Bitcoin vs Altcoins | Phil Champagne

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Bitcoin vs Altcoins is a book by Phil Champagne about the debate between Bitcoin and other coins and blockchain projects. This is the English softcover.

What is Bitcoin vs Altcoins about?

Champagne asks why the discussion about which project is best gets so heated, when that hardly happens in other asset classes such as stocks. He raises questions like: does it matter that other coins exist, and how would things have gone if Bitcoin had been the only one since 2009?

He covers gold and silver, real estate, Proof-of-Debt, the consensus mechanisms Proof-of-Work, Proof-of-Stake and Proof-of-Authority, smart contracts, the Lightning Network, decentralization, resilience and network effect. His starting point: a coin's resistance to manipulation is only as strong as its consensus mechanism and its network effect.

About the author

Phil Champagne also wrote The Book of Satoshi.

Ordering

I sell this book through my partnership with publisher Konsensus. You can pay with bitcoin via Lightning or on-chain, or with iDEAL or credit card. I deliver within the European Union, you will see shipping costs and delivery time at checkout. Not sure which of two titles to pick? Send me a message and I will help you choose. More titles are in the bitcoin books.