| I recently published an intermediate-level e-book on Bitcoin: http://bitzuma.com/owning-bitcoin/ This is the book I wish had existed when I started learning about Bitcoin in 2011. It's a technical deep-dive for a non-expert audience. Only knowledge of high school algebra and a willingness to learn are assumed. Every technical term comes with a definition. Over 300 figures help visual learners understand complex technical topics. Hundreds of footnotes provide jumping-off points and links to online demos. Cross-links allow you to quickly review prior material in later chapters. There are eight chapters: 1. Bitcoin from Scratch (the view from 20,000 feet of Bitcoin and its subsystems) 2. Authentication (elliptic curve cryptography) 3. Authorization (Script, transactions, and contracts) 4. Network (block chain, consensus, hard/soft forks, governance, segwit, Lightning Network) 5. Privacy (what can and can't be discovered about users of a public block chain) 6. Security (what to protect and why) 7. Wallets (software for using Bitcoin) 8. Bitcoin in Practice (a complete system for using Bitcoin based on the content in the first seven chapters) |