I enjoy reading (technical) books, a lot! That’s why I have decided to keep a public record on things I read, and how I liked them.
This list will be constantly updated (last update on 2024-11-08):
- “Extremely Hardcore” , by Zoë Schiffer: 4/5, about the crazy times once Elon Musk took over Twitter. Did align well with my personal experiences as a (now ex-)Twitter user at that time.
- “Schweizer Geheimnisse” , by Munzinger, Obermaier, Obermayer: 3/5, solid read and important work, but not as exciting as I hoped for.
- “Attack surface” , by Cory Doctorow: 5/5, plain awesome! 3rd book in the series of “Little Brother” and “Homeland”, and I enjoyed each of them.
- “Number Go Up” , by Zeke Faux: 5/5, really insightful on the overall crazyness of the cryptotoken bubble. Plenty of fraud, billions of $, and FTX inbetween.
- “Tracers in the Dark” , by Andy Greenberg: 5/5, splendid summary of all the different large, criminal Bitcoin cases of the past decade and how the involved culprits were identified. Covers SilkRoad, BTC-e, AlphaBay, Welcome to Video and the overall creation of Chainalysis, including the first-hand stories of the involved investigators.
- “The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation” , by Cory Doctorow: 4/5, outlines the history of how Big Content influences the rest of the world, and why buying competitors is easier then really competing. Betamax, Content ID on YouTube, Napster, Grogster, and why BitTorrent won. Federation is the solution, yet there exist strong incentives (money!) against it.
To be continued …
