A great idea and a very good effort. The book will be very interesting, especially for those who do not know much about the history of Bitcoin. As a writer, you have to write impartially. I mean to write the historical facts as they are. In other words, you have to write the positive as well as the negative things, if any.

With regard to the donation issue, I do not think that there is a problem with it, and it should not be understood as begging. This is a great effort, and whoever wants to donate, there is no problem, but in my opinion it is not necessary to write the names of all donors.

I only checked first few pages, but formatting seems to be broken (on both Google Drive and default Firefox PDF reader).




Did you copy wrong imgur link? There are so many link "https://imgur.com/undefined".

I’ll do my best as always

thanks

Hi Tyke,

Great idea! I'd love to purchase a hardcover book on this topic for my library. I do have a couple of suggestions, though. Have you considered including a chapter on academic research and another on the experiences and posts of users in the bitcointalk community? It would be interesting to explore topics like the popular term "Shitcoin" and the concept of forks in more detail 

for the academic chapter I would suggest the paper published at the Association for Computing Machinery - ACM called "Bitcoin Pedigree"


Cite Them Right Harvard Referencing

and the post "HODL"

Best.

It was a decent move imo. While the hashtags are unrelated, it gives good visibility for the tweet. Don't forget that while you like it or not, a good chunk of people who follow those hashtags could be interested in such books as well.

if you included all networks that pretended to be bitcoin. your book would be 3000 pages long

i know you dont want to publish it for review because you want people to buy the book to read it.. but how about a chapter list with a summary/exert per chapter to see if your book is atleast on the right lines

main things to have (not exact order, just going by memory)

satoshis whitepaper, satoshis first block (genesis(going live))
and first payment to another dev(hal)
first difficulty change (competition ramps up)
  -which causes cost increase(first signs of price discovery)
bitcoin pizza deal
first exchange
change of lead maintainer. satoshi-gavin
first ATH
first legal merchants
-alpaca socks
-bitcoin cupcakes
new features like multisig
  -allowing for multi party 'trusts'/'joint account' concepts
change of regulatory view (legally recognised as currency)
first halving
second ATH
some exchange drama (mtgox)
change of lead maintainer. gavin-wlad
some core drama
some softening of consensus
core contentions drama
more features added
change of regulatory view (legally recognised as asset currency)
some core drama
-legal disputes (scammers vs bitcoin influencers)
change of regulatory view (legally recognised as commodity currency)
-legal disputes (scammers vs bitcoin influencers)
more softening of consensus
a [feature/flaw] added
core contentions drama

Writing a historical book is not an easy task, especially in this current economic reality where many things tend to distract the mind. I want to encourage you to keep on doing your best to ensure that this book comes to reality. It seems that your intentions are good because you want to keep the story of bitcoin alive. You have my support and if the book is completed please ensure you inform the community so that we can grab copies of this historical book. I pray that you have access to all the materials that you need to make this uncommon task successful. For now, I wish you all the best.

Why should the book be without the Roger Ver drama? The BCH and BSV debacles are one of the biggest swindling attempts in the entire Bitcoin space; it should definitely be added in.

Publish it mate, would love to read it, without the Roger Ver drama.

You have shared a tweet link where you were asking for a $2 donation (or charge) from people to get their name on the book. You are writing the history, how would you name anyone in the book? And what if there are 500 people? You will write the history or names of people?
The amount is so small but still, it doesn't look any better than a donation begging.
You are an old member of the forum. I always have some soft corners in my mind for the old users of the forum because you are the reason we have this beautiful place. I'm sad you are linking this in your post.

I think you are wasting your time and energy with shitcoins like DigiByte, Syscoin and others you mentioned, but it's your project and you can do whatever you want.
Current market conditions are not great and people are more interested in current market conditions then past events, that can be distorted with different points of view.
You need to understand that people are not willing to send donations and make sponsorship for any Bitcoin related books easy, except maybe for faces that are already known in public like Andreas Antonopoulos etc.
Anyway, good luck with your project, and remember to mention Bitcointalk forum as important part of Bitcoin history