Standalone Books
One-off guides on specific topics — wallet security, tax recordkeeping, and more.
Ultimate Guide to Crypto Investment Strategies
A risk-graded guide to building your own crypto investment plan — not around hype, influencers, or FOMO. Thirteen real-world strategies graded side by side, a four-factor risk framework, and a full breakdown of Passive Reward Investing, the author's own approach to earning yield by holding.
Secure Seed Vault: Recovery Phrase Log Book
A private, offline log book built for crypto holders who take security seriously. 50 wallet log pages plus a 2-page security quick-reference guide covering seed phrase safety, phishing red flags, and wallet best practices.
Crypto Tax Transaction Log
200 numbered transaction entries, an income & rewards log, a wallet/transfer inventory, and a yearly summary dashboard — built to support IRS Form 8949, Schedule D, and 1099-DA reporting. No more panic-driven reconstruction at tax time.
Block Guardian's Top 100 Coin List
A series of plain-English guides, one for every top-100 cryptocurrency — breaking down each coin's original white paper, how it actually works, its tokenomics, real risks, and common myths.
One Series. 100 Volumes. Zero Jargon.
Most people holding a coin have never read the white paper behind it. Each volume in this series takes one project's original white paper and translates it into plain English — no coding or finance background required. Browse the full collection on Amazon or start with a volume below.
Bitcoin — White Paper Breakdown
Bitcoin started it all — but almost nobody who owns it has actually read the white paper that created it. This book breaks Satoshi Nakamoto's original 2008 paper down into plain English, page by page.
Ethereum — White Paper Breakdown
Bitcoin proved digital money could work. Ethereum asked a bigger question: what if a blockchain could run programs, not just move coins? This book breaks down Vitalik Buterin's original white paper into plain English.
XRP — White Paper Breakdown
XRP was built to move value the way email moves messages — fast, cheap, and across borders without a middleman bank. This book breaks down the ideas behind the XRP Ledger and Ripple's original vision into plain English, from consensus without mining to what XRP is actually used for.
BNB — White Paper Breakdown
BNB started as a way to save on exchange fees and grew into the native token of one of the biggest ecosystems in crypto. This book breaks down Binance Chain's original white paper into plain English — what BNB was actually designed to do, and how it evolved from there.
Solana — White Paper Breakdown
Solana was built around a single obsession: speed. Its Proof of History innovation lets the network process thousands of transactions per second — but the road there included real outages, a catastrophic FTX-linked crash, and one of crypto's biggest recovery stories. This book breaks down how it all actually works, in plain English.
TRON — White Paper Breakdown
TRON set out to decentralize the entertainment industry. Instead, it became the world's dominant settlement rail for Tether (USDT), moving tens of billions of dollars a day. This book breaks down how TRON's Delegated Proof of Stake system actually works and whether staking TRX is worth it.
Hyperliquid — White Paper Breakdown
Hyperliquid set out to do something most people assumed was impossible: run a fast, transparent, fully on-chain exchange for leveraged crypto trading, with no venture capital and no insider pre-sale. This book breaks down how its on-chain order book works, a serious 2025 incident, and the real risks of leveraged trading.
Dogecoin — White Paper Breakdown
Dogecoin started as a joke about crypto hype in December 2013 and somehow became one of the most recognized coins in the world. This book breaks down how a Shiba Inu meme turned into a top-15 cryptocurrency, and what its unlimited supply really means for anyone holding it.
Zcash — White Paper Breakdown
Zcash was the first blockchain to put real, working zero-knowledge cryptography into production — proving a transaction is valid without revealing who sent it, who received it, or how much moved. This book breaks down how that privacy technology works and why regulators have treated it differently than other privacy coins.
Stellar — White Paper Breakdown
Stellar was built by a Mt. Gox and Ripple co-founder who walked away to try something different: a nonprofit-run network moving money for the people traditional banking leaves behind. This book breaks down how Stellar works and why MoneyGram and Circle route real money through it today.
Monero — White Paper Breakdown
Monero launched in 2014 with no founder reward, no premine, and no company behind it — and every transaction on it is private by default. This book breaks down how Monero's privacy tech actually works, what's true and false about its 'untraceable' reputation, and the regulatory risks of holding it.
Chainlink — White Paper Breakdown
Smart contracts are powerful, but they're blind to the outside world. Chainlink was built in 2017 to solve exactly that problem and has grown into the connective tissue behind hundreds of billions of dollars in DeFi. This book breaks down what an oracle is and how Chainlink's network actually works.
Canton — White Paper Breakdown
Most blockchains ask banks to publish every transaction to the entire world. Canton Network does the opposite, letting institutions settle trades on shared infrastructure without seeing each other's confidential data. This book lays out how Canton works and who's really building on it — Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, DTCC, and more.
UNUS SED LEO — White Paper Breakdown
UNUS SED LEO was born out of an $850 million crisis. When Bitfinex lost access to client funds in 2018, its parent company launched a token to pay it back, backed by a daily buyback-and-burn promise. This book breaks down how that promise works and the risks of holding a token tied to one company's fortunes.
Litecoin — White Paper Breakdown
Litecoin has quietly powered fast, cheap crypto payments since 2011 — one of the longest-running cryptocurrencies still in active use today. This book breaks down how Litecoin works, its founder's controversial coin sale, and the scam fork that tried to steal its name.
Bitcoin Cash — White Paper Breakdown
Bitcoin Cash split off from Bitcoin in 2017 with one mission: keep the 'peer-to-peer electronic cash' promise of Satoshi's original white paper alive by keeping fees low and blocks big. This book breaks down what BCH actually is, why the split happened, and whether the bigger-block bet paid off.
Gram (Formerly Toncoin) — White Paper Breakdown
Gram has one of the strangest origin stories in crypto: Telegram tried to launch it in 2018, the SEC shut it down, a community relaunched the same chain as Toncoin — and in 2026 Telegram came back and took the name back. This book breaks down what Gram actually is and the risks of a blockchain now run by a messaging app used by a billion people.
Sui — White Paper Breakdown
Sui launched in 2023, built by ex-Meta engineers who helped design Facebook's abandoned Diem currency, promising near-instant transactions using an object-based design instead of the traditional account model. This book breaks down how Sui's parallel-execution architecture works and whether its speed claims hold up.
Hedera — White Paper Breakdown
Hedera isn't a blockchain — it's a hashgraph, governed by a rotating council of household names like Google, IBM, and Deutsche Telekom. This book breaks down how hashgraph consensus actually works, the 2023 smart contract exploit, and whether enterprise trust translates into long-term value.
DeXe — White Paper Breakdown
DeXe is the governance token behind DeXe Protocol, a no-code platform that lets any group launch a fully functional, on-chain DAO without writing custom smart contract code. This book breaks down how DeXe's proposal-and-voting factory works and whether its eye-catching staking yield holds up under scrutiny.
Avalanche — White Paper Breakdown
Avalanche promised something almost every blockchain claims and few deliver: sub-second finality without sacrificing decentralization. This book breaks down the pseudonymous whitepaper that started it all, how it became Ava Labs, and why banks and asset managers are quietly building on it in 2026 — alongside the honest risks the hype tends to skip.
NEAR Protocol — White Paper Breakdown
NEAR Protocol was built by a Transformer-paper co-author who left AI research when Ethereum couldn't pay contributors fast enough. This book breaks down Nightshade sharding, NEAR's 2024 pivot into "user-owned AI," and honest validator-centralization risks behind one of crypto's most technically ambitious layer-1 chains.
Cronos — White Paper Breakdown
Cronos began as Monaco, a debit-card startup that became Crypto.com and built its own blockchain. This book breaks down its three-chain architecture and the single biggest storyline in its history: a 70-billion-token burn celebrated as a scarcity promise, then reversed four years later in a contested governance vote.
Shiba Inu — White Paper Breakdown
Shiba Inu started as a joke coin with no technology behind it and grew into a full ecosystem with its own exchange and Layer 2 blockchain. This book breaks down the SHIB/BONE/LEASH token system, a real security incident on its bridge, and why "$1 SHIB" isn't realistic math.
New volumes are added as they're written. See the complete series on Amazon →