Bitcoin Book from 11 Year Old Author!
Like most middle school students, Andrew Courey spends his time outside of school playing on his phone and playing sports.. But unlike many, 11-year-old Andrew is a Bitcoin expert.
Courey is the author of “The Early Gets the Bitcoin: The Ultimate Guide To Everything About Bitcoin”, published on Kindle in January. The ebook is $2.99 and the newly released copy is $9.99.
Last year, he started researching investment platforms after he agreed with his family that he could drop out of school at the age of 14 in exchange for $20 million, and that’s when he met bitcoin.
“Anyone who wants to learn about cryptocurrencies has to do around 70-80 hours of research to find a decent source or two,” said Andrew, who lives with his family in Massachusetts.. “The entire book is in very plain language so it will be pretty easy to read and understand.”
The book has 57 pages and sections about bitcoin history, bitcoin wallets, ethereum and ICOs. The title of the book has two different meanings, with early bird it means children and those who buy bitcoin early are rich by now.
A Bitcoin wallet is like a mailbox
While writing the book, Courey tried to explain the subject more simply to the rookies, especially by giving everyday examples.. For example, he likens the distributed ledger to a Google Docs file that is “shared with everyone, but can only be edited by buying and selling bitcoins.”
To explain the Bitcoin wallet, Courey talks about a public key that can be accessed by everyone and a private key that only the owner can access.. “Imagine a mailbox, the postman can put the letter in all the boxes, but only the person with the key can get the letter.”
Courey ends each episode with a “fun fact”. At the end of the Bitcoin mining section, it is written that “the energy required for mining is more than the total needs of 159 countries on average.”
Andrew says he has 0.00222 bitcoins (about $22.50) and some ethereum he bought before Christmas when he was higher, but he doesn’t buy anymore and I’d rather buy Amazon stock.. At the end of his book, he writes that he read Brad Stone’s book “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the age of Amazon”, which he learned about Kindle Direct Publishing.
But Courey has another plan to raise $20 million, but he’s said little about it.. It will be a mobile app with math flashcards and is considering selling it at 10x profit after making $2 million.
Yes, by the way, he’s still in middle school.
Cnbc- Ari Levy
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