Topic: [RESOURCES] Free bitcoin/blockchain/finance eBook. (Read 659 times)

Thank you for such a wonderful review on this book, I assure that I'll take your word in reading this awesome book. I bet that you have read a lot of these books and it seems that you are very knowledgeable in this field. Thank you for you recommendation.


I am afraid that I will not add this finance book due to the copyright infringement law but I think they can find it on the internet. I'll be reading this one as well.


Thank you for the concern @lucasholder. This is the reason why I am being hesistant in posting this direct download link in bitcointalk, I may have good intention in providing these resources for everyone but I am afraid that distributing these digital copies of their book will eventually hurt them. I have researched about Copyright Infringement and the DMCA’s Safe Harbor Provisions and learned a lot from it. Thank you so much for the enlightenment. However, should I delete this thread? and How can I help in some way?


I highly suggest that you must learn to love reading books because they are timeless. Books are very good sources of knowledge from people who are in the industry long time ago and it can help you to at least increase the learning curb than actually learning from yourself.

This is great op! Though I don't really read a book a lot. I'm not a fan of ready a whole book, but maybe I could read some parts of this book. Others may not also read these books since not everyone loves books but actually, this can really be useful for those who want to study about cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.

This is also good for students who want to use cryptocurrency or blockchain as their topic on their research. We have tried to propose a topic related to it before but we end up not doing it because of the lack of sources. So this will be a great help if others would also want to study about crypto. I would definitely save this and the links cause, it will be useful and I might need this in the future. Thanks for sharing!!

Wow, it is amazing. Links are legit. Thank you Raytheon. You help me a lot with those replies especially with the link to The Antonopoulos' github and the book on Ethereum. I gave you 2 merits because you deserved it.

Those links are featured on Andreas M. Antonopoulos' github (https://github.com/aantonop). If you're still not convinced, buy the published version (https://aantonop.com/books/) and have a look for yourself. I have read all of them on my Kindle and they're identical.

Thank you for given links despite they are not exactly what I asked for help. However, it seems those links are not come from Andreas Annotopolous. Are contents of them as same as books were written by Annotopolous? I remembered I read an online version of his book that has same contents as hardcover version but I don't save that link so I lost it.

I hate to be that guy but as a word of caution: some of those books aren't actually free and I'm guessing that their unauthorized distribution could potentially land you in trouble (luckily for you, book publishers don't really tend to go after infringers). As for Bitcointalk and Google Drive, they are both shielded through DMCA's "Safe Harbor" provision which means they are not liable as long as they comply with takedown requests by copyright holders. Hope everyone learned a bit more about copyright law

Amazing books for this isolation period. i have gathered enough of these ebooks for reading. to success in business, one has to understand and read about the business he is about to venture into. Not just by assumption like must of us do here. this includes trading investing and promoting.

Here you go: https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/blob/develop/book.asciidoc and https://github.com/ethereumbook/ethereumbook/blob/develop/book.asciidoc.

Audiobooks are quite different from ebooks. It takes a lot more time and effort to produce an audio file and hence, most of audio books exist under fee-paying forms. So far, Audible, Audiobooks and Scribd are some of the most complete and qualified providers for this kind.

In case if some one is interested in learning about day trading and its strategies while under lockdown then you could go ahead and read the following books. I personally have read the first two listed here and trust me they are very helpful.

1. Advanced Techniques in Day Trading
2. Day Trading: The Ultimate Guide
3. How to Day Trade for a living
4. How to Make Money in Intraday Trading
5. Start Day Trading Now

You can check the whole list here

Can anyone share links to two books: Mastering Bitcoin; Mastering Ethereum, on github, please.

I have a hardcover of the first book but don't have github link. For the second book, I neither have hardcover nor github link. So please help if you know. It is more convenience to have github links because I can read on any devices when I have spare time for learning.

Good group. I have read most of them. It is good for anyone who wants to learn more about economics, money, and cryptocurrencies.
I am more interested in audiobooks, where I can hear them while driving when drinking coffee or anywhere, do you have any compilation of audiobooks? Or do you know a reliable source for it?

I do not know the rest of the people, but I prefer audio and video. I hope you will refer to some channels on YouTube as well.

Although there were a lot of books relating to bitcoin already but I still would like to recommend Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies by Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller and Steven Goldfeder (Princeton Uiversity). As far as I can tell, this is one the most comprehensive academic textbook on bitcoin and blockchain, along with some Andreas Autonopolous' masterpieces.

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies provides clear and well-structured explanations on all technical matters, especially in first 5 chapters. The rest of the book is less techinique-biased but interesting and useful. The only downside is that some content/information was a bit out dated because of the publish year was in 2015.

Regarding finance book, it's a regret not to mention The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason. Similar to Rich Dad Poor Dad, it's old but gold. Principles mentioned in the book are quite simple but you'll find it not easy to make them habits. The sooner you practice those principles, the sooner you get reward. This book is excellent for young people.  

Thank you for a very fantastic review behind these books.

I have read the Internet of Money Vol 1 which I think is a very good start for people who are alien to the new technology. Andreas Autonopolous clearly explained the philosophical, social, and historical implications of the technology which gives me an idea of 'why' bitcoin is taking an impact globally. It clearly explained how bitcoin is disrupting an old era of making transaction.

Furthermore, I still haven't read most of the books here but I am starting to at least read one during the lockdown in order for me to be productive. I appreciate your review @Heisenberg_Hunter, i'll take note of that.

For people who are still new into the community, the Internet of Money is a collection of Andreas Antonopolous talks in his events, actually a transcipts of his teachings in crypto-space.


Unfortunately, I only read few of those books due to the time constraint given by the academic obligations and I just downloaded it whenever I encountered free eBooks in the internet it was just being dumped in my Google Drive.


I highly suggest that reading The Internet of Money first because it is packed with philosophical explanation why bitcoin is disrupting the traditional financial system and this can be a very good start for people who are not yet inclined in programming.

Thanks, OP for the Nice set of Useful Resources!!

You have shared it at the right time. Now most of us are getting time due to lock-down. We can utilize this time to read about Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain, etc. I have Mastering Bitcoins and the Internet of Money e-book, I will download and read other books as well.

I don't think new generations are interested to read paper-based books. So, e-book is a nice job by OP to offer newbies useful resources to learn about cryptocurrency.
For senior members just work on crypto project for learning new and emerging technology which might interest to bitcoiners.
I don't learn from book but from my experience. Hope for a bright future for crypto adoption to public.

I wonder if OP read those uploaded books already? But these are kinda helpful guides and interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing these files. They say the best way to increase your knowledge is through reading well I agreed. If newbies can read everysingle one of it. A lot of questions about bitcoin and some related blockchain methodology would have been answered already. I will download some.

By the way for all those who read already from any of these. Would like to ask which one do you think are good ones to priority? Big thanks to OP.

I think most cloud hosting can host malicious files too. Not exclusive to Google Drive. You can run an online virus check first anyway. IIRC Google Drive also has a built-in virus checker as long as the file size isn't that huge (but take it with a grain of salt).

You seem to have missed out a great book which I recently came across : Programming Bitcoin by Jimmy Song

When Andreas released the second version of Mastering Bitcoin back in 2017 I wasn't really aware of the technology. But recently at the end of 2018(not sure still) I was introduced to a book Mastering Bitcoin through forum and stack exchange answers where people were raving about the book and the content present in them. I just bought a copy straight away and completed reading them somehow at the mid of 2019 and was completely blown off by the technology which is governing the Blockchain and bitcoin in general.

Once I got to have a basic grasp on the tech behind, I slowly shifted towards the historic side of the coin creation and this is probably where I was introduced to another great book Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper. Well to be quite true, you might get a sleep at times while reading through as it tests the patience of the readers but they do provide a great insight on the early days of bitcoin and most importantly about the connectivity between Hal and Satoshi.

Programming Bitcoin is more or less related to development process and contribution and learning about core from a programming perspective written by Bitcoin Dev Jimmy Song. I still have never bought the book, but they do offer great exercise to be practiced while we are learning about wallet development and core contribution. It's still a steep learning curve for me since the book is related completely towards Python programming which I am have never learned still.  

Apart from these, Internet of Money Vol 1,2,3 are literally needed if you are going to introduce someone into the bitcoin space. If you have read the talks of Andreas you might easily change the mind of a fiat money supported and certainly make them start using bitcoin.  

Love this books actually I read the other posted there but would like to read more.

Anyways thanks for bringing quarantine life is not boring by reading this 😄

I am also aware that some of them are available to download in github community which is more trusted. I just include all the ebook I have stored in my gdrive. Thank you for clarifying  

Good Day bitmover

I actually use my personal google drive in storing these pdf and I don't know where I can store these files and this is the only way I have I know to access these files.