Bitcoin For Dummies. Peter Kent

      1 Chapter 1TABLE 1-1 Bitcoin Units

      2 Chapter 3TABLE 3-1 $500 Trades Compared

      3 Chapter 6TABLE 6-1 Gold versus Bitcoin

      1 Chapter 1FIGURE 1-1: How much Bitcoin is needed to buy a share of Apple?

      2 Chapter 2FIGURE 2-1: Each block’s hash is stored in the next block of data. The hashes c...FIGURE 2-2: Your browser’s lock icon means that data submitted back to the web ...FIGURE 2-3: An example of a blockchain explorer tool, found at https://live.blo...FIGURE 2-4: The Bitcoin is associated with an address in the blockchain; the ad...

      3 Chapter 3FIGURE 3-1: You’re going to have to prove who you are.FIGURE 3-2: The Coinme wallet.FIGURE 3-3: The new address shown in the Blockchain.com blockchain explorer.FIGURE 3-4: Sending Bitcoin from the Coinme web console and smartphone app.FIGURE 3-5: Let’s buy!FIGURE 3-6: You’re ready to buy; click Buy Now when you’re sure.FIGURE 3-7: Sending money from Coinbase to somewhere else.FIGURE 3-8: Your transaction, still pending.FIGURE 3-9: Your transaction, in the blockchain explorer.

      4 Chapter 4FIGURE 4-1: The Cryptotag metal wallet kit (www.cryptotag.io).FIGURE 4-2: An Ellipal hardware wallet.FIGURE 4-3: The Blue home screen.FIGURE 4-4: Picking your wallet type and saving your seed.FIGURE 4-5: Your wallet, ready for work.FIGURE 4-6: Advanced options enable you to add more randomness.FIGURE 4-7: The BlueWallet, ready for a transaction.FIGURE 4-8: Tell Blue if you want to receive a notification when your Bitcoin a...FIGURE 4-9: The Electrum connections.FIGURE 4-10: Your wallet’s addresses.FIGURE 4-11: The BlueWallet Send screen.FIGURE 4-12: Choose your miner’s fee.FIGURE 4-13: Your change addresses.FIGURE 4-14: Checking out basic wallet info and the export info with a seed.FIGURE 4-15: The wallet import box.FIGURE 4-16: Choose an address to access its QR code.FIGURE 4-17: Create a multi-sig wallet; you choose how many wallets in a group.FIGURE 4-18: Setting up your vault wallet and getting your first wallet seed.FIGURE 4-19: Your XPUB QR code.FIGURE 4-20: The Import screen (on an Android device).FIGURE 4-21: The Import screen.FIGURE 4-22: The Import screen (on an Android device).

      5 Chapter 5FIGURE 5-1: A warning from Coinbase.com?FIGURE 5-2: What’s going on with the letter a?FIGURE 5-3: The Google Authenticator app.

      6 Chapter 6FIGURE 6-1: We’re betting you’re wishing you bought Bitcoin early in 2016 (or e...FIGURE 6-2: How dollar cost averaging would have worked out over the last three...FIGURE 6-3: The Bitcoin Rainbow. FIGURE 6-4: NFT’d art for sale, on Rarible.com.FIGURE 6-5: $69 million for this NFT-linked collage?

      7 Chapter 7FIGURE 7-1: A live view of the full listening node count on the Bitcoin network...

      8 Chapter 9FIGURE 9-1: Average network transaction fees over time, measured in US$ per tra...FIGURE 9-2: Bitcoin yearly energy estimates (TWh/Year), along with the Bitcoin ...

      9 Chapter 12FIGURE 12-1: Bitcoin volatility — it’s a wild ride!FIGURE 12-2: Bitcoin price and the halvenings; is there an association?

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      3  Copyright

      4 Table of Contents

      5  Begin Reading

      6  Index

      7  About the Authors

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