amazon in 1999. Some of the insights and points made left me open mouthed. I have owned and used crypto currencies for the last five years. The book introduced me to an entirely new way of understanding Bitcoin, its place in our lives and economy and in our future. On the other hand, I found myself thinking “Oh, that’s really obvious” before remembering that it hadn’t occurred to anyone else before. Some reviews quibble that it does not go into the detail of the technology. That is not what the book seeks to do. It is not seeking to explain how Bitcoin works. It does something much more profound; it explains Bitcoin. I didn’t read this for free on Unlimited but paid for it. Once I post this, I will happily spend some of my fiat currency on the next two volumes.

⭐I have been following Andreas since I got into crypto, his book Mastering Bitcoin is a masterpiece. This book does not have tech so is easy read for everybody and I would say a great way to get Andrea’s message and his socio-economic-political view of bitcoin, which it totally resonates with me. I gave it 4/5 because I was expecting more details on the economic side of things, i.e. more numbers to support his beautiful thinking process. I already bought the 2nd one so curious how he did there.

⭐Andreas is well known in the crypto space and this book is an interesting collection of speeches he has made through the years covering many different aspects of Bitcoin and blockchain technology.A great read for crypto newbies and those with some knowledge.

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