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The Anatomy of a Money-like Informational Commodity: A Study of Bitcoin Edición Kindle

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In addition to providing a copious literature review of relevant academic publications Tim Swanson interviews over 20 experts, developers, entrepreneurs and attorneys to find out how the underlying anatomy of the world's first money-like informational commodity behaves.

Dispensing of partisanship, Swanson examines how Bitcoin and the incentives created by its design interact with the real-world economy. While numerous books and papers have been published and selectively focus on one or two areas of Bitcoin, he uses a multidimensional approach highlighting areas that have been understudied. This includes the real financial costs of mining, chronically unfunded public goods and the internal static economy the protocol encompasses.

Throughout the book, Swanson provides voluminous references for fact-checking, allowing readers to cut through rhetoric and find out what is really going on within the blockchain. Consequently, he argues that while blockchains themselves have a number of unique use-cases, bitcoin the currency is likely overhyped and will be unable to be used for the bevy of tasks Bitcoin proponents want it to.

Other compelling highlights include: TCP/IP is a poor analogy and facsimile for describing the inelastic economy, adoption rates are relatively low, mining centralization will likely continue, the Chinese market place was under-appreciated by the rest of the world, attorney's will not be replaced by cryptoledgers and BitLicenses will likely bring "taxi medallion" behavior to the marketplace. This includes further collusion and potential cartelization of the network itself as the barriers to entry will rise accordingly due to capital requirements.

In this journey he also highlights several innovations that this new technology has provided to both the consumer and enterprise marketplace including hierarchical, deterministic and multisignature wallets as well as transparency applications for NGOs and supply chains.
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Tim Swanson is originally from Dallas and is a graduate of Texas A&M University. He worked in East Asia for more than 6 years and is currently based out of the San Francisco bay area.

Visit his regularly updated blog at: www.ofnumbers.com

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Georgios Samakovitis
5.0 de 5 estrellas A complete review.
Calificado en Estados Unidos el 17 de abril de 2015
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Swanson offers, as usual, an excellent and complete treatment of the subject to date. A timely and current review of the cryptocurrency ecosystem that extends well beyond the money exchange value and well into the economics of innovation. Very well informed and researched.
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3.0 de 5 estrellas Three Stars
Calificado en Estados Unidos el 24 de febrero de 2017
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Good compilation of sources and references but poorly written and edited
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Reluctant Badger
4.0 de 5 estrellas The only book you MUST read on Bitcoin. 4.5 stars - Excellent job on a very hard task. Honest, clear, and extraordinary breadth
Calificado en Estados Unidos el 12 de agosto de 2014
A tour de force. The best book by far on Bitcoin. It is, for all practical purposes the only book you must read if you are interested in Bitcoin. Tim does masterful job covering a subject that few are capable of covering in this kind of depth and breadth. I don't think there is anyone else in the world capable of it right now. The content and thoroughness dealing with a complex subject goes a long way toward compensating for the book's flaws.

Flaws - 1.) The book is repetitive. If he had more time he could have improved it. So the book is somewhat on the green side. Given his audience in the bitcoin community, he has no alternative to hammering his points so thoroughly that there is little arguing with them though. 2.) Organization could be improved. 3.) A few places he expressed A=>B implies B=>A, when it wasn't necessarily so. But that didn't really matter, as the overall point was solid. I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader. 4.) Missing a good index. But, it's an ebook, so you can search it.

Strengths:
1.) Tim really knows his stuff. His experience working on the nitty-gritty of Bitcoin shows.
2.) I didn't find any weaseling, and he nails the issues. This guy has integrity and he's scrupulously honest, letting the chips fall where they may.

Highlights:

- Bitcoin is inefficient and expensive compared to other money transfer systems.
- Extraordinary amounts of fiat money have gone into Bitcoin with almost nothing to show for it in economic activity. The amount of electrical power that has been expended is astonishing, as is the electrical energy used each year.
- The environmental impact of Bitcoin is not good. Tim didn't do this, but extrapolating on the amount of energy required to run the current network, expansion would outstrip world energy resources. This is a direct outcome of the distributed design, which is inherently inefficient. Not only does that make expansion implausible, but the environmental cost is enough to make sensible people shut it down.
- The reward system of Bitcoin makes it very unlikely to remain viable. The way alternative coins have risen and fallen is directly in line with their reward cycle. As rewards drop, the "money-like commodity" can't deflate enough (e.g. increase in value) and miners no longer can afford to operate. Since miners provide security, when they can't operate profitably -- well, it's a problem.
- Miner's motivations are different than the motives of the health of the Bitcoin system. Consequently, little software upgrade happens. It is a curious side effect of open-source that it is, in practice, less flexible than closed-source in this arena.
- Bitcoin's expansion by deflation idea is fundamentally flawed.
- Bitcoin cannot do banking, so you can't do loans and you can't have interest. That means Bitcoin isn't money in the modern sense -- period.

There's more. Some real gems in this book.
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Jeffrey R.
5.0 de 5 estrellas Tim is one of the very best and most original thinkers when it comes to bitcoin
Calificado en Estados Unidos el 16 de noviembre de 2014
Tim is one of the very best and most original thinkers when it comes to bitcoin. He will open your eyes.
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Benjamin Perrin
3.0 de 5 estrellas A well-informed author with perhaps a slightly biased view?
Calificado en Estados Unidos el 27 de mayo de 2016
While he's done his research, one should also note that Tim Swanson is currently Director of Market Research at R3CEV. This may have led to some degree of bias in the book, as it appears to be very anti-bitcoin/open blockchain. The R3 is a consortium of banks that would like to use private or "permissioned" blockchains to cut down on costs to their back end. While this will indeed make them more efficient in ways, they are effectively getting rid of all of the innovations that truly make the blockchain innovative. Without the open, decentralized and permission-less aspects of blockchain technology, you are essentially running a distributed database... and those have been around for years.
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David Gerard
5.0 de 5 estrellas Vital Bitcoin history
Calificado en el Reino Unido el 2 de julio de 2021
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This book is early bitcoin history from someone who absolutely knows his stuff. It's a bit dry in its presentation, but it's relentless in its solid factual content and knowledge. If you need to know precisely what bitcoin was like and how it worked back in the day, this is your go-to source.
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Patrick BUCQUET
5.0 de 5 estrellas Probably the best book on Bitcoin
Calificado en Francia el 28 de diciembre de 2015
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Deep analysis and clear explanations on issues and potential.
Must read to go far beyond the basic description of Bitcoin in so many other books
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