CryptoCaseyVigna
I checked out these books hoping to find pointers to technical details, particularly about SHA-256. No, these are financial reporters, who may be able to change a light bulb, but maybe not the cord on a table lamp. I hope to learn whether SHA-256 is logically reversable, at least partially.
The Age of Cryptocurrency
How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order
Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna . Tigard 332.42 VIG 2015
Skimmed, did not read. Economics, not technology.
The Truth Machine
The Blockchain and the Future of Everything
Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna . Central 332.178 C3385t 2018
I gave up after 100 (out of 267) pages. The authors are not bad writers, but there are many more non-bad-writers to read first.
p004 WFP World Food Program authenticates with blockchain
p005 Building Blocks
- p006 UN blockchain solution to human mistrust, helps societies build social capital
- p007 Commuterz blockchain ride sharing? Not in 2025
p010 Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation DTCC traditional clearing house, blockchain competition?
p011 ICO Initial Coin Offering
p024 Lehman Brothers hid debt, accounting fraud, failed 2008
p026 Luca Pacioli 1494 Double-entry bookkeeping
p070 Merkle Tree
p074 SegWit Segregated Witness
p075 Lightning Network
- p098 tokens, i.e. Brave