Mastering Blockchain: Distributed ledger technology, decentralization, and smart contracts explained 2nd Edition, Kindle Edition

If you want to learn Blockchain or if you think you really understand Blockchain, check out this excellent book.I bought Imran Bashir’s Mastering Blockchain, 2nd Edition because I knew it was a complete update to his first edition, and because I wanted to keep up with what’s happening in the rapidly moving world of Blockchain Development. Needless to say, I am a huge fan of Blockchain and the promise it has for trusted, decentralized distributed computing transactions.I have been pleasantly surprised and extremely satisfied with this invaluable tome. It could have been titled “The Bible of Blockchain”, because that’s basically what it is. No serious Blockchain Developer or Blockchain Project Manager should be without this book. With its wealth of information on every facet of Blockchain, it is easily worth more than 10 times the purchase price. That is not an exaggeration and here’s why:1. The author, who is clearly a great author and a very experienced practitioner of all areas Blockchain development.2. It is authoritative.3. Easy to read.4. Extremely thorough.5. Provides useful Blockchain knowledge that is immediately useful to all Blockchain professionals from the novice to the journeyman and master.What really stands out:The author’s explanation of Blockchain, what it is, its components, and how it works is some of the clearest and most thorough I have seen.His incredible explanations of the details about Ethereum and the Ethereum Development environment works. And his explanations of the Ethereum Virtual Machine and Ethereum Messaging are the best and clearest I have seen.The author is such a great teacher that he suggests tricks like installing Wireshark so that the Blockchain engineer can actually see the network events between clients and servers happening in real-time.The author generously defines and suggests a full spectrum of Blockchain tools from Wallet Managers to Blockchain Browsers to development environments and that is much appreciated.His though coverage of major cryptocurrencies shows that he his fair, knowledgeable, passionate about providing as much information as possible to the reader.In Summary:I love this book and have recommended it to everyone I know who is interested in Blockchain. I also teach Blockchain at the graduate school level and have used this book in my course development and teaching, for my students and the interns I am working with this summer of 2018. Quite simply, there is nothing better on the market.Special thanks to the author, Imran Bashir, for his tireless work that produced this masterpiece, and to everyone at PACKT for publishing it. It is the best Blockchain Book of 2018.

I read this book cover-to-cover and feel like I should get a medal. I have no doubts that the author of this book knows a great deal about the technical details of blockchains, Bitcoin, and Ethereum. After reading this book I feel I know a great deal more about these topics than I did previously. For this reason, I can’t be too harsh on the book but for the money I was a bit disappointed as this is quite a frustrating read.This book lacks organization. The author fails to organize his thoughts into a cohesive explanation of blockchain and instead bores the reader with academic filler; introductions and summaries of chapters that at times are only a few sentences of actual content. The quality of the content does improve as the author moves into the meat of the book, namely explanations of Bitcoin and Ethereum. However, lacking organization, much of this content is repeated numerous times throughout the book.Some of the content is lacking. For example, there is an attempt to explain Elliptic Curve asymmetric cryptography in ten sentences. Why bother?Finally, this book has way too many grammatical errors. The vast majority are relatively trivial and are no more than an annoyance. However, there were several times when, after re-reading a sentence numerous times, I was unable to figure out the author’s intended thought and completely missed the concept. The price of this book is too high for it to lack a proper technical and grammatical editor.It takes a high amount of talent to properly explain technical concepts in a way that is easily understood. Doing so demonstrates a complete understanding of a topic. This book falls short on that, but the chapters devoted to explaining Bitcoin and Ethereum are informative. I really wish this book had been properly thought out and edited down to a fraction of its existing content. It would truly be a useful, recommended read.

As a non-developer, I was able to understand 80% of this book. The information was thorough and concise. This was the best book I found out there for Blockchain.

This book touches a lot of subjects from distribution over cryptography to blockchain and smart contracts with many practical examples and pointers to further resources. If you are interested in getting started with blockchain and related technologies it's a good starting point, but if you are interested in the more theoretical aspects and deeper insights you will probably find that the book does not fulfil your needs.

Highly Recommended. ITEM AS DESCRIBED AND SHIPPED QUICKLY. Thanks.

an easy read for a very comprehensive context in the blockchain.

I have read a number of popular books on blockchain. This is the first book that serves as a text on blockchain. Excellent, clear presentation.

Excellent book, clear language, superb organization, covers everything needed to understand the concepts of bitcoin, blockchain and ethereum.

As per headline: covers everything. An exaggeration, to be sure, in such a vast, ever-expanding field, but close to the truth. An excellent starting point for a techie diving into this field.

The book is really good but pricing is incorrect information. It shown that MRP is around 3000 INR and discount price is 1699 INR.BUT ON THE BOOK - its clearly printed as MRP 1699 INR.Why is incorrect and clase information given on driving details.

Very good

les differentes definitions sont un peu longues, mais interessantes comme references.

Superbly written