Bitcoin Badass: Your Keys to Bitcoin's Value
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Bitcoin Badass: Your Keys to Bitcoin's Value
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Narrated by:
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Chad Brown
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Written by:
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Chad Brown
About this listen
Where were you when you first heard the word Bitcoin? If you can’t remember, this book is for you!
Bitcoin Badass demystifies the brand-new type of money in everyday language and helps you understand, acquire, and manage Bitcoin - at your own pace and in your own way.
Follow along on a wild ride as the author recounts his own experience with Bitcoin - experience that you don’t have to gain the hard way! Learn about the beginnings of Bitcoin, what makes it so different than other monies, what blockchain technology is, and what all of that means for you, the novice investor and user.
Go from Bitcoin nobody to Bitcoin badass with this clear, simple, and down-to-earth guide to Bitcoin.
"Why Bitcoin Really Matters":
- Down the Rabbit Hole We Go the Thinnest of Air
- Something Strange Happened in 1971
- America’s Exorbitant Privilege
- The Road to Confetti
- The Apple Bank Allegory
- Gradually, Then Suddenly
- Bitcoin as a Lifeboat
"What If Money Gained Value?":
- The Many Benefits of Deflation?
- A Bottomless Purse for All?
- Why Bitcoin Grows While the Dollar Shrinks
- But Isn’t Deflation Bad for the Economy?
- Turning the World Upside-Down
"The Keys to Bitcoin's Value":
- The Value of Money
- Does Bitcoin Have Intrinsic Value?
- How Bitcoin Acquired Its Initial Value
- Pizza for Bitcoins
- Why Aren’t Things Priced in Bitcoins?
- What Is Bitcoin Backed By?
"My Bitcoin Investing Strategy":
- Predicting Bitcoin Bubbles
- Discerning the Pattern
- Learning How to Surf the Waves
- Two Types of Bitcoin Investors
- My Bitcoin Investing Strategy
"How to Own Bitcoins":
- How to Get Bitcoins (You Don’t Have to Buy a Whole One)
- How to Keep Your Bitcoins Safe
- Proof of Keys
- Getting Off Zero
"Who Really Created Bitcoin?":
- A Brief History of Digital Currency?
- 1983: Enter David Chaum
- 1992: EntertheCypherpunks
- 1993: Enter Cynthia Dwork and Moni Naor
- 1997: Enter Adam Back
- 1998: Enter Wei Dai
- 2005: Enter Nick Szabo
- 2008: Enter Satoshi Nakamoto
- Satoshi’s Last Words
- So Who Is Satoshi?
"What is Bitcoin Really?":
- The (Very) Basics of Cryptography
- What Are Digital Signatures?
- Satoshi Solves the BGP
- Introducing the Blockchain
- Hard Work but Good Pay in the Bitcoin Mines
- Can the Bitcoin Protocol Be Changed?
- Undeniable Scarcity
- Does Mining Harm the Environment?
- Potential Threats to Bitcoin
- A New Form of Life?