December 2019
Beginner
368 pages
9h 46m
English
Content preview from Cryptocurrency Mining For Dummies
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About the Authors
Peter Kent has been explaining technology to ordinary people for almost 40 years, through his more than 60 books (including SEO For Dummies and Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Internet), corporate consulting, online courses, seminars and workshops, and court testimony (as an expert witness in technology related litigation). He recently created an 8-hour video course on working with cryptocurrency (Crypto Clear: Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Made Simple). See CryptoOfCourse.com.
Tyler Bain has been in the cryptocurrency mining trenches gaining experience in the ecosystem for several years. He’s a professional engineer registered in the state of Colorado and studied engineering with an electrical specialty at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. He has consulted with cryptocurrency mining firms, currently works as an electrical engineer for a local utility cooperative, and is an avid cryptocurrency and bitcoin miner. He is also an active member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, the Rocky Mountain Electrical League, and has advised the Electric Power Research Institute. His passions include financial and transportation electrification, peer-to-peer systems, and the electrical grid.
Dedication
Peter: This one’s for Monique.
Tyler: I would like to dedicate this book to Satoshi Nakamoto, without whom our content would have been much less interesting, and also to the entire bitcoin and cryptocurrency community: We are all Satoshi. ...
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