Distributed Ledger Technology: The Science of the Blockchain by Roger Wattenhofer

This book was a mind bender !! This book so far is the book for which I had to google the most.

I watched quite a few videos to follow the theorems and proofs. I am not entirely sure I grasped all the ideas in the book though. My rate of digesting the material was not as fast as I would have liked it.

This is no introductory book and I think the real audience is probably math and computer science master/doctoral students. It is a deep dive (sink or swim) into distributed systems technologies and the mathematical underpinnings for the same. In fact the 2nd heading should read - “The Math of the Blockchain” and not “Science of the Blockchain”

On a very broad perspective I like the lead up in the chapters from Paxos to Distributed storage. It got me thinking about the math behind decentralized systems with the requirements of integrity, consistency and availability. (Kind of take these things for granted when making an ATM withdrawal !)

Read if working/studying in this technology space. This is more of a study/text book.