Expert financial guide to understand the technology, potential, and disruptive effects of crypto
In The Little Book of Bitcoin, founder and co-managing partner of SkyBridge Capital Anthony Scaramucci delivers a comprehensive guide to understand disruption in the financial industry as a result of the emergence and increasing prominence of digital asset technology. Drawing on his involvement in the SkyBridge Bitcoin Fund which has $310 million in assets under management, this book runs the gambit from basic concepts all the way to implications of decentralized finance on the financial industry and society as a whole.
In this book, readers will learn about:
- Hashes, blockchains, and mining, and how these three processes sync up like an orchestra to make global participation in crypto possible
- Bitcoin as digital gold, and its similarities and differences to other cryptocurrencies like Ethereum
- Trading different cryptocurrencies, both popular and lesser known, through centralized platforms like Binance and decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms like Uniswap
- Promising technology to facilitate anonymized legitimacy called “zero knowledge proof” and how it works
The Little Book of Bitcoin is an essential up-to-date guide to digital assets and associated technologies for all individuals, from hedge fund managers to newcomer retail investors, seeking to understand and prepare for a new world of finance.
Table of Contents
Foreword ix
About the Foreword Author xv
Preface xxi
Chapter One Introduction 1
Chapter Two Time to Go Exploring 9
Chapter Three The World's Most Profitable Paddleboard Lesson 15
Chapter Four Why Bitcoin? 33
Chapter Five The Coin Itself 43
Chapter Six Money, Money, Money 57
Chapter Seven The Pivot 73
Chapter Eight The Paul Tudor Jones Effect 85
Chapter Nine The Musk Man Giveth and Taketh 93
Chapter Ten A Little Bit of Salt 107
Chapter Eleven The Start of the Crypto Winter 115
Chapter Twelve Wall Street Comes Calling 121
Chapter Thirteen From Butter to Bitcoin 129
Chapter Fourteen Mr. Wonderful Has a Change of Heart 139
Chapter Fifteen The ETFs Are Coming 149
Chapter Sixteen Getting Started 167
Chapter Seventeen Your Journey 183
Acknowledgments 187
About the Author 189
