Personal Learning Journal
A cryptocurrency, crypto-currency, or crypto is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of exchange through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it.
Book: When Money Dies When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nation’s currency depreciates beyond recovery. In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year was one dollar to 4,200,000,000,000 marks), the German republic was all but reduced to a barter economy. Expensive cigars, artworks, and […]
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Today was a HUGE day for Bitcoin. Elon decided that Tesla was going to invest $1.5 Billion dollars of their cash reserves into Bitcoin. This is shortly after Michael Saylor, CEO of Microstrategy (a public company), invested approximately $2 Billion dollars from their cash reserves into Bitcoin. Saylor starting strategically buying Bitcoin around August of
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Book: The Little Bitcoin Book Rating (1-10) – 9 Book Synopsis – You’ve probably heard about Bitcoin on the news or heard it being discussed by your friends or colleagues. How come the price keeps changing? Is Bitcoin a good investment? How does it even have value? Why do people keep talking about it like it’s going
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Book: Inventing Bitcoin Book Synopsis – Most people, upon first hearing about Bitcoin, don’t really understand it. Is it magical Internet money? Where does it come from? Who controls it? Why is it important? For me, understanding all the things that come together to make Bitcoin work – the physics, math, cryptography, game theory, economics, and
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Book: Bitcoin Billionaires Book Synopsis – Ben Mezrich’s 2009 bestseller The Accidental Billionaires is the definitive account of Facebook’s founding and the basis for the Academy Award–winning film The Social Network. Two of the story’s iconic characters are Harvard students Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss: identical twins, Olympic rowers, and foils to Mark Zuckerberg. Bitcoin Billionaires is the story of the brothers’
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Pretty ordinary day today. I went to Starbucks and worked on a blog today for Network & Market. I grabbed some groceries and headed back around 7 pm. I made dinner and watched an episode of Dare Devil and then went to the gym to work out back. After the gym, I studied back-end technologies for
Resources: Nakamoto Institute Archives Unenumerated – Nick Szabo The Ethics of Money Production The Bitcoin Standard – Saifedean Ammous The Origins of Money – Carl Menger The Bitcoin Whitepaper The Internet of Money Vol. 1 – Andreas Antonopoulos The Internet of Money Vol. 2 – Andreas Antonopoulos Mastering Bitcoin – Andreas Antonopoulos Inventing Bitcoin – Yan Pritzker