Crypto connoisseurs: Curl up with Princeton's 300-page ode to Bitcoin

Bitcoin boffins have been gifted a 300-page tome on the workings of their favourite crypto-currency as told by the academics of Princeton and Stanford universities. The first draft of the book written in a conversational narrative rather than binary research paper format is geared to the those with at least a basic …

[Anonymous Coward]

Question from the third row back

Please sir, what's a "binary research paper"?

[Ole Juul]

Re: Question from the third row back

Printed on both sides?

[allthecoolshortnamesweretaken]

Re: Question from the third row back

You'll have to mix it with another one in order to become critical?

[Graham Marsden]

Re: Question from the third row back

01001001 01110100 00100111 01110011 00100000 01101100 01101001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00101110 00101110 00101110

The post is required, and must contain letters.

[allthecoolshortnamesweretaken]

Oh good, that's the next weekend's light reading taken care of.

[Graham Marsden]

Read it in the toilet, then every time you finish a page...

[Candy]

Coursera offering

I've followed the Coursera unit that is linked to and found it to be a very useful primer. Definitely puts the "book" on my reading list.

[channel extended]

Comey is watching you!!

Will this be classified as a terrorist pamphlet some day?

[Anonymous Coward]

ePub version?

I'd like to read this on my phone... Is ther no epub version available? I tried converting it myself, but there are too many annoying line breaks to make it a good reading experience...