Let's Meet Blockchain

Acknowledgments

I want to thank Sherif Abushadi with NEAR Foundation, a nonprofit that supports programs for building onto the blockchain ecosystem, for awarding me a fellowship to begin learning about blockchain technology. He granted me the fellowship with the idea of expanding the blockchain conversation outside of the tech world through a series of e-books and articles told through the eyes of writers and artists. That idea was the genesis of this book. I thank my wife, Funda, a talented artist, designer, and architect, for designing the cover and providing the diagrams. A special thank you to my former editor at The Clarion-Ledger, Deborah Skipper Solis, who graciously agreed to edit the original drafts of the first two sections, and taught ...