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File Size: 2322 KB

Print Length: 152 pages

Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited

Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (January 24, 2015)

Publication Date: January 23, 2015

Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC

Language: English

ASIN: B00SNS9JLW

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This is the first O'Reilly book I have ever (since 1992 ever, I own shelves of them, and in my computer bookshop days sold thousands of them) found anything less than great and it was a bit of a shock, so much so that I am compelled to write (I think) my first ever Amazon review about it.Reading it (at least the first 46% of it, where I gave up) was like waking up back in the dot.com days with a hyperactive sales evangelist cornering me in a jammed elevator, making claim after hyperbolic claim (distributed artificial intelligence, world peace, godhood!) about Blockchain while doing very little to explain what it actually was. Actually on reflection some of the claims seem conflated with those of the Kurzweil Singularity stuff - yes sure Blockchain might be a part of that, but it doesn't help to include it in the book.I'm sorry, I know writing and editing books is very hard work, and the author's excitement about Blockchain is palpable if rather unfocused, but this one really feels like it was a padded-out dash to a deadline. Maybe it would have been better as a shorter essay.

I searched through Amazon.com for a book about blockchain and chose this one because it was published by O'Reilly, which for me was (no longer) synonym with well-written books containing clear technical information. What a disappointment! The book is a long rant full of speculative ideas, which reminded me of George Gilder's writings at the time of the infamous tech stocks bubble. Enthusiastic, almost delirious, the author endorses any crazy notion, seemingly oblivious to the fact that after all these years bitcoin can still do only seven (!) transactions per second at the cost of $15 million per day). My favorite example is the idiotic notion that a Guaranteed Basic Income (an idea that has no relation to blockchain) would create enhanced "cognitive focus". I normally do not write reviews for Amazon.com but I wrote this one because the book is a fraud and my image of O'Reilly has been irreversibly damaged. After reading the book I looked at the reviews and the very first one expressed views exactly like my own.

It's lightweight. Read the Princeton Bitcoin Book from Arvind Narayanan instead.

If you know anything about blockchain you already know more than this book. Extremely general descriptions of what might be possible with blockchain.

Book is ok. It gives you enough basic explanations so you can start reasoning by yourself, but there are too much fantasy assumptions on what the blockchain could do which personally did not interest me. If you're pragmatic and you're also easily bored with the "imagine if this and this and this was happening then life could be that and that and that" type of thinking , then you may want to pick another blockchain book.

I'm sorry, but save your money. Seriously, the first two chapters may be worthwhile, but after that the book completely degenerates and never at any point recovers. It becomes endlessly repetitive, seemingly forgetting it has only just three, four, maybe 10 sentences back written almost the exact same sentence. The effects of caffeine are everywhere: it just gushes orgasmic desire for the blockchain and everything imaginable in the universe it will eventually touch 'transform, effect, change every conceivable dimension of our economic, social, and political lives...'. Really, this is the main problem: its incredibly grating and irritating to read, becomes, really, the perfect representative of what wrong with these 'innovations' and the groups that produce them and why we should be wary. For that, its worth reading I guess, as a case-study in its own right.On the other hand there is the incredibly poor research that the book is based on. Posts in chatrooms and at the bottom of some blog count for the author as substance enough to expound on the great potentials already being worked out in the blockchain community. Fair enough, this kind of research will save you the time of browsing a few websites yourself; the problem, though, is that the author seems to make the subtle leap from the sometimes interesting content of these internet-comments to deducing broad academic significance of them and elaborating them in an academic language that seems to establish their significance as already accepted(Deleuze and Heidegger get mentioned a couple times, strangely). That, unfortunately is far from the truth and what you end-up with is an endlessly recurring confrontation with the naivete of the author and or their ignorance of what should count as real research on a topic and or their attempt to evangelize something in a revolutionary language in order to drum-up interest, all integrity put aside. And that's also the problem I see in this space generally: one 'white-paper' after another, another long 'logical analysis' of the security of a 'coin' decomposing into increasingly complex system of conditional 'proofs' relying on nothing more than basic natural language for their establishment. Too much of it is amateurs simulating professionalism or ignorance masquerading as intelligence..Anyway, apologies for my rant. I think this stuff is interesting, the blockchain, etc. But this book doesn't amount to much more than a collection of notes that would probably, if properly edited, fit on a single sheet of paper front and maybe back.

I expected to get some technical book, but it's a "very high level" journalism.I think it's not a problem of the book, but of the scarcity of information on amazon (buy at first, then you will see what you have paid for).It may be useful for non-technical people.

A decent overview if you are new to the technology. I would rate higher but it feels like it is trying to enumerate everything about blockchain usage but not at any depth. While normally a field study is good, I feel it just need real depth. The lack of depth in my opinion is partly due to the fact we are still figuring out how to use blockchain tech. It is hot, and there are lots of proof of concepts, but in my experience, not real production worthy implementations. I do look forward to a new edition where we finally start to see what really worked (aka more than 6 month long projects between pre-established relationships and not just Bitcoin).

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