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Level-up on 15 major software and leadership topics including; The Tech of FinTech, What's Next in GenAI and Large Language Models (LLMs), Performance Engineering, Architecture for the Age of AI, Innovations in Data Engineering and more. David Gerard is a Unix system administrator, an award-winning music journalist, and has blogged about music at Rocknerd.
Tomado de la cubierta: "An experimental new Internet-based form of money is created that anyone can generate at home; people build frightening firetrap computers full of video cards, putting out so much heat that one operator is hospitalised with heatstroke and brain damage. Even if you are an expert or even just a believer in these techologies you should read this book to establish some balance. Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. Again, they’re hip, and happening, but don’t appear to actually solve any problems with real world contracts, which have always been interpretation (what does “anticipatory breach” mean? Gerard's book starts out with a technical explanation of Bitcoin followed by a somewhat flawed explanation of libertarian/free market/Austrian ideals, and is incredibly critical throughout (Bitcoin mining is is "to show that you can waste electricity faster than everyone else;" libertarians have "odd notions of how economics works or humans behave.But blockchain is more famous as the technology underpinning Bitcoin, which, while surrounded by plenty of its own bafflegab, is rather more entertaining to read about, given that it recently suffered the third horrendous market crash in its brief history. sextillion calculations are thrown away, because the only point of all this technical rigmarole is to show that you can waste electricity faster than everyone else. This is mostly because, as he correctly points out, there is very little evidence of real, proven, use cases.
The problems that cryptocurrencies (such as Bitcoin and Litecoin) have had with criminality, fraud, lack of security, volatility, and more recently with capacity. Its discussions of business blockchain failures (especially in the music business), The DAO clusterfuck, Craig S Wright, and Vitalik Buterin's past as a quantum computing scammer managed to be both informative deep dives and quite funny. I laughed, I was absorbed by some of the details, dismayed by the rank incompetence of almost everyone involved, and emerged more certain than ever never to put any of my own money anywhere near this farrago. It offers many cautionary tales for would-be investors, and it's laugh-out-loud funny in places too.The implicit promise of cyberlibertarianism was the dot-com era promise that you could make it big from a startup company’s Initial Public Offering: build something new and useful, suddenly get rich from it. I picked this book up because I know very little about Cryptocurrencies and the beast that is Blockchain.
In this article, you will discover how and which parts of coaching and nuanced language can help you leverage your interactions to yield better results in product management.The “smart contracts”, offered by other blockchain-based platforms (notably, Ethereum) are also proving to be difficult to use in businesses. The next two chapters cover the state of Bitcoin use in 2017 - first as a payment mechanism and as a financial instrument to be traded on the markets.
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