Topic: Mastering Bitcoin By Andrea, a disappointment ? (Read 972 times)
I saw his interview in the Joe Rogan podcast and he said the first part was easy and then it got pretty technical.
Expectation leads to disappointment.
Andreas wrote a book? Have not read this book, but have watched a few of his talks in youtube. He is very knowledgable about bitcoin and has a great vision of bitcoin in the future. I think he wants to talk about too many things and it's still a work in progress. Later editions will be a good read.
he's a good talker, not so much of a doer. better to give this book a miss
Andreas wrote a book? Have not read this book, but have watched a few of his talks in youtube. He is very knowledgable about bitcoin and has a great vision of bitcoin in the future. I think he wants to talk about too many things and it's still a work in progress. Later editions will be a good read.
he's a good talker, not so much of a doer. better to give this book a miss
There were a bunch of posts on Reddit about how a lot of the scripts Andreas put in his book would literally lock a user out from their Bitcoins forever.
So it is more a troll book than a teaching book?
If it is true then the author should at least publish some warnings and erratas about it
I don't necessarily know that is true, but people pointed out he was using OP codes that haven't been usable in forever, and one of the example scripts would prevent a user from gaining access to their Bitcoins after they made the transaction.
Andreas wrote a book? Have not read this book, but have watched a few of his talks in youtube. He is very knowledgable about bitcoin and has a great vision of bitcoin in the future. I think he wants to talk about too many things and it's still a work in progress. Later editions will be a good read.
There were a bunch of posts on Reddit about how a lot of the scripts Andreas put in his book would literally lock a user out from their Bitcoins forever.
hy redhawk!!!
but are you sayng there are a lot of trash scripts??
i think who you can advise us with a good book...
do you have a better choise???
thanks!!!
There were a bunch of posts on Reddit about how a lot of the scripts Andreas put in his book would literally lock a user out from their Bitcoins forever.
So it is more a troll book than a teaching book?
If it is true then the author should at least publish some warnings and erratas about it
There were a bunch of posts on Reddit about how a lot of the scripts Andreas put in his book would literally lock a user out from their Bitcoins forever.
I think it is good to better understand the bitcoin protocol because it has a very hands-on approach with exercises in Python that will make you understand a lot of the bitcoin internals.
But to understand the bitcoin-Qt client I don't think it is ideal.
For me the ideal book would be one that leveraged your C++ while teaching you to understand a simplified version of a bitcoin client in C++ with a lot of diagrams.
I am a visual learner so I have difficulty understanding things like STL map and multimap containers without diagrams.
My C++ is good enough to understand 95% of a C++ video tutorial like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rub-JsjMhWY
But still I expect a book to help me with C++ for better understanding of the bitcoin clients code.
Because it gets really difficult without diagrams, comments, C++ leverage and visual roadmap to get to grips with the clients' code.
I give Mastering Bitcoin five starts, though. It is very helpful and sheds a lot of help on the subject.
Much more is necessary. But is good achievement, and may help others come up with more good stuff.
But to understand the bitcoin-Qt client I don't think it is ideal.
For me the ideal book would be one that leveraged your C++ while teaching you to understand a simplified version of a bitcoin client in C++ with a lot of diagrams.
I am a visual learner so I have difficulty understanding things like STL map and multimap containers without diagrams.
My C++ is good enough to understand 95% of a C++ video tutorial like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rub-JsjMhWY
But still I expect a book to help me with C++ for better understanding of the bitcoin clients code.
Because it gets really difficult without diagrams, comments, C++ leverage and visual roadmap to get to grips with the clients' code.
I give Mastering Bitcoin five starts, though. It is very helpful and sheds a lot of help on the subject.
Much more is necessary. But is good achievement, and may help others come up with more good stuff.
Anyone here bought the book?
The reviews are not good : http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032281.do
I think those reviews are legit. Anyone feel the same?
The reviews are not good : http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032281.do
I think those reviews are legit. Anyone feel the same?
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