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1. A Blockchain Primer for Real Companies considering its efficiencies
   This is one of the best overall books the deal with the implications and considerations the blockchain represents to your business. Today we are being smothered by all the potential major applications blockchain might replace, but there many instances where its use cases are more specific and limited by existing laws and business protocols. My field has significant regulatory and patient security oversight — so I was not looking for a “How To” book–.
   This book offers an exploration by team of reputable, prolific computer security scientists that discuss practical applications for the blockchain. I found tremendous value in Mr. Bambara’s commentary related to the applicability and utility of the block chain as it pertains to my business. I value his opinions as a Technologist General Counsel with experience infused by work with the Federal Reserve sector point of view. Mr Bambara is a very popular lecturer and one of the few public proponents of blockchain in the financial sector that understands how this valuable tool can be implemented with the right safeguards and appropriate use case.

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2. This book is highly recommended as it explains and covers Blockchain in a way …
   This book is highly recommended as it explains and covers Blockchain in a way that works really well for technicians and non-technicians alike. The authors take the reader through the many steps of building a Blockchain application from beginning to end, with real application code listings that become excellent samples especially to the technically inclined readers. This book examines the benefits of the Blockchain platform while also covering its most commonly known applications those being cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. This is not a book that just introduces and gives a light covering of the topics, there is much greater depth and discussion of each and every aspect of the Blockchain and how it can be applied to commerce, government, and legal entities. A must get

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3. Excellent treatment of the blockchain and it’s future in business law
   Normally don’t post things related to my field – but this is an exception. Just completed first read of an excellent book covering the use of the blockchain and how it is used in business law. The book was written by Joseph Bambara – a person that I have been fortunate to work with over the years. He is both an accomplished attorney and software engineer-scientist/manager/entrepreneur and author of numerous books in the field. His new book does an excellent job in demystifying how the next generation of contract law and agreements are being implemented today and in the future. First rate overview of blockchain evolution and its underlying concepts.

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4. Everything You Need to Know for Now About Blockchain Technology
   In the Introduction, the authors of BLOCKCHAIN: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO DEVELOPING BUSINESS, LAW, AND TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS explain that the robust blockchain technology “eliminates the risks that come with data being held centrally,” by storing identical blocks of information across an entire network. Also, blockchain uses encryption technology, and allows data and information to be widely distributed. Thus, “blockchain has created the backbone of the new Internet, web3,” and “will change the business models in all types of industries” in the next five to ten years.
   That said, the authors state that this book is intended for anyone interested in blockchain technology, as well as for developers of blockchain applications and web applications, and for tech-savvy businesspeople and attorneys who want to stay current with technology. The key word, in my opinion, is “tech-savvy”, because the book is quite technical in nature–it covers “blockchain definition, use cases, distributed technology, and especially blockchain development, with a good deal of code snippets and best practices.”
   There is considerable discussion of “smart contracts”, which guarantee that the terms of a contract written to the blockchain will be executed. Smart contracts work when conditions are written in code, then initiated with funds to make good by either party. As directed by the code, the contract will automatically confirm that conditions have been met, and distribute currency and/or goods to the parties accordingly.
   The book also discusses solving the problem of public blockchain scalability–the fact that networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum will grind to a halt if they acquire as many users as Visa or Instagram, because every transaction is currently performed by every node on those networks. Some suggested solutions for the scalability problem include building intermediate network layers, not recording every transaction on every node, and sharding.
   The authors describe the book’s contents as follows:
   Chapter 1. An overview of everything blockchain.
   Chapter 2. Gives depth to real-world use cases in the financial services industry, with sections on cryptocurrency and digital tokens. Discusses smart property and smart contracts, as well as how blockchain may help security for the Internet of Things.
   Chapter 3. Introduces some components of blockchain architecture.
   Chapter 4. Discusses blockchain and the law, including the implications of smart contracts, and the current state of blockchain regulation.
   Chapter 5. Covers terminology, concepts, technology stack, blockchain development platforms, APIs, the Ethereum Virtual Machine and Ethereum dapps, DAOs, and autonomous smart contracts.
   Chapter 6. Introduces Solidity smart contract programming language.
   Chapter 7. Introduces more complicated tools and techniques that support “a workflow to handle more complex solutions”.
   Chapter 8. Looks into use cases for private and consortium blockchain solutions.
   Chapter 9. Reviews the unique challenges faced by blockchains.
   Chapter 10. Introduces the development lifecycle of a fully functioning betting application built on Ethereum.
   Chapter 11. Shows how to deploy the application built in Chapter 10.

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5. Not for me
   Found this book boring and confusing. Sorry. It seemed for me like the book was written by attorney and primarily for another attorneys using attorney-specific language. And spiced up with some random technical details for solidity.

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6. Legal-ese and not entirely correct
   For folks interested in blockchain and its application outside cryptocurrency, this is a beginning primer. It’s a bit dry to read and contains a fair amount of legal-ese speak and isn’t entirely correct about block chain. It’s probably not that important and does contain interesting concepts. Folks who become invested in the topic will dive into better texts anyway, so it’s not a fatal flaw.

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7. Not for absolute beginners, but good code samples for implementation that are well explained and surprisingly easy
   This isn’t an easy book, and after I started reading it, I turned to online video to give me a better background on blockchain, and I have worked in the IT field and I was familiar with bitcoin. So I personally didn’t feel like this book really gave a good introduction to blockchain.
   Once I had that background filled in, then I got a lot more out of this book. There’s lots of code for implementation of blockchain, and that part of the book was surprisingly easy, with good explanations and just overall well done.
   I think programmers will get the most out of this book.

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8. Excellent book
   I recommend

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9. An excellent book.
   Worthy of re-reads.
   And something new, fresh and different.

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10. If I hear the words Blockchain, Bitcoin, brexit or Toxic one more time this decade I am going to put my head phones in and blast AC/DC until my eyes pop out.

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11. Im dissapointed with this book. It seems more like a sales pitch for blockchain rather than really explaining how it works. Contains many use cases and examples of how wonderful and revolutionary blockchain is going to be but has added almost nothing to my very limited knowledge of blockchain at the start of reading the book. Seems like a quick attempt to get a book on the market whilst blockchain is a hot topic.

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