Bitcoin For Dummies

Overall, very informative, readable and easy to follow. Good explanation of blockchain and bitcoin mining. The last section of the book deals with the future direction of crypto currencies. I felt this could have been left out as it is purely speculative.

This would be a good resource for a programmer to use when designing systems to work with Bitcoin, but way to much information for the average (casual) user !

Seems like a good book but I get the impression that the authors want you to invest in it. I had to go to the internet to find the problems with Bitcoin. You can have a fortune in Bitcoin and one solar flare or something knocks out the internet and you are out all that money. Bitcoin is not a physical thing but numbers on a computer. It’s probably safe from hackers but I’m not ready to bet everything on that. Your account is backed up on computers all over the world, but I’ll bet that a knowledgeable hacker could write a virus that would attack those computers and scramble the codes required for access. At any rate I’ve personally lost interest.

Provided information I never thought about

Simple, easy to understand. Definitely recommend.

Detailed but understandable.

You really need some background in computing and computer-speak or it's all double Dutch. If like me, you have little knowledge on this subject, it's not going to enlighten you.