What this book covers

Chapter 1, Once Upon a Token, provides an introduction to tokenomics looking at the meaning of a network of markets and compares the Internet of information versus the Internet of value and what tokenomics is. It looks at the first occurrence of the word tokenomics and discusses tokenization and the benefit it provides.

Chapter 2, A Bit of Coin Theory, lays the foundation, with a bit of coin theory looking at digital currencies before bitcoin and why they failed, and how bitcoin was born, along with some of the founding principles. After bitcoin, we look at the era of alternative coins known as "altcoins" and then take a deeper dive into what a blockchain actually is, including how you can find a Nelson Mandela tribute on ...

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