Bitcoin For Dummies
£15.20
Bitcoin For Dummies is the fast, easy way to start trading crypto currency, with clear explanations and expert advice for breaking into this exciting new market. Understanding the mechanisms and risk behind Bitcoin can be a challenge, but this book breaks it down into easy-to-understand language to give you a solid grasp of just where your money is going. You’ll learn the details of Bitcoin trading, how to set up your Bitcoin wallet, and everything you need to get started right away. An in-depth discussion on security shows you how to protect yourself against some of the riskier aspects of this open-source platform, helping you reduce your risks in the market and use Bitcoin safely and effectively.
Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority or banks, with transaction management and issuing of Bitcoins carried out collectively by the network. Bitcoin allows easy mobile payments, fast international payments, low- or no-fee transactions, multi-signature capabilities, and more, but the nuances of the market can be difficult to grasp. This informative guide lays it all out in plain English, so you can strengthen your understanding and get started now.
- Understand the ins and outs of the Bitcoin market
- Learn how to set up your Bitcoin wallet
- Protect yourself against fraud and theft
- Get started trading this exciting new currency
The Bitcoin market is huge, growing quickly, and packed with potential. There’s also some risk, so you need to go in fully informed and take steps to manage your risk wisely. Bitcoin For Dummies is the clear, quick, easy-to-follow guide to getting started with Bitcoin.
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Additional information
| Publisher | 1st edition (25 Mar. 2016), For Dummies |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 208 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1119076137 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1119076131 |
| Dimensions | 15.49 x 1.52 x 23.37 cm |
by silverfrommars
Learnt new things, but lacking in ways to sell your coins after you’ve bought them, (at a reasonable price, that is!).
by Kindle Customer
Quick, reasonably priced. Great suprise. No marks or scratches. Best Buy of the Year. ????
by Mr. Martin J. Hughes
If you know nothing about Bitcoin, this book provides a good basic introduction. I do have to say, though, that the book was not up to the standard that I have come to expect from the “for Dummies” series. There is virtually no technical information in the book. For example it says ” Bitcoin miners must validate a new transaction” but it gives no technical information on how this is done.
by P. Matthews
Quite a complex subject but dealt with very clearly. Dummies books can be relied upon to make things simple and it succeeds here, as far as it can. Blockchains are not the easiest thing to understand and trying to buy bitcoins in the UK is not simple. The book could perhaps go into a more detail here. Ideally it could mention other crypto’s.
by M. Worley
Though through reading this book I’ve learnt a lot about Bitcoin… or at least how it’s used, acquired, set up etc… I would still say it’s only a superficial understanding of the subject… it’s basically more ‘how to’ than ‘what is’, in the sense that I don’t think the core ideas are explained very well, if at all; they’re more ‘skirted around’ perhaps in the hope that you’ll deduce the meaning through exposure and context, which to some extent you do but in my opinion that’s no substitute for just some basic explanations and definitions of key terms/ideas such as what the blockchain actually is and what it hopes to achieve. In the end I turned to youtube videos and they gave me the ‘ah, I see’ moments that this book never did. It’s just disappointing in the sense that the first type of book that comes to mind if I want basic information on a subject is a ‘Teach Yourself’ or ‘For Dummies’ book, but this, I felt, really missed the mark on that score.
But all that said, and as I said, this book is still interesting and informative at the level it does discuss… and more so in light of what I’ve since learnt from those youtube videos… but I’d just say it requires more knowledge going in than it implies and that would easily have been solved with just a few diagrams or simple definitions. But at the end of the day, still worth a read I think, since it is still informative and still does stimulate curiosity about the subject, but just important to go in with the right expectations; that it’s a ‘how to’ book more than a ‘what is’ book.
by grow green
Excellent does exactly what it says and is broken down into the topics you want to read would highly recommend this book to anyone who has little information on bitcoin it explains all of it in an easy way
by Sandy Lovatt
Why does someone want to buy a book like this? I suggest that one reason would be to learn how to get into the Bitcoin market without being scammed. In this respect this book is over complicated and too detailed. I would also suggest that it is a book to be dipped into rather than read. I am looking for one that is aimed people outside the USA.
by Billy’s Best Buy’s
This book gives you an insight into Bitcoin, for dummies. What it does not do is tell you details on how, what or even setups you will require to become a miner. Overall a fantastic book and quick read.