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A review by dimitri0s
Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World by Don Tapscott
Did not finish book.
I saw last week in a book store the paperback version of this book and I was between writing a letter to authorities accusing the publisher for hate crime against the literate people of UK or unleash my venom in GoodReads.
It is obvious that there are not many non technical books about blockchain consequently writing one is a very good business opportunity. Also there is a little bit of room for people to write something like this and get away with it.
Book reads like a text generated from one of these AI spam bots, lots of fluff and wishful thinking that makes no sense whatsoever. There are "predictions" for the future that mean everything and nothing at the same time, nothing concrete at all. Lots of "Blockchain will change the way we do things as everything will be decentralised", easily one could write 25 years before "The Internet will"... Actually I am very certain that they got a book about Internet and did a find/replace or something on MS-Word. Nothing on what is proof of work, a decentralised database, a company that experiments with Blockchain applications, NADA/Nothing/Tipote.
I was lucky enough to borrow this from a library so no money lost thank God. Read first 60 pages and then some at random to see if anything changes nope.
I guess the purpose of this book is to establish authors as speakers for corporate dinosaur events AKA a book you need to write (I'm guilty of this) but not necessary read.
It is obvious that there are not many non technical books about blockchain consequently writing one is a very good business opportunity. Also there is a little bit of room for people to write something like this and get away with it.
Book reads like a text generated from one of these AI spam bots, lots of fluff and wishful thinking that makes no sense whatsoever. There are "predictions" for the future that mean everything and nothing at the same time, nothing concrete at all. Lots of "Blockchain will change the way we do things as everything will be decentralised", easily one could write 25 years before "The Internet will"... Actually I am very certain that they got a book about Internet and did a find/replace or something on MS-Word. Nothing on what is proof of work, a decentralised database, a company that experiments with Blockchain applications, NADA/Nothing/Tipote.
I was lucky enough to borrow this from a library so no money lost thank God. Read first 60 pages and then some at random to see if anything changes nope.
I guess the purpose of this book is to establish authors as speakers for corporate dinosaur events AKA a book you need to write (I'm guilty of this) but not necessary read.