Trovato in sezione internazionale, non conoscevo l'esistenza di questo libro, che dopo una prima occhiata mi sembra interessante, quindi segnalo:)
Dall'introduzione "Who This Book is Intended For":
“THIS BOOK CONTAINS most of the writings of Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin, published in emails and forum posts during the span of a little over two years during which Bitcoin was launched and became established. Anyone interested in learning about Bitcoin and, more specifically, about the thought processes of its creator will appreciate this book. Its content will be an easy read for anyone having a background in computer software. However, economists and investors without a background in information technology may also be interested in “Satoshi’s writings, some of which concern economic concepts. Depending on background and interest, certain readers may be interested in only certain chapters.
To enable readers to derive maximum benefit from Satoshi’s writings, we’ve included a chapter entitled “How and Why Bitcoin Works” that provides an introduction to the key concepts of Bitcoin and the fundamental principles on which it is based. This should help the reader gain sufficient understanding to comprehend the majority of the chapters which follow. Chapters are presented in chronological order, from the earliest post in which Satoshi presents the germinal idea of Bitcoin to the most recent, which marks his withdrawal from public life.
Part of this book’s content comes from various Internet forums: p2pfoundation.org, bitcointalk.org, and the cryptography mail archive.
You can visit the website TheBookOfSatoshi.com for easy references to the URL web links referenced in the book. They are listed per chapter”
ps: in realtà il sito è bookofsatoshi.com
Indice:
About the Cover Picture
Acknowledgements
Who This Book is Intended For
Foreword
1. Introduction
2. How and Why Bitcoin Works
3. The First Post on Crypto Mailing List
4. Scalability Concerns
5. The 51% Attack
6. About Centrally Controlled Networks Versus Peer-to-Peer Networks
7. Satoshi on the Initial Inflation Rate of 35%
8. About Transactions
9. On the Orphan Blocks
10. About Synchronization of Transactions
11. Satoshi Discusses Transaction Fees
12. On Confirmation and Block Time
13. The Byzantine General's Problem
14. On Block Time, an Automated Test, and the Libertarian Viewpoint
15. More on Double Spend, Proof-of-Work and Transaction Fees
16. On Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Denial of Service Attacks, and Confirmation
17. More in the Transaction Pool, Networking Broadcast, and Coding Details
18. First Release of Bitcoin
19. On the Purpose For Which Bitcoin Could Be Used First
20. "Proof-of-Work" Tokens and Spammers
21. Bitcoin Announced on P2P Foundation
22. On Decentralization as Key to Success
23. On the Subject of Money Supply
24. Release of Bitcoin Vo.1.3
25. On Timestamping Documents
26. Bitcointalk Forum Welcome Message
27. On Bitcoin Maturation
28. How Anonymous Are Bitcoins?
29. A Few Questions Answered By Satoshi
30. On "Natural Deflation"
31. Bitcoin Version 0.2 is Here!
32. Recommendation on Ways to Do a Payment for An Order
33. On the Proof-of-Work Difficulty
34. On the Bitcoin Limit and Profitability of Nodes
35. On the Possibility of Bitcoin Address Collisions
36. QR Code
37. Bitcoin Icon/Logo
38. GPL License Versus MIT License
39. On Money Transfer Regulations
40. On the Possibility of a Cryptographic Weakness
41. On a Variety of Transaction Types
42. First Bitcoin Faucet
43. Bitcoin 0.3 Released!
44. On The Segmentation or "Internet Kill Switch"
45. On Cornering the Market
46. On Scalability and Lightweight Clients
47. On Fast Transaction Problems
48. Wikipedia Article Entry on Bitcoin
49. On the Possibility of Stealing Coins
50. Major Flaw Discovered
51. On Flood Attack Prevention
52. Drainage of Bitcoin Faucet
53. Transaction to IP Address Rather Than Bitcoin Address
54. On Escrow and Multi-Signature Transactions
55. On Bitcoin Mining as a Waste of Resources
56. On an Alternate Type of Block Chain with Just Hash Records
57. On the Higher Cost of Mining
58. On the Development of an Alert System
59. On the Definition of Money and Bitcoin
60. On the Requirement of a Transaction Fee
61. On Sites with CAPTCHA and Paypal Requirements
62. On Short Messages in the Block Chain
63. On Handling a Transaction Spam Flood Attack
64. On Pool Mining Technicalities
65. On WikiLeaks Using Bitcoin
66. On a Distributed Domain Name Server
67. On a PC World Article on Bitcoin and WikiLeaks Kicking the Hornet's Nest
68. Satoshi's Last Forum Post: Release of Bitcoin 0.3-19
69. Emails to Dustin Trammell
70. Last Private Correspondence
71. Bitcoin and Me (Hal Finney)
72. Conclusion
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Terms & Definitions
Index
Edit ps.... in realtà il libro non sarebbe gratuito su Amazon sta a 15€ (quindi grazie a chi l’ha inizialmente condiviso)
