{"id":779,"date":"2018-04-05T03:24:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T03:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/?p=779"},"modified":"2018-04-05T05:08:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T05:08:55","slug":"first-ebook-published-on-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/2018\/04\/05\/first-ebook-published-on-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"First eBook published on Amazon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have released my first ever eBook! It&#8217;s called &#8220;Bitcoin and Altcoins: A cryptocurrency primer&#8221;. I&#8217;ve been working on it on-and-off since August 2017.<\/p>\n<p>You can find it on Amazon at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bitcoin-Altcoins-Cryptocurrency-Rohan-Truscott-ebook\/dp\/B07BNHJW5Z\/\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bitcoin-Altcoins-Cryptocurrency-Rohan-Truscott-ebook\/dp\/B07BNHJW5Z\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the book, I cover a brief history of banking, the beginnings of Bitcoin, and some of the technology that underpins the system and the technical challenges vested in a pure digital currency.<\/p>\n<p>Discussion then pivots from Bitcoin to other notable &#8220;altcoins&#8221;, the problems that they solve and new technology\/advantages they provide.<\/p>\n<p>Later topics include some walk through examples of purchasing coins on an exchange and participating in ICO&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Final topics include issues in the cryptocurrency landscape + a small Java spreadsheet application that enables dynamic updates of crypto coin\/token prices!<\/p>\n<p>Currently it&#8217;s priced at 99c. Check it out today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have released my first ever eBook! It&#8217;s called &#8220;Bitcoin and Altcoins: A cryptocurrency primer&#8221;. I&#8217;ve been working on it on-and-off since August 2017. You can find it on Amazon&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphastar.net.au\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}