CONTENTS
Author’s note
A Simple Overview of Blockchain and
Cryptocurrencies
Introduction
Chapter 1. Bitcoin, a Star is Born
Chapter 2. Blockchain, A New Technology
Chapter 3. What on Earth is Mining?
Chapter 4. Introducing Smart Contracts
Chapter 5. Understanding Cryptocurrencies
Altcoins
Utility Tokens
Security Tokens
Stable Coins
Chapter 6. The Mighty Ethereum, Queen of all Crypto
Chapter 7. Finding your way at coinmarketcapcom
Circulating Supply, Total Supply, and Maximum Supply explained
Market Capitalization and how it is calculated
Chapter 8. Examples of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies in action
Howdoo (UDOO)
Waltonchain (WTC)
Egretia (EGT)
Golem (GNT)
Basic Attention Token (BAT)
Chapter 9. The New Wild West
Chapter 10. Understanding Pairings and Exchanges
Primary Exchanges
Secondary Exchanges
Decentralised Exchanges
Finding An Exchange
Selecting an Exchange
Chapter 11. Keeping your Cryptocurrency safe - How Wallets Work
Your Public Address
Your Private Key
Types of Wallet
Hot Wallets
Cold Wallets
Paper Wallets
Chapter 12. Setting up A MyEtherWallet (MEW) for ERC- Tokens
Setting Up a MyEtherWallet (MEW)
The Three Ways To Access MEW
Adding Tokens in MEW
Sending Tokens In MEW
Chapter 13. Let’s Talk about GAS
How transaction fees are calculated
The Gas Limit
The Gas Price
Buying into an ICO
Chapter 14. Introducing ICO’s
Initial Exchange Offerings (IEO’s)
Selecting an ICO or IEO to invest in
Where to find ICOs and IEO’s
Selecting an ICO or IEO
The Ideal ICO or IEO
Chapter 15. Selecting a traded Token to buy
The Stages of Technology Adoption
Chapter 16. Getting ready to buy your first Cryptocurrency
Chapter 17. How to buy your first Cryptocurrency
Step One – Buying BTC, ETH and Major Altcoins from a Primary Exchange with FIAT
Step Two – Setting Up Your Secondary Exchange Account and moving your BTC or ETH to a Secondary exchange wallet
Step Three – Changing your bitcoin to a utility token using the Coin Tiger Exchange and buying Udoo as an example
Step Four – Sending your tokens to a private wallet using Udoo as an example...
Setting up a mobile phone wallet
Chapter 18. How to invest in an ICO
Chapter 19. Hoddling or Flipping - Creating a Trading Strategy
Hoddling
Taking a short-term position
Day Trading
Leverage Trading
Chapter 20. Candelabra
What Candlesticks are
How Candlesticks work
Candlestick patterns
Chapter 21. Don’t be a Nerd be a Node
Ordinary Nodes
Masternodes
Chapter 22. A Final Word
Appendix 1 Crypto Lingo
Appendix 2 Useful Resources
Tracking your Portfolio’s performance
Keeping track of your taxes
Appendix 3 Read All About It
Coindesk
Cointelegraph
Crypto News