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Title: Princeton Bitcoin textbook freely available - draft copy
Post by: fxstrike on March 12, 2018, 05:59:52 AM
This book is written in 2016 shared freely by the writer in PDF form - this book is academic textbook publish by Princeton University Press.

You can browse the website here  (https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2016/02/09/the-princeton-bitcoin-textbook-is-now-freely-available/)to read more about the book, you can download the PDF file directly from here (https://d28rh4a8wq0iu5.cloudfront.net/bitcointech/readings/princeton_bitcoin_book.pdf?a=1)


Title: Re: Princeton Bitcoin textbook freely available - draft copy
Post by: jseverson on March 12, 2018, 03:15:56 PM
To add, Princeton also has an online class through Coursera for free. I assume that textbook is what the class uses as a reference. You can find more info here:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency

I haven't taken it myself, but I've heard good things about it.


Title: Re: Princeton Bitcoin textbook freely available - draft copy
Post by: ikilledcobain on March 12, 2018, 03:32:15 PM
Cool resource, thanks for the post - I'll have to check it out when I have some free time. I'm amassing quite the library - now if I could only find time to actually read through it.


Title: Re: Princeton Bitcoin textbook freely available - draft copy
Post by: fxstrike on March 12, 2018, 04:13:02 PM
Here is a link [please click the image] to the introductory part of the book and then video lecture you can follow on your own, if you want to follow a class like study pace free coursera (https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency) is recommended, there is assignment to keep you in pace.

1 hours video lecture is presented by Princeton Professor and cover from cryptography upto the future of BTC, save yourself uni tuition learn BTC from this professor. Can help lift up discussion in this forum more academic like

https://i.imgur.com/1XCiqpu.jpg (http://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu)