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Title: Ethereum for Beginners
Author: Alexander Scott
Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
Format: Unabridged
Length: 32 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-14-17
Publisher: Alexander Scott
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes
Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy
Publisher's Summary:
Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality. It provides a decentralized Turing-complete virtual machine, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), which can execute scripts using an international network of public nodes. Ethereum also provides a cryptocurrency token called "ether", which can be transferred between accounts and used to compensate participant nodes for computations performed. "Gas", an internal transaction pricing mechanism, is used to mitigate spam and allocate resources on the network.
Ethereum was proposed in late-2013 by Vitalik Buterin, a cryptocurrency researcher and programmer. Development was funded by an online crowd-sale during July through August, 2014. The system went live on July 30, 2015.
Members Reviews:
Excellent primer on Ethereum
This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.
For the IT professionals, or the technology enthusiasts, this is a great primer on the crypto-currency called Ethereum. It does have a lot of buzz words and technical jargon, but I thought it was still relatively concise, and informative. If you aren't interested in something as esoteric as crypto-currency, this is probably not the book for you.
NOT for beginners
NOT for beginners. Most of it totally flew by me. It was really dull as well so that didnt help. Its hard to listen to and wade through. The narration was decent enough.
This audiobook was provided by the author, narrator, or publisher at no cost in exchange for an unbiased review.
Seems more like a pamplet in audiobook form
What I knew about ethereum before I listened to this.........
--(space intentionally left blank for the record)
What I know now about ethereum...
--it is not bitcoin
Im not sure if it was just me but most of the book went over my head after the first section. It was pretty dry and seemed more like a sales pitch than any real informational book. If you already know a touch about it this book might fill you in on more of what its planned to grow into and how its going to go about that. If you however are like me and were just mildly curious about why everyone was so hyped for crypto currency.......you may be disappointed.
I received this book in return for a fair and honest review
For those with existing bitcoin knowledge
Depending on how you define a beginner this book may or may not suit. It's not really for anyone who has heard of Ethereum or it's digital current ETH and is just wanting to know more, but is instead for someone who already has a strong understanding of digital currencies and distributed computing and is a beginner for Ethereum only.
The book opens with buzz-word and technical jargon and doesn't let up. It explains some things, but presumes you have a solid understanding on the topic to begin with and is just filling in specifics for this particular brand.
It goes through the history of ETH's creation, followed by some of the advantages of it over other similar systems.
So if you have dealt with Bitcoin, but are interested in Ethereum, then this book is aimed at you. If you are wondering what digital currencies are and how to get into them then go for something else.
Narration by Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr. is good. Well paced and easy to follow.